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A federal judge said Friday he intends to temporarily block the Trump administration’s plan to place thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees on leave at midnight. Unions representing government employees sued to stop the shutdown of agency operations and restart the flow of foreign aid frozen by President Trump, who has accused the agency of fraud and corruption to justify its imminent shuttering. Judge Carl Nichols, appointed by Trump during his first term, said he would issue a formal order later Friday but that a “limited, very limited” order temporarily pausing the plan would be handed down....

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from placing thousands of employees at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on paid leave Friday, halting plans to cut its workforce down to just a few hundred. Washington, DC, US District Judge Carl Nichols imposed a “very limited” restraining order on the administration, Politico reported, sparing at least 2,200 USAID employees from being put on paid leave at midnight. Administration officials had reportedly moved to gut the agency’s more than 10,000-person workforce by the end of the week down to just 290 or so staff members. Just 500 employees at USAID...

Democrats are outraged that President Trump and Elon Musk are saving billions for the American people. On Friday we were reminded that this is not the first time Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly made headlines. Back in June 2024 Life News reported on Kollar-Kotelly’s disgraceful actions. In May, 2024, in a federal Washington, D.C. court, Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Harlow to two years in jail and 36 months of supervised release for protesting at a notorious late-term abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. with eight others. She was the tenth defendant to be sentenced by the Biden Regime related to the peaceful abortion protest. Paulette...

We’ve been reporting on how X owner and multi-billionaire Elon Musk has set the DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) loose and uncovered a wealth of ridiculous outlays by the federal government—using our tax dollars to fund things most Americans don’t support. Elon has absolutely leveled USAID, the “US Agency for International Development,” basically a slush fund for leftists to underwrite such worthy projects as pottery classes in Morocco, bat research on coronaviruses at China’s infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology, $20 million to create a "Sesame Street" in Iraq, $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and...

An investigation found that more than 130 judges violated US law by overseeing cases involving companies in which they or their family held direct stock.. The report found that these judges have improperly failed to recuse themselves from 685 US court cases since 2010.. Roughly two-thirds of the 131 jurists' rulings ended up being in favor of their or their family's financial interests.. Of the two-thirds of judges who disclosed stock holdings, about a fifth of them presided over at least one case that involved their stock ... Judges offered multiple explanations for their infringements when confronted . ... In...

The following is a full transcript of the Oral Arguments held by the DC Circuit Appellate Court in reference to a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus by General Michael T. Flynn, supported by the Department of Justice, to stop the now innecesary proceedings in the District Court. A decision from the three-Judge panel will be forthcoming. The arguments were held by teleconference due to restrictions imposed by COVID-19 measures rendering an appearance in court impossible. This is NOT an official document, but the author's rendition of the recording of the teleconference:

I, Monika E. Gasztonyi, longtime resident of Painesville, Ohio am of sound Mind, Body and Spirit. I am not in any way, shape or form suicidal. I have no desires, no notions, no thoughts, no feelings, and no plans to kill myself. So if the Painesville city police department and/or the Lake county sheriff's department tells the Local Press that I committed suicide, know in an instant that I was murdered by some very stupid person(s). Most likely someone in the so-called "law enforcement" community. Furthermore, I have no desire, no inclination, no feelings and no plans to cause bodily...

<p>State commission accuses Gooding of improper conduct during 2002 campaign.</p> <p>A Jacksonville judge has been charged with improper conduct by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission, which has accused him of four violations in connection with his hard-fought 2002 election campaign.</p>