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Last month, Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, posted a video to X asking an unusual question: "Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?" she says to the camera. "The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination - including against white male applicants and employees."

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong The White House boasted about stripping former President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden of his Secret Service protection on Tuesday, describing the former president's son as a notorious crackhead and grifter. In a printout distributed to reporters in the White House Briefing Room, the Trump administration listed 365 wins from President Donald Trump's first year of his second term.

You may have missed this amid the current barrage of massed insanity emanating from the White House, but the president, after a decade of working the con in two-week increments, finally released an outline of a concept of a health-care plan. It was, of course, another demonstration of his essential worthlessness as an actual president of the United States. The New York Times was being gentle about it.

Tensions have risen in the city since the killing of 37-year-old Renee Good at the hands of an ICE agent. In the wake of that incident, even more demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest the presence of ICE. The Trump administration has deployed thousands of agents into the city amid claims of widespread migrant-related fraud. On Thursday morning, Trump claimed on Truth Social that he would use the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy U.S. military troops into the city.

With a ring of massive columns and seating for more than 70,000 people, President Donald Trump may be getting the football stadium of his dreams. Renderings have just been released of the proposed design for a new stadium for the Washington Commanders NFL team, and the aesthetic is right in line with an architectural style the Trump administration has been championing with increasing passion.

Share your views about the impact of the Trump administration's first year at this live community discussion led by KALW's Rose Aguilar. Join KALW for a live and in-person edition of The Authoritarian Playbook, discussing the federal administration's authoritarian actions and policies. We'll summarize the latest news, put it in historical context, and find out how people are responding. Your RSVP includes admission to Mission Grafica: The Public's Voice, a collaborative art exhibition produced with the Mission Cultual Center for Latino Arts.

If you're planning to visit one of the 11 most popular national parks in the U.S. - two of which are in California - staff might ask a question that could be disquieting: Are you an American citizen? A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior said that the question is being posed only to confirm whether the visitor will have to pay a nonresident fee - which is hefty.

FBI investigators are looking into Renee Nicole Good's life and potential history of anti-ICE activism after her death, sources familiar with the situation have said, seemingly trying to retroactively justify her killing as they obstruct probes into her killer, ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Sources told The New York Times that it "seems increasingly unlikely" that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent will face criminal charges for his shooting and killing of Good.

That messaging, which resonated with swing voters frustrated with inflation, helped propel Trump back into the White House. Nearly a year into his term, Trump's approval ratings have hit new lows as he calls the continuing affordability crisis a "Democrat hoax." Now, as the president is attempting to deliver a positive economic message ahead of the midterms, he's turned his eye to the costliest necessity - and one of the most complicated: housing.

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr accused ICE of commit[ing] murder when an agent shot and killed protestor Renee Good in Minnesota on Wednesday after she appeared to hit the agent with her SUV. Kerr shared his disgust with ICE and the response from President Donald Trump's administration during a press conference on Friday evening. It's shameful, really, that in our country, we can have law enforcement officers who commit murder and seemingly get away with it, Kerr said.

Back in 2024, before he was even sworn in, president Donald Trump announced that billionaire tech founder and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman would take the helm of the space agency - only to change his mind after months of bureaucratic chaos, poorly implemented budget cuts, and a major falling out with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. A year later, though, Trump came around again on Isaacman,

The December jobs report confirms that 2025 was a blockbuster year of solid job growth thanks to the return President Trump's America First leadership,

"Gone is Barack Obama's " Cuban Thaw" and Joe Biden's less-restrictive sanctions. In their places, the Trump administration has apparently adopted a policy of regime change through maximum pressure. If the administration has its way, 2026 will be the final year of communist rule in Cuba - and it intends to achieve this without intervention by U.S. armed forces. 'I don't think we need (to take) any action,' Trump said on Jan. 4."

Especially if there's been a shocking tragedy. And there's been another. This morning in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old woman was shot and killed by an ICE agent in front of her neighbors. Homeland Security Secretary Noem claimed the slain woman committed an act of domestic terrorism and says the agent acted in self-defense. The mayor of Minneapolis watched the videotape of the killing and said that claim is, and I quote, Bullsh*t..

At first glance, the image has all the trappings of a Serious Tactical Raid Photo, à la Pete Souza's famous Situation Room snapshot, which showed President Barack Obama and his national-security team tracking the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. But then you see what's behind Hegseth: a large screen displaying an X feed. The photo is blurry, but it seems to show Hegseth and company using X's search function to monitor tweets about the raid.