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Trump Threatens to Cut Money for Baltimore Bridge Collapse Allocated Under President Biden

August 30, 2025

By Lauren Burke On March 26, 2024, a container ship the size of three football fields named Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River in Baltimore. The catastrophe shut thirteen percent of Maryland’s economy, according to officials, and six people were killed. The cost to replace the Francis […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Baltimore Key Bridge, Donald Trump, Federal Funding Cuts, Lauren Burke, Wes Moore

DC Native and Frontier Development & Hospitality Group’s CEO Evens Charles Debuts Hyatt House Hotel in Downtown DC’s Shaw Neighborhood

August 30, 2025

A full-circle moment for the DC-born real estate developer as his firm debuts a 184-room extended-stay hotel steps from the Convention Center By Jason Roberts Frontier Development & Hospitality Group LLC, led by Washington, D.C. native Evens Charles, has officially opened the Hyatt House Washington DC Downtown Convention Center — a modern, 184-room extended-stay hotel […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Evens Charles, Frontier Development & Hospitality Group, Hyatt House Washington DC Downtown Convention Center, Jason Roberts

Baldwin, Moore, Steil Call for Trump Administration to Provide Immediate Federal Support for Flood Damage in Southeastern Wisconsin

August 16, 2025

Lawmakers support Wisconsin’s request for assistance with federal damage assessment WASHINGTON, D.C. – On August 14, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Representatives Gwen Moore (D-WI-04) and Bryan Steil (R-WI-01) called on the Trump Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support Wisconsin’s request to assist the state in conducting a formal federal […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Bryan Steil, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Flooding, Gwen Moore, Kristi Noem, Tammy Baldwin

Trump’s Racist Takeover of Smithsonian Targets Black History and Censors Presidential Truths

August 16, 2025

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Donald Trump’s administration has intensified its takeover of the Smithsonian Institution, advancing an agenda that historians and civil rights leaders say is rooted in racism and political censorship. Under the guise of “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” Trump’s March executive order placed Vice […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Donald Trump, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Stacy M. Brown

Rep. Jolanda Jones: ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere’ as Texas Democrats Fight Racial Gerrymandering

August 9, 2025

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones said she isn’t budging—not until Republican lawmakers end what she calls a blatant effort to strip voting power from Black and Brown communities. “We’re all safe and we ain’t going nowhere,” Jones declared during an interview on the Let It Be […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Gerrymandering, Jolanda Jones, Stacy M. Brown, Texas

Trump Administration Ends Lifeline Program that Cuts Energy Bills for Low-Income Families

August 9, 2025

Washington, D.C. — In yet another blow to working families, the Trump Administration is attempting to terminate the EPA’s Solar for All grants—gutting a Congressionally appropriated $7 billion initiative that was projected to lower energy bills by $400 a year for nearly one million low-income households across all 50 states and U.S. territories, including on Tribal lands. […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Climate Power, Federal Funding Cuts, Solar for All

Trump Exploits Jail Contracts to Skirt Sanctuary Policies, Supercharge Deportations, New Report Shows

August 2, 2025

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative reveals how President Donald Trump’s administration is driving mass deportation by secretly using local jails—even in places with sanctuary policies—to detain immigrants. The report, Hiding in Plain Sight: How Local Jails Obscure and Facilitate Mass Deportation Under […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Deportation, Jail Contracts, Stacy M. Brown, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

New Poll Shows Americans Value Skilled Trades but Say They’re Overlooked

August 2, 2025

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent A new Harris Poll report reveals that while Americans overwhelmingly view skilled trades as essential to society, they also believe the field is undervalued, overlooked in schools, and facing a generational perception gap that could deepen the labor shortage crisis already gripping the nation. According […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Skilled Trades, Stacy M. Brown

New Study Ties Weak State Gun Laws to Child Deaths in Wisconsin and Other States

July 12, 2025

By Edgar Mendez This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. States with weak gun laws, including Wisconsin, experience more firearm deaths among children ages 0 to 17, according to a study published in the June issue of […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Child Deaths, Edgar Mendez, Gun Law, Gun Violence, Nelson Manuel Lopez Correa, Shelia Stubbs

Billions for ICE, Cuts for the Poor: Trump’s Bill Redefines Federal Priorities

July 12, 2025

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Donald Trump’s massive new spending measure, known by Democrats as the “One Big Ugly Bill,” is set to dismantle central pillars of the American social safety net and create the most expansive immigration enforcement system the country has ever seen. The legislation advances $1 trillion […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Big Beautiful Bill, Donald Trump, Stacy M. Brown, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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