Yahoo News reported that in order to continue detaining more than 13,000 children currently in the custody of the ORR, the Health and Human Services Secretary is proposing that up to $266 million be taken from other government health programs.
The State Department said “the PLO has not taken steps to advance the start of direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel.”
The US on Monday announced the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Washington diplomatic mission as the Donald Trump administration prepares to roll out its Middle East peace plan, Anadolu reports.
The State Department announced the decision, saying “the PLO office in Washington will close at this
“Locking up children indefinitely is cruel and heartless, even for the Trump administration. It is nothing less than an assault on child safety and fundamental human dignity.”
Attempting to change two decades of precedent, the Trump administration announced its intention Thursday to lift court-ordered limits on how long migrant children can be detained—a proposal multiple critics promptly denounced as "Gitmo for children." The administration said Thursday it intends to enter into the Federal Register new regulations
“Trump may be a threat,” notes journalist Glenn Greenwald, “but so is this covert coup” that seeks to impose its “own ideology with zero democratic accountability, mandate or transparency.”
What's more troubling: That the grotesque liar and right-wing narcissist Donald Trump was elected by the American people to be President of the United States in 2016? Or that there is now apparently a secret cabal of unelected right-wing officials inside his White House—at least according to a New York Times op-ed
If Interior Department’s proposals are approved, “Zinke will go down in history as the extinction secretary.”
Gutting the law that has protected the bald eagle, the American crocodile, the gray wolf, and countless other animals from extinction over the past four decades, the Trump administration gave its latest handout to corporate interests on Thursday when it unveiled sweeping
Trump took to Twitter on Monday to call the New York Times report “fake news.”
Decades of research has revealed time and again that breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed babies. Years of misleading marketing by formula companies has caused undue harm the world over by providing free samples in-hospital after birth, driving the unintended use of dirty
The Trump administration’s indefinite detention of people exercising their legal right to seek asylum violated not only U.S. law but also the 1967 Protocol to the United Nations’ 1951 Convention on the Treatment of Refugees.
Immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday applauded a federal judge's ruling that the Trump administration cannot detain asylum seekers who are awaiting immigration hearings—a practice that breaks the government's own policies as well as international law. https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1013909726319513600 The ACLU filed a lawsuit earlier this
