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Deaf women fought for the right to vote

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If Susan B. Anthony had a deaf sister, everyone would know that deaf suffragists fought tirelessly for expanding women’s right to vote, right alongside Anthony herself. Everyone would know deaf suffragists contributed to women’s emancipation in the United States and Britain and that they lived bold lives.

As a researcher of deaf ...Read more

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Trump's science cuts have thrown the research world into chaos

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Harvard University is imposing a temporary freeze on hiring faculty. Columbia University is grappling with cuts to $400 million in federal funding. California Institute of Technology is leaving postdoctoral positions unfilled. A University of Washington researcher is wondering about a climate and health grant after a government site was taken ...Read more

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Judge halts Trump's wartime powers plan to speed deportations

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has invoked a centuries-old immigration law to ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants amid signs of frustration within the administration over the pace of efforts to deliver on one of his top priorities.

A federal judge blocked Trump’s proclamation soon after, the Associated Press reported.

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Judge halts Trump's wartime powers plan to speed deportations

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has invoked a centuries-old immigration law to ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants amid signs of frustration within the administration over the pace of efforts to deliver on one of his top priorities.

A federal judge blocked Trump’s proclamation soon after, the Associated Press reported.

...Read more

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Gov. Wes Moore criticizes Trump's FBI HQ plan, says Maryland site 'build ready'

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BALTIMORE — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is no fan of President Donald Trump’s plan to build the new FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C ., instead of in his state.

In a social media post Saturday, Moore touted the 61-acre site promised to Greenbelt in 2023 as “build ready” and criticized Trump for “turning this into a partisan issue.”

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Trump orders the dismantling of Radio and TV Marti, and employees are placed on leave

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President Donald Trump has ordered the dismantling of the parent agency of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which oversees Radio and Televisión Martí, a Reagan-era effort to promote democracy and the free flow of information to Cubans on the island.

In an executive order late Friday to “continue the reduction of the federal bureaucracy,�...Read more

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Trump invokes wartime powers to accelerate deportations

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has invoked a centuries-old immigration law to ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants amid signs of frustration within the administration over the pace of efforts to deliver on one of his top priorities.

Trump invoked powers under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — a law once used to justify the ...Read more

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Trump signs government funding bill to avert federal shutdown

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a stopgap funding bill that will keep the government open for the remainder of the fiscal year, paving the way for Republican lawmakers to pivot to signature border and tax bills they seek to pass in the coming months.

The president signed the legislation while in Florida for the weekend, the White ...Read more

Schumer leads party in conflict after retreat on shutdown

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WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s calculated call to avoid a disruptive government shutdown alienates a political base enraged by President Donald Trump’s policies and frustrated at party elders’ cautious response.

The decision by the 74-year-old New Yorker to drop his threat to block a Republican spending bill ...Read more

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'The whole pie': Trump team attempts novel legal strategy to subvert birthright citizenship

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to curtail a lower court’s ability to issue a national injunction, hatching a novel legal strategy in its bid to radically revise a bedrock American principle: birthright citizenship.

Instead of asking the Supreme Court to directly rule on the constitutionality of granting U....Read more

Schumer leads party at odds with itself after shutdown retreat

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WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s calculated call to avoid a disruptive government shutdown alienates a political base enraged by President Donald Trump’s policies and frustrated at party elders’ cautious response.

The decision by the 74-year-old New Yorker to drop his threat to block a Republican spending bill ...Read more

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Water officials knew that opening dams to meet Trump's wishes was ill-advised. Here's why it happened anyway

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When President Donald Trump called for the federal government to “maximize” water deliveries in California, commanders of the Army Corps of Engineers quickly found two dams where they could carry out that order. And even though the officials knew the water couldn’t be moved out of the Central Vally as Trump wished, they released billions ...Read more

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On his way out, former US Rep. Drew Ferguson of Georgia spent big from campaign account

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WASHINGTON — Drew Ferguson’s last year as a congressman from Georgia was action-packed.

In March 2024, three months after announcing he wouldn’t run for reelection, the four-term Republican from Pike County reported spending almost $27,000 in stored-up campaign donations on a trip to The St. Regis Deer Valley, a high-end ski resort in ...Read more

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Trump signs order seeking to reduce more federal agencies

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order aimed at reducing the scope of eight federal agencies as part of his campaign to downsize the U.S. government.

The action eliminates non-statutory functions and reduces others for these entities called “unnecessary” in a White House fact sheet.

Groups affected are ...Read more

Why was it so hard for the GOP to pass its spending bill?

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Facing a threat of imminent government shutdown, nine Democrats joined GOP Senate colleagues to defeat a filibuster, moving a six-month government funding bill to final passage in a late-day vote on March 14, 2025.

Since January 2025, Republicans in Washington have enjoyed what’s commonly known as a governing “trifecta”: control...Read more

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Haitians and clergy group sue Trump over decision to end protections from deportation

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Nine Haitians, a powerful labor union and a Protestant group are suing President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over their decision to cut short more than a half-million Haitians’ legal immigration protections in the United States by six months.

The lawsuit alleges that the end of the deportation protection, known ...Read more

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Six-month spending patch advances with Democratic votes

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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to end debate on the six-month stopgap funding bill Friday after negotiations all morning and into the afternoon to hammer out a time agreement.

The 62-38 vote saw nine Democrats defy party activists and agree to let the GOP-drafted measure come to a final vote, ahead of a deadline Friday at midnight to avert a ...Read more

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Spending bill to avert a shutdown is headed to Trump's desk

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WASHINGTON — A six-month stopgap funding bill cleared the Senate on Friday after enough Democrats crossed the aisle to vote to end debate, defying intense pressure from the left wing of their party.

The measure now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk, where he’s expected to sign it and avert a partial government shutdown that was ...Read more

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Senate Democrats allow GOP funding bill to advance, choose budget cuts over shutdown

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WASHINGTON — Nine Senate Democrats and one independent voted with Republicans to move forward legislation to fund the government through September, albeit with $13 billion in cuts to non-defense spending.

The Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, insisted that a government shutdown, which could be prolonged by President Donald ...Read more

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Trump says he'll put FBI's new headquarters in DC despite it being promised to Maryland

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President Donald Trump said Friday that he doesn’t want the new FBI headquarters to be built in Maryland but rather in the nation’s capital.

Trump said he prefers Washington for the headquarters promised to 61 acres in Greenbelt in 2023.

“They were going to build it … in Maryland, a liberal state, but that has no bearing on what I’m ...Read more

 

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