Progressive search for action

44+ min ago  (418+ words) Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump at The White House on January 3, 2026 Trump administration officials apparently felt that shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development and killing billions of dollars in foreign aid was too subtle and failed…...

8+ hour, 43+ min ago  (775+ words) A peer and disability rights campaigner has emphasised the "inherent value of every single life" as she spearheads a last-ditch attempt to overturn the government's abortion reforms. Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest claimed that the landmark legislation had not had…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago  (377+ words) College campuses are in chaos as professors scramble to dodge the Trump administration's ideological crusade, rewriting syllabuses, self-censoring lectures, and even fleeing the country, according to a new report. From elite universities to smaller institutions, faculty members are gutting grant…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (162+ words) MS NOW's Rachel Maddow was beside herself on Monday as she discussed the Trump administration's latest "show-stopping scandal." Earlier in the day, Mother Jones reported that the Trump administration is working to free Alexander Smirnov, a Russian spy who was…...

3+ hour, 33+ min ago  (155+ words) Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been secretly evacuated to Moscow for medical treatment following injuries sustained in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes that killed his father and other top Iranian officials, according to reports from the Kyiv Post and Kuwaiti newspaper…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago  (424+ words) Experts expressed astonishment that top Florida law enforcement officials urged President Donald Trump to pump the brakes on mass deportations, at least for immigrants without criminal records. During a closed-door meeting Monday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, a conservative Trump…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago  (1718+ words) For the last year, Elianis Gautier Peraza has been working to influence city governments across Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley to pass ordinances restricting federal immigration enforcement. The 38-year-old, who moved to the United States from Puerto Rico in 2018, lives in Forks…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago  (662+ words) Despite more than two weeks of relentless airstrikes, U.S. intelligence assessments say, Iran's regime likely will remain in place for now, weakened but more hard-line, with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps security forces exerting greater control," the Washington Post reports....

10+ hour, 7+ min ago  (708+ words) President Trump is pressuring allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and relieve pressure on the global economy. So far, most of them aren't biting," the Wall Street Journal reports. Germany has rejected taking part, while Japan and Australia…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (1653+ words) 40 years since the People Power ouster of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines'World Socialist Web Site February marked 40 years since a mass demonstration of millions of Filipinos in Manila, combined with a coup plot by a cohort of disgruntled officers,…...