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Layoffs ‘decimating’ office responsible for protecting rights of infants, children and youth with disabilities, says workerThe majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports.Fri…
Lindsey Graham says closure won’t push him to meet Democrats’ demands on Obama-era healthcare subsidiesRepublican and Democratic senators Lindsey Graham and Mark Kelly have dug their heels in over the government shutdown – which is now approaching two …
Washington DC-based institution says it’ll temporarily close museums and research centers in response to shutdownSmithsonian museums and the National Zoo closed their doors on Sunday in response to the ongoing government shutdown.In a statement over th…
Department of Health and Human Services rescinds more than half of the 1,300 termination notices it sent, reports sayThe firings of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been reversed, according to several reports citing o…
Riders wore nothing – or close to it – in hastily called event against Trump’s attempts to mobilize the national guardProtesters rallying against the Trump administration in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display on Sunday …
Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violentUS military veterans increasingly face arrest and injury amid protests over Donald Trump’s de…
US S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes rise and cryptocurrencies rebound after Trump post on Truth SocialBusiness live – latest updatesGlobal stock markets have edged higher and cryptocurrencies rebounded amid signs that a new front in the US-Chi…
Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forcesThe White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domesti…
Investors brace for another bout of trade war turmoil as Beijing says it will act if US president fails to back downBeijing has told the US it will retaliate if Donald Trump fails to back down on his threat to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese imports as …
Experts say the move could eliminate the federal government’s power to cancel educational loansOfficials in the Trump administration are reportedly weighing the possibility of selling portions of the federal government’s $1.6tn student loan portfolio t…