Trump signs executive order to dismantle US Department of Education
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent the need to obtain congressional approval to formally close a federal department.
The administration may eventually pursue an effort to get Congress to shut down the agency, Trump said at a signing ceremony at the White House on Thursday, because its budget had more than doubled in size in recent years but national test scores had not improved.
Alarm as Federal Judges Face Threats of Violence After Ruling Against Trump
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, one of the court's right-wing judges who was appointed by Trump, broke with the other conservative justices earlier this month when she ruled against the president's freeze on foreign aid—prompting allies of the president to deride Coney Barrett as a "closet Democrat" and a "DEI hire," referring to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that Trump has pushed to end.
Days after the ruling, Coney Barrett's sister received a threat—which turned out to be false—that there was a pipe bomb in her mailbox.
'Red flag': Alarm as judges face threats of violence after ruling against Trump
But as the rulings have been met with relief from rights advocates, the judges who have handed down the decisions have faced mounting threats from anonymous people or groups who appear to support Trump—with remarks from Republican lawmakers and the president himself only emboldening the threats of violence.
Scientists filmed something outrageous riding on a shark
"We launched the drone, put the GoPro in the water, and saw something unforgettable: an octopus perched atop the shark’s head, clinging on with its tentacles," Rochelle Constantine, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland, wrote online.
Amazon Announces New Spying Initiative for Alexa
But Amazon says that in reality, this change won't affect many customers because very few Alexa-equipped gadgets supported the ability to locally process voice recordings in the first place, those being the Echo Dot (4th Gen), Echo Show 10 and Echo Show 15. Overall, only 0.3 percent of Echo owners opted out of having their vocal data sent to Amazon servers, the company said.
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AOC, Sanders Rallying 15,000 Arizonans—With Thousands More Watching Online—Makes Clear 'The Moment We're In'
"Just to be clear about the moment we're in: Bernie Sanders' biggest crowd in Phoenix previously was 11,300 in 2015 when he was running for president. Tonight, in a non-campaign year, when he is running for nothing, 15,000 Arizonans turned out," she wrote. Bahr also said that more than 123,000 people watched the livestream of the event online.
France Just Parked a Nuclear-Armed Submarine Off Halifax—And It’s a Message Trump Can’t Ignore
In a move that has sent shockwaves through the geopolitical world, France has deployed a nuclear-armed submarine off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. While officials in Canada and France remain tight-lipped about the exact reasons behind this unprecedented action, the message to the world—and more specifically, to Donald Trump and his MAGA America—is impossible to ignore.
Texas poised to make measles a nationwide epidemic: public health experts
With its measles outbreak spreading to two additional states, Texas is on track to becoming the cause of a national epidemic if it doesn’t start vaccinating more people, according to public health experts.
Measles, a highly contagious disease that was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, has made a resurgence in West Texas communities, jumping hundreds of miles to the northern border of the Panhandle and East Texas, and invading bordering states of New Mexico and Oklahoma.
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