_Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (AP) JACKSON: The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, who’s under indictment on federal bribery and conspiracy charges, is fighting to keep his job. In a matchup Jackson voters have seen before, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, seeking a third term, faces state Sen. John Horhn in a Democratic primary runoff on Tuesday. […]
A federal appeals court has ruled in favour of the Trump administration on Wednesday, allowing it to proceed with the dismissal of thousands of probationary federal employees. This overturns a previous court order in Baltimore that had required reinstatement.The court ruled that the employees’ terminations should be challenged through the federal employment process rather than […]
US President Donald Trump The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a directive requiring the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers who were dismissed during extensive workforce reductions. The court’s intervention came after the administration sought emergency relief from a California federal judge’s decision, which mandated the return of 16,000 probationary staff […]
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) A US federal judge has, for the second time, ordered the Trump administration to return a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, despite warnings he would face danger there.The man, 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, remains jailed in El Salvador’s infamous Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), after being […]
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 […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: PTI) A US federal judge on Friday blocked US President Donald Trump’s move to dismantle the Latin America development agency, Inter-American Foundation (IAF), ruling that the administration likely overstepped its authority when it removed the agency’s leadership and froze its grants.US district judge Loren AliKhan, an appointee […]
A federal judge ordered that Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia has to be brought back to the US by April 7. Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month has to be brought back to the US no later than 11.59 pm on April 7, a federal judge ruled […]
The Trump administration is preparing to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants to Brown University, as part of a wider campaign to crack down on what it described as relentless anti-semitism on university campuses, as per two White House officials familiar with the plans.Brown is now the fifth American university to face the […]
AI-generated image (For representative purposes only) As federal workers in US return to work in phases after President Donald Trump’s swearing-in, some of them were sent back home as their offices lacked basic necessities like toilet paper, parking space, chair, food and even privacy.Nearly 1 million employees who had been working remotely or in hybrid […]
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was taken into custody by ICE agents near her home on Tuesday. (X) Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was “ambushed” by federal immigration officers near her off-campus residence in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday.She is a human rights activist and scholar. She co-wrote […]
