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News Articles: President Trump

In March 2025, the University of South Alabama presented its Annual Songwriter Keynote, a conversation and concert event funded, in part, by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Alliance. Gulf Coast artist Robby Amonett, pictured above, live-painted the event.

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  • Arts & Life

Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
President Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs.

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  • Economy

How much will tariffs raise prices? Trump's economists just revealed their answer

The administration revealed how they calculated the tariffs. Buried in that math is a straightforward answer to a question Trump has long refused to answer: How much will his tariffs raise prices?

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Guo
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres,<em> Jamese Jefferson and Gloria Bollock</em>, 1992, acrylic on Hydrocal plaster life cast

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  • Fine Art

This art exhibition is 'divisive' or 'eye-opening' — it depends who you ask

A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays "American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive."

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Senate Republicans have unveiled a budget blueprint they hope to pass as they look to enact key elements of President Trump's domestic policy agenda.

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  • Politics

Senate Republicans move forward with their budget plan to promote Trump's agenda

If passed, the package could become a hallmark of President Trump's second term. But a number of obstacles remain ahead.

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
Gold prices have been hitting record highs. Pictured are gold bullion bars in Birmingham, England on Dec. 13, 2023.

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  • Business

Why gold prices are surging to record highs

Tariffs are roiling stock markets — but making gold hotter than ever.

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
Lewelyn Dixon, a green-card holder who lives near Seattle, was detained when she returned from a trip to the Philippines in February.

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  • National

Green card holders, travelers caught in Trump's immigration crackdown

A lawful permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years was detained because of a decades-old conviction amid tougher immigration enforcement at airports and border crossings.

April 01, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
A view of the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., at sunset in September 2013.

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  • Arts & Life

How will Trump's executive order affect the Smithsonian?

The Smithsonian Institution, a vast complex of research centers, museums and galleries, is the latest culture target of President Trump's executive orders.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco and
  • Elizabeth Blair
A towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed in Richmond, Va., in September 2021. It was one of many monuments and statues to Confederate leaders removed or relocated following protests after George Floyd's murder in 2020.

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  • Arts & Life

Trump wants to restore statues and monuments. Will that happen?

The President's executive order on "restoring truth and sanity to American history" calls on the Department of the Interior to ensure that any monuments, statues or memorials under its jurisdiction "do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times)."

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
The entry to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

Trump executive order seeks to 'restore' American history through Smithsonian overhaul

The "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order removes "divisive, race-centered ideology" from Smithsonian museums, educational and research centers, and the National Zoo.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Volunteers Olly De Almeida (left), Jordan Bordenave (right) and Rosemary White (far right) plant a tree in front of Tribble Condor's (center) house in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. The project was funded by a federal grant terminated in February.

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  • Climate

Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

March 22, 2025
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By:
  • Eva Tesfaye
President Donald Trump gestures to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts after his swearing-in ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20.

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  • Politics

Courts push back, wars heat up and 3 more takeaways from Trump's moves this week

Here are five takeaways from a week when President Trump moved ahead with deportations and sweeping changes to the federal government — and ran into obstacles in the courts.

March 21, 2025
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
The Trump administration deported hundreds of alleged members of the Tren De Aragua and Mara Salvatrucha gangs to El Salvador over the weekend.

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  • Law

Judge extends deadline for deportation flight details as DOJ continues to resist

The Justice Department is fighting not to divulge more information about flights that deported alleged gang members to El Salvador. The federal judge is giving lawyers another day to respond.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
President Trump departs after speaking with reporters in the Grand Foyer during a tour at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday.

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  • Politics

Federal judge blocks Trump effort to ban transgender troops from military service

The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender service members from the military.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Elena Moore
Vice President Vance speaks at the American Dynamism Summit on supporting U.S. industry and workers, in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Vice President Vance has a new gig: fundraising for the Republican National Committee

Vance will be the first sitting vice president to serve as party finance chairman, according to the RNC. The move places a top Trump ally within the party's campaign wing ahead of the 2026 midterms.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Elena Moore
Salvadoran guards escort alleged members of the 'Tren De Aragua' and Mara Salvatrucha gangs who were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador.

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  • Law

Tensions mount as judge demands more answers about deportation flights

Trump administration lawyers defended the weekend flights that deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members despite a federal judge's order to turn the planes around.

March 18, 2025
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  • Joel Rose and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
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