Category: USA
FBI closed DEI office in December, agency says
Fox News EXCLUSIVE: The FBI has closed its DEI office, Fox News can confirm. “In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), effective by December 2024,” the agency told Fox News Digital on Thursday. The agency didn’t specify why it had closed the office, although many Republicans…
Read MoreBiden Administration Withdraws Protections for Endangered Whales
New York Times The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with rare North Atlantic right whales. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/biden-administration-slow-ships-whales-proposal-withdraw.html
Read MoreHirono ripped for ‘deranged’ opening confirmation hearing question to Burgum: ‘This lady has issues’
Fox News Democrat Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii faced mockery on social media on Thursday over her opening questions to Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum during his confirmation hearing. “As part of my responsibilities to ensure the fitness of nominees before any of the committees on which I sit, I ask the following two initial…
Read MoreDavid Lynch, Director Of ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Twin Peaks,’ Dies at 78
Wall Street Journal The American filmmaker drawn to the dark and surreal created movies and TV shows that became cult classics. https://www.wsj.com/articles/david-lynch-director-of-blue-velvet-and-twin-peaks-dies-at-78-22f2fd8c
Read MoreNewsom calls for looting to be a felony in evacuation zones amid LA inferno
Fox News FIRST ON FOX: California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for looting in fire evacuation zones to be a felony after prosecutors in Southern California urged him this week to issue harsher penalties, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned. “Preying on people at their most vulnerable is despicable, these criminals are among the worst…
Read MorePresident Biden’s climate standards for walk-in freezers could face reckoning under new GOP resolution
Fox News EXCLUSIVE: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against President Biden’s regulations on appliances with a resolution that seeks to circumvent new green energy standards for freezers. In December 2024, Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) announced a final rule setting more stringent climate standards for walk-in coolers and freezers. The new regulation is currently set…
Read MoreBurgum grilled on environmental issues targeted by Trump during confirmation hearing: ‘Drill, baby, drill’
Fox News Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Trump’s nominee for interior secretary, was pressed by the Senate on his environmental agenda and whether his mission aligns with that of Trump, who plans to overturn many environmental rules and regulations enacted under the Biden administration. A confirmation hearing was held by the Senate Energy…
Read MoreMeatpacking Companies to Pay $8 Million for U.S. Child Labor Violations
New York Times Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous work in their slaughterhouses. Most of the money will be used to help the children. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/perdue-jbs-slaughterhouses-child-labor.html
Read MoreBondi spars with Schiff at testy confirmation hearing: ‘You were censured’
Fox News Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Justice, was involved in a sharp clash with Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Wednesday as the California senator quizzed Bondi over whether she would prosecute Trump’s political opponents. Schiff, a vocal critic of the president-elect, asked Bondi about whether she would investigate former…
Read MoreSouthwest pilot forcibly removed from cockpit for being too drunk
Jerusalem Post The flight was delayed by almost five hours due to Southwest Airlines searching for a replacement pilot. https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-837886
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