California pandemic loan fraud totals $8.6 billion as Small Business Administration suspends over 111,000 borrowers. Kelly Loeffler criticized Biden administration.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) former chief medical officer on Thursday said her resignation was spurred by the Trump administration’s decision to oust Director Susan Monarez, describing it as a last straw. Debra Houry, the CDC's former chief medical officer, also said three other CDC officials who resigned on Wednesday did so...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing new restrictions on how long foreign journalists can stay in the United States legally, calling for stricter oversight of visa holders' activities while in the U.S. In a proposed rule published in the Federal Register on Thursday, DHS calls for limiting the foreign journalist visa to eight months. DHS...
President Trump’s approval rating dropped to a new low for his second term in the latest Quinnipiac University poll. In the five-day survey, which concluded Monday, 37 percent of registered voters say they approve of the president’s handling of his job, compared to 55 percent who disapprove. Another 7 percent say they don’t know. The...
Local law enforcement and the FBI will go through videos and writings from the perpetrator of a deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, police said Thursday. "The focus remains trying to go through everything that we possibly can, following all of the evidence to its logical conclusion, trying to determine what a potential motive...
The United States won’t participate in a United Nations review of its human rights record, arguing engaging with the process would present an endorsement of the UN Human Rights Council, which President Trump withdrew the U.S. from in February. A State Department official said taking part would ignore the body’s “persistent failure to condemn the...
The United Kingdom, France and Germany took the first step on Thursday in snapping back severe sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, signaling the death knell for the Obama-era nuclear deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The move by the European countries, known as the E3, begins a 30-day countdown in...
The Trump administration said Thursday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) needs to align with the president's "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) agenda, after the removal of its director and exodus of four other senior leaders. In an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F....
President Trump fired a board member of a transportation regulator that is weighing a merger between Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific, part of the latest shake-up in the federal government. The administration terminated Robert Primus, a member of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), on Wednesday. Primus, a Democrat, was nominated to serve on the five-member...
The White House on Thursday admonished Democrats who criticized the notion of sending "thoughts and prayers" in the wake of a shooting in Minnesota that left two children dead. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about comments from former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who were critical...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) have sent a letter to Republican leaders calling on them to schedule a meeting “immediately” to discuss the path to a funding deal to avoid a government shutdown after Sept. 30. Schumer and Jeffries want a “four corners” negotiation of the top...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said the Pentagon would no longer allow Chinese nationals to work as coders on Department of Defense (DOD) cloud systems. A program previously allowed Chinese developers to work as “digital escorts” in a role modeled by Microsoft, where foreign nationals remain under the supervision of remote U.S. contractors. Hegseth...
A perfect storm of factors is brewing in Washington, making a government shutdown on Sept. 30 likely, with both parties risking economic consequences and public backlash.
Entry-level jobs for workers between 22 and 25 years old have declined by 13 percent since the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a Stanford University study. “While our main estimates may be influenced by factors other than generative AI, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that generative AI has begun...
