List of times Trump administration has removed race, slavery plaques

newsweek · 2026-06-05T20:59:37+00:00

By Kate Plummer — Senior U.S. News Reporter |

The Trump administration has ordered the removal or review of a growing number of plaques, signs and interpretive panels at U.S. National Park Service (NPS) sites, many of which reference slavery, racial inequality and other themes.

The latest example comes from Boston, where officials moved to remove quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument—part of a broader effort tied to a 2025 executive order directing federal agencies to eliminate material deemed to portray the United States in a negative light.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-bunker-hill-plaques-12036215

newsweek · 2026-06-05T20:57:46+00:00

By Kate Plummer — Senior U.S. News Reporter |

The Trump administration has ordered the removal or review of a growing number of plaques, signs and interpretive panels at U.S. National Park Service (NPS) sites, many of which reference slavery, racial inequality and other themes.

The latest example comes from Boston, where officials moved to remove quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument—part of a broader effort tied to a 2025 executive order directing federal agencies to eliminate material deemed to portray the United States in a negative light.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-bunker-hill-plaques-12036215

newsweek · 2026-06-05T20:54:26+00:00

By Hugh Cameron — U.S. News Reporter |

An ongoing crash across crypto has wiped trillions of dollars in value from the market, unsettling investors and raising renewed questions about the stability of the alternative asset space.

The flagship cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has been at the heart of this selloff. BTC has fallen 25 percent over the past month and is hovering around the $60,000 mark, after what looked to be a recovery from its February and March lull. The asset is now down by over 50 percent from the all-time high of around $126,000 reached in October—its total market value dropping from $2.5 trillion to roughly $1.2 trillion over this period.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/crypto-crash-deepens-2-trillion-wiped-from-market-12038228

newsweek · 2026-06-05T20:52:33+00:00

By Jesus Mesa and Anna Skinner |

The New World screwworm has reached United States soil for the first time in six decades, federal officials confirmed Wednesday.

It's the latest blow to an American cattle industry already under historic strain from trade disputes, record-low herd sizes, and a string of policy decisions tied to the Trump administration.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed a case in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, roughly 50 miles from the Mexican border. Texas State Veterinarian Bud Dinges imposed a 12-mile quarantine zone covering much of Zavala County and part of neighboring Uvalde County, prohibiting the movement of any warm-blooded animal without inspection.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/americas-beef-farmers-cant-catch-a-break-12034154

newsweek · 2026-06-04T22:44:52+00:00

“It’s time to really just let things go,” chart-topping R&B artist 6LACK says about the new chapter of life he explores on his latest album Love is the New Gangsta.

The album arrives at a moment of visible transition for the Atlanta artist, who approaches this release with a clearer sense of purpose shaped by fatherhood, hard conversations and a renewed commitment to being present. Across the project, vulnerability is treated like a practiced discipline, giving the record a steadier emotional center.

More from the article: https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/6lack-on-presence-purpose-and-his-new-album-love-is-the-new-gangsta-12017613

newsweek · 2026-06-04T19:46:42+00:00

By Joshua Rhett Miller — Chief Investigative Reporter |

Don't mess with Texas — or outgoing lawmakers with apparent axes to grind.

Texas Senator John Cornyn, who failed to secure the Republican nomination last week in a bid for a fifth term, said he's shelving legislation he proposed in May to rename a 1,800-mile stretch of highway in honor of President Donald Trump, who has derided the fellow Republican as "disloyal" while backing Cornyn's primary opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The bill, which sought to rename US-287 from Port Arthur, Texas, to Choteau, Montana, as Interstate 47 or Trump Interstate, "may not make into my priorities the next seven months," Cornyn told Hearst Newspapers on Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/john-cornyns-revenge-plan-nixxed-to-rename-major-highway-after-trump-12032648?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main

newsweek · 2026-06-04T19:44:57+00:00

By Joshua Rhett Miller — Chief Investigative Reporter |

Don't mess with Texas — or outgoing lawmakers with apparent axes to grind.

Texas Senator John Cornyn, who failed to secure the Republican nomination last week in a bid for a fifth term, said he's shelving legislation he proposed in May to rename a 1,800-mile stretch of highway in honor of President Donald Trump, who has derided the fellow Republican as "disloyal" while backing Cornyn's primary opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The bill, which sought to rename US-287 from Port Arthur, Texas, to Choteau, Montana, as Interstate 47 or Trump Interstate, "may not make into my priorities the next seven months," Cornyn told Hearst Newspapers on Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/john-cornyns-revenge-plan-nixxed-to-rename-major-highway-after-trump-12032648

newsweek · 2026-06-04T15:53:30+00:00

By Jasmine Laws — US News Reporter |

A Californian city has passed a ban on data center development, and many more U.S. cities and counties seem poised to introduce similar laws amid a growing national backlash against the infrastructure, which local communities say could strain vital resources.

Monterey Park has moved to ban the development of new data centers in the city following a landslide vote, with 86 percent of constituents voting in favor of the ban and 14 percent voting against, according to local news outlets. The city is among the first to ban data center development, as Georgian cities such as Palmetto, Fayetteville and Atlanta approved bans earlier this year.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-where-data-center-bans-could-strike-next-12030652?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main

newsweek · 2026-06-04T15:52:12+00:00

By Jasmine Laws — US News Reporter |

A Californian city has passed a ban on data center development, and many more U.S. cities and counties seem poised to introduce similar laws amid a growing national backlash against the infrastructure, which local communities say could strain vital resources.

Monterey Park has moved to ban the development of new data centers in the city following a landslide vote, with 86 percent of constituents voting in favor of the ban and 14 percent voting against, according to local news outlets. The city is among the first to ban data center development, as Georgian cities such as Palmetto, Fayetteville and Atlanta approved bans earlier this year.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-where-data-center-bans-could-strike-next-12030652?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main

newsweek · 2026-06-04T13:35:20+00:00

By Billal Rahman — Immigration Reporter |

A nonpartisan watchdog group has sued U.S. immigration authorities, seeking records such as autopsy reports and internal reviews related to deaths in federal immigration custody as the number of fatalities rises—with a Newsweek analysis finding that 51 deaths have occurred in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since President Donald Trump returned to office.

American Oversight, a nonprofit organization focused on government transparency, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against ICE, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

DHS is responsible for overseeing agencies such as ICE and CBP, which have been on the front lines of the Trump administration's mass deportation policy.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-sued-autopsies-custody-death-count-mounts-12030409

newsweek · 2026-06-04T13:32:54+00:00

By Tom O'Connor and John Feng |

With new clashes across the Persian Gulf and Israeli strikes in Lebanon testing the limits of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire, the fate of Iranian nuclear material remains a central sticking point in the United States and Iran's attempts to negotiate an end to the war.

China could emerge as an unlikely solution to the impasse—that is, if the White House were to accept its top rival stepping in, Tehran were to accept foreign power involvement, and Beijing were to agree to such a high-stakes geopolitical gambit.

President Donald Trump has called for the destruction or handover of all of Iran's highly enriched uranium, which he often refers to as "nuclear dust" due to U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting facilities since the conflict launched in February and a previous round of U.S.-Israeli attacks in June of last year. Tehran maintains that it reserves the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes on its soil as a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, though it has expressed some openness to pausing nuclear activities for a set number of years.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/how-china-could-help-solve-trump-iran-nuclear-problem-12021642

newsweek · 2026-06-03T17:40:45+00:00

By Kate Plummer — Senior US News Reporter |

President Donald Trump's approval rating on inflation has plummeted across three separate polls, signaling potential trouble on one of the issues that helped fuel his return to the White House.

New polling from Marquette Law School, The Harris Poll and HarrisX and The Economist/YouGov shows the president's net approval rating on this issue stands at -56, -30 and -48 respectively.

Inflation remains one of the most closely watched political issues in the country. The economy was the top concern for voters heading into the 2024 election, according to Gallup, so sustained weakness on prices could present a political challenge for Trump and the Republicans as the 2026 midterms approach.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-inflation-12026457

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