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President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded his call.When Kenni Miller started as a shift manager in his local Sheetz convenience store in Altoona, Pa., he felt something that he rarely had as a Black man in the workplace.He felt trusted. He felt appreciated. When he was fired a few weeks later, in the summer of 2020 after a background check, Mr. Miller, then 27, was devastated. A nonviolent, felony drug conviction from his teenage years had never caused him to be denied a job before. And he already proved...

President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.When President Trump started dismantling federal agencies and dismissing rank-and-file civil servants, Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department, immediately started to make a calculation. She was the first Black person and the first woman to hold the prestigious post of commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. As a political appointee, she knew there was a risk of becoming a target. But her 35-career at the department spanned a half dozen administrations, including Mr. Trump’s first term, and she...

The sad sacks at The New York Times are once again whipping out the “race” card to wokescold readers into condemning President Donald Trump’s unraveling of leftist diversity, equity and inclusion policies within the federal government. Do they still believe anybody takes them seriously at this point? “As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces,” read the race-baiting Feb. 3 headline from Times White House correspondent Erica Green that was framed as a news item. Green seethed at Trump for connecting the previous administration’s obsession with putting wokeism ahead of competence in hiring to the horrific plane crash near Reagan...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Precious Doe murder case consumed Sgt. Dave Bernard for four years. Erica Michelle Marie Green Sgt. Dave Bernard Thursday, Bernard talked about the case for the first time. He told KMBC's Jim Flink that the beheading of Erica Green -- known for four years only as Precious Doe -- was the most disturbing case he has ever worked on. "All of us are still stunned that the investigation ended the way it did," Bernard said. Bernard's team of investigators followed up more than 1,000 leads in the four years since the child's headless body was...

My hometown has endured a gaping, open wound for over four years. Our local tragedy became a national tragedy when the death of a beautiful three year old girl made national headlines. Her death was shocking, heinous and despicable. We were mortified, humiliated and embarrassed that something so savage could take place in our hometown. She had been decapitated, stripped naked and abandoned in a wooded area near a residential street. Thrown away like a piece of garbage. Kansas City woke up to the news and we were outraged, shamed and determined to bring her murderer to justice. Four years...