Israel Launches Major Ground Offensive in Rafah, Targeting Hamas

The Israel Defense Forces launched a major ground offensive Wednesday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, as it expands its campaign to dismantle Hamas following the collapse of a two-month ceasefire, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced. Katz said the IDF is working to “clear the area of terrorists and terror infrastructure, and to seize

Entire CDC FOIA Office Fired as Health Agency Moves to Centralize Structure

A health official said all the Freedom of Information Act offices were previously operating in an isolated fashion. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s entire Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office was fired as part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reorganization, a health official confirmed on April 2. Some FOIA

Social Security Administration Investigating Website Outage

‘There have been a couple of recent incidents impacting My Social Security and we are actively investigating the root cause,’ a spokesperson says The Social Security Administration (SSA) has confirmed it is investigating the origin of an outage of a website portal that recipients use to access their benefits. Tracking website DownDetector indicated on Wednesday

Judge Permanently Dismisses Eric Adams’s Corruption Case

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the corruption case against New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) and barred the Department of Justice from refiling the charges against him. Judge Dale Ho in a written order tossed the criminal case “with prejudice,” permanently blocking the DOJ from recharging Adams based on the same evidence. Federal