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White House Sends Letters Canceling Addiction Grants

Advocates warn cuts will cause recovery centers nationwide to shutter

(Newser) - Nonprofit addiction and mental health programs got an abrupt jolt Tuesday night when the Trump administration sent hundreds of letters canceling a sea of federal grants that fund treatment, outreach, and recovery services nationwide, according to nonprofit leaders and consultants. Sources who spoke to NPR estimate the total loss to...

US Pauses Immigrant Visas From 75 Nations Over Welfare

To 'ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people'

(Newser) - Immigrant visas from much of the globe are about to be put on ice. The State Department on Wednesday said it will halt processing of immigrant visas for people seeking to move permanently to the US from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Russia, and Somalia. A post on...

US Allows Nvidia to Sell Advanced AI Chips to China

Export cap, security checks aim to prevent military use, though critics worry about enforcement

(Newser) - Washington is cracking the door open for advanced AI chips headed to China—just not all the way. The Trump administration has formally authorized exports of Nvidia's H200, its second-most powerful AI chip, to Chinese buyers under a set of restrictions meant to ease national security worries while giving...

Mulling Iran Strikes, US Makes a Precautionary Move

Some Americans told to leave Qatar base Iran previously hit in retaliation

(Newser) - Some Americans are being quietly pulled from a key US air base in Qatar as the White House weighs whether to launch strikes at Iran. The US military has begun evacuating personnel from Al Udeid Air Base as a precaution, a US official and a second person familiar with the...

DOJ Rips Judge Over Disqualified US Attorney

Justice Department blasts judge's order regarding Lindsey Halligan as abuse of power

(Newser) - The Justice Department says Lindsey Halligan remains US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, despite a judge's order finding her appointment was invalid . In a filing Tuesday, Halligan and the DOJ pushed back hard against US District Judge David Novak, who'd ordered her to explain why she...

Bipartisan Bill Would Cut Trump Off at the Pass on Greenland

Senate legislation would bar using US funds to annex NATO land

(Newser) - US lawmakers are trying to put a legal fence around Greenland before President Trump can test NATO's borders. A bipartisan pair of senators has introduced the NATO Unity Protection Act, a bill that would prohibit the Pentagon and State Department from spending money to "blockade, occupy, annex, or...

2025 Was Earth's 3rd-Hottest Year on Record

Global temperatures now average 1.47 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels

(Newser) - If 2025 felt unusually hot, that's because it was—again. New data from the European Union's Copernicus climate change monitoring service shows last year ranked as the third-warmest on record, with global temperatures continuing a streak that's starting to look less like an anomaly and more like...

FBI Probes Activist Ties in Fatal ICE Shooting

Sources say agent Jonathan Ross is unlikely to face criminal charges

(Newser) - Federal investigators probing the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis are expanding their focus beyond the officer who pulled the trigger to her possible links with local immigration activists. People familiar with the inquiry tell the New York Times it now includes scrutiny of Good's involvement...

Reports: US Disguised Jet to Look Civilian in Boat Strike

New York Times and Washington Post question whether it constitutes a war crime

(Newser) - The Trump administration's first lethal strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean used a secret aircraft painted to pass as a civilian plane, a choice that legal experts say may have crossed the line into a war crime, report the New York Times and the Washington Post ...

Trump: Will Be a 'Complete Mess' if SCOTUS Nixes Tariffs

US will be 'screwed' if such a decision is handed down, president warns

(Newser) - President Trump is warning of economic chaos if the Supreme Court wipes out his signature global tariffs, with a decision expected as early as Wednesday. In a social media post , the president noted "WE'RE SCREWED" if the justices rule against him, arguing that undoing the duties would trigger...

Judge: Scrapping $7B in Clean Energy Projects Unconstitutional

Most are in states with Democratic governors

(Newser) - A federal court ruled Monday that Trump administration's cancellation of more than $7.5 billion in clean energy grants in 16 states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 was illegal, the AP reports. "Defendants freely admit that they made grant-termination decisions primarily—if not exclusively—based on...

Former Federal Reserve Chiefs Warn About Powell Probe

Bernanke, Greenspan, and Yellen say inquiry imperils Fed autonomy and market stability

(Newser) - Every living former chair of the Federal Reserve has broken with tradition to warn that a Justice Department criminal probe of current Fed chief Jerome Powell could blow a hole in the central bank's independence. In a joint statement, former Fed leaders Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and Janet Yellen...

EPA Making Big Change on Air Pollution Standards

Agency plans to stop factoring in human ailments and deaths, reports the New York Times

(Newser) - The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to change how it weighs the impact of dirty air—by no longer putting a dollar figure on many of the lives it could save, reports the New York Times . The newspaper describes the move as a "seismic shift" that may make it...

ICE Raids Continue in Minnesota Amid Protests

Man arrested at home in one dramatic scene

(Newser) - Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever. In a...

Your Phone Could Lead ICE Right to You

Immigration agency taps commercial location data without warrants, critics warn

(Newser) - Immigration officials now have access to a tool that can map the movements of phones across whole neighborhoods, raising new alarms among privacy advocates. Documents obtained by 404 Media show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased access to two products from Penlink called Webloc and Tangles. Webloc lets users...

Leaders of Greenland Ask US to Curb Its 'Contempt'

'We don't want to be Americans, we don't want to be Danes,' PM Nielsen, others say in statement

(Newser) - Greenland's party leaders have rejected President Trump's repeated calls for the US to take control of the island, saying that Greenland's future must be decided by its people. "We don't want to be Americans, we don't want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,...

Top Catholic Paper Accuses VP of 'Gaslighting' on ICE Shooting

National Catholic Reporter editor denounces vice president's remarks on Renee Nicole Good killing

(Newser) - A leading Catholic newspaper is publicly taking on one of the church's most prominent political converts. In an opinion piece published on Thursday, John Grosso, the digital editor for the National Catholic Reporter , accused Vice President JD Vance of distorting Christian teaching in his response to Wednesday's fatal...

Amid 'Operational Chaos,' Judge Rules on Child Care Grants

Federal court says Trump administration can't block those subsidies, others—at least for now

(Newser) - A federal judge ruled Friday that President Trump's administration can't block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states, at least for now. California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York argued that a policy...

Weekend Rallies Seek to Put 'End to Deadly Terror'

Anti-ICE protests come after federal agents fatally shot Minneapolis woman, injured 2 in Oregon

(Newser) - Protests against immigration enforcement are planned for cities and towns across the country on Saturday after one federal officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis and another shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon. The demonstrations come as the Department of Homeland Security pushes forward in the Twin Cities...

5 States Sue After Trump Freezes Federal Funds

Democratic-led states say move is an unconstitutional abuse of power

(Newser) - Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Trump's administration after it said it would freeze money for several public benefit programs, citing concerns about fraud in the programs designed to help low-income families.
  • The states—California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, and New York—called the
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