Trumpf is considering a new travel ban that could affect citizens from up to 43 countries, meant to address "national security and public safety threats." Citizens from the 11 countries in the "red" category would be entirely barred from entering the US. These countries include Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Countries in the "orange" category would affect immigrant, tourist and student visas, with some exception. The list consists of Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Turkmenistan. Link: www.whitehouse.gov Read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Tesla vandals to "watch out" Friday, as the Trump administration seeks to crack down on those targeting Tesla dealerships and cars. Bondi said she has opened an investigation into the violent demonstrations taking aim at Elon Musk's electric vehicle (EV) company. They are targeting Tesla dealerships, the stations where you charge a Tesla, they're vandalizing cars," she told Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria." "I have already directed an investigation be opened to see how is this being funded, who is behind this, doing this?" "We have people we're locking up on that," she continued. "We have someone in jail right now from one of the dealerships. They threw a Molotov cocktail through a dealership. They're looking at up to 20 years in prison."
Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back the federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".
Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich suggested President Donald Trump had been "played" by Russian President Vladimir Putin while trying to end the war in Ukraine. During a Fox News Sunday interview, Heinrich grilled National Security Advisor Mike Waltz about Trump's strategy in Ukraine. "A European intelligence service uncovered a document that was prepared for the Kremlin the same week the president's team met with the Russians in Saudi Arabia," the Fox News host explained. "According to the Washington Post, it details much of what we've already seen play out, basically telling Russia how to stall while it continues to dismantle the Ukrainian state."
A 21 year old man in New York has been cured of sickle cell anemia following treatment with a pioneering gene therapy, according to his doctors.
New York resident Sebastien Beauzile was treated with a pioneering new gene therapy approach called Lyfgenia, developed by biotech company Bluebird Bio. Mr Beauzile received the treatment on December 17th 2024 and has not had any symptoms of sickle cell anemia since, leading his doctors to believe that the treatment has likely cured the disease.
"Sickle cell is a debilitating, often-overlooked disease. But treatments like Lyfgenia are changing that," said Jeffrey Lipton, MD, chief of the division of pediatric hematology/oncology & stem cell transplant at Cohen Medical Center in Queens, New York.
Describing him as a "race-baiting politician," USSECSTATE Marco Rubio is expelling South Africa's ambassador to Washington, In a post on X, Rubio accused Ebrahim Rasool of hating the US and President Donald Trumpf, and said the ambassador was "no longer welcome in our great country." The rare move by the US marks the latest development in rising tensions between the two countries. Pretoria may reciprocate. The manifestly underqualified Marco Rubio is America's top diplomat. Read more
The undocumented parents of a 10-year-old US citizen whose family was removed to Mexico say they are desperately seeking a way for either of them to return to the US with the girl so she can continue brain cancer treatment. The girl's care was interrupted last month, when she, her parents and four of her siblings were detained at a Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas and were subsequently removed from the US to Mexico following the parents' decision to take their children with them rather than separate, according to Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), an immigration nonprofit representing the family. The parents have "no criminal records," according to Danny Woodward, an attorney with TCRP. All but one of the couple's children are US citizens, TCRP said. Read more
"President Donald Trump has ordered the dismantling of the parent agency of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which oversees Radio and Televisin Mart, 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," Trump mandated the U.S. Agency for Global Media and six other small agencies to "reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law." On Saturday, all full-time employees and some contractors at the Mart stations, which are based in Miami-Dade County, were placed on administrative leave with full pay and benefits, according to sources familiar with the decision."
Senator Richard Blumenthal slammed the FCC for launching "unprecedented, intrusive investigations" under "arbitrary and capricious pretenses" into the Paramount-Skydance deal, Comcast, NPR, PBS, Verizon, KCBS Radio (Audacy) and ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates on Thursday.
Trump administration workforce cuts at federal agencies overseeing U.S. dams are threatening their ability to provide reliable electricity, supply farmers with water and protect communities from floods, employees and industry experts warn. The Bureau of Reclamation provides water and hydropower to the public in 17 western states. Nearly 400 agency workers have been cut through the Trump reduction plan, an administration official said.
President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target a Venezuelan gang he accused of "unlawfully infiltrating" the United States hours after a federal judge temporarily limited its use. The wartime law enables the president to quickly detain and deport migrants from a "hostile" nation, either during times of "declared war" or when a foreign government perpetuates an "invasion" or "predatory incursion" into the United States. Only Congress has the Constitutional power to declare war. Trump's proclamation invoking the law accuses Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua of "infiltrating" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's regime, perpetuating "irregular warfare" within the United States and using drug trafficking as a weapon against American citizens. Read more
House Democrats have sent letters to 24 federal agencies asking for assurances that Elon Musk's DOGE team is not feeding sensitive government data into "unapproved and unaccountable" AI systems.
Illegal border crossings dropped to their lowest level for the month of February in recorded history, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. In February, 28,654 encounters and apprehensions of illegal border crossers were reported nationwide " a roughly 90% drop from the number reported in previous Februarys under the Biden administration. In February 2024, 256,071 were reported compared to 213,911 in February 2023 and 250,404 in February 2022. Read more
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the agency to establish a clear, industry-wide transition plan for the full deployment of Next Gen TV (ATSC 3.0).
The Trump administration Saturday invoked a sweeping wartime authority, which has been used only three times before, to speed up the deportations of migrants affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The little-known 18th-century law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, gives the president tremendous authority to target and remove undocumented immigrants. Read more
Some Canadians are proposing a radical response to the country's trade war with the U.S.: Eliminate Americans' access to the popular Canadian-owned porn website Pornhub. Pornhub is the most popular porn website in the world, with over 5 billion monthly visits, Read more
