Pentagon To Spend Close To $500 Million On Guantanamo Expansion

The Pentagon envisions some $500 million in new spending, with roughly half set aside for a five-bed hospital, leading to criticism that the plan costs $50 million per bed.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Guantanamo

While President Trump is still trying to sort out exactly how to word his executive order,  but the plan is clearly to expand the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and start throwing more detainees into the facility. The Pentagon’s planning ahead on picking up spending at the site. The Pentagon envisions some $500 million in new spending,

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27 National Monuments At Risk Of Becoming Fossil Fuel ‘Sacrifice Zones’

“Their natural beauty and scientific and cultural importance is indisputable, but Trump and his corporate friends claim to know better. Sadly it’s just their greed talking,” said Randi Spivak of the Center for Biological Diversity.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Mount Katahdin, the highest peak in Maine, is visible from some locations within the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. The Katahdin monument is one of the 27 under threat by Trump's executive order. (AP/Patrick Whittle)

With the public comment period ending Monday, there are just hours left for the public to weigh in on President Donald Trump's order that threatens protections of 27 national monuments designated since 1996. "These monuments were protected by presidents from both parties for good reason," said Randi Spivak, director of the Center for Biological

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Immigrant Arrests Up 40% Under Trump, Deportations Down

There has also been a renewed focus on arresting immigrants without criminal convictions.

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By Associated Press
Immigration activists hold a banner while protesting the GEO Group which is one of the nation’s largest private prison companies and operator of multiple immigration detention centers. (AP/Gosia Wozniacka)

SANTA ANA, Calif.  — U.S. immigration arrests increased nearly 40 percent in early 2017 as newly emboldened agents under President Donald Trump detained more than 40,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally — with a renewed focus on immigrants without criminal convictions. The numbers released by Acting Immigration and Customs

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Internet Trolls Show Ridiculous Nature Of Trump’s New Illegal Alien Hotline

Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not find the troll calls amusing.

Carey Wedler
By Carey Wedler
Trump Kat

President Trump keeps getting trolled. Shortly after he was elected and began signing executive orders, the internet had a field day with an image of the president holding a folder containing blank pages. Trolls photoshopped text into the blank pages in the photograph, mocking the newly-inaugurated head of state. Trump has also been prodded

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Unfazed By Deadly Nature Of His Ideological Agenda

Scott Pruitt is possibly the first EPA administrator who has “no commitment to the mission of the agency.” That lack of commitment will mean increased rates of sickness and terrible stories of death.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington. Pruitt said Thursday, March 9, 2017, he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. With President Donald Trump’s administration set to make dramatic and devastating cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and further cutback federal environmental regulations, the agency’s newly confirmed administrator Scott Pruitt shrugs off concerns about the millions of Americans who will

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Judge Indefinitely Extends Injunction On Trump’s Muslim Ban

“The court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters closed, and pretend it has not seen what it has,” Judge Watson wrote on Wednesday.

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By teleSUR
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On Wednesday a federal judge indefinitely extended a previously temporary restraining order against U.S. President Donald Trump's so-called Muslim Ban executive order. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson turned his earlier temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Trump's executive order

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