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College Grads Find the Current Job Market 'Stings'

It's the toughest job market for young adults in more than a decade; AI may be playing a role

(Newser) - While completing a master's degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. Zahid, 25, completed her studies in December, but so far she hasn't found a job in the industry that surrounds her. "It stings a little bit," she...

EPA Employees Object to Trump's Policies

Around 200 staff members sign letter listing 5 actions they consider harmful

(Newser) - Around 200 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency have signed a declaration of dissent detailing their opposition to President Trump's policies and the dangers they see in his actions. Retired employees and scientists and academics who don't work for the agency, including 20 Nobel laureates, also signed the...

Assad Isn't Off the Hook in Latest Trump Move on Syria

President is set to issue EO on Monday on lifting sanctions against nation, but not against ex-leader

(Newser) - President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday ending US sanctions on Syria, following through on his earlier promise to do so. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the move was designed to "promote and support the country's path to stability and peace,"...

Trump Administration Threatens to Cut All Harvard Funding

Says university failed to protect Jewish students

(Newser) - The Trump administration has concluded that Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment and is threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action. A federal task force sent a letter to Harvard on Monday finding the university violated civil...

SCOTUS Will Consider 'Unlimited' Campaign Spending

Trump administration backs GOP-led effort to overturn decades-old ruling

(Newser) - The Supreme Court will take up a Republican-led drive, backed by President Trump's administration, to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. The justices said Monday they will review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal...

Canada Hands Trump a Win on Trade
Canada Hands Trump
a Win on Trade

Canada Hands Trump a Win on Trade

Canada rescinds its planned tech tax, says trade talks will resume

(Newser) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said late Sunday trade talks with US have resumed after Canada rescinded its plan to tax US technology firms, the AP reports. US President Trump said Friday that he was suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology...

Senate Debate Rages Late Into the Night on Trump's 'Big Bill'

Overnight voting has been delayed until Monday

(Newser) - Debate has been underway in the Senate late into the night, with Republicans wrestling President Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts over mounting Democratic opposition—and even some brake-pumping over the budget slashing by the president himself. The outcome from the weekend of work in...

Administration: It's Safe to Go Back to Haiti Now

Noem revokes temporary protected status for as many as 300K people

(Newser) - The Trump administration has announced that it's dropping deportation protections for Haitians in the US, saying the violence in their impoverished Caribbean nation has eased enough to make it safe for citizens to return home. The move announced Friday puts more than 300,000 people at risk of deportation,...

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Is 'Evolving'

Senate GOP will be hustling over the weekend to work on passing legislation by July Fourth deadline

(Newser) - The Senate is expected to grind through a rare weekend session as Republicans race to pass President Trump's package of tax breaks and spending cuts, aka his "big beautiful bill," by his July Fourth deadline. Republicans are using their congressional majorities to push aside Democratic opposition, but...

DOJ Escalates Campaign Against Jan. 6 Prosecutors

Sources say at least 3 involved in Capitol riot criminal cases were fired on Friday

(Newser) - The Justice Department on Friday fired at least three prosecutors involved in US Capitol riot criminal cases, the latest move by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, per two people familiar with the matter. Those dismissed include two attorneys who...

Trump Celebrates 'Giant' Supreme Court Victory

President vows to accelerate his agenda after SCOTUS curbs power of federal judges

(Newser) - President Trump quickly celebrated Friday's ruling by the Supreme Court that drastically limits the power of federal judges to impose national injunctions on his policies. The case in question involved his executive order to undo birthright citizenship—the idea that anyone born in the US is automatically a citizen—...

Teen DOGE Lieutenant Isn't Leaving Government After All

Edward Coristine, 19, is now at the Social Security Administration

(Newser) - One of the more high-profile members of the DOGE team isn't leaving the government after all. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old nicknamed "Big Balls," has indeed left the Department of Government Efficiency, but he has landed a new job at the Social Security Administration, reports Wired . Coristine is...

Report: DOJ Demands Ouster of UVA President

Sources say feds believe James Ryan 'rebranded' DEI instead of ending policies

(Newser) - The Trump administration has reportedly demanded that the University of Virginia remove its president, James E. Ryan, as a condition for resolving a Justice Department probe into the school's diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. The New York Times , citing people familiar with the discussions, reports that the Justice...

US, China Signed Trade Deal, Trump Says

President gave no details of the agreement

(Newser) - The US and China have signed an agreement on trade, President Trump said, adding he expects to soon have a deal with India. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg TV that the deal was signed earlier this week. Neither Lutnick nor Trump provided any details about the agreement, the AP...

Work Is Underway on Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Old airfield to become an immigration detention center

(Newser) - Work has begun to transform an old airfield in the Florida Everglades into an immigration detention center, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz." A rep for Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, an ally of President Trump who first proposed the idea , said work at the site began on Monday morning, per...

White House to Reverse Rule That Protects 59M Acres

'Roadless rule' blocked logging on national forest lands

(Newser) - The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Monday. The "roadless rule" adopted in the last days of Bill Clinton's presidency in 2001 has long chafed Republican lawmakers, especially in the West where...

ICE Messes With Wife, Dad of Marine Corps Veterans

'It's just a hell of a way to treat a veteran,' says legal rep for one family

(Newser) - A US Marine Corps veteran said he was shocked to see a video on social media of his father, a landscaper in Southern California, being beaten by masked US Border Patrol officers as he was pinned to the ground during an immigration arrest, the AP reports. The Saturday arrest of...

Supreme Court's Pause Allows Fast, Third-Country Deportation

Lower court objected to administration not allowing migrants to raise fears about safety, persecution

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Monday put a lower court's order on hold, allowing the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries that are foreign to them—without giving the deportees an opportunity to make a case that they'd face persecution or death. The brief, unsigned ruling lifts...

Administration: Abrego Garcia Won't Be Freed Despite Order

Judge ordered defendant released until smuggling trial

(Newser) - A federal judge has issued a blistering ruling saying that the Trump administration failed to prove that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a flight risk or a danger to the community and so must not detain him before his smuggling trial. At the same time, US Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes acknowledged...

Americans Lead Rush for New Zealand's 'Golden Visa'

Relaxed rules spark surge in US applications and investment interest

(Newser) - As global uncertainty rises, New Zealand's stability and new investor-friendly policies are drawing fresh waves of affluent newcomers. Wealthy Americans are now the leading applicants for New Zealand's "golden visa," after the country relaxed its Active Investor Plus visa rules in April. The changes lowered...

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