The city of Springfield, Ohio, which was singled out by Donald J. Trump and JD Vance during the presidential campaign with false and outrageous claims about Haitian immigrants, has sued a neo-Nazi group that helped draw national attention to the small city in the first place. The suit, filed in federal court on Thursday, was … Read more
new video loaded: House Democrats Denied Entry to the U.S. Department of Education transcript Back transcript House Democrats Denied Entry to the U.S. Department of Education Several Democratic lawmakers attempted to access the department’s headquarters on Friday, after a request to meet with the acting education secretary went unanswered. “We’re coming in. Don’t block the … Read more
A federal judge’s order that Elon Musk’s team temporarily cease boring into the Treasury Department’s payment systems largely rests on questions about privacy and cybersecurity. The activities of Mr. Musk’s government cost-cutting effort, the judge said in his order on Saturday, risk “the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information” and render them “more vulnerable than … Read more
The Trump administration has moved more than 30 people described as Venezuelan gang members to the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, as U.S. forces and homeland security staff prepare a tent city for potentially thousands of migrants. About a dozen of the men were brought in from El Paso, Texas, on Friday, as Kristi … Read more
Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with shoelaces and zip ties until the plane landed. The struggle, captured on videos and photos taken by passengers, began about 40 minutes into … Read more
The State Department has given Congress formal notification that it plans to move forward with sales of more than $8 billion in weapons to Israel, bypassing an informal review process that was still ongoing in one House committee. The move took place just two days after President Trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of … Read more
When Margery Hop Wong bade her older brother goodbye in 1943, she was just a 12-year-old girl who loved it when he took her for joy rides in his used convertible around the apple orchards their family worked. Yuen Hop left their home in Sebastopol, Calif., a small town 55 miles north of San Francisco, … Read more
Ryan Mac and Kate Conger, two New York Times technology reporters who together wrote a book about what happened when Elon Musk bought Twitter, explain some of his tactics. Source link
The thousands of people who work for the U.S. government’s main agency for humanitarian aid and disaster relief have been on the front lines of efforts to fight famine, contain virulent infectious diseases like H.I.V. and Ebola, and rebuild infrastructure in impoverished and war-torn countries. On Friday evening, just hours before the vast majority of … Read more
When Margery Hop Wong bade her older brother goodbye in 1943, she was just a 12-year-old girl who loved it when he took her for joy rides in his used convertible around the apple orchards their family worked. Yuen Hop left their home in Sebastopol, Calif., a small town 55 miles north of San Francisco, … Read more