For nearly every American company right now, navigating the approach to diversity, equity and inclusion is a little like this: They’re perched on chairs, and the floor is lava, and the lava is the froth of lawsuits, investigations and social media backlash that could arise with any next step. And they are not all responding … Read more
More than a month after a joy rider tore through Eureka Dunes in California’s Death Valley National Park National Park Service and damaged several threatened and rare plants, National Park Service officials have yet to identify the culprit, they said on Monday. Someone drove a vehicle into a protected area of the national park in … Read more
A federal judge ordered the F.B.I. on Monday to disclose some of the records it has continued to keep secret in its case file on the now-defunct investigation into President Trump’s mishandling of classified materials. That includes any that might touch on the question of whether Mr. Trump destroyed certain documents by flushing them down … Read more
This is a KFF Health News story. More than 80 domestic cats, among many other types of mammals, have been confirmed to have had bird flu since 2022 — generally barn cats that lived on dairy farms, as well as feral cats and pets that spend time outdoors and likely caught it by hunting diseased … Read more
Two people were charged in the murder of a soldier stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky., who was found dead last year after being stabbed 68 times, the authorities said. One of the people charged was the woman’s husband, they said. The soldier, Pfc. Katia Dueñas Aguilar, 23, was found dead on May 18, 2024, in … Read more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to safeguard Americans against unfair business practices, is the newest target of Elon Musk and the Trump administration. The agency is at a virtual standstill after Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and Russell Vought, the leader of the … Read more
A federal judge said on Monday that the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program would remain paused until he ruled on its legality, hours before a deadline for roughly two million federal workers to accept incentives to quit. Federal officials had set a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Monday for employees to join the … Read more
Two Americans were injured, one seriously, in a suspected shark attack in the Bahamas, police said. The two female tourists were swimming in Bimini Bay on Friday around 6:30 p.m. when the incident occurred, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said over the weekend. “Initial reports indicate that the victims, both U.S.A. residents, sustained injuries while … Read more
Nearly two dozen states sued the Trump administration and the National Institutes of Health on Monday to block a $4 billion cut to research funding that scientists say would cost thousands of jobs and eviscerate studies into treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and a host of other ailments. The funding cuts were to take … Read more
Hours after being sworn in as President Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi declared to the entire Justice Department work force, “This shameful era ends today.” That assertion, in one of 14 memos she issued on Wednesday, underscored what many current and former law enforcement officials describe as a major — and alarming — departure from … Read more