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2 天之前 · In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed to safeguard national security despite being deeply entangled with the military and intelligence bureaucracy.. These included a failure to provide details ...

5 天之前 · After days offline, USAID’s website was finally restored late Tuesday … with a notice announcing that all employees will be placed on administrative leave. “On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for …

3 天之前 · The National Labor Relations Board is the main federal agency that enforces labor laws. People often think that job is done by the Labor Department (which is not an independent agency and predates the NLRB), but that’s mistaken. The Labor Department’s role regulating management-labor relations is more circumscribed, focusing on …

2025年2月3日 · Trump falsely claimed in December that Mexico and Canada’s trade deficits with the U.S. were “subsidies,” rather than indicators that America’s neighbors are purchasing more goods from the U.S. than they sell to it. In 2023, that differential—or deficit, as Trump insists—was nearly $41 billion with Canada and $162 billion with Mexico, according to …

2025年1月31日 · The Trump loyalist has previously said he would shut down the FBI’s Hoover Building and “replace it with a mausoleum of the Deep State,” sparking concern that Patel would use his power to weaponize the country’s national security organization.. In recent weeks, the FBI Agents Association urged Patel not to punish agents …

6 天之前 · “The earliest iterations of prisons in this country included something called convict leasing, where prisons would actually loan out the labor of incarcerated people to farms,” says New Republic contributor Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit.. The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except for those convicted of a crime, created a ...

6 天之前 · In a disclosure form filed for his nomination, Kennedy claimed that he had resigned as chairman and chief legal counsel of Children’s Health Defense in December. He made roughly $326,000 for just three months of work at the nonprofit in 2023, according to the group’s 990 form that year. The same disclosure form revealed that the outspoken vaccine critic made roughly $10 million over the ...

2025年1月30日 · Last week, just days after his inauguration, Donald Trump eliminated the membership of a key committee that handles aviation security. And on Wednesday night, a passenger plane collided with a military helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.. On Tuesday, January 22, the Aviation Security Advisory Committee’s members received a memo from the Trump administration saying that the Department ...

2025年1月23日 · On Wednesday, Donald Trump pardoned two Washington, D.C., police officers convicted of the 2020 killing of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a young Black man.. Officers Terrence Sutton and Andrew Zabavsky were sentenced last September to 66 and 48 months in prison, respectively, for an “unauthorized police pursuit.”