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🔵 Trump Warns Putin
Citizen Frank
April 24, 2025
Good evening. It’s Thursday, April 24.
U.S. President Donald Trump has told Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt strikes on Ukraine after Kyiv was pounded with missiles and drone attacks on April 24.
Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social: “I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Let’s get the Peace Deal DONE!”
Hours later, a reporter asked Trump whether he thought Putin would acquiesce.
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador, whose removal violated a previous court settlement, according to an order issued on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, a Trump appointee, also ordered the government not to remove other individuals covered by the settlement.
The class action case from 2019 was filed on behalf of individuals who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors and later sought asylum.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday blocked a portion of President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity, specifically provisions related to providing documentary proof of citizenship before being allowed to register to vote.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia handed down the order in response to lawsuits filed by three separate groups of plaintiffs over five different provisions in a March 25 Trump executive order relating to election integrity. While Kollar-Kotelly dismissed requests to block three of the provisions, requests to block two other provisions pertaining to a proof of citizenship requirement for voters were granted.
The first blocked provision sought to compel the Election Assistance Commission to amend standardized national voter registration forms to require documentary proof of citizenship. The second sought to require federal agencies offering voter registration to people on public assistance to “assess” the individual’s citizenship status before doing so.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked actions by President Trump’s Department of Education that aimed to force public universities and K-12 schools to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
Federal Judge Landya McCafferty issued a preliminary injunction against a “Dear Colleague” letter that told universities they could be at risk of civil rights investigations if they have DEI programs on campus, a certification requirement for K-12 schools that DEI programs were eliminated and actions against schools reported through the Education Department’s “DEI portal.”
“Today’s ruling allows educators and schools to continue to be guided by what’s best for students, not by the threat of illegal restrictions and punishment,” said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association.
Chinese officials rebutted President Donald Trump’s claim that the United States and China are actively negotiating tariffs.
Trump said Wednesday that the U.S and China were “actively” talking on a daily basis.
“China and the U.S. have not engaged in any consultations or negotiations regarding tariffs, let alone reached an agreement,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a briefing.
President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to crack down on foreign straw donors in elections, instructing federal agencies to take action on concerns raised by Congress and chronicled by Just the News about the progressive online fundraising platform ActBlue, according to multiple officials.
The memo tasked the Justice Department to investigate and decide whether any criminal charges or lawsuits should be filed against ActBlue, which has admitted it did not follow common anti-fraud protections for much of the 2024 election even as it processed hundreds of millions of dollars for Democrat-affiliated campaigns and causes, including some from illicit foreign sources.
“Federal law (52 U.S.C. 30121 and 30122) strictly prohibits making political contributions in the name of another person, as well as contributions by foreign nationals,” the memo reads.
The Department of Defense will restart providing gender-based medical care for transgender troops, as a related court case continues through the legal process.
A new memo indicates that the department will return to the Biden-era medical policy for transgender service members due to a court order that determined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s restrictions as unconstitutional, according to Politico. The administration is currently appealing the decision, but a federal appeals court denied its effort to halt the policy while the appeal is pending.
The denial means the department cannot remove transgender troops or restrict their medical care.
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