Congress has until March 14 to avert a shutdown. WASHINGTON—Republicans have released their proposal for extending government funding, but it faces hurdles in both chambers of Congress. The 100-page continuing resolution (CR)—Capitol Hill parlance for a stopgap funding bill—would primarily extend funding past the March 14 deadline to Sept. 30. But it also contains provisions
The secretary of state announced the move. The U.S. State Department has canceled some 83 percent of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on March 10. “The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in
Reports finds increasing LGBTQ+ candidates Growing LGBTQ+ representation on U.S. ballot boxes, report finds 05:34 Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a challenge to state and local laws that ban so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ children. The dispute before the court arose out of a Colorado law that prohibits licensed
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a bid by Republican-led states to block lawsuits brought by a group of Democratic-led states that seek to hold oil and gas companies accountable for their fossil fuel products’ contributions to climate change. The court’s decision to stay out of the dispute allows the five blue
Last May, Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil said his status as a foreign national made him “nervous” to participate in the encampment that roiled campus. “Since the beginning, I decided to stay out of the public eye and away from media attention or high-risk activities,” he told Al Jazeera. He apparently did not consider blabbing
Noem named Todd Lyons as the acting ICE director, and Madison Sheahan as the deputy director. Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday appointed new leadership at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and said that they would continue to use polygraph tests to identify information leakers within the department. Noem named Todd Lyons
Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency employees spent work hours implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies throughout the agency—focusing in particular on “de-gendering” bathrooms, hiring more gay and transgender employees, and introducing new gender-neutral honorifics such as “Mx.,” according to internal agency documents and communications reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Under the leadership of then-EPA administrator