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Learning your political opponents don’t actually hate you can reduce toxic polarization and antidemocratic attitudes
Americans recently endured another grueling election season, offering plenty of reminders of just how polarized the U.S. has become.
Consider, for example, the fact that President Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 election; numerous judges and public officials have faced rising threats to their safety ...Read more
Lessons from ‘stop and frisk’ can help Philly police use drones to improve safety without compromising civil liberties
Philadelphia’s plans to expand its use of police-operated drones signals a pivotal shift in how the city seeks to protect – and surveil – its citizens.
According to the city’s Citizen Police Oversight Commission, the Philadelphia Police Department had two drones as of early 2024. These were, the commission says, primarily used...Read more
7 key focal points of Trump's first-day executive orders
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s flurry of first-day executive actions included a slew of orders related to health, energy, international relations and the federal workforce.
That’s in addition to the nearly across-the-board pardons of those convicted of offenses related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and Trump’s ...Read more
Trump orders federal agencies to recognize only 2 sexes that are 'not changeable'
President Donald Trump signed executive orders Monday asserting that the U.S. government recognizes only two sexes that are "not changeable," and reversing Biden administration directives on LGBTQ+ rights.
One of the new orders says that "male" and "female" are defined based on reproductive cells and at the point when a person is conceived, and...Read more
Editorial: Trump is still Trump: His second speech of the day showed the true man
Anyone who thought the grievance-wielding, enemy-targeting Donald Trump might have taken a day off after listening to his formal inaugural speech in the Capitol Rotunda didn’t need to wait long to find out just how wrong they were.
That’s when the true Trump, the not “beautiful unifying” Trump, came out. He rattled off complaints about ...Read more
Editorial: The Constitution outranks all: Trump's executive order revoking birthright citizenship is meaningless
Donald Trump on Monday took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” and then promptly broke that oath by seeking to revoke the first sentence of the 14th Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of...Read more
Iran needs to strike nuclear understanding with Trump, IAEA says
Iran needs to reach an understanding over its atomic activity with the administration of Donald Trump in order to avoid being dragged into another military conflict in the Middle East, according to the world’s top nuclear regulator.
Six-and-a-half years after Trump abrogated an agreement that gave the Islamic Republic sanctions relief in ...Read more
Trump promises to end birthright citizenship and shut down the border – a legal scholar explains the challenges these actions could face
During his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on immigration that would make it harder for refugees, asylum seekers and others to try to enter the U.S. – and for some immigrants to stay in the country.
On Monday night, Trump signed executive orders that included declaring a...Read more
Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency ‘flies in the face of the facts’ of violent insurrection, retired federal judge explains
In the first hours of his second term, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly everyone convicted of crimes associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol – including former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio – and commuted the sentences of 14 more, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
CNN reported that ...Read more
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and state leaders reflect on MLK, Trump's 'troubling' speech
Gov. Wes Moore and other top Black Maryland officials reflected on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy Monday night as they vowed to fight for civil rights in President Donald Trump’s second term.
“I know today — because I’ve had a lot of conversations with folks — about the complexity of having this inauguration on Martin Luther King ...Read more
Trump pulls security clearances over Hunter Biden laptop letter
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of 50 former U.S. intelligence officials who had cast doubt on conservative attacks on former President Joe Biden’s son, delivering on a campaign promise to exact retribution against what he sees as a “deep state” conspiracy against him.
The former intelligence ...Read more
Trump plans to enact 25% tariffs on Mexico, Canada by Feb. 1
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he planned to enact previously threatened tariffs of as much as 25% on Mexico and Canada by Feb. 1, reiterating his contention that America’s two immediate neighbors are allowing the flow of undocumented migrants and drugs into the country.
“We’re thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada, ...Read more
Trump orders US to withdraw from World Health Organization
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a decision that would cut off one of the international aid and disease response group’s largest funding sources.
The order, which was among a flurry of executive actions Trump signed Monday in the Oval Office, says the “WHO ...Read more
Trump plans to combat immigration with troops and a state of emergency
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took steps Monday to fundamentally and drastically change how the nation handles immigration, saying he would sign executive orders to ramp up deportations, declare a national emergency at the southern border and deploy military troops there.
Trump said he would immediately halt all illegal entry at the ...Read more
Trump orders US exit from Paris pact, hobbling climate fight
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement, launching another retreat in the global fight against climate change by the world’s wealthiest nation.
The move was widely expected since Trump pulled the U.S. from the emissions-cutting pact during his first term and had vowed do to it ...Read more
Trump immediately flexes presidential powers: 1,500 pardons and a raft of executive orders
President Donald Trump quickly flexed the sweeping powers of the presidency following his second inauguration at the Capitol on Monday, signing a slate of executive orders that would radically alter U.S. policy if allowed to stand.
He also pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of his loyalists — more than 1,500 people — who stormed the ...Read more
Trump says he's pardoning nearly all Capitol riot defendants
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday said he was pardoning nearly all of the people charged or convicted with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, fulfilling one of his campaign promises hours after he was sworn in as president.
Trump announced mass clemency for roughly 1,500 people to reporters gathered at the White House. He...Read more
Donald Trump takes aim at birthright citizenship, declares border emergency
In one of the first acts of his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump signed executive orders Monday evening cracking down on immigration and declaring a national emergency at the southern border.
One of the orders aims to end birthright citizenship, a right protected under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Legal experts ...Read more
Trump halts TikTok ban, giving app extra time to find a buyer
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump temporarily halted a ban on TikTok in the US, granting the company and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. more time to reach a deal for the popular app that would resolve long-standing U.S. national security concerns.
TikTok’s lifeline came via an executive order signed by Trump on Monday in one of his ...Read more
How Trump's push to end birthright citizenship could play out in his home state
WASHINGTON — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump attempting to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants who are born in the United States is likely to face immediate legal challenges — but, if enacted, could have dramatic consequences in places like South Florida.
The order says the federal government will ...Read more
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