Food banks across the US, from New Mexico to Oregon to Illinois, are seeing massive increases in demand as the unprecedented federal nutrition aid cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law last summer take hold, stripping benefits from millions of Americans amid elevated grocery costs"a recipe for disaster. An estimated 4.5 million people, including roughly 1.5 million children, have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since the Trump-GOP budget law took effect last year, enshrining around $200 billion in cuts"the largest in the program's history"as well as new work reporting requirements that are expected to put millions more at risk of losing aid. The large-scale loss of benefits and expectations of even more hardship in the near future have heavily strained local food banks.
Sailors suffering a mental health crisis aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln were told by President Donald Trump on Friday they hadn't been stuck on board "nearly long enough." Trump made the remark Friday when a reporter asked whether the deployment had gone on too long. The Lincoln's roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines are nine months into a deployment that was supposed to end in May, with no return date announced. Families of sailors have described moldy showers, broken toilets, weeks without laundry service, and a meal that came to two tortillas and a half-cup of rice. Annabelle Loma told the Military Times her husband had tried to go overboard and was placed on a medical hold.
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed the Trump administration's Title VI lawsuit against Harvard University. read more
A Russian plot to kill a Ukrainian-American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister said Thursday, marking the first time in decades that a Western leader has publicly accused Moscow of plotting to kill a U.S. citizen. Western officials have previously warned that Russia has stepped up a campaign of targeted killings since President Vladimir Putin launched the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, saying they have disrupted several plots across Europe. But Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said this incident was unprecedented.
The Trump administration has finalized a rule that will allow shell companies and other questionable entities to conceal their ownership from federal investigators, in a move that critics say will only further facilitate corruption in the U.S. The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced on Tuesday that it is ending the regulation that requires companies to disclose beneficial ownership. This refers to situations in which a person actually controls and benefits from a company, but legal documents list the company under a different name, like a bank or accountant.
The repeal effectively guts the Corporate Transparency Act, which was passed within the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation was originally introduced by Marco Rubio, then a senator, who championed it in 2020 as "the most significant anti-corruption & money laundering law in decades."
Pedo 47 just erased little decoy's pride and joy.Lol