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A New Kind of Family Separation

July 25, 2025 'Separation', family, Kind0 comment

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…

House defense bill boosts military pay, increases family separation allowance

July 17, 2025 military, Bill, family, boosts, increases, 'Separation', allowance, House, Defense0 comment

The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2026 defense policy bill, passed Tuesday night after a full day of debate, includes a 3.8% pay bump for service members, a 60% increase in the family separation allowance and excludes the basic allowance for housing from income calculations. The committee passed its version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act less than a week after the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced its own version of the legislation. The House defense bill, just like the Senate’s version, focuses heavily on reforming the…

Hogg Not Backing Down in DNC Family Feud Over Primarying Incumbents

April 24, 2025 down, Over, family, Backing, feud, incumbents, Hogg, Primarying0 comment

Just a few months into the job, Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg is already on the outs with party leaders, who are sharply critical of his efforts to unseat longtime incumbent Democrats. Hogg, who was elected one of five vice chairs on Feb. 1, first came to prominence in 2018 for his gun control activism after a mass shooting at his high school in Parkland, Florida. The 25-year-old has been calling for primary challenges against some older Democrat incumbents in order to give the party a new, younger…

Trump’s family circle has a different look as he returns to the White House

January 18, 2025 House, look, White, Returns, family, Different, circle, trumps0 comment

When Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday, his family circle will look a little different than it did when he first arrived eight years ago. The Washington Times stories: White House

Google warns family and friends of candidates to prepare for foreign hacking before election

August 27, 2024 hacking, candidates', Election, prepare, Foreign, friends, Before, warns, family, Google0 comment

Political candidates and their top campaign advisers are not the only ones who need to brace for foreign nations’ hackers breaching their defenses — family and friends of the candidates are at risk too. The Washington Times stories: White House

House finds Biden used office to enrich family, conceal evidence

August 19, 2024 Biden, House, Evidence, Finds, Office, family, used, enrich, conceal0 comment

President Biden committed impeachable offenses by helping his family bank millions of dollars from lucrative foreign and domestic business deals and then conspired to hide the evidence and obstruct an investigation by Congress, House lawmakers concluded in a new report. The Washington Times stories: White House