Donald Trump has fired a top official of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) official, Mary Comans, after it was revealed that the agency paid $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants. Mary Comans was the chief financial officer. Three others involved in this scandal also lost their jobs, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed.
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Israel on Sunday said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians. On Sunday, Israel's military said "a tank division will operate in Jenin" as part of "expanding" operations in the area.
A US judge blocked President Trump's transgender military ban, ruling it likely violates constitutional protections. The decision, affecting thousands of transgender service members, was postponed until Friday to allow for an appeal. This follows multiple legal challenges to Trump's policies, including recent blocks on orders concerning transgender youth and athletes.
President Trump dismissed at least twelve federal agencies' inspectors general, tasked with identifying and preventing government fraud and abuse, shortly after beginning his second term. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized the move, saying it dismantles checks on Trump's power and encourages corruption.
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Conservative commentator and writer Ann Coulter said H-1B workers can not leave a company and are actually preferred not because they are highly skilled but because they are "indentured servants" which the techs want. The comment came amid a major row over Vivek Ramaswamy's criticism of American culture in which he justified why American companies hire more foreigners for tech roles.
President Trump's executive order ending 'citizenship by birth' impacts children of legal non-immigrant visa holders in the US, causing concerns among the Indian diaspora. Immigration attorneys predict court challenges, as this move contradicts existing interpretations of the 14th Amendment according to experts.
Fortune magazine was duped into publishing false claims about Elon Musk and X, based on fabricated information from an anonymous source. The incident raises issues of media credibility and fact-checking, as the publication retracted the article and issued an apology, admitting their sourcing failed editorial standards.
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