Latest George W. Bush News

What to know about Guantánamo Bay, the base where Trump will send 'criminal aliens'

Jan. 29, 2025 22:56 PM EST

President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.” “We’re going to send them...

William E. Leuchtenburg, eminent presidential historian and Ken Burns consultant, dies at 102

Jan. 29, 2025 15:54 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at 102. Leuchtenburg died Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North...

A US shutdown on foreign aid is hitting worldwide. Rubio adds more exemptions

Jan. 28, 2025 21:16 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-funded aid programs around the world were firing staff and shutting down or preparing to stop operations, as the Trump administration's unprecedented freeze on almost all foreign assistance brought their work to a sudden halt. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,...

What has changed with immigration under Trump and what is still playing out?

Jan. 28, 2025 12:51 PM EST

SAN DIEGO (AP) — During his first week in office, President Donald Trump signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of edicts to carry out promises of mass deportations and border security. Some actions were felt immediately. Others face legal challenges. Some may...

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

Jan. 27, 2025 18:12 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling...

More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots

Jan. 26, 2025 09:30 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration's crackdown...

Trump leans into his pledge to eliminate taxes on tips at a Las Vegas rally

Jan. 25, 2025 20:11 PM EST

LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Donald Trump came to Las Vegas on Saturday to crow about his campaign promise to eliminate taxes on tips, signaling to allies in Congress the importance of the policy but stopping well short of offering details for making the slogan a reality. Instead,...

State Department freezes new funding for nearly all US aid programs worldwide

Jan. 24, 2025 20:15 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department ordered a sweeping freeze Friday on new funding for almost all U.S. foreign assistance, making exceptions for emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt. The order threatened a quick halt to many of the billions of dollars in...

Who's the guy handing Trump those binders of executive orders? Meet Will Scharf

Jan. 24, 2025 12:36 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Those binders full of executive orders that President Donald Trump has been signing with a flourish and a wide-tipped Sharpie during his first week in office don't just magically appear before him. White House staff secretary Will Scharf has been a prominent part...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died

Jan. 22, 2025 21:08 PM EST

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly...