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Two anonymous federal employees launched a class action lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management, saying the newly installed on-site server used to handle mass email to and responses from…
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Donald Trump fired in the middle of their appointment terms two EEOC commissioners who are Democrats. (more…)
The Oklahoma State Board of Education approved a new rule requiring parents to provide proof of children’s USA citizenship or legal immigration status in order enroll them in public schools.…
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After Donald Trump ordered 25% tariffs in retaliation for Colombia’s insistence that deportation flights must not be on military planes, Colombia pushed back. In the end Colombia agreed to accept…
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After a few days of hesitation after plans leaked and local authorities voiced resistance, federal officers began raids and round-ups of people in Chicago. (more…)
After Colombia denied permission to land for two repatriation flights from the USA, Donald Trump responded with a torrent of threats through social media. (more…)
Two days after removing materials about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots from training for new recruits, the U.S. Air Force reinstated them in response to outcry.…
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By order of President Gustavo Petro, Columbia refused to allow two repatriation flights from the USA to land. Unlike previous repatriation flights, these were on military aircraft without authorization by…
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Federal District Judge George O’Toole (Boston) issued a temporary restraining order barring transfer of a transgender inmate to a men’s prison under a Donald Trump executive order. (more…)
Although previous deportation flights have been on commercial or charter aircraft, USA deportation flights began to use Air Force C-17s. (more…)
Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Homeland Security. Click here for more details.
By video link, Elon Musk spoke alongside Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel to an election event. (more…)
Twenty-one Democrats from House committees, especially Ranking Members, sent a joint letter to Donald Trump condemning his Friday night firing of 17 independent Inspectors General as illegal. (more…)
Throughout England and Scotland, to combat (H5N1) avian flu it is now mandatory for domestic bird flocks to be kept indoors. (more…)
The same day Donald Trump fired 17 independent Inspectors General without legally required notice, the head of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency responded in writing, rejecting…
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Without evidence, Elon Musk used his social media platform X to accuse rival Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim of ties to Mexican drug cartels. (more…)
Donald Trump fired 17 independent Inspectors General without legally required 30 days notice. (more…)
After his prerecorded address to the March for Life, Donald Trump signed two executive orders reinstating anti-abortion measures nationally and abroad from his first term as President, and rescinded two…
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For the first time in about 60 years, the Centers for Disease Control did not publish any Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (more…)
With a tie-breaking vote by VP J.D. Vance, Peter Hegseth was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Defense. (more…)
The Department of Justice ordered Attorney General Chad Mizelle to enforce the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act only in “extraordinary circumstances” or after death, extreme bodily harm…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped most foreign aid grants for 90 days, going beyond the scope of Donald Trump’s executive order to do so and apparently stopping funding for…
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Tens of thousands of people participated in the annual March for Life anti-abortion demonstration in Washington, DC. (more…)
District Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw the seditious conspiracy trial of several Oath Keepers whose sentences were commuted by Donald Trump, issued an order barring 8 of them from entering…
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Newly appointed Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson shut down the agency’s acceptance of information and comments from the public about corporate mergers and predatory pricing. (more…)
About 98% of Costco shareholders voted in favor of the company’s existing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, defying a trend of other large companies dropping or curtailing such programs. (more…)
Storm Éowyn, expected to be the most dangerous ever for Ireland, hit Ireland and the UK with record-breaking winds. (more…)
Mexico refused permission for a USA military flight carrying deportees to land. (more…)
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice suddenly terminated the 70+ year old Attorney General’s Honors Program and revoked its recent job offers. The program typically offers entry level federal jobs to…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal law enforcement arrested 538 people and detained 373, some of them citizens of which at least one is a military veteran and some…
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Donald Trump ended the security detail protecting Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was his primary expert advisor during the first year of the COVID pandemic and has been targeted by threats…
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Donald Trump pardoned ten people serving time in prison for violating the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act during the blockade and invasion of a clinic in the…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify government documents about the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (more…)
Neonicotinoid pesticide, which is banned in the EU due because it is highly toxic to bees, is denied permission for emergency use in the UK for the first time in…
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Donald Trump fired all three Democrats who were on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. (more…)
Michael Bloomberg pledged to pay USA funding obligations to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change after Donald Trump withdrew the USA from the Paris Agreement again. (more…)
After vociferous outcry from military veterans, the Veterans Administration announced exemption of 300,000 of its health care roles from the federal hiring freeze Donald Trump ordered 20 January 2025. (more…)
John Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate as Director of the CIA. Click here for more details.
EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefcovic said the EU is open to the UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) trading bloc as part of a post-Brexit EU-UK “reset.” (more…)
In line with Chicago Public Schools policy, Hamline Elementary School refused entry to agents the staff believed were immigration agents. (more…)
The Department of Justice removed from its website the page about its investigation of the attack on the USA’s Capitol on 6 January 2021. (more…)
Federal District Judge John Coughenour issued a 14 day temporary restraining order which blocks implementation of Donald Trump’s executive order to curtail birthright citizenship. (more…)
Three federal judges chastised Donald Trump’s order for blanket release of participants in the 6 January 2021 attack on the USA’s Capitol during election certification proceedings. (more…)
The Department of Justice ordered federal prosecutors to pursue state and local officials who do not cooperate with the administration’s planned mass roundups for deportation. (more…)
Donald Trump used powers he acquired by declaring a border emergency to begin deploying military troops to the USA side of the USA-Mexico border. (more…)
After Elon Musk threw two Nazi-style salutes at an inauguration celebration, Reddit communities began to ban links to his social media platform X. (more…)
Danielle Hegseth, former sister-in-law of Peter Hegseth who is nominated to be Secretary of Defense, delivered a sworn statement of allegations to Senators after the FBI omitted the information from…
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In two lawsuits against the Trump administration, a collection of rights advocacy groups and 22 states plus 2 cities seek to block his 20 January 2025 executive order denying birthright…
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The National Treasury Employees Union sued the federal government to block Donald Trump’s executive order that would ease purging of professional civil servants for replacement with partisan loyalists. (more…)
Donald Trump signed an executive order to put all federal workers in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs on paid administrative leave, pending termination of the programs and widespread firings.…
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