Concern is growing that some people who leave the US – even American citizens – won’t be allowed back in afterwards. The Trump administration has instituted a tough new regime which has led to some countries warning people to be cautious even if they’ve secured visas or green cards, Newsweek reported. Canadians are also being […]
Santa Clara Unified School District has ‘allowed an egregiously hostile environment to fester’ for Jewish students, suit says A teacher at a public high school in California showed 10th-grade students a Turkish propaganda video that equated Israel’s war on Hamas to the Holocaust and suggested Jews should be “ashamed” as a result, according to a […]
Welcome to the show: One day after student activists at Columbia chained themselves to a campus gate to protest the school’s board of trustees, they targeted university president Claire Shipman. Members of the anti-Semitic group Columbia University Apartheid Divest “welcomed” Shipman—or “Shitman,” as they put it—by defacing a campus bathroom with red paint, inverted Hamas […]
States have been far too eager to forgive pandemic unemployment fraud and have recovered just 4% of the money fraudsters stole, according to a government audit Thursday. The Labor Department’s inspector general also released a new estimate of overpayments from the three big federally funded pandemic unemployment programs, putting the total at $118.1 billion over […]
Amid a big swing-state election loss and sinking poll numbers, President Trump’s government efficiency adviser and sidekick Elon Musk was nowhere to be seen at the president’s big White House event announcing across-the-board tariffs on most foreign imports. Mr. Musk was noticeably absent from the high-profile event as top White House officials denied reports he […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, acquiescing to the Justice Department’s extraordinary request to set aside criminal charges so the Democrat could help with President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The judge, though, denied prosecutors the ability to potentially bring the criminal case back […]
President Trump has railed against federal employees who telework, but his administration said it has been forced to allow dozens of employees to work remotely after it prematurely eliminated their offices. The employees work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which the Trump administration has been trying to wind down. This includes firing employees and […]
Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for clawing back roughly $12 billion in health grants awarded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Filed in a Rhode Island federal court, the lawsuit argues that the Department of Health and Human Services lacked the authority to single-handedly cancel grants […]
Layoffs begin at U.S. health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food
Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices come just days after President Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout the […]