With Bove Nomination, Senate Again Becomes a Judicial Battlefield

The Senate has again become the scene of a titanic battle for control of the judiciary under President Donald Trump. Emil Bove III, Trump’s nominee to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, continues to face harsh criticism from Democrats, but Senate Republicans want to confirm him this week. Bove has previously represented Trump in criminal cases during the 2024 election cycle and currently serves as principal associate deputy attorney general. Democrats point to whistleblower allegations that, while serving as an official in the Justice Department, Bove urged lawyers to…

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Trump’s Medicaid Tax Cuts: Here’s What to Know

Senate Republicans passed the largest cuts to Medicaid since the program began in the 1960s, a reckless move that would strip health insurance from nearly 17 million Americans over the next decade. To pay for Trump’s tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations, Republicans deliberately chose to cut Medicaid funding by $ 1 trillion and to drastically cut other vital programs like SNAP and housing assistance. Health care workers and experts say these extreme Medicaid cuts could result in vulnerable Americans no longer being able to receive care—either because they…

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Fewer letters, more addresses: Can the Postal Service keep up?

Interview transcript: Terry Gerton The U.S. Postal Service is facing a paradox. Mail volume is projected to decline by as much as 41 percent by 2035, yet the number of delivery addresses grows by more than a million each year. A new report from the USPS Office of Inspector General outlines several scenarios for the future of mail, and none of them are easy. Here to explore the operational and financial challenges ahead, the impact of electronic diversion And what innovations might help the Postal Service remain affordable, reliable, and…

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A New Kind of Family Separation

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts In the Trump administration’s recent round of immigration crackdown, the American public hasn’t seen the same terrible images of migrant children at the border being snatched from their mother’s arms, as they did during his first administration. But that’s because family separation has morphed into something less visible and possibly harder to track. In President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has focused on dismantling a system specifically constructed to protect minors from the harsher aspects of…

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Trump Administration Locates 13,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children  

The Trump administration has located 13,000 children who crossed the border unaccompanied under President Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday.   Under the Biden administration, about 300,000 unaccompanied alien children were either “lost” or placed with sponsors that were not adequately vetted, and some were “allowed to be placed with sponsors who were actually smugglers and sex traffickers,” according to DHS.  “The evil of human trafficking cannot be overstated. It’s modern-day slavery,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “By leaving our borders open and even…

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