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Trump wants Greenland and Gaza. That might embolden China on Taiwan.

Byย Katrina Northrop,ย Vic Chiangย ยทย The Washington Post (c) 2025 TAIPEI, Taiwan – President Donald Trump has spent his first few weeks in the White House talking about land deals like the real estate developer he once was. He has threatened to annex Greenland -refusing torule out military force to do so – and has suggested using โ€œeconomic […]

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Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money

By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness” and sowing confusion as schools scramble to comply. In a memo Friday, the Education Department gave an […]

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Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money

By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness” and sowing confusion as schools scramble to comply. In a memo Friday, the Education Department gave an […]

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Top Social Security official exits after clash with Muskโ€™s DOGE over data

Byย Lisa Rein,ย Holly Bailey,ย Jeff Stein,ย Jacob Bogageย ยทย The Washington Post (c) 2025 The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Muskโ€™s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday. Michelle King, who spent several decades at […]

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Top Social Security official exits after clash with Muskโ€™s DOGE over data

Byย Lisa Rein,ย Holly Bailey,ย Jeff Stein,ย Jacob Bogageย ยทย The Washington Post (c) 2025 The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Muskโ€™s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday. Michelle King, who spent several decades at […]

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High-ranking D.C. federal prosecutor resigns in protest

Byย Carol D. Leonnig,ย Spencer S. Hsuย ยทย The Washington Post (c) 2025 The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorneyโ€™s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday morning after declining to comply with a Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Veteran […]

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High-ranking D.C. federal prosecutor resigns in protest

Byย Carol D. Leonnig,ย Spencer S. Hsuย ยทย The Washington Post (c) 2025 The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorneyโ€™s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday morning after declining to comply with a Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Veteran […]

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Sandoval County Outlines $72 Million in Ongoing Facility Projects

By Kevin Hendricks Public Works was in the spotlight at the Feb. 12 Sandoval County Commission meeting as the department provided an update on the status of over $72 million in construction projects across the county.  Charles Martinez, the Special Construction and Special Projects Manager for Sandoval County, presented an overview of the various facility […]