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COURIER reporter Camaron Stevenson explains how the Trump administration is treating its mass deportation plan like it's reality TV – and that includes an Instagram post from the White House depicting people in chains. 

By the end of Thursday, January 23rd, there were no more diversity, equity, and inclusion professionals actively working for the US federal government – here are the highlights of the Trump memo that put this in motion.

COURIER correspondent Lucy Ritzmann unpacks some of the most concerning of the Biden-era executive orders that Donald Trump repealed on his first day in office.

Michael Jones spoke to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and others about how they plan to hold their Republican colleagues accountable for adhering to Project 2025.

Nina Burleigh unpacks exactly how Trump's forced communications blackout between the 13 divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services bears striking similarities to his subversive tactics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an op-ed for COURIER, Neha Patel and the Honorable Jessie Ulibarri of State Innovation Exchange explain why we must pay attention to and support state legislatures, especially during this second Trump era.

According to COURIER's Pennsylvania newsroom, The Keystone, Gov. Josh Shapiro called President Donald Trump’s memo freezing federal spending “worrisome” after it created chaos for state and local officials.

COURIER local reporter at large Isabel Soisson reports on how a new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that since 2022, states with near-total abortion bans appear to have lost 36,000 people per quarter.

PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” are linked to cancer, birth abnormalities, and other health ailments. Trump is pushing back a long-awaited plan to set federal limits on them – COURIER's North Carolina newsroom, Cardinal & Pine, reports out.