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newrepublic.com > post > 208502 > donald-trump-white-house-intern-application

Want to Be a White House Intern? Be Ready to Answer These Questions.

1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1768+ words) As the U.S. job market continues to crumble, Donald Trump's White House is looking to hire a new batch of sycophant interns'but won't pay them for their devotion or their time. The White House Internship Program offers young Americans full of…...

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newrepublic.com > post > 208500 > cdc-pause-rabies-smallpox-testing-robert-f-kennedy-jr

CDC Forced to Pause Rabies Testing Thanks to RFK Jr.

1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1750+ words) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that it had suspended diagnostic testing for a slew of viruses, including for rabies and a group of pox viruses that encompasses smallpox and mpox. The CDC has provided diagnostic testing…...

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newrepublic.com > post > 208463 > pete-hegseth-helicopters-kid-rock-no-kings

Pete Hegseth Lifts Punishment for Crew From Kid Rock Flyover

1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1767+ words) There will be zero consequences for the Army pilots that decided to fly their helicopters around Kid Rock's house during a No Kings protest on Saturday. Two Apache attack helicopters first flew over a protest in Nashville, Tennessee. They then…...

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newrepublic.com > post > 208485 > doj-native-americans-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court

DOJ Lawyer Face-Plants on Native Americans and Birthright Citizenship

1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1836+ words) The Trump administration's lawyer, Solicitor General John Sauer, admitted before the Supreme Court Wednesday that he hadn't thought too much about one of the big questions in President Donald Trump's attempt to repeal birthright citizenship: What happens to Native Americans?...

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newrepublic.com > article > 206908 > manosphere-online-louis-theroux

The Manosphere Is Too Online for Louis Theroux

4+ hour, 45+ min ago  (243+ words) Theroux's career is also marked by more serious inquiries. He plunked himself among white nationalists, the Westboro Baptist Church, "ultra-Zionist" Jewish settlers in the West Bank (including in the recent doc The Settlers), various street gangs from different countries, and…...

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newrepublic.com > post > 208422 > donald-trump-budget-force-hospitals-close

Trump’s Budget Is About to Force Hundreds of Hospitals to Close

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1741+ words) President Donald Trump's sweeping cuts to Medicaid are putting more than 440 hospitals at risk of closure, which could sever care from millions of Americans. Public Citizen, a government watchdog, reported Tuesday that 446 hospitals were at a heightened risk of closure…...

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newrepublic.com > post > 208408 > donald-trump-economy-green-card-small-business-loans

Trump Deals Massive Blow to Economy With New Small Business Loan Rule

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1776+ words) Donald Trump's administration will bar green card holders (read: legal, permanent residents) from receiving small business loans, threatening to further unravel the U.S. job market. Speaking at CPAC Saturday, SBA administrator Kelly Loeffler touted the end of "DEI lending" to "foreign…...

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newrepublic.com > post > 208400 > supreme-court-conversion-therapy-ban-ketanji-brown-jackson

Only One Supreme Court Justice Says Conversion Therapy Is Bad

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1762+ words) The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down Colorado's ban against so-called "conversion therapy," finding that it was discriminatory to the viewpoints of people who want to torment LGBTQ+ people. In an 8-1 ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, the court sided with Kaley…...

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newrepublic.com > article > 208373 > trump-401k-rule-crypto-private-equity

Trump’s New Gift to Crypto and Private Equity: Access to Your 401(k)

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (147+ words) Trump's New Gift to Crypto and Private Equity: Access to Your 401(k)The New Republic Donald Trump has spent much of his second term using the U.S. presidency as a giant ATM for himself, his family, and his cronies. Now he's devised…...

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newrepublic.com > article > 207373 > ben-lerner-transcription-labyrinth-allusions

Ben Lerner’s “Transcription” Is a Labyrinth of Allusions

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1813+ words) The author's intricate, unsettling new novel is a book of echoes and parallels. It's a quintessentially Lerner-like state. In The Topeka School (2019), for example, a married middle-aged man beginning an affair is at the same time the teenage boy he…...