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The way is clear for Palm Beach County International Airport to be renamed after Donald Trump, but despite his claims, suspicions remain that taxpayers will be footing the bill for the latest example of his name-changing crusade.The Republican-controlled Florida State House recently passed a bill that will rename the airport closest to the president's Mar-a-Lago residence to "Donald J. Trump International Airport." According to a Friday report from USA Today, Trump and the Trump Organization have in

One of the biggest challenges for President Donald Trump's Justice Department is that so much institutional knowledge was lost after the purge of top officials and career prosecutors. Even small things like using the computer systems appear to have flummoxed prosecutors. Lawyer Daniel Suitor pointed out that he's been involved in a suit in which the federal government completely blew past a filing deadline for one of his Habeas Corpus petitions in an immigration case. Suitor said that the court ordered the assistant U.S. attorney explain themselves. "His response? It was 11:30 p.m. and 'I do not know how to file documents through CMECF,'" Suitor said of the lawyer talking about the electronic fili

President Donald Trump’s sweeping government cuts have cost 62,000 veterans their jobs, according to a budget-oriented think tank — and worse is yet to come.“The Trump Administration has radically slashed the federal civilian workforce, sidestepping Congress and causing disruptions, slowdowns, and fragility in a range of critical public services that people and communities depend on,” wrote the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on Friday. “Veterans have been affected by these cuts both as members of the federal workforce and as recipients of f

President Donald Trump announced an end to his immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota last week, but a top German soccer team still canceled a planned trip to Minnesota to protect its members.Through the club’s head of communications Christoph Pieper, the team called Werder Bremen said in a statement that “playing in a city where there’s unrest and people have been shot, that does not fit with our values here at Werder Bremen,” according to Politico.He added that “it was unclear for us which players could be able to enter the United States due to th

President Donald Trump is furious after losing his tariff case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court ruled that Trump overstepped his authority when he tried to make "emergency" tariff laws in retaliation against countries that weren't nice to him. Speaking about the matter on Friday, legal analyst and CNN reporter Paula Reid noted that even Trump's own lawyers have been shocked by the Supreme Court granting him so much leeway on the "unitary executive theory."

Standards for new recruits are reportedly plummeting at the FBI, but according to a new analysis from MS NOW's Steve Benen, this is just the latest example in an "unfortunate" trend across Donald Trump's presidency.Writing on Friday, Benen, a longtime producer for The Rachel Maddow Show, highlighted a recent report from Reuters about the decline in recruitment standards put in place at the FBI in order to address hiring issues. According to the report, existing Bureau employees

President Donald Trump has successfully pressured the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) into adopting new guidelines — and some officials feel that they amount to ideological loyalty tests.The official letter emphasizes "uplifting and positive narratives of our shared American experience" but also instructs “improper ideology” be scrubbed from federal cultural institutions, according to a report by The Washington Post. Because the IMLS distributes grants to museums and libraries, they have the power to make both personnel and curatorial choices. As such, all refe

President Donald Trump was furious about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on his tariff power, CNN reported Friday after the ruling came down. Trump, who has been meeting with the National Governors' Association throughout the morning, found out the news during the event and began using "expletives" to discuss the decision, CNN reports."I am told that [the White House is] meeting discussing how they are going to respond. But we have learned more about what happened in the room when President Trump was with those governors, and he learned of the Supreme Court dec

This Friday, February 20, the National Governors Association's (NGA) annual meeting is getting underway in Washington, D.C. The NGA, founded in 1908, is bipartisan — and both Republicans and Democrats are invited. While the NGA is chaired by a conservative Republican governor, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt, its vice-chair, Wes Moore, is a Maryland Democrat. And the NGA Executive Committee ranges from Republican Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.Although Moore and Polis are attending the meeting, President Donald Trump isn't inviting them to a related White House gub

No major US figures other than Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell have been held legally accountable for the child sex trafficking scandal — and conservatives are blaming President Donald Trump.“Trump is saddened by any embarrassment to the royal family,” wrote William Kristol of the conservative publication The Bulwark, referring to the president’s response to the recent arrest of the former UK prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. “And there is no evidence the Trump administration has any interest in seeing justice done, or any intention of h