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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sent an order to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts instructing a pause on “all new obligations of funding, pending a review, for foreign assistance programs funded by or through the Department and USAID.” The message was in line with the executive order President Trump signed on Monday to reevaluate […]
Hey Country Now, I’m MaRynn Taylor and I’m going to be doing a photo diary of what it was like to open for Kelsea Ballerini in Grand Rapids, Michigan on her first headlining arena tour, and my first arena tour. This is my hometown show, and the first show of this tour, so this was […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department ordered a sweeping freeze Friday on new funding for almost all U.S. foreign assistance, making exceptions for emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt. The order threatened a quick halt to many of the billions of dollars in U.S.-funded projects globally to support health, education, development, […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – A Lowcountry native who became the nation’s first Black military nurse will be laid to rest in New York this weekend. Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, died on Jan. 8 at 104 years old, her family said. Nicknamed “Lefty,” she was born on Sept. 29, 1920, in Goose Creek, but would later move […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered an immediate stop to the flow of almost all U.S. foreign assistance Friday pending a review, according to an internal State Department cable obtained by NBC News. The directive sent to all consular and diplomatic posts follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of […]
The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has ordered a halt to virtually all US foreign aid, but made an exception for funding to Israel and Egypt, according to an internal memo to staff at the US state department. “No new funds shall be obligated for new awards or extensions of existing awards until each proposed […]
United States President Donald Trump has attacked the Federal Emergency Management Agency, known as FEMA, threatening to dismantle the organisation altogether. In a visit to hurricane-ravaged North Carolina on Friday, Trump announced he would sign an executive order “to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA — or maybe getting rid of FEMA”. […]
(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-AR., said Congress should be looking at innovative ways to use American forests rather than burning them “We spend billions of dollars fighting fires every year,” Westerman said. “Our forests should be an income stream to our federal government, not a cost.” Watch the video below: Source […]
HOUSTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston, with assistance from ERO Mexico and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement Task Force, repatriated Nestor Flores Encarnacion, a 58-year-old undocumented alien, to his home country of Mexico Jan. 23. Flores has illegally entered the U.S. four times and is wanted in Veracruz, […]
(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. David Schweikert, R-AZ, said the federal government would have to double taxes in 20 years just to keep services at current levels if spending and debt aren’t reined in. “The match basically says my kids will be part of the first generation of America that will be poorer,” he […]