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About 100,000 DHS employees remain without paychecks as Congress stays deadlocked over the SAVE America Act and homeland security funding, while a new VP-led fraud task force threatens to tighten eligibility checks on Medicaid and food stamps for tens of millions of enrolled families. Overseas, the U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran continues to disrupt global oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, pushing energy prices higher for American consumers.
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Here's What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Monday
President Trump said on Monday that he might postpone a planned trip to China this month, citing the war on Iran as his reason to remain in the United States, while residents of Tehran and other Iranian cities contended with intense Israeli and U.S. airstrikes. Mr. Trump, in remarks at the White House, also disparaged United States allies who declined his weekend calls send warships to help escort merchant vessels in and out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil route...
Trump administration cannot implement 'sweeping' funding freeze, US court rules
BOSTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday largely upheld a ruling that blocked a "sweeping and unprecedented" freeze on trillions of dollars in government financial assistance that President Donald Trump's administration instituted early last year. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with, opens new tab Democratic attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia in finding that the White House's budget office had ...
Why the SAVE America Act Is So Contentious
Voters filled out their ballots at a New York City polling station in 2024. leonardo munoz/AFP/Getty Images President Trump has made passing new voter-eligibility legislation his top priority. The SAVE America Act would ratchet up ID requirements while also removing noncitizens from voter rolls and creating new legal liabilities for election officials, all taking effect immediately upon being signed into law. Trump says the rules would eliminate fraud and has called it crucial to Republicans...
Iran is both Trump's war and Netanyahu's war
As we enter Week Three of the War in Iran, let's first establish as fact: This is, above all, Donald Trump's war. He started it on Feb. 28. Unfortunately, he still has not told the American people exactly why. Having not yet addressed the American people from the Oval Office about the war, his reason for starting it depends on the last reporter he spoke to. It's either regime change, or destroying Iran's missile capacity, or preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. And Trump alone...
Chile's new far-right president launches work on border barrier
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chilean President José Antonio Kast wasted no time. Less than a week after his inauguration, Chile's arch-conservative president on Monday began overseeing preparations to build a border barrier -- part of his flagship campaign promise to block immigrants from crossing illegally. From Chile's northern frontier area of Chacalluta, where legions of immigrants have slipped across the Peruvian border into one of the region's most prosperous nations, Kast vowed to implement...
BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, How to spend billions - fast: Carney's Defence Deadline
The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has given his generals and admirals an unusual command: spend money. Lots of it. Quickly. For years, it was the other way around. Canada wore the uniform of a serious NATO ally - while undershooting the alliance's 2% of GDP defence spending target. Now, spurred by what Carney has called a "rupture" in geopolitics, Ottawa is adding billions to hit NATO's target by 31 March 2026 - the end of the fiscal year. Military leaders are scrambling to reverse a...
Vance backs Trump on Iran -- but defends past skepticism
"What the president said consistently going back to 2015 -- and I agreed with him -- Iran should not have a nuclear weapon," Vance said Monday, when asked by a reporter at the White House if he was "completely on board" with the war in Iran. The vice president continued: "We have taken this military action under the president's leadership. I think all of us, whether you are Democrat or Republican, should pray for the success and safety of our troops. That's the approach I've taken: make it as...
Supreme Court to weigh Trump bid to strip temporary status from Haitian, Syrian migrants
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it will hear arguments over the legality of a move by Donald Trump's administration to revoke temporary legal protections for more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,100 Syrians living in the United States, part of the Republican president's mass deportation agenda. The justices kept in place two judicial orders that have blocked the administration's move to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitian and ...
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Trump Creates Task Force to Crack Down on Fraud in Welfare and Food Stamp Programs
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