President Donald Trump revoked security clearances of more than 15 prominent political figures, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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- President Donald Trump revoked security clearances of more than 15 prominent political figures, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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What we know about the F-47, America's next generation fighter jet.
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris accepts the Chairman’s Award onstage during the NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2025. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images) |
President Donald Trump revoked security clearances of more than 15 prominent political figures, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Trump had previously announced his intention to revoke security clearances for former President Joe Biden and several officials from the prior administration. The recent memo formalized that decision.
Aside from Harris and Clinton, Trump also revoked security clearances for former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and Biden’s entire family.
The list also includes former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, all of whom have been involved in legal cases against Trump.
Trump also revoked security clearances for former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger—both are Republicans and were part of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach.
Others named in the list are retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill, former U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman Eisen, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, and lawyer Mark Zaid. In his memo, Trump directed heads of executive departments and agencies to stop allowing the named individuals access to classified information.
Trump’s order applies to classified briefings and any access to classified information that the named individuals may have had due to their previous tenure in Congress.
“I also direct all executive department and agency heads to revoke unescorted access to secure United States Government facilities from these individuals,” he stated. (More) More Politics: |
- The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into a leak of classified intelligence regarding the Tren de Aragua gang, which was reported by The New York Times.
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The Department of Defense has launched a new effort to track down the sources of unauthorized disclosures of sensitive and classified information, becoming the second executive branch department to take steps to plug information leaks.
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In a lesser-noticed executive order issued on March 20, President Donald Trump directed federal agencies to grant his designees complete access to unclassified government data.
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The United States Postal Service said it has saved billions of dollars annually by cutting 50 million work hours, closing unnecessary facilities, and increasing plant productivity.
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The Supreme Court unanimously overturned former Chicago alderman Patrick Daley Thompson’s conviction for making false statements to financial regulators.
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President Donald Trump has announced that Boeing will build the United States Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter jet.
Air Force leaders will now move to produce fleets of the new aircraft, officially designated the F-47. An F-47 prototype has been secretly flying for the past five years, Trump said, adding that the new aircraft is the world’s most advanced.
“We’re confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation,” Trump said. “There’s never been anything even close to it, from speed to maneuverability to what it can have [for] payload.” The F-47 will begin production runs shortly. The military has already built many of the required facilities to manufacture the system in the coming years. Most of the project is still shrouded in secrecy due to fears that foreign adversaries—including communist China—will attempt to steal valuable information about the new technology.
Here are the key takeaways from the F-47 announcement. More U.S. News |
- A pro-Palestinian activist and foreign graduate student at Cornell University, who sued the Trump administration to stop the deportation of those accused of anti-Semitism, has been ordered to surrender to immigration authorities.
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A mass shooting at a city park in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Friday night left three people dead and at least 14 others injured, police said. Footage circulating on social media appears to show a crowd gathered at what looked like a burnout competition moments before gunfire erupted, sending people running for cover.
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Israeli forces launched a wave of strikes across parts of Lebanon in response to rocket launches targeting the Galilee region on March 22. The Israeli military reported its air forces intercepted a trio of rockets that had crossed over from Lebanon into Israeli airspace on Saturday.
The Israeli military subsequently said its forces struck dozens of suspected rocket launchers and a command center operated by the terrorist group Hezbollah. Israeli aircraft and artillery had struck more than a dozen different communities across southern Lebanon, according to reports published by Lebanon’s official National News Agency.
Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israeli-controlled areas on Oct. 8, 2023, just hours after Hamas launched extensive attacks on Israel’s south. Israeli forces had returned fire across the Israel–Lebanon border for nearly a year, before sending ground forces into Lebanon in October last year.
The Israeli government agreed to enter into a cease-fire in November last year, under which its forces would halt strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon and withdraw its ground forces from the country within 60 days. In turn, the Lebanese government agreed to rein in Hezbollah and establish control over its southern border region.
“The rocket fire launched this morning toward the Galilee constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon and is a direct threat to the citizens of the State of Israel,” the Israeli military said in a March 22 statement. “The State of Lebanon bears responsibility for upholding the agreement.” (More) More World News: |
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European leaders are scrambling to increase their self-reliance in defense but remain highly dependent on American-made weapons systems.
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Gang violence in Sweden is a crisis decades in the making, experts say.
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China, Iran, and Turkey are battling for supremacy in African weapons markets, making cheaper drones that are being snapped up by governments eager to improve their defense capabilities. But, as new research shows, hundreds of civilians have been killed as drones get into the wrong hands.
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Children of all ages enjoy the books at Plumfield Library. (Courtesy of Sara Masarik) |
Sometimes life taps us on the shoulder and says, “Here’s an idea for you.”
Some of us are oblivious to that voice. Some hear the voice but choose to ignore it. Some listen but then shake their heads and say, “No, thank you.” And some people listen, and then listen again, and then jump feet first into an adventure that will forever change their lives and the lives of those around them.
Masarik took that leap in the fall of 2022. She told The Epoch Times: “A young mom friend of mine came to me and said, ‘Sara, I’m begging you. Please help me buy the right books for my daughter. She’s an innocent soul and a voracious reader, and I can’t keep taking her to the public library because I can’t always review what she’s reading.’”
As a writer and podcaster of literary reviews, particularly of classics and children’s books, Masarik took her homeschooling friend and mother of five under her wing, offering her counsel and the loan of books from her large personal library.
“I felt like the Lord was suggesting strongly that this was something I was supposed to do. So I invited that family in, and then my kids and I started to organize our books and put them into a catalog online. That family became our guinea pig.” And right there was the moment—the tap on the shoulder and the whisper of a voice. From January 2023 until April of that year, Masarik and her family turned the large basement of their Denmark, Wisconsin, home into Plumfield Living Books Library. (More) |
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