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May 18, 2025
As Trump's ban looms, transgender service members defend their fitness to serve
11 hours ago The Pentagon's forced ouster of transgender service members could impact thousands of people and devastate careers, military members and veterans say. The big picture: While the Trump administration claims its restrictive policies will promote military "readiness," trans soldiers and veterans say the administration's ban is driven by animus rather than evidence — and will mark a substantial loss to the armed services. Catch up quick: The Pentagon announced earlier this ...
Go to discussionRubio says U.S. will find out if Russia is "tapping us along" soon amid push for ceasefire in Ukraine
May 17, 2025 / 5:54 PM EDT Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on the phone Saturday with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to get a readout on the latest talks, as the U.S. tries to determine whether Russia is "tapping us along" in efforts to end the war in Ukraine. "We talked about a variety of things," Rubio told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" in an interview airing Sunday. "I wanted to get his readout on his view of how the talks went yest ...
Go to discussionTrump Threatens ABC 'SleazeBags' Over Qatari Plane Coverage
Updated May 18 2025 3:42AM EDT Published May 18 2025 2:25AM EDT President Donald Trump is threatening legal action against ABC News—again—over a report that has become late-night fodder and social media satire across the country: the apparent $400 million “free plane” souvenir he picked up on his recent trip to Qatar. “I give these SleazeBags fair warning!” Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday night, directing his late-night fury at Disney CEO Bob Iger, who oversees ABC News. “Why doesn ...
Go to discussionTrump shares ally's plan to 'release terrorists near homes of Supreme Court justices'
May 17, 2025 4:46PM ET Donald Trump has been lashing out at the Supreme Court since it handed him a loss on the issue of immigration, and on Saturday he went as far as to distribute a MAGA lawyer's plan to "release 'terrorists' near the homes of Supreme Court justices." Former GOP staffer Mike Davis has made headlines for his social media comments in the past, and was rumored to be on Trump's list for attorney general. Recently, he posted a plan to get back at the Supreme Court just ...
Go to discussionOklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact
Sat 17 May 2025 18.18 EDT As part of the latest Republican push in red states to promote ideologies sympathetic to Donald Trump, Oklahoma’s new social studies curriculum will ask high school students to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election results. The previous standard for studying the 2020 election merely said: “Examine issues related to the election of 2020 and its outcome.” The new version is more expansive: “Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs a ...
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