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News Articles: Trump administration

New York City, as seen here from Jersey City, N.J. in May, is suing the Trump administration over its "anarchist" designation.

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  • National

3 Cities Designated As 'Anarchist' Filing Lawsuit Against Trump Administration

After months of street protests, President Trump described New York City, Portland and Seattle as lawless places and threatened to withhold federal aid. City officials say the law is on their side.

October 22, 2020
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, testifies to a House subcommittee hearing in May about the government response to the coronavirus.

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  • Politics

Government Scientist Adds To Whistle-Blower Complaint And Quits NIH

Lawyers for Rick Bright wrote in the addendum to his May filing that "the work of scientists is ignored or denigrated to meet political goals and to advance President Trump's re-election aspirations."

October 07, 2020
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By:
  • Will Stone
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William "Perry" Pendley speaks at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., last year.

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  • Environment

Trump To Appeal Removal Of 'Polarizing' Public Lands Chief

The White House says it will appeal a federal court ruling ousting William Perry Pendley, who led the Bureau of Land Management for more than 400 days without Senate confirmation.

September 30, 2020
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  • Kirk Siegler
The appointment of a climate change denier to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration comes as Americans face profound threats stoked by climate change, from the vast, deadly wildfires in the West to an unusually active hurricane season in the South and East.

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  • Science

Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA

David Legates, a professor whose research has been supported by fossil fuel companies, has been hired for a top position at the federal agency that oversees weather and climate forecasting.

September 13, 2020
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher and
  • Joe Palca
The U.S. Postal Service warned states in late July that it might not be able to deliver mail-in ballots in time to be counted. Amid a growing outcry from rural leaders, the agency's director has backed down from planned broad cuts and changes.

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  • National

Why Rural America Is Fighting The Trump Administration On The Post Office

The agency serves areas where private carriers won't go. And in those remote communities, which helped elect the president, the Postal Service can be seen as a lifeline as well as a human connection.

August 20, 2020
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
Honduran migrants, Ricardo Sr., (left), his son Ricardo Jr., 13, and his cousin Jorge, 16, walk near their home in Texas. When the two teenage boys crossed the border illegally into Texas last month, they turned themselves in to the Border Patrol. They were later escorted to a hotel by armed men in civilian clothes.

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  • National

Shadow Immigration System: Migrant Children Detained In Hotels By Private Contractors

The children are held at hotels, instead of shelters, until they can be put on planes to their home countries. This bypasses the normal process that gives children a chance to ask for asylum.

August 20, 2020
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Marisa Peñaloza
The extra $600-a-week unemployment benefit has kept jobless people from plummeting into further debt and has allowed for sustained spending, a boon for the struggling economy.

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  • Economy

U.S. Economy On High Alert Over Shaky Future Of Extra Jobless Benefits

As Congress debates whether to renew supplemental unemployment benefits for people thrown out of work by the pandemic, new research shows those benefits offer a critical boost for the U.S. economy.

August 06, 2020
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  • Scott Horsley
A federal judge blocked further implementation of a rule issued last year by the Department of Homeland Security.

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  • Law

Twin Rulings By Federal Judge Block 'Public Charge' Rules For Immigrants

The judge cites the coronavirus pandemic in blocking the Trump administration's attempt to widen the criteria for what makes an immigrant a "public charge."

July 31, 2020
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  • David Welna
A new report found that citations for over-prescribing antipsychotics to nursing home residents declined significantly between the end of the Obama administration and the first half of the Trump administration.

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  • National

Study: Nursing Home Residents Not Protected From Antipsychotic Drugs Under Trump

Enforcement of rules protecting nursing home residents from antipsychotic drugs has declined during the Trump administration, according to a new report.

July 28, 2020
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By:
  • Ina Jaffe
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., organized a letter signed by 44 Senate Democrats and the chamber's two independents on Friday, urging the White House to withdraw changes to hospital reporting requirements.

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  • Science

Congressional Democrats Demand White House Restore COVID-19 Data Collection To CDC

Senators and House members have separately issued letters calling for the Trump administration to undo a controversial move redirecting hospitals' coronavirus information.

July 17, 2020
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By:
  • Pien Huang
The Department of Veterans Affairs blocked the University of Phoenix, Perdoceo Education Corp., Bellevue University and Temple University from enrolling GI Bill students after the Federal Trade Commission laid enormous penalties on them for deceptive advertising.

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  • National

Trump Administration Clears For-Profit Colleges To Register Veterans Again

The Department of Veterans Affairs is no longer blocking several for-profit schools that the Federal Trade Commission penalized for deceptive advertising from enrolling GI Bill students.

July 16, 2020
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, says his organization has a big role to play in reducing racial economic inequities, which he says, is crucial to a stable economy.

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  • Business

Racism Has An Economic Cost, Atlanta Fed President Warns

Raphael Bostic, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta says his organization is committed to reducing racial economic inequities, which he says, is crucial to a stable economy.

July 15, 2020
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  • Emma Bowman
A Border Patrol agent walks along a border wall separating Tijuana, Mexico, from San Diego, in March 2020.

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  • National

Migrant Mother Given A Choice: Leave Her Newborn In U.S. Or Return To Mexico Together

As the Trump administration has effectively shut down the asylum system at the border during the pandemic, one mother was given the choice to go to Mexico with or without her newborn, a U.S. citizen.

July 13, 2020
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By:
  • Max Rivlin-Nadler
In this June 27, 2013, file photo, Reggie Batiste, program manager with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, administers a free HIV test as part of National HIV Testing Day in Atlanta.

DeKalb County Gets $1.5M From CDC To Fight HIV

A metro Atlanta county will be one of three pilot sites nationwide to run a federal program aimed at preventing the spread of HIV, health officials said...

December 10, 2019
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge and
  • Sophia Saliby
Freedom U provides free college-level classes, college application assistance, and movement leadership development for undocumented students in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Staff At Atlanta's Freedom University Respond to Immigration, Border Wall Debate

The federal government remains open. President Trump has declared a state of emergency to build a border wall, and the structure's future is now up to...

February 18, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Elena Rivera
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