Newsom and California confront Trump with a potential blueprint for Democrats Allies and opponents agree how Newsom handles the protests – including Trump’s calling in the National Guard and sending in active-duty Marines over the governor’s objections – will reverberate far beyond California, and long after this week. videos That’s how Newsom is approaching what has become a fight on the streets and in the courts, only a few days after he was responding to a Trump administration effort to identify federal grants going to the state that can be canceled. Other Democratic governors have been calling Newsom, checking in, ticking through scenarios in their minds of how what’s happened in California could play out at home for them, according to multiple people briefed on the conversations.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America’s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting. The order instructs the CPB’s board to terminate direct funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service to the “maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.” It also orders the board to take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to NPR and PBS. The corporation, however, is a private entity that is supposed to be protected from government interference, including executive orders from the president. The corporation is currently suing Trump because the White House tried to terminate three of its board members earlier this week. “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority,” the corporat...
Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, surpasses $100,000 for the first time ever, signaling optimism about a "Trump bump" that will boost investments associated with Trump's agenda. Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, surpasses $100,000 for the first time ever, signaling optimism about a "Trump bump" that will boost investments associated with Trump's agenda.
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