Thousands walk out after talks with district failed to reach agreement on wages, healthcare and resources for students with special needs Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years. The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to … Read more
The House Oversight Committee’s deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell ended less than an hour after it began on Monday morning, when the convicted accomplice of the late Jeffrey Epstein pleaded the Fifth Amendment. Maxwell appeared before lawmakers virtually for a closed-door interview in the House bipartisan probe into the federal government’s handling of Epstein’s case. She … Read more
Successful reruns are rare in the NFL. And New England showed enough holes on Sunday to suggest making it back to the big dance soon will be tough The greatest lie a fanbase tells itself is that there is always next year. It is the softest landing spot in sport, a comfort blanket after a … Read more
Tom Homan suggested that a widespread approach to immigration operations would lose public support Tom Homan – the Trump administration’s “border czar” sent to Minnesota in January after federal agents fatally shot two US citizen protesters – warned last year that the government’s aggressive, widespread approach to immigration enforcement would cost it public support. Homan … Read more
Journalist arrested after covering anti-ICE protest says it was ‘very frightening’ to experience government overreach The former CNN anchor Don Lemon has warned the US must “keep fighting” for its right to a free press, calling it “the breath in the lungs of democracy” following his arrest alongside another journalist by the Trump administration. Lemon … Read more
FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Labor’s top lawyer ordered staff on Monday to stop engaging with the American Bar Association in their official capacities, saying the organization partakes in liberal activism and that any federal participation would only boost its influence. Trump-appointed Solicitor Jonathan Berry wrote in an email that the hundreds of attorneys … Read more
American was competing with ruptured ACL Vonn fractured leg after crashing in Sunday’s race Lindsey Vonn’s fellow skiers have defended her decision to compete in the women’s downhill at the Winter Olympics while dealing with a ruptured ACL. The American crashed out early in her run on Sunday. She suffered a fractured leg and was … Read more
English is now the only language in which people can take driver’s license tests in the Sunshine State. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced last month that the change to English as the only language for the tests would start Feb. 6. “Previously, knowledge exams for most non-commercial driver license classifications … Read more
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee piled onto calls from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., on Monday for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to step down in light of alleged business ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Files released by the DOJ suggest that Lutnick and Epstein bought stakes together in a technology company called Adfin in … Read more
Democratic representative says Epstein associate’s decision to invoke fifth amendment points to ‘White House cover-up’ Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions during a closed-door congressional deposition on Monday, prompting criticism from a House representative backing efforts to release Jeffrey Epstein investigative files. Robert Garcia, ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform, said … Read more
