news2shortsThe Central Intelligence Agency, in what officials reportedly claimed was an effort to bring the agency in line with Trump’s agenda, offered buyouts to its entire staff on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the agency is the first to tell its employees they can quit and get eight months of pay and benefits. … Read more
Agency staffers overseas – except those deemed essential – placed on leave as diplomats’ union plans legal action The Trump administration is placing US Agency for International Development direct-hire staffers around the world on leave, except those deemed essential. A notice posted online on Tuesday gives the workers 30 days to return home, upending the … Read more
As a deadline looms for government employees to fold to an ultimatum given by the Trump administration to either accept a buyout or return to the office, unions representing those workers have filed a lawsuit, calling the offer “arbitrary and capricious.” The Trump administration is offering buyouts for nearly 2 million federal employees, including those … Read more
School system says it has not been served with a filing and will ‘vigorously defend’ its admissions practices A newly formed group dedicated to fighting what it calls the covert use of affirmative action in admissions decisions by colleges in the University of California system announced on Monday that it was filing a lawsuit, aiming … Read more
USAID announced Tuesday night that almost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave later this week.
The U.S. will “take over the Gaza strip,” level it and rebuild the area, President Donald Trump said during a press conference Tuesday evening after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said … Read more
U.S. consumers could start seeing price hikes on a wide variety of goods made in China after the United States began collecting a 10% tariff Tuesday on all Chinese imports, reigniting a trade war between the two countries that’s at risk of accelerating.
Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer and other lawmakers protest against billionaire outside US treasury US politics live – latest updates Elon Musk has proposed a “wholesale removal of regulations” in an intensification of his crusade to slash US federal government spending. On a call aired on X, the social media platform he owns, the multibillionaire entrepreneur … Read more
Overseas missions for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have reportedly been told to shut down and that staffers were being recalled to the United States by Friday. CBS News reported that Peter Marocco, the director of foreign assistance at the State Department who was tapped by State Department Secretary Marco Rubio to … Read more
During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump spoke on the devastation left behind in the Gaza Strip and said the U.S. will take it over. Trump added that it is “something the entire Middle East can be very proud of.”
