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Trump administration rescinds memo to halt federal funding The Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded a sweeping directive to freeze all federal grants and aid after the move was temporarily blocked by a federal judge. The funding freeze, which came into action on Tuesday, is believed to have disrupted tens of billions of dollars in spending across healthcare, education, disaster relief, housing assistance and other programs. A memo sent by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to government agencies included a series of yes or no questions including “does this program promote gender ideology?” and “does this program promote or support in…

US President Donald Trump’s administration has revoked a decision that would protect some 600,000 Venezuelans from deportation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Wednesday. Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, had ordered an extension of the deportation relief from April 2025 to October 2026. What do we know about the Trump administration’s plan to deport Venezuelans? Noem told the Fox News broadcaster that she had rescinded the Biden administration’s extension, which also gave Venezuelans access to work permits through the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. Trump had already attempted to block the program during his first term in 2017-2021, but the…

US President Donald Trump unveiled a plan Wednesday to detain thousands of undocumented migrants in Guantanamo Bay, shifting focus from White House chaos after a funding freeze order was withdrawn. Trump said a new camp would hold up to 30,000 “criminal illegal aliens” at the Cuba facility, intensifying his immigration crackdown and second-term agenda.

Vice President – JD Vance Republican elected on Donald Trump’s ticket in the 2023 November elections. Vice President – JD Vance Republican James David Vance aka JD Vance is a Senator from Ohio and a Vice President of the United States. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 2022 and served from January 3, 2023, until January 10, 2025, when he resigned to become Vice President, following President Donald Trump’s inauguration. News from the VP office

PhD student ‘raped 10 women after plying them with alcohol or drugs’ A PhD student is accused of drugging and raping 10 women over a period of four years, a court has heard. Zhenhao Zou, 27, a Chinese national, allegedly drugged or pressured the women to drink alcohol before sexually assaulting them. The prosecution alleged that Zou often filmed himself doing so and would keep the videos as ‘souvenirs’. Zou is accused of raping the women between September 2019 and May 2023 and appeared at Inner London Crown Court. Multiple videos were found on his phone of unconscious women when…

The current Speaker of the House – Mike Johnson Republican – Louisiana. Speaker of the House – Mike Johnson Republican Republican Mike Johnson elected 56th speaker of the House. House lawmakers in October 2023 elected Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as the 56th speaker of the House, capping more than three weeks of dysfunction and chaos on Capitol Hill. He had only been a Congressman for 6.8 years which made him the second fastest member to be elected as House leader. About the Speaker of the House Elected by the whole of the House of Representatives, the Speaker acts as leader…

The public-private collaboration between Uparpo and the Galician Institute for Economic Promotion (IGAPE)-dependent of the Xunta-resulted in in 2024 a new increase in activity for the SGR and greater access to financing with autonomic public product for Galician SMEs . This casuistry occurs in an exercise that has been characterized in the sector due to the combination of a productivity drop attributed to the increase in labor costs and high interest rates before the de -escalation initiated in June. In this context, Robepo gave last year 462 guarantees to 343 companies through the IGAPE lines, for a joint amount of…

An exploration of the Watergate scandal -one of the biggest American political scandals of the 20th century – its causes, and how it reshaped the American political system.

Current Minority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives House of Representatives minority leader is Hakeem Jeffries Democrat New York State Hakeem Sekou Jeffries is an American politician and attorney who has served as House minority leader and Leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 2023.  He has been the U.S. representative for New York’s 8th congressional district since 2013 and was a member of the New York State Assembly from 2007 to 2012.

Current Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives House of Representatives majority leader Steve Scalise (R) Republican Louisiana Stephen Joseph Scalise is an American politician who has been serving as the House majority leader since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Louisiana’s 1st congressional district since 2008. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the House majority whip from 2014 to 2019 and the House minority whip from 2019 to 2023.