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As Trump headed to Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Friday night, boxes were spotted being loaded onto the plane.
The White House said in a statement they were the boxes seized from his Florida resort in 2022 by the FBI.
"The FBl is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them onto Air Force One," said Steven Cheung, White House communications director.
The FBI executed a search warrant for potentially classified material at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, coming away with 20 boxes. The New York Times reported at the time that more than 300 classified documents kept at the resort were recovered by the government.
Trump expected to sign order designating English as the official language of the US
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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, according to the White House.
The order will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer documents and services in language other than English, according to a fact sheet about the impending order.
Trump had been expected to sign the order Friday. But by Friday night, the White House had not announced the order had been signed and did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
The executive order will rescind a mandate from former President Bill Clinton that required the government and organizations that received federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.
Judge says Trump's mass firing of federal employees is illegal and should be stopped
A federal judge in San Francisco says the Trump administration's firing of thousands of probationary employees is illegal and should be stopped.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup says the U.S. Office of Personnel Management must rescind directives sent to some agencies ordering them to fire their probationary employees — typically those in their first or second year in a job.
The decision came at the end of a hearing on Thursday. His order covers the Veterans Affairs Department, the National Park Service, the Small Business Administration, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and other agencies whose firings impact the civic groups that sued the Trump administration.e
'Least I can do': Supporters applaud as USAID employees given 15-minutes to clear out
USAID employees clutching backpacks and wheeling suitcases full of their belongings trickled out of the now-shuttered agency's headquarters on Thursday morning after the Trump administration gave them 15 minutes to clear out.
Outside the building in downtown Washington, D.C., a line of demonstrators broke into applause and cheers as each employee left the building. Bouquets of flowers for employees stood nearby, alongside a sign reading, “You and your mission mattered!”
New York governor orders removal of Palestinian studies job posting at Cuny
The New York governor, Kathy Hochul ordered the City University of New York (Cuny) to immediately remove a job posting advertising a Palestinian studies professor role at the state university system’s Hunter College.
In the job listing, Hunter College wrote that the institution is seeking “a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to: settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, and sexuality”.
It added that Hunter College is open to a “diverse theoretical and methodical approaches” to teaching the class.
A spokesperson for Hochul told the New York Post: “Governor Hochul has directed Cuny to immediately remove this job posting and conduct a thorough review of the position to ensure that antisemitic theories are not promoted in the classroom/”
Trump floats $5 million ‘gold card’ as a route to U.S. citizenship
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of replacing a visa program for foreign investors with a so-called “gold card” that could be bought for $5 million as a route to American citizenship.
Trump told reporters he will replace the “EB-5” immigrant investor visa program, which allows foreign investors of large sums of money that create or preserve U.S. jobs to become permanent residents, with a so-called “gold card.”
The EB-5 program grants “green cards” to foreigners promising to invest in U.S. businesses.
“We are going to be selling a gold card,” Trump said. “We are going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million,” he added.
“It’s going to give you green card privileges plus its going to be a route to (American) citizenship, and wealthy people would be coming into our country by buying this card,” Trump said, adding that details about the scheme will come out in two weeks.
Judge Blocks Trump's 'Irrational,' 'Ill-Conceived' Freeze On Federal Spending
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday against the Trump administration aimed at stopping the sweeping freeze to federal disbursements that has sown anger and anxiety across the country in the last month.
The National Council of Nonprofits and a collection of other groups sued the Office of Management and Budget in late January after the agency’s acting director at the time, Matthew Vaeth, issued a memo calling for a widespread pause on the flow of federal funds until the Trump administration could ensure the spending aligns with its priorities.
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