🔵 Planned Parenthood Closing Clinics

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Citizen Frank
May 25, 2025

Good evening. It’s Saturday, May 24.

Planned Parenthood North Central States said Friday that it plans to close over a third of its health centers across Minnesota and Iowa and lay off dozens of staff members in light of looming federal funding cuts and other budget constraints.

The announcement from Minnesota’s largest abortion provider came just one day after the U.S. House passed a reconciliation bill that it says would “defund” Planned Parenthood and make deep cuts to Medicaid funding.

Leaders of the regional affiliate cited that move, along with the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $2.8 million in Title X funds as key factors in the decision to consolidate its centers.

 
 

The Trump administration is unrolling a new initiative Thursday that will help prevent noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections, a high-priority policy for the White House.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program and partnering with the Social Security Administration in order to ensure “a single, reliable source for verifying immigration status and U.S. citizenship,” according to a memo exclusively shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Under the update, state and local officials will be able to input Social Security numbers for verification of U.S. citizenship and thereby prevent foreign nationals from voting in American elections.

“For years, states have pleaded for tools to help identify and stop aliens from hijacking our elections,” USCIS Spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a statement provided to the DCNF. “Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, USCIS is moving quickly to eliminate voter fraud,” Tragesser continued. “We expect further improvements soon and remain committed to restoring trust in American elections.”

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against four New Jersey “sanctuary” cities, accusing local officials of perpetrating a “frontal assault on the federal immigration laws and the federal authorities that administer them.”

As the Trump administration looks to crack down on illegal immigration and carry out mass deportations, the DOJ is accusing the cities of Newark, Hoboken, Jersey City and Paterson of impeding its efforts.

The mayors and city councils of each city are named as defendants in the suit.

The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to fire two members of federal labor review boards appointed by former President Joe Biden, whom he said were at odds with his agenda.

In a 6-3 decision, the court said that Trump could terminate Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board after lower courts blocked the firings. The court granted the request from the Trump administration as litigation plays out.

The court wrote that “because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President … [Trump] may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions.”

A Crypto investor has been arrested for kidnapping his former business partner and torturing him with a chainsaw inside a posh apartment in New York City.

John Woeltz, 37, has been charged with assault and unlawful imprisonment after he allegedly took the victim captive for days in a bid to gain access to his crypto account.

Cops arrested Woeltz and one other woman after the victim was able to escape the posh $40,000-a-month apartment on Prince Street in New York’s SoHo.

A host of American corporations are backpedaling from their involvement in gay pride events this year amid the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts across the country.

There have been a growing number of reports that organizers of major gay pride parades and festivals across the U.S. are scrambling for funds due to several longtime corporate sponsors scaling back their support of LGBTQ events. Some scholars explained to the Daily Caller News Foundation that news of companies pulling back from pride events may reflect a broader shift away from DEI in corporate America.

“We are seeing major companies, in meaningful numbers, either eliminating or modifying their DEI programs, which certainly does include sponsoring LGBTQ+ pride events and so on,” Stefan Padfield, the executive director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project, told the DCNF.

Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival closed with its most political moment, as Iranian director Jafar Panahi accepted the Palme d’Or for “It Was Just an Accident,” a film directly inspired by his time in prison.

Filled with equal helpings of absurdist humor and ire, Panahi’s film follows five characters who think they’ve identified the prosecutor who tortured them during their own arrests — but as they were all blindfolded in jail, none can be entirely certain their captive is the same man.

Since Panahi’s first arrest and conviction for “propaganda against the regime” in 2010, the director has continued to make films, even when expressly forbidden from doing so. In 2011, he sent a flash drive to Cannes with his movie, “This Is Not a Film,” and has remained a vocal defender of other directors whose work the government seeks to suppress. The Palme represents a major vindication for his persistence.

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