Live updates: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s federal funding freeze

The new Secretary of Homeland Security says the agency will “do everything we can to protect the American people” as she addresses the agency’s staff for the first time. “We…

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Trump critic Jim Acosta reveals his next move after leaving CNN

Hours after signing off from CNN for the final time following his rejection of the network’s proposal to take his news program to the “graveyard” midnight shift, Jim Acosta revealed…

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D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending

WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Tuesday granted an administrative stay in a case challenging the Trump administration’s planned freeze of federal aid, pausing the plan for a week…

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How will the federal funding pause affect Staunton, Augusta and Waynesboro?

(This story will be updated as more information becomes available.) President Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders in his first week in office, including a “pause” on federal grants…

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Karoline Leavitt holds first briefing as Trump’s White House press secretary

WASHINGTON— Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made her debut in the White House briefing room where she defended President Donald Trump’s plans to slash federal spending and its mass deportation efforts….

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Jim Acosta Heads to Substack After CNN Exit

Jim Acosta, just hours after announcing his exit from CNN, said he was joining Substack on Tuesday afternoon. Acosta joins a growing list of high-profile media figures to join the…

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Trump’s Most-Hated Anchor Jim Acosta Is Leaving CNN Over Schedule Shift

Jim Acosta, the acerbic CNN anchor who rose to prominence by sparring with President Donald Trump during his first administration, is reportedly planning to leave the network after he was…

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Chaos ripples through country as Trump orders federal funding freeze

President Donald Trump plunged the U.S. government into panic and confusion on Tuesday by pausing federal funding while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological review to uproot progressive initiatives, setting…

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State Medicaid payments inaccessible amid broader federal funding freeze

Medicaid funding to states is frozen due to a nationwide outage in government payment processing systems, causing mass confusion across the country. Congressional Democrats said Trump’s executive orders pausing federal…

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Nonprofits in New York Are Told Their Contracts ‘Have Been Paused’

As New York leaders sought to make sense of the Trump administration’s recent directive freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, a trickle of real-life implications started to…

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