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According to a recent document from the Office of Personnel Management, the Trump administration is directing that all federal employees who work in diversity, equity, and inclusion roles be placed on paid leave by Wednesday night. The chiefs of departments and agencies received the message on Tuesday, with a deadline of 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday to notify the staff that they will be placed on paid administrative leave as the agencies get ready to shut down all DEI-related programs and offices, as well as delete all of their websites and social media accounts. Additionally, it requests that federal agencies provide a detailed plan for employee termination by January 31. President Donald Trumpsigned an executive orderMondayending radical and wasteful diversity, equity and inclusion programsi...

According to court documents, four individuals from Chile have been accused in connection with an ongoing investigation into burglaries at the houses of wealthy and occasionally well-known people throughout the country. According to the petition, the four are connected to a burglary that occurred in Hamilton County, Ohio, on December 9—the same day and time as a break-in at Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow's house.According to the records, officers discovered a Bengals hat that was purportedly taken during the December break-in in an SUV that the suspects were using, even though Burrow was not listed as a victim. A grand jury delivered an indictment against the four in court Tuesday, according to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. According to a statement, the charges include having...

According to a recent document from the Office of Personnel Management, the Trump administration is directing that all federal employees who work in diversity, equity, and inclusion roles be placed on paid leave by Wednesday night. The memo, which was sent to department and agency heads on Tuesday, gives them until Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET to notify staff members that they will be placed on paid administrative leave while the agencies get ready to shut down all DEI-related programs and offices and delete all of their websites and social media accounts. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that ordered the closure of DEI offices and programs and ended radical and inefficient diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in government agencies. White House press secretary Ka...

According to a new document from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the Trump administration is directing that all federal employees who work in diversity, equity, and inclusion areas be placed on paid leave by Wednesday night. The memo follows President Donald Trump's executive order signed on Monday, which ordered the closure of DEI offices and programs and ended radical and inefficient diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in government agencies. In a statement released Tuesday evening, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, "President Trump ran on a platform of eliminating the evil of DEI from our federal government and restoring America to a merit-based society where people are hired based on their skills, not on the color of their skin." For Americans of all r...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump justified the pardons and commutations of over 1,500 defendants, some of whom had been found guilty of assaulting police officers, who were accused of offenses related to the Capitol incident on January 6. In one of the first executive actions of his second administration, Trump pardoned all other those convicted of crimes connected to the 2021 riot and shortened the sentences of 14 inmates. In connection with what turned out to be the biggest federal investigation in history, he also ordered the attorney general to drop any indictments that were still pending before judges. When asked why he pardoned violent offenders by White House reporters, Trump responded, "They've served years in jail." They spent years behind bars, and they shouldn't have. Further...

Following a traffic stop, a shooting occurred Monday in Vermont, just south of the Canadian border, killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the course of duty and another individual, according to officials. According to Vermont State Police, the incident happened on Interstate 91 near Coventry on Monday at approximately 3:15 p.m. One subject and one U.S. Border Patrol agent were slain. According to the FBI Albany office, another person was hurt and is currently being held. The FBI named the agent as David Chris Maland in a statement on Tuesday, stating that he was a part of a traffic stop on Interstate 91 southbound close to mile marker 168" that resulted in a gunfight. According to the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security verified that the other deceased individual was a German nat...

In order to spend billions of dollars in AI infrastructure in the US, President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a joint venture with OpenAI, Oraclean, and Softbank. Trump, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison presented the initiative, which was named Stargate, at the White House. The project will be established as a distinct firm, and the CEOs pledged to invest an initial $100 billion and up to $500 billion over the following four years. More from CNBC David Einhorn says we have reached the Fartcoin stage of the market cycle Trump laid out a sweeping energy agenda. Here are all the key actions he took on day one Trump says he s considering 10% tariff on China beginning as soon as Feb. 1 Regarding AI, Trum...

Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland attempted to describe the vast breadth of the law enforcement effort to apprehend the rioters on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, referring to it as one of the biggest, most intricate, and most resource-intensive investigations in our history. Almost all federal Jan. 6 defendants were pardoned by President Donald Trump on Monday, with the exception of a few who still had their jail sentences commuted. In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Jason Manning, a line prosecutor who worked on Jan. 6 cases in Washington for years, stated, "I don't think that's OK." The pardons are terrible, in my opinion. judicial experts and Justice Department officials are describing the action as an unprecedented and risky use of the pardon power that inflicted ...

President-elect Donald Trump told Time magazine following his election victory that he was still thinking about pardoning his supporters who took part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, but he was especially interested in those who were accused of non-violent offenses. He stated, "I'm going to take it case by case, and if they weren't violent, I think they've been severely punished." Trump instead took a much more expansive approach on his first day in office, pardoning the majority of the more than 1,500 individuals accused of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack. Many people convicted of violent acts have been freed as a result of his activities. Here are a few of them: Tyler Bradley Dykes In Bluffton, South Carolina, Dykes was found guilty of taking a police riot sh...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump justified the commutations and pardons of over 1,500 people who were charged with offenses related to the Jan. 6 incident, including some who had been found guilty of attacking police officers. In one of the first executive actions of his second administration, Trump pardoned all other people convicted of crimes connected to the Capitol disturbance in 2021 and shortened the sentences of 14 inmates. In connection with what turned out to be the biggest federal investigation in history, he also ordered the attorney general to drop any indictments that were still pending before judges. When asked why he pardoned violent offenders by White House reporters, Trump responded, "They've served years in jail." They spent years behind bars, and they shouldn't have. ...