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14-Year-Old Black Girl Suffers Brain Injury After School Police Body-Slammed Her, Officer Not Fired

Nationwide — Ke’Nadie Cathey, a 14-year-old African American girl from North Carolina, suffered a brain injury after a school resource officer body-slammed her during a fight outside West Charlotte High School. An internal investigation later led to a two-day unpaid suspension, and the officer remained employed. Officer Hasun Rogers responded to a report of a fight after school dismissal at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. A large crowd formed in the parking lot as students ran toward the […]

todayMay 6, 2026 10

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Special education staff fired after Trump administration cuts amid government shutdown

Mass layoffs by the Trump administration amid the government shutdown has hit critical offices supporting education for children with special needs. On Friday, the Department of Education laid off several employees at the offices of Special Education Programs and the Rehabilitative Services Administration. The Trump White House argued that such layoffs were necessary as a result of the shutdown. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier this month that Democrats “forced the White House and the president into this position.” […]

todayOctober 14, 2025

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Carla Hayden, historic former Librarian of Congress, breaks silence after White House abruptly fired her

Dr. Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress, is breaking her silence about her unceremonious firing by the Trump administration after serving on the job for nearly a decade. In an upcoming interview on “CBS Sunday,” Hayden, the first woman and Black woman to hold the position, reveals that she received no heads-up from the White House before her abrupt termination on May 8. “I’ve received no communication directly, except for that one email,” said Hayden of the communication she […]

todayJune 6, 2025

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Federal workers file class action lawsuit saying white men kept jobs while they got fired in DEI backlash

A group of federal workers say that massive layoffs tied to President Trump’s DEI ban targeted workers of color and women—even if their jobs had nothing to do with DEI. These workers have now filed a class action lawsuit against Trump’s administration and are being represented by the ACLU of D.C., according to NBC News. The legal argument workers are making is that their First Amendment rights were violated when they were fired over the perception that they had pro-DEI […]

todayMarch 27, 2025 3

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Federal judge reinstates labor board member Gwynne Wilcox fired by President Trump

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump acted illegally when he fired a member of an independent labor agency, and the judge ordered that she be allowed to remain on the job. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., found Trump did not have the authority to remove Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board. “An American president is not a king — not even an ‘elected’ one — and his power to remove federal officers […]

todayMarch 7, 2025 1

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Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecutions of the president

The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations. The abrupt action targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department and reflects the administration’s determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president. The norm-shattering move, which follows the […]

todayJanuary 27, 2025 3