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For someone who claims to be unconcerned about the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump seems increasingly desperate to open it.  In a Truth Social post over the weekend that was extreme even by his standards, Trump instructed Iran to “open the fuckin’ strait” by this Tuesday or he would make good on earlier threats […]

According to Donald Trump, Iranians want the US military to continue to bomb their homes.  “We’ve had numerous intercepts,” Trump told reporters in a press conference on Monday afternoon. “’Please keep bombing. Do it.’ And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding.”  When questioned on who sent these communications, the president responded, “I don’t know what they do. All I can tell you is that they want freedom.” Trump did not say when the intercepts w

Included in the White House’s $1 billion budget increase request for the Indian Health Service (IHS) — released Friday with the president’s 2027 budget proposal — are cuts to some of the agency’s critical programs as it struggles from years of underfunding. Overall, the budget proposal requests $9.094 billion for the Indian Health Service, a $1.1 billion increase over the fiscal year 2026 funding levels enacted by Congress. Even with the increase, the budget still falls about $64 billion sho

The Association on American Affairs has released this statement: PLEASE SUBMIT COMMENTS BY APRIL 7, 2026 On March 31, 2026, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it will consider revoking a mineral withdrawal that blocks new leasing within a 10-mile buffer around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The BLM announced a 7-day comment period, ending on April 7, 2026. This scoping period is to determine&

Native Vote 2026 The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) is raising alarm over federal legislation it says could significantly restrict voting access for Alaska Native communities, warning that the proposed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would create new barriers for eligible voters—particularly in rural areas. In a statement released Monday, the state’s largest Native organization, representing 192 federally recognized tribes along with dozens of Native corporations and no

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Today, Vox announced the launch of America, Actually, a new video-first podcast hosted by Astead W. Herndon. Designed from the ground up for video platforms, the show will bring audiences inside the forces shaping American politics for a post-Trump era through immersive reporting, sharp analysis, and deeply human storytelling. America, Actually will explore the question: […]

Her abusive husband had hurt her too many times. So Carmen F., an immigrant from South America, called the police. He was soon deported. Then she applied for a U visa, a special visa that gives crime victims a pathway to permanent residency in the United States if they cooperated with law enforcement to get their perpetrators off the streets. Unfortunately, the wait time to receive one of these visas is often more than 15 years. There’s a massive backlog, and in the meantime the T

Good morning. The Artemis II is getting ready to take a giant leap – we’ll have more on the moon mission, along with updates back on Earth including news on trade and defence. Let’s get to it.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a country characterized by antiquated systems for regulating how electricity is produced and transported to homes and businesses, one utility in Arizona may be the most outdated. In 1903, almost a decade before Arizona became a state, a group of landowners around Phoenix secured a federal loan for a dam on the Salt River. The dam collected water to irrigate far

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts. “The forbidden C-word” — climate. Roberts, union president at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois, […]

A surprising quirk of the Trump administration is that every so often, it tries so hard to be anti-woke that it accidentally does something woke.  See, for example, the efforts of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who oversaw USAID’s demise — directives that have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people — […]

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Goat meat goes down like big shards of glass when the symptoms set in. The local livestock, the main source of available nutrients, becomes nearly impossible to swallow. It feels, the sufferers say, like deep wounds have been sliced into their throats. In Kargi, a remote desert village in the far north of Kenya, cancers of the digestive tract plague the population at unusually high rates. The disease most often attacks the esophagus, though

Happy Monday Morning! Here are some articles you may have missed this Easter holiday weekend: Native Programs Targeted for Major Cuts as White House Requests Historic Defense Spending in FY 2027 Budget The White House released the 92-page Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 President’s Budget Request on Good Friday, asking Congress to approve roughly $1.5 trillion in defense spending. With the Iran War of choice entering its fifth week, this request would represent a nearly 40 percent incr