Tag: trump
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Trump Admin signs Executive Order to halt student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at combating antisemitism, with a focus on college campuses. The order promises “immediate action” from the Justice Department to prosecute threats, vandalism, and violence against American Jews, which have reportedly surged since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas. Trump warned that non-citizen…
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Distribution of HIV drugs in poor countries halted as Trump freezes foreign aid
The distribution of HIV drugs in foreign countries by the US has been halted after President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on foreign aid. The cuts by the Trump administration affect the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, established by former President George W. Bush. The global health program is credited to have saved…
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Trump stops $50m approved by Biden administration for ‘condoms in Gaza’
The White House justified a sweeping freeze in US overseas assistance by citing a $50 million condom distribution program in the Gaza Strip, without offering evidence to back up the claim. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the expenditure was discovered in Trump’s first week including by the new Department of Government Efficiency led…
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U.S. increases arrest target of illegal immigrants to 1,800 per day
The administration of U.S. President, Donald Trump, has raised its target for daily arrests of illegal immigrants to 1,800, the New York Post reported, citing multiple sources. Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that Trump had expressed disappointment with the results of his mass deportation campaign.
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Middle East: Trump invites Israeli PM Netanyahu to the White House
US President Donald Trump has invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a meeting at the White House on February 4, the Israeli premier’s office said on Tuesday. “Prime Minister Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to be invited to the White House during US President Trump’s second term,” the statement said. A White House…
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Trump’s America, still America, their America – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
AMERICA, as most of us call the United States of America, USA, is a big country with confusions that match its size. The latest is the presidency of Donald Trump, whose face knots delightfully when he issues another threat – it could be to the unborn. Racism, genderisation of issues, in a country clawing itself…
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Trump moves to relocate Gaza residents to Egypt, Jordan
US President Donald Trump floated a plan on Saturday to “just clean out” Gaza, and said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from the territory in a bid to create Middle East peace. I’d like Egypt to take people. And I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force…
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Japa ‘wahala’: Trump stops funding for refugee resettlement groups
The Donald Trump administration has directed refugee resettlement groups to stop using some federal funds in light of the president’s suspension of American foreign aid, according to a U.S. State Department memo obtained by CBS News. While refugee resettlement groups are still scrambling to interpret the scope of the funding freeze, advocates believe the move…
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Trump signs order to declassify files on Kennedy, King assassinations
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to declassify documents related to the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King (Jr). Trump instructed the director of national intelligence and the attorney general
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BREAKING! Angry Trump vows to appeal judgement lifting birthright citizenship ban
US President Donald Trump has said that his administration would appeal a federal judge’s ruling on Thursday that temporarily blocks his attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. Obviously we will appeal it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the ruling by Washington state District Judge John Coughenour, who said the president’s order…