After Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out on the Smithsonian Establishment – a premier museum, training and analysis advanced for US historical past and tradition – over what he referred to as an extreme give attention to “how dangerous Slavery was”, the Guardian has revealed the form his administration’s focusing on of seven flagship museums will take.
Trump urged he would strain the establishment to simply accept his calls for, identical to he did with schools and universities by threatening to chop federal funding. The White Home stated final week it might lead an inner evaluation of some Smithsonian museums after Trump earlier this yr accused it of spreading “anti-American ideology”.
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Unique: Trump to evaluation Smithsonian museums to ‘get Woke out’
Amid the Trump administration’s heavy-handed evaluation of Smithsonian museums, the Guardian has seen a doc compiled by the White Home that argues the extensively visited cultural establishments have overly damaging portrayals of US historical past, from a Benjamin Franklin exhibit that hyperlinks his scientific achievements to his possession of enslaved folks to a movie about George Floyd’s homicide that it says mischaracterizes the police.
President calls on Federal Reserve governor to resign
Donald Trump referred to as on a Federal Reserve governor to instantly resign, renewing his extraordinary assault on the central financial institution’s independence as officers mull subsequent steps on rates of interest. The president has repeatedly damaged with precedent in latest months to demand the Fed reduce charges and urged its chair, Jerome Powell, to stop after disregarding such calls.
Texas Republicans move gerrymandered congressional map requested by Trump
The Republican-controlled Texas Home of Representatives has accredited a redrawn congressional map requested by Donald Trump and fiercely opposed by Democrats, who led a weeks-long protest to stall the hassle that kicked off a redistricting arms race between pink and blue states.
With the Home’s approval, the measure subsequent goes to the state Senate, the place it’s anticipated to move, probably as quickly as Thursday.
Choose rejects Trump’s request to unseal Epstein transcripts
A federal choose in New York who presided over the sex-trafficking case towards the late financier Jeffrey Epstein has rejected the federal government’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts.
Choose Richard Berman’s ruling in Manhattan on Wednesday got here after the choose presiding over the case towards British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell additionally turned down the federal government’s request.
US well being company staff accuse RFK Jr of fuelling violence
Greater than 750 present and former federal well being staff on Wednesday accused the well being and human providers (HHS) secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, of fuelling harassment and violence directed at authorities healthcare workers.
Navy car crashes in DC as pink states ship extra troops
A navy car crashed right into a automobile in Washington DC on Wednesday morning, an incident that comes as greater than six Republican-led states have all pledged to ship extra nationwide guard troops to the capital.
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Texas can’t require public faculties to show the Ten Commandments in each classroom, a choose stated in a brief ruling towards the state’s new requirement.
Catching up? Right here’s what occurred on 19 August 2025.