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August 2, 2025
'Good riddance': Top Baptist leader forced out by MAGA for not being 'aligned with Trump'
August 1, 2025 8:59PM ET On Thursday, July 31, Brent Leatherwood officially resigned from his position as president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). Leatherwood, in a press release, announced, "After nearly four years leading this institution, it is time to close this chapter of my life. It has been an honor to guide this Baptist organization in a way that has honored the Lord, served the churches of our Convention, and made this fallen ...
Go to discussionPfizer CEO attending $25 million fundraiser at Trump's golf club after president demands drug price cuts, sources say
August 1, 2025 / 9:43 PM EDT Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is among those expected at a fundraiser President Trump is attending Friday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, sources told CBS News. The fundraiser for the pro-Trump super political action committee MAGA Inc. aims to raise about $25 million, one of the sources said. One day prior to the event, Mr. Trump sent letters to pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, demanding they lower U.S. drug prices to more evenly match what o ...
Go to discussion'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions
Aug. 1, 2025, 4:45 PM EDT / Source: NBC Miami A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions. One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continues to refuse food. His wife, Daimarys Hernández, said she’s terrified for his health and fears he could die in custody, or be deported back to Cuba, ...
Go to discussionCourt allows Trump to end union bargaining for federal workers
Fri, August 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM EDT (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a judge's order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to engage in union bargaining with U.S. agencies. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold an injunction issued by a lower court judge that had been obtained by six unions including the American Federation of Governmen ...
Go to discussionRepublican senators raise concerns about Trump's firing of Labor Dept. official
Aug. 1, 2025, 7:11 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 1, 2025, 8:44 PM EDT Some Republican senators have expressed concern about President Donald Trump’s decision Friday to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after the release of the July jobs report. Several Republicans told NBC News that they would take issue with the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the BLS, if it is the result of Trump disliking the jobs report numbers, which showed the U.S. job market in the past mont ...
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