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Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
House passes bill demanding government release Epstein files Democrats and Republicans alike anticipated a clean, unanimous vote on Tuesday to force the release of Jeffrey Epstein's case files. But one member did not join the consensus: Republican Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana. His lone dissent highlighted his history of staking out positions on the extreme edge of the Republican Party. The United States ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Trump administration announced a rapid acceleration of its efforts to dismantle the U.S. Education Department on Tuesday, farming out several of its major grants and functions to other federal agencies. that were signed right before the government shutdown began, the department will begin to outsource much of the work of six offices to the Departments of Labor, Interior, Health and Human Services, and State. ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
In Charlotte, North Carolina, federal agents smashed the window of a U.S. citizen's truck before pulling him to the ground. Tens of thousands of public school students have been reported absent. And businesses in immigrant communities shuttered as border agents patrolled the streets. North Carolina has become the latest focus of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, as federal agents surge ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Congressional Picnic at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Democrats are hoping to introduce a bill that would bring transparency to Donald Trump's White House renovation project. The "Stop Ballroom Bribery Act" has been sponsored by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Robert Garcia, the latter from the House Oversight Committee. The bill ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
You need only scan the corporate landscape to see a horizon littered with scrapped AI initiatives. And the scrapheap keeps growing. According to Fortune, 17% of companies scrapped most or all of their in-house AI initiatives in 2024. One year later, in the summer of 2025, this number had In short, the rush toward AI adoption has been fast and furious, but now, just a few years into the AI revolution, doubts are ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article This legislation prohibits federal immigration officials from arresting individuals attending or leaving New York courthouses A US District Judge has dismissed a legal challenge brought by the Trump administration against New York policies that prevent immigration officials from ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Israel on Tuesday hailed Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan after its endorsement by the UN Security Council, as Hamas rejected the resolution which calls for the deployment of an international force in the Palestinian territory. The United Nations Security Council voted on Monday in favour of a US-drafted resolution bolstering President Trump's plan for the Gaza Strip — which has allowed for a fragile ceasefire ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Donald Trump welcomed Mohamad bin Salman, the Saudi Arabian crown prince with a highly-criticized human rights record, to the White House on Nov. 18 for a glowing meeting brimming with promises of military and economic deals. But ignoring the urgings of human rights advocates, Trump dismissed concerns about bin Salman's alleged role in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump is also holding ...
Source: aol.com
US Justice Department scolded by judge for 'profound investigative missteps' in Comey case | US News
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
James Comey is alleged to have made a false statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020 by denying he had authorised the disclosure of information to the media. The US Justice Department engaged in a "disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps" in the process of securing an indictment against former FBI director James Comey, a judge has said. Magistrate Judge William ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
In the environmental space, there is perhaps no more closely watched issue than how the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines the Clean Water Act term, "waters of the United States." This week, in an effort to align with the US Supreme Court's Sackett decision, the EPA's newly proposed definition of the term seeks to create space between "waters of the United States" and wetlands, which lack a ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
David Richardson resigned Monday saying he'd agreed to serve as acting administrator through the 2025 hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30. He was widely criticized for the agency's response to the Texas flooding in July. Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency David Richardson testifies before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, ...
Source: govtech.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump says he may expand his unprecedented strikes against Latin American drug cartels to include Mexico, the Reuters news agency and the TV network NBC report. "Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It's OK with me. I've been speaking to Mexico. They know how I stand," he told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday. "We're losing hundreds of thousands of people to drugs. So ...
Source: aljazeera.com