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April 26, 2025
Exclusive: White House wants to defund independent Social Security board, sources say
April 25, 2025 5:55 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago April 25 (Reuters) - The White House wants to defund a bipartisan board that advises the president and Congress on Social Security policy, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as the Trump administration moves to cut costs and eliminate independent voices in government. The White House's Office of Management and Budget has notified staff at the Social Security Advisory Board that it plans to cut the board's annual budget from aroun ...
Go to discussionRite Aids could be closing down as company eyes second bankruptcy in two years
Friday 25 April 2025 22:51 BST Rite Aid stores across the country could soon be closing down as the company reportedly considers filing for its second bankruptcy in two years. The troubled drugstore chain previously filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023, which resulted in more than 800 store closures. Rite Aid still operates more than 1,200 stores in the U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a form of bankruptcy under the US Bankruptcy Code that allows a debtor, typically a business or individual, ...
Go to discussionEducation Department to probe New York for trying to pull school mascot of Native American
04/25/2025 07:39 PM EDT Updated: 04/25/2025 09:23 PM EDT The Education Department launched an investigation Friday into the New York Department of Education for threatening to withhold money from a local school district because of its Native American mascot. The mascot, an illustration of man wearing a feathered headdress, has been used for decades. “The U.S. Department of Education will not stand by as the state of New York attempts to rewrite history and deny the town of Massapequa the ri ...
Go to discussionUS Justice Department unit for drug and food safety cases being disbanded
April 25, 2025 5:00 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - A Justice Department unit that handles criminal and civil enforcement of U.S. food and drug safety laws is being disbanded as part of an ongoing cost-cutting campaign by President Donald Trump's administration, according to three people familiar with the matter. About 215 people work for the Consumer Protection Branch, part of the Justice Department's Civil Division, including attorneys, support staff and law enf ...
Go to discussionTrump's NASA pick was once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos
April 25, 2025, 6:04 p.m. ET President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 and faced lawsuits in two states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records and court filings. Isaacman is a billionaire pilot and astronaut who founded the Shift4 Payments company as a teenager and commanded the first civilian space crew in 2021 aboard a SpaceX capsule. Isaacman's nomination is scheduled for a vote ...
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