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Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 - United States President Donald Trump has slammed former ally Elon Musk's launching of a new political party as "ridiculous", deepening the Republican's feud with the man who was once his biggest backer. The world's richest man was almost inseparable from Trump as he headed the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but they fell out hard over the president's "big beautiful" tax and spending ...

Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 - Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. 'So what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on her desk?' Peter Doocy wondered during Monday's press briefing. With much of the MAGAverse irate over the Trump administration's conclusion that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and didn't possess an ...

Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 - The Trump administration will take steps to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia before he goes to trial in Tennessee if he's released from criminal custody, which could happen as soon as next week, a Justice Department attorney said Monday. The comments came during a wide-ranging court hearing in Maryland during which US District Judge Paula Xinis tried to pin down what the administration's plans are for Abrego Garcia, who ...

Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 - The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday it is walking back plans for mass layoffs at the agency but says it will still shed tens of thousands of jobs by the end of fiscal year 2025. VA Secretary Doug Collins previously said the agency had the goal of laying off roughly 80,000 employees from a total staff of about 470,000 that was in place this summer, which would have amounted to about 15% of its ...

Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 - Planned Parenthood is suing the Trump administration over its new multitrillion-dollar tax and spending law, claiming it unconstitutionally targets the group by barring its health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursement for reproductive health care. The law seeks to punish the group for advocating for and providing abortions, Planned Parenthood said in its lawsuit , filed Monday in federal court in Boston. ...

Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is ending the temporary status for nearly 80,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans that has allowed them to live and work in the U.S. for a quarter of a century after a devastating hurricane hit Central America, according to federal government notices — a move that comes as the White House pushes to make more to make good on campaign promises to carry out mass ...