Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch sent a letter to the Trump administration responding to a list of demands the White House presented last month as it attempts to assert control over the institution. Bunch’s direct response to the White House comes more than three weeks after the administration attempted to compel the museum and research network […]
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter returned to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday after a court ruling that reversed President Donald Trump‘s effort to oust her. “Back at my desk, back online, and have already moved to reinstitute the Click to Cancel Rule,” Slaughter wrote on her official government account on X. “Hope a majority of the […]
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to again denounce the Smithsonian. The museum network, he claimed, has only devoted itself to showing “how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.” But his splenetic outburst also had a broader target: not […]
Trump Announces Kennedy Center Honorees. Applause Pending Traditionally, the announcement of the Kennedy Center Honors is a low-key affair — recipients are normally revealed each summer with a no-frills press release. Not this time. Shattering precedent (yet again), President Trump — who earlier this year anointed himself chairman and fired much of the center’s advisory […]
The account was active at least between September 2019 and January 2021, and had the username @PhDofbombsaway. It used several different screen names, including “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” and “Dr. Curtis LeMay,” an apparent reference to the US Air Force general who oversaw a campaign of firebombing Japan in World War II, promoted the […]
For companies importing goods from Southeast Asia, like Luxor, the timing of Trump’s announcement was particularly unhelpful, coinciding with Eid, the public holiday celebrated at the end of Ramadan. Initially, Luxor’s attempts to arrange collection went unanswered. In some cases, says Berschel, “factories had lines of trucks in front of them.” But eventually, in light […]
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