The Working Reporter

01/26/2025

Just days before his inauguration, Donald Trump became the world's newest crypto billionaire by peddling a worthless meme coin to his followers.

It's not the first time he's profited off the presidency, and it surely won't be the last.

It's also the latest reminder that the entire crypto industry is a giant Ponzi scheme — and that Trump won't do a damn thing to protect people from being swindled.

01/25/2025

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cia-now-says-covid-19-more-likely-have-come-lab-2025-01-25/

It was unclear the extent to which the agency has collected new intelligence on COVID-19's origins and whether that new evidence was used to formulate the latest assessment.

01/25/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/trump-greenland-denmark

Source says: ‘The Danes are in crisis mode’ after US president’s call with prime minister Mette Frederiksen

01/24/2025

https://www.newsweek.com/jan-6-defendants-oath-keepers-rhodes-dc-entry-ban-2020420

Oath Keepers' Rhodes and 7 other Jan. 6 defendants barred from entering DC and Capitol building without court approval.

01/24/2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/190555/donald-trump-immigration-deportations-farm-workers

Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.

01/24/2025

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/central-valley-farm-workers-deportation-fear/3763480/

The California Farm Bureau says fears in the Central Valley have led to migrant farmworkers not showing up for work, which has virtually halted the area’s citrus harvest. Damian Trujillo reports.

01/24/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/farm-workers-ditch-shifts-amid-ice-raid-fears-as-food-prices-set-to-skyrocket/ar-AA1xGkMs

Scores of immigrant farm workers in the U.S. are avoiding work after President Trump removed "sensitive area" protections amid his immigration crackdown.

01/24/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/democrats-psychologists-trump

Jamie Raskin had professionals talk to fellow members of Congress about navigating conflicts in Trump age

01/24/2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-supercharges-disease-trump-094500453.html

The move, and a temporary gag order on public health agencies, puts the country in a dangerous position.

01/24/2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-mutes-cdc-other-public-232237395.html

The new administration has reportedly asked federal health agencies to stop all external communications pending a review.

01/23/2025

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-files-trump-order/

“Give that to RFK Jr.,” Trump said about the pen he used to sign the order declassifying info about the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations.

01/23/2025

https://ktla.com/news/california/wildfires/brush-fire-ignites-near-castaic/

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Firefighters on the ground and in the air rushed to slow a rapidly spreading brush fire that exploded near Castaic on Wednesday, forcing tens of thousands of evacuations …

01/22/2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-news/los-angeles-fires-realtors-house-fire-victims-rebuild-community-1236111138/

The city’s A-list brokers are ignoring old rivalries and working round the clock to house the city’s displaced elite.

01/22/2025

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250122-prince-harry-settles-lawsuit-as-murdoch-s-uk-tabloids-issue-rare-apology-for-intrusion

Prince Harry settled his lawsuit against media titan Rupert Murdoch’s UK tabloids one day before it was set to go to trial after being given a "full and unequivocal apology" for years of unlawful intrusion,…

01/22/2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/le-monde-quits-x-twitter-elon-musk-alliance-donald-trump-1236114669/

France's newspaper of record joins The Guardian in exiting the site formerly known as Twitter over Musk's increasingly extreme politics.

01/22/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/politics/jan-6-pardons-police.html

More than 150 officers from the Capitol Police and the D.C. police were injured when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol four years ago.

01/22/2025

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/u-s-forest-service-strike-team-robbed-during-southern-california-windstorm/

(KTLA) – Federal investigators are asking for the public’s help in locating two men who were seen on surveillance cameras breaking into a U.S. Forest Service vehicle and stealing critical fir…

01/22/2025

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trumps-inauguration-ratings-down-bigly-from-bidens/

The television ratings for President Donald Trump's second inauguration are in, and they dropped 27% from President Joe Biden's in 2021 and were nearly 20% lower than Trump's first swearing-in in 2017.