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Trump’s vision for Air Force One will turn it from the ‘Flying White House’ to a ‘palace in the sky’

Since President Donald Trump excitedly announced that he would be accepting a US$400 million plane from the Qatari government to serve as the next Air Force One, even members of his own party have expressed alarm.

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DEI hysteria is a national security risk

White mediocrity has become a national security risk

Salon

New JFK assassination files: What was revealed about Oswald and CIA plots?

New files released on Tuesday don’t shed new light on Kennedy’s assassination. But they reveal details about CIA plots.

Al Jazeera

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Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don't yet point to conspiracies

Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK

The Independent UK

Trump releases more than 2,000 new JFK assassination files: What we know

More than 60,000 new pages are now accessible. But historians are trying to answer whether they tell us anything new.

Al Jazeera

Trump executive order rescinds ban on ‘segregated’ facilities for federal contractors, conflicting with federal law

Despite Trump’s order, companies are still subject to the Civil Rights Act and state anti-discrimination laws

The Independent UK

A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net

The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash federal spending. A joint federal and state program, Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for more than 72 million people, including low-income Americans and their children and people with disabilities. It also helps foot the…

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Bloody Sunday: restored photos show the violence that shocked a nation

‘Spider’ Martin’s newly restored photos that documented firsthand the violence on 7 March 1965 are on view at Alabama exhibit Selma Is Now

The Guardian - US

Presidents and Social Security: How Presidents Have Impacted America's First Social Insurance Policy

Since its inception in 1935, Social Security has expanded its mission and reach. Here is how each president from Roosevelt to Trump has impacted Social Security.

Kiplinger

Trump's opening assault on diversity

Trump all-encompassing war on diversity is part of an effort to roll back the gains of the Civil Rights Movement

Salon

What is DEI? The initiative designed to help has become the ire of Trump and Republicans

Trump's orders have been celebrated by supporters and allies, and criticized by advocacy groups who say they might deepen inequities and undo decades of progress

The Independent UK

President Carter had to balance employers’ demands for foreign workers with pressure to restrict immigration – and so does Trump

President Donald Trump promised during his three presidential campaigns to deport as many immigrants living in the U.S. without legal authorization as possible.

The Conversation

White House Orders Release Of JFK Assassination Files And Leaves People On Edge

“Our government, led by corrupt bureaucrats, has hidden this information from the American people for far too long,” US Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said. The post White House Orders Release Of JFK Assassination Files And Leaves People On Edge first appeared on Bored Panda.

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What do Trump’s executive orders on workplace diversity programmes say?

The US president has revoked a 1965 executive order, put federal DEI workers on leave and taken down diversity websites.

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Trump's Crackdown On DEI: Federal Employees Urged To Expose Concealed Diversity Plans

The memo, sent to employees across multiple departments, was signed by various members of Trump's cabinet, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department and Acting Attorney General James McHenry at the Justice Department.

Salon

A tale of two Americas

In a curious coincidence, the inauguration of Donald Trump falls on a day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King

Reason

President Lyndon B. Johnson's TV Station and the "Blind Trust"

I recently wrote about the purportedly "blind" trust created for President Jimmy Carter's peanut business. President Lyndon B. Johnson also… The post President Lyndon B. Johnson's TV Station and the "Blind Trust" appeared first on Reason.com.

The Independent UK

Jimmy Carter death: What is a national day of mourning?

Following Jimmy Carter’s death at the age of 100, his funeral will be first for a Democratic president in more than half a century

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‘Partisan politics’: how efforts to overturn the Johnson amendment could upend campaign finance

Experts say undoing the provision, which bans churches from campaign donations, would open a flow of dark money

The Texas Tribune

John Cornyn spent years preparing to run for Senate majority leader. Will it be enough?

John Cornyn is running to succeed Mitch McConnell after years waiting in his shadow. But the far-right, in Texas and Washington, are putting up a fight.

Evening Standard

Donald Trump 'plans to return Sir Winston Churchill statue to White House after removal by Joe Biden'

The British wartime leader's statue had occupied a prominent position in the White House until President Biden removed it in 2021

The Conversation

2024’s quick win for Trump will go down in the history books alongside 1964 and 1980 Election Day landslides

Election nights are always simultaneous moments of triumph and tragedy. One group of voters’ dreams are dashed, while another set of voters see their hopes realized.

The Conversation

US election: Trump is threatening to turn back the tide on America’s environmental laws and reverse climate progress

The Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, Ohio, used to catch fire every decade or so. It started in the 1860s, when the river became choked with industrial waste, and the conflagrations continued all the way until the 1960s – the same decade that Americans got serious about environmental…

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Ego, hubris and narcissism: Where Donald Trump ranks among the other 45 American presidents

Sometimes Donald Trump really is a G.O.A.T. — the “greatest of all time” — among American presidents, at least. Of course, “greatest” in this instance refers to quantity or bulk, not quality.

Salon

Ethel Kennedy dies at 96

Ethel Kennedy endured the assassination of her husband and emerged as a senior figure in the presidential family

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