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Rubio Unveils Sweeping State Department Shake-Up to Reduce and Reorganize Agency

Rubio Unveils Sweeping State Department Shake-Up to Reduce and Reorganize Agency

by Matthew Shea | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled the start of a major reorganization on Tuesday to drastically reduce the size and scope of the State Department. The plan reflected the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to cut back the federal government. The...
DC community rallies against Trump administration’s firing of federal workers

DC community rallies against Trump administration’s firing of federal workers

by Erin Drumm | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON—Paul Osadebe still holds his job as a lawyer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Still, with so many of his coworkers having lost their jobs, he says it is endangering the mission of providing housing and revitalizing...
VA Announces Record Efficiency Amid Potential Staffing Cuts

VA Announces Record Efficiency Amid Potential Staffing Cuts

by Ismael M. Belkoura | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – At a time when the Department of Veterans Affairs has been processing record levels of disability claims, Democrats warned last week that the agency’s productivity will not last under the deep cuts ordered by President Donald Trump. The 2022 PACT Act...
Trump administration says killings in Sudan are genocide

Trump administration says killings in Sudan are genocide

by Khaleel Rahman | Apr 17, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON, April 16 — As the death toll continues to mount in Sudan, the Trump administration on Wednesday for the first time characterized the atrocities in that North African country as genocide, reaffirming a designation made by the former Biden...
PHOTOS: Recap of The 2024 Republican National Convention

PHOTOS: Recap of The 2024 Republican National Convention

by Karishma Bhuiyan, Sylvie Kirsch and Noah Poser | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured, Politics

MILWAUKEE — The 2024 Republican National Convention ran from July 15 through July 18 at the Fiserv Forum, where former president Donald Trump officially accepted the party’s nomination for president. Alongside his own nomination, he announced Sen. JD...
The Milwaukee Turners: The history behind a prominent site at the RNC

The Milwaukee Turners: The history behind a prominent site at the RNC

by Noah Poser | Jul 20, 2024 | Featured, Politics

Across the street from Fiserv Forum – site of the Republican National Convention – is Turner Hall. It served as headquarters for CNN and Politico during the convention, but Turner Hall’s history, and the history of the Milwaukee Turners and their place in the city and...
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