June 8, 2025
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UK court to hear Prince Harry’s appeal against security cut after royal exit

Prince Harry will continue his legal battle in London this week as he challenges the British government’s decision to cut back his personal security when he visits the United Kingdom. The 40-year-old royal, who stepped away from official royal duties in 2020 and relocated to the United States with wife Meghan Markle, says the downgrade […]

IRS to cut 20,000 jobs as Trump administration moves to shrink federal workforce

The US internal revenue service (IRS) has started laying off staff as part of sweeping job cuts that could see up to 20,000 employees, around a quarter of its entire workforce, lose their jobs, according to three people familiar with the matter.The layoffs began on Friday and will initially hit the IRS’s office of civil […]

‘Going to fight back’: New York rejects Trump’s threat to cut school funds over DEI order

The New York state education department rejected demands from the Trump administration to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in public schools, arguing that there is no legal basis for such orders.The state’s response came after a federal memo threatened to withhold critical Title I funding—meant for schools with high numbers of low-income students—from […]

Trump Administration Health Funding Cuts: 23 states sue Trump administration over $11 billion health funding cut

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) A coalition of attorneys general from 23 states has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke $11 billion in federal health funding, arguing that the move is illegal and endangers public health across the country. The lawsuit has been filed in a federal court in Rhode Island. According […]

US Canada Travel Rules: Canadian airlines cut down seats to US amid intense trade war, revised travel rules

Canadian airlines are reducing the number of seats for US. Canadian airlines have started eliminating seats for the United States even in April, the peak tourism time between the two countries, the New York Times reported, stating that the aviation industry is telling under the heat between the US-Canada trade war. The United States also […]

Trump order on Smithsonian aims to cut funding for ‘improper ideology’ programs: What it means

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, aimed to reshape the Smithsonian Institution by eliminating programs that promote “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.” This move falls in line with the administration’s efforts to address perceived liberal biases in institutions such as universities and the arts. “Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places […]

ATF workforce faces major cut as FBI chief Kash Patel plans to move 1,000 agents

US FBI Director Kash Patel, who also serves as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI, reducing the ATF’s agent workforce by over one-third. This reduction will affect the ATF, an organisation that has faced opposition from gun rights […]