April 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM EDT
'Could be the last one standing': Trump aims to 'illegally remove' head of bipartisan board

The bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) came into existence when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law. CCR is presently chaired by Democratic civil rights lawyer Rochelle Mercedes Garza, appointed by then-President Joe Biden in 2023. But according to Politico's Hassan Ali Kanu, Trump is hoping to replace Garza and install a "hand-picked Republican."

 

April 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM EDT
This Republican move threatens to kill thousands of jobs in districts that voted for Trump

Jobs created by projects funded in part by the climate law are reportedly at risk in several red districts, as the GOP moves forward with President Donald Trump's intention to end the clean energy credits in the upcoming budget vote. CNN reported Friday that some Republicans representing these districts are worried that the GOP budget proposal would kill jobs that benefit their constituents.

 

April 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM EDT
Outrage as video of Trump bragging about enriching his billionaire pals emerges

A video clip of U.S. President Donald Trump openly boasting about enriching his billionaire friends is drawing outrage as the administration faces growing scrutiny for possible market manipulation and insider trading in the aftermath of his partial tariff pause. "He made two-and-a-half billion today," Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday, just hours after announcing the pause, "and he made $900 million."

 

April 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM EDT
MA rep 'defrauded' state of $36,000 to fund campaign and 'personal psychic services': feds

A lawmaker in the Massachusetts State Legislature is being rocked by an ethics scandal, and on Friday morning, April 11, it led to an arrest by federal authorities. According to CBS News reporter Mike Toole, State Rep. Christopher Flanagan was arrested following allegations of stealing tens of thousands of dollars "to fund personal and political expenses." And he was "indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records," Toole reports.

 

April 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM EDT
'Open season on policing': How Trump is torching DOJ's 'crown jewel'

Although the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was created by Congress in 1870 under GOP President Ulysses S. Grant, it's Civil Rights Division didn't come into existence for another 87 years. The DOJ Civil Rights Division was created by Congress in 1957 under another Republican president: Dwight D. Eisenhower. In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on April 11, journalist Jonathan Blanks (not to be confused with actor Jonathan Banks) laments that the Civil Rights Division was long regarded as DOJ's "crown jewel" but is now being horribly degraded by the Trump Administration.

 

April 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM EDT
Oregon GOP in turmoil after embattled chair resigns over 'deeply troubling' allegations

Even before California became deep blue during the 1990s, its neighbor to the north, Oregon, was leaning Democratic. President George H.W. Bush won California in the 1988 presidential election, but he lost Oregon to Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis by roughly 5 percent. Nonetheless, some rural areas of Oregon still lean GOP, and the Oregon Republican Party performs well in some rural areas of the state -- especially those near Idaho. But the Oregon GOP is experiencing some turbulence following the resignation of its former chairman, the Rev. Jerry Cummings, on Wednesday, April 9. With Cummings' resignation, former Oregon Vice Chair Connie Whelchel took over the position.

 

April 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM EDT
Supreme Court's unanimous decision against Trump reveals an important detail

What the Supreme Court's ruling on man wrongly deported to El Salvador

People hold signs on April 4, 2025, supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Jean Lantz Reisz, University of Southern California The Supreme Court on April 10, 2025, unanimously upheld the lower court order directing the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garc?a, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

 

April 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM EDT
'Math is just not mathing': Republicans face big challenges after Easter break

The House GOP passed the budget framework on Thursday that would pave the way for the implementation of President Donald Trump's budget plan, enabling him to continue his 2017 tax cuts. It faced opposition from all Democrats and two Republicans who were concerned that it does not cut spending sufficiently. According to Reuters, the House vote of 216-214 is an initial, yet essential, measure that will allow Republicans to circumvent Democratic resistance and advance tax cut legislation -- known as Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" -- along party lines later this year.

 

April 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM EDT
Is this the moment American democracy finally broke?

The highest form of freedom in a democracy isn't just the right to vote or protest -- it's the right to speak truth to power. To call out corruption. To challenge lies. To stand firm when the powerful demand silence. This is the freedom that sustains all others. And it's the one Donald Trump tried to crush yesterday with the stroke of a pen.

 

April 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM EDT
'Laughing at us all': Trump whiplash boosts wealth of mega-rich by $304 billion

As retirees, small business owners, and consumers reeled from the chaos sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's erratic tariff policies, the richest people on the planet saw their wealth surge Wednesday as the White House partially froze the duties it imposed on most countries. Trump's announcement of the 90-day pause sparked a historic market rally that added $304 billion to the collective wealth of the world's top billionaires, according to a Bloomberg estimate. The outlet called the jump "the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index," which was launched in 2012.

 

April 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM EDT
'People will suffer': Hundreds of workers responsible for weather forecasts fired -- again

Several hundred federal workers who were reinstated in their roles after being fired in the early days of President Donald Trump's administration have now just been fired yet again. The Guardian reported Thursday that approximately 800 workers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been at the whim of a "rollercoaster" of court rulings in recent months, which culminated in today's firings. Initially, after South African centibillionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired thousands of "probationary" workers (who have been in their roles for a year or less), a court order handed down in March ordered that they be hired back. But earlier this week, the Supreme Court reversed that order, and those workers were once again out of a job.

 

April 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM EDT
'Bump somebody off': Mike Johnson facing a new 'awkward situation' with powerful GOP rep

When President Donald Trump pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-N.Y) nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, he allegedly assured her she could reclaim her spot on the influential House Intelligence Committee. This is a problem for the Republicans already on it.