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White House correspondents' dinner scraps plan for comedian to host

Comedian Amber Ruffin’s headlining performance at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner was canceled Saturday, a day after a member of the Trump administration accused her of being “hate-filled” and took aim at the association that puts on the event for booking her. Ruffin, who hosts a show on Peacock and is a longtime writer for “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” was removed after a unanimous decision by the nine-member executive board of the White House Correspondents’ Association, accord ...

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Limo from 'Putin's car fleet' is blown up in huge blast as troops from paranoid tyrant's honour guard searched for bombs

ONE of Vladimir Putin’s limousines exploded and caught fire in Moscow as the tyrant orders sewers to be searched and the pat down of his own guards. An Aurus limousine from Putin’s “official car fleet” blew up in a huge blast on a street just north of Moscow’s FSB secret service headquarters in Lubyanka. The Aurus Senat limousine from Putin’s official car fleet exploded just north of FSB headquarters[/caption] Footage showed that the fire which started in the engine of the £275,000 Aurus Se ...

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Private Groups Work To Identify And Report Student Protesters For Possible Deportation

Mar 29, 2025, 12:36 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — When a protester was caught on video in January at a New York rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask and headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along with her name and employer, were circulated online. “Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain!” a fledgling technology company boasted in a social media post, claiming its facial-recognition tool had identified the woman despite the coverings. She wa ...

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Trump officials, allies grow anxious about April 2 tariffs

03/29/2025 07:00 AM EDT Updated: 03/29/2025 11:58 AM EDT Top White House and administration officials have been promising businesses, consumers and fellow Republicans more “certainty” on trade in the coming days, eager to calm skittish markets and avoid the stock market plunge that accompanied the White House’s initial tariff roll-outs. But they have one problem: Donald J. Trump. Just days out from Trump’s April 2 announcement of global tariffs, which he has hailed as “Liberation Day,” even ...

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US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts

US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts By Nate Raymond and Kanishka Singh March 29, 2025 3:40 PM UTC Updated ago Summary - Rumeysa Ozturk accused of activities supporting Hamas - Supporters say her detention violates right to free speech - Trump has pledged to deport foreign pro-Palestinian protesters BOSTON, March 29 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday temporarily barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support f ...

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Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in 'shambles'

Updated 6:27 PM EDT, March 28, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake. But the effects of his administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first big natural disaster of his second term. Sarah Charles, a former senior USAID official who oversaw disaster-respons ...

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FCC is investigating Disney and ABC for DEI initiatives

March 28, 2025, 4:21 PM EDT / Source: CNBC The Federal Communications Commission has alerted the Walt Disney Company and its ABC unit that it will begin an investigation into the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the media giant. The FCC, the agency that regulates the media and telecommunications industry, said in a letter dated Friday that it wants to “ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI ...

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Elon Musk Set to Visit Central Intelligence Agency Next Week

March 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM EDT Elon Musk is set to visit the Central Intelligence Agency on Monday, the latest stop on a tour through the US government's spy apparatus that's provoked alarm from some Democrats and intelligence experts. Musk is visiting at the invitation of CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and the two will discuss government efficiency, an agency spokesperson said. No other detail was provided. The visit will be the latest for the world's richest man at federal agencies that do som ...

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Canadian Lawmaker Spots 'Something Deeper' Brewing Amid Trump's Trade War

Story by Ben Blanchet • 5h Canadian lawmaker Charlie Angus................ Angus, when asked by Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network if Trump is “scared” by how Canada and the EU have responded to his plans of further tariffs, spotted “something deeper” brewing in America that Canadians are focused on: “watching our nearest neighbor slip into totalitarianism.” “When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see people at universities being grabbed, detained, rendered and kid ...

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Social Security Changes to Impact Republican States the Most

Published Mar 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM EDT | Updated Mar 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM EDT The Social Security Administration (SSA) is making a major change to its services that could impact Republican states the most. Newsweek reached out to the Social Security Administration via email for comment. Why It Matters Nearly nine in 10 Americans over the age of 65 are earning monthly Social Security payments, which often make up a substantial portion of their retirement income. The SSA announced that it would ...

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Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if automakers raise prices due to tariffs and believes it'll make people buy American

3 hrs ago - -snip- The president said he “couldn’t care less” if foreign automakers raised prices after he announced he would impose 25% tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles. -snip- When pressed if he told CEOs not to raise prices, as reported ... (NBC)

Florida college fires Chinese professor under state's 'countries of concern' law

3 hrs ago - New College of Florida fired Kevin Wang, a professor who sought asylum and is authorized to work in the US The New College of Florida has fired a Chinese language professor under a state law that restricts Florida’s public universities from hiri ... (guardian)

DOGE's Marko Elez is back on U.S. payroll

4 hrs ago - DOGE's Marko Elez is back on U.S. payroll The software engineer fired over racist social media posts is now a Labor Department aide detailed to multiple agencies, according to a new court filing. Elon Musk flashes his T-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the ... (Politico)

No sign Trump will honor US auto tariff protections won by Canada, Mexico in 2018

4 hrs ago - March 29, 2025 3:07 PM EDT Updated 3 hours ago March 29 (Reuters) - Canada and Mexico won protections against potential new U.S. auto tariffs in 2018 as part of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade, but there is no evidence that President Donald ... (Reuters)

Fear spreads among Muslim Americans as Trump travel ban looms

4 hrs ago - 6h Nadiah Alyafai is bracing for four years of missed memories, birthdays, and holidays. Since she was young, the now 22-year-old has traveled to her father’s native country of Yemen every few years to see family. Her grandparents, aunts and unc ... (msn/USA Today)

Critics see Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history

5 hrs ago - Updated 2:13 PM EDT, March 29, 2025 ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men a ... (AP)

Decline in Canadian travel over tariff dispute a 'significant concern' to Detroit tourism

5 hrs ago - Posted 7:51 AM, Mar 29, 2025 With tension brewing between the U.S. and Canada as a new set of tariffs is set to take effect, some Canadians say they’re boycotting their trips to the U.S., vowing to use their wallets as a means to make their voic ... (Scripps News)

Private Groups Work To Identify And Report Student Protesters For Possible Deportation

6 hrs ago - Mar 29, 2025, 12:36 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — When a protester was caught on video in January at a New York rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask and headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along with her nam ... (Huff Post/AP)

Democrats still push diversity bills: 'We're not going to fade into the woodwork'

6 hrs ago - Published 6:03 a.m. ET March 29, 2025 WASHINGTON ‒ One bill aims to close the wage gap between men and women. Another wants to better protect voting rights. And one measure expands opportunities for more people of color to become doctors. Some ... (USA Today)

White House correspondents' dinner scraps plan for comedian to host

7 hrs ago - Comedian Amber Ruffin’s headlining performance at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner was canceled Saturday, a day after a member of the Trump administration accused her of being “hate-filled” and took aim at the associa ... (Washington Post)

US embassy in Syria tells Americans to leave, warns of 'potential imminent attacks'

7 hrs ago - Sat, March 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM EDT The American embassy in Syria has warned all U.S. citizens to leave the country due to "the increased possibility of attacks" during the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of March, which marks the end of Ramadan in the ... (Yahoo! News/ABC GMA)

Russian negotiator suggests ceasefire may not be reached in 2025

7 hrs ago - by Martin Fornusek March 29, 2025 4:57 PM Russian negotiator Grigory Karasin cast doubt on the Trump administration's efforts to broker a quick ceasefire in Ukraine, saying on March 28 that the talks with the U.S. may not yield decisive results this ... (kyiv independent)

Trump officials, allies grow anxious about April 2 tariffs

7 hrs ago - 03/29/2025 07:00 AM EDT Updated: 03/29/2025 11:58 AM EDT Top White House and administration officials have been promising businesses, consumers and fellow Republicans more “certainty” on trade in the coming days, eager to calm skittish mark ... (Politico)

US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts

8 hrs ago - US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts By Nate Raymond and Kanishka Singh March 29, 2025 3:40 PM UTC Updated ago Summary - Rumeysa Ozturk accused of activities supporting Hamas - Supporters say her detention violates right to free spe ... (Reuters)

Trump appointee's disappearing act has key department at a standstill: report

8 hrs ago - March 29, 2025 8:40AM ET Donald Trump's decision to hand newly appointed FBI Director Kash Patel the reins as the interim head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), has to the department being adrift with Patel reportedly ... (Raw Story)

Mass shooting at juvenile party leaves 2 dead, 4 injured in Tacoma

8 hrs ago - A shooting at a house party in Tacoma, Washington, left two dead and four injured, authorities said. Shortly after midnight Saturday, deputies were dispatched to the large party and witnessed 30 to 40 juveniles running and screaming from the house, a ... (ABC News)

Not just Signal: 6 times Donald Trump's information security has raised eyebrows

8 hrs ago - Published 5:04 a.m. ET March 29, 2025 President Donald Trump and his administration raised eyebrows about how they handled sensitive national security information long before his top national security advisor added a journalist to a Signal chat. Secu ... (USA Today)

Limo from 'Putin's car fleet' is blown up in huge blast as troops from paranoid tyrant's honour guard searched for bombs

9 hrs ago - ONE of Vladimir Putin’s limousines exploded and caught fire in Moscow as the tyrant orders sewers to be searched and the pat down of his own guards. An Aurus limousine from Putin’s “official car fleet” blew up in a huge blast on a ... (Newsbreak)

Wisconsin judge won't stop Musk's $1 million payments to voters. Attorney general appeals

9 hrs ago - Updated 10:47 AM EDT, March 29, 2025 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Saturday declined to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters in the state at a planned rally days before the closely contested Su ... (AP)

U.S. Presses French Companies to Comply With Trump's Anti-Diversity Policies

9 hrs ago - March 29, 2025, 8:46 a.m. ET For months, French businesses have been bracing for the fallout of trade wars and tariff threats from the United States as the effects of President Trump's "America First" policies ripple out. But this past week, the Fren ... (New York Times)

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