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From relief to ruin: The underreported impact of U.S. aid cuts in Africa

On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14169, imposing a 90‑day freeze on nearly all U.S. foreign development assistance—including much of USAID’s programming—pending a review of its alignment with American foreign policy. By March, this had evolved into the abrupt termination of roughly 83 percent of USAID programs, particularly those targeting health, humanitarian, and development initiatives across Africa.…



5 Times Krystal Ball Put Dems’ Sen. Slotkin on Defense Over Israel—A Raw Test of Journalism and Power

In a searing interview on Breaking Points, hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti grilled Democratic Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan on a range of hot-button topics—from Epstein conspiracy theories to Democratic Party leadership. But it was the exchange over Zohran Mamdani’s campaign victory and Israel’s ongoing military operations in Gaza that quickly became the most…

Faith leaders hope bipartisan bill will keep immigrant ministers serving U.S. communities

By Giovanna Dell’orto | The Associated Press  Faith leaders across the U.S. are hoping a bipartisan bill, recently introduced in the U.S. Senate and House, might finally bring resolution to an immigration issue that has been hindering their service to their communities for more than two years. In March 2023, the Biden administration made a…

Tariffs vs. robots: Why Trump’s trade war can’t bring back the jobs of the past

Smaller Mexican companies can find highly qualified labor needed to operate automated factories at little more than half of U.S. wages, Cázares said. Mexico currently ranks eighth in the world in terms of the engineering, manufacturing, and construction graduates produced annually. Cázares’ company, Industrias Cazel, employs nearly 1,000 people at plants in Tultitlán, on the…

Why Jeffrey Epstein is breaking MAGA solidarity

Odds are decent that you’ve heard about Donald Trump’s sudden insistence that additional investigative files around famed late pedophile sexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein do not exist and that he won’t […] The post Why Jeffrey Epstein is breaking MAGA solidarity appeared first on Epicenter NYC.

Mamdani’s rise and the resurgence of Islamophobic politics

As Zohran Mamdani surges in the polls in his campaign for mayor of New York City, Islamophobia is also on the rise.  A recent report by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), which analyzed online hate before and after New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, documented a sharp increase in digital hate…

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