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Dozens of California violence prevention and victim service programs, including ones to protect survivors of domestic violence and end sexual abuse in jails and prisons, are facing devastating cuts after the Trump administration abruptly pulled funding from them. This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.“These programs literally save lives – not just for the victims, but for our entire communities,” said Tinisch Hollins, executive director of the nonprofit organization Californians for Safety and Justice. “When they go away, we lose a safety net.”The U.S. Jus

In Update New York, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse is paying into a $100 million fund for sex abuse survivors. And according to the diocese's chief financial officer, Stephen Breen, it will face "financial hardships" as a result.Syracuse.com's Jon Moss reports that on Monday, April 28, Breen testified, in bankruptcy court, that in order to withstand these "hardships," the diocese will have to sell property it owns, engage in aggressive fundraising, and look for ways to cut costs. Breen, however, vowed to do "everything we can to regain our financ

Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first hundred days, “the first hundred days” of a presidency has become the first test of presidencies.It’s been assumed that, like FDR, a successful president in the first hundred days gets a lot done and aggregates lots of power to do it. Trump has now revealed the fatuousness of that view. No modern president has done as much as Trump has done in his first hundred days — to trash human rights, undermine our alliances, threaten the independence of our universities and the press, stymie progress on climate change, decimate our civil service, shaft the poor, harm the working class, worsen the economy, and leave much of our government in tatters.

In a poll conducted by NPR-PBS-Marist College, released on Tuesday, 60 percent of respondents attributed the current economic conditions primarily to Trump’s policies. Only 39 percent felt he simply "inherited" the circumstances. This means that Americans are increasingly associating the current economic situation with Trump.In an article published in the Washington Post on Tuesday, senior reporter Aaron Blake noted that a year into Trump’s first term, specifically in January 2018, only 40 percent of Americans felt that economic conditions were largely a result of his policies. This figure has now increased by 20 poi

Three months into his second term, President Donald Trump is being inundated with weak poll numbers. Polls released in late April show Trump's approval at 42 percent (NY Times/Siena College and ABC News/Washington Post) or 43 percent (

Late Tuesday morning, April 29, CNN's Wolf Blitzer delivered some breaking news: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), according to Blitzer, "is taking steps to change House rules" in a way that "would effectively block an investigation into the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth's use of the Signal chat app."Hegseth's critics are calling for him to resign in response to reports that he discussed a U.S. military operation in Yemen in two separate conversations on the messaging program Signal — a platform that, critics say, is not secure enough for discussing sensitive or classified information. President Donald Trump's defense

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is being criticized after declaring he ended execution of a federal law promoting women, peace, and security that he described as “yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative” — which was promoted by current top members of the Trump administration and signed into law in 2017 by President Donald Trump.“This morning, I proudly ENDED the “Women, Peace & Security” (WPS) program inside the @DeptofDefense,” Secretary Hegseth bragged on Tuesday. “WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commande

Reacting to a report that Amazon has decided to place a “tariff price” next to every item they sell, indicating how much of the price of that item results from President Donald Trump’s tariffs, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described it as a "hostile and political act."“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why did Amazon do this… It’s not a surprise because Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm," she claimed during a press briefing Tuesday. Following Leavitt's remarks, Amazon issued a statement saying it “never” had any plans to show tariff costs for products on their main website. ALSO READ:

In a Monday morning, April 28 post on his Truth Social platform, President Donald Trump — angry over his low approval ratings in recent polls — called for the New York Times, ABC News, the Washington Post and others to be "investigated for election fraud." The post came three days after ABC News' Katherine Faulders reported that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), under U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, had "rescinded a policy implemented during the Biden Administration that restricted prosecutors from seizing reporters'

In an article published on Monday, April 28, The New Republic's Michael Tomasky described the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term as "clown-show fascism." Tomasky argued that the buffoonish qualities of Trump's administration doesn't make it any less dangerous.Tomasky discussed his article the next day during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," attacking Trump's second presidency as a combination of incompetence and "authoritarianism."Tomasky told "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Sca