Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump’s Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I.
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Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump’s Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Education Department placed dozens of employees on administrative leave on Friday, citing guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, which had directed agencies to submit plans for shedding staff associated with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by the end of the day….

Trump Administration Fires Consumer Bureau Chief Rohit Chopra
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Trump Administration Fires Consumer Bureau Chief Rohit Chopra

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, was fired on Saturday, prematurely ending a five-year term that was scheduled to run through late 2026. “With so much power concentrated in the hands of a few, agencies like the C.F.P.B. have…

U.S. Considers Sending Israel 24,000 Assault Rifles Held Back Under Biden
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U.S. Considers Sending Israel 24,000 Assault Rifles Held Back Under Biden

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration is considering sending 24,000 assault rifles to Israel that had been held up at the State Department on the orders of Antony J. Blinken, the former secretary of state, a U.S. official said. Mr. Blinken had asked the State Department…

Health Officials Struggle to Comply With D.E.I. and Gender Orders
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Health Officials Struggle to Comply With D.E.I. and Gender Orders

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Federal and state health officials and staff members scrambled on Friday to comply with a 5 p.m. deadline by the Trump administration to terminate any programs that promote “gender ideology,” and to withdraw documents and any other media that may do so. Federal…

Federal Agencies Ordered to End Initiatives That Support ‘Gender Ideology’
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Federal Agencies Ordered to End Initiatives That Support ‘Gender Ideology’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration has ordered agencies to shut down programs, grants and other initiatives that “promote or reflect gender ideology,” and that employees who work on them be placed on administrative leave, in the latest action to execute the president’s charge to root…

Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors
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Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday taking steps to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under 19, directing agencies to take a variety of steps to curtail surgeries, hormone therapy and other regimens. The order continued to chip away…

Caroline Kennedy Urges Senators to Reject RFK Jr. for Health Secretary
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Caroline Kennedy Urges Senators to Reject RFK Jr. for Health Secretary

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Caroline Kennedy wrote a scathing letter to key senators on Tuesday, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” addicted to attention from airing dangerous views on vaccinations and who is unfit to be the nation’s health secretary. She urged lawmakers, who…

Federal Spending Freeze Does Not Apply to Student Loans and Pell Grants
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Federal Spending Freeze Does Not Apply to Student Loans and Pell Grants

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The U.S. Department of Education said in a statement on Tuesday morning that the memo sent to government agencies the day before calling for a broad pause on federal spending did not apply to federal student loans or Pell grants. That money will…

Trump Stocks E.P.A. With Oil, Gas and Chemical Lobbyists
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Trump Stocks E.P.A. With Oil, Gas and Chemical Lobbyists

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical industries, many of whom worked in his first administration to weaken climate and pollution protections. Lee Zeldin, Mr. Trump’s choice to…

Who Are the Three Republican Senators Who Voted Against Pete Hegseth?
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Who Are the Three Republican Senators Who Voted Against Pete Hegseth?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Late Friday night, all but three Republican senators voted to confirm President Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, creating a 50-to-50 deadlock that required Vice President JD Vance to come break the tie. But close followers of the Senate likely weren’t surprised…