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Another high-ranking prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia has been fired. Last month, President Trump fired Erik Siebert as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia because he refused to bring charges against Letitia James, Comey, Schiff, and others. Shortly after Siebert’s firing, Lindsey Halligan, the new Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, indicted former FBI Director James Comey. However, the night before Lindsey Halligan indicted Comey, Deep State prosecutors in the EDVA, leaked a memo in an effort to defend Comey. “Two sources familiar with the matter tell me prosecutors in the EDVA...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 33-year-old Shreya Mishra Reddy, a technical program manager at Visa based in Austin. Business Insider has verified Reddy's employment, immigration status, and unsuccessful H-1B attempts. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I never dreamed of living in the US. I grew up in India and wanted to stay close to my parents. In December 2021, I moved to the States for a Master's program in engineering management at Duke University. After I graduated in 2022, I got a job at Visa as a technical program manager in 2023....

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a century ago. After attempted appeals by Pike's attorneys repeatedly failed, the Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set a date for her to be executed. The order granted a scheduling request from the state for the death warrant to be carried out Sept. 30, 2026, at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, which houses a majority of Tennessee's death row inmates. Under the terms of this week's...

Over 100,000 federal employees are expected to resign imminently under the Trump administration’s sweeping “deferred resignation” program. This mass exodus is essential to finally draining the swamp and reasserting presidential control over a bloated, unaccountable federal machine. Late last week, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) reportedly circulated internal guidance to agencies, warning them to prepare for waves of deferred resignations and reductions in force should Congress fail to approve full appropriations, according to the New York Post. Agencies were told to begin drafting Separation and Reduction in Force (RIF) plans targeting nonessential positions. On January 28, 2025, the Office...

These are career bureaucrats who don’t want accountability. The system is finally being exposed for what it is. The question is — is this a crisis or the reset America needs? Thoughts? ⬇️

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has fired as many as 20 FBI agents, including a group associated with a 2020 incident in which agents were photographed kneeling with demonstrators at the height of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, two people briefed on the matter said. The latest round of dismissals at the bureau came at the end of a review by the FBI’s inspection division and recommendations evaluated by the bureau’s general counsel’s office, one person briefed on the matter said. As many as 20 people were terminated in the latest round of ousters, including about 15...

Cuban officials on Friday said that Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Havana decades after breaking out of prison and escaping to the communist island. Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Chesimard, who was born JoAnne Deborah Byron and was also known as Assata Olugbala Shakur, passed away after living there for years under asylum granted by the Cuban government. "On September 25, 2025, American citizen Joanne Deborah Byron, ‘Assata Shakur,’ passed away in Havana, Cuba, due to health conditions and advanced age," the ministry's statement said. In 1977, Chesimard...

Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate is having on education, according to a new survey by the American Association of Professors. Of those interviewed in the survey, roughly a quarter of respondents said they applied for a job in higher education in another state since the start of 2023. Heather Houser worked as a professor in the English department, teaching American literature and environmental humanities, at the University of Texas at Austin for 14 years. Like the growing number of professors...

SAN ANTONIO - A first responder with the Comal County ESD 3 has been let go after posting a statement against the late conservative personality Charlie Kirk. According to Comal County ESD No. 3, the emergency services district completed an investigation into Canyon Lake Fire/EMS Employee Danielle Meyers related to "inappropriate social media activity." "As of [Monday,] Ms. Meyers is no longer employed with the department," ESD No.3 said in a statement. "While we are not responsible for an employee's private posts and protected speech by the employee's First Amendment rights under the United States Constitution, we still deem this...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) - A Kansas Department of Education employee who commented “well deserved” on a social media post referencing the murder of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk is no longer with the state agency. The Manhattan Mercury confirmed Katie Allen’s status of being fired from the Kansas Department of Education on Tuesday. She also serves on the USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden school board. The post appeared to show a photo of Kirk’s wife draped over his open casket. The post included an apparent quote from Kirk, which said, “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some...

MIDLAND, Texas — The Midland Independent School District board voted unanimously on Thursday to terminate Midland High School teacher Lynette Fields after she made controversial comments in the classroom regarding the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. According to MISD Superintendent Dr. Stephanie Howard, Fields told students that Kirk “deserved what he got” and even stated she would celebrate his death. Dr. Howard emphasized that the district is taking the incident seriously and underscored that similar behavior will not be tolerated from district employees. "We have to be careful not to project our feelings, values, and beliefs onto students...

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A longtime community advocate employed in the administration of Mayor Eric Adams was fired on Thursday after he posted critical remarks about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk a day following Kirk’s fatal shooting in Utah on Wednesday. On his Facebook account, Tony Herbert reposted a meme that said: “CHARLIE KIRK SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE DISPARAGING IMMIGRANTS, DISRESPECTING WOMEN, AND BLAMING BLACK FOLKS, ONLY TO GET SHOT IN ONE OF THE WHITEST PLACES ON EARTH.” In his posting Herbert added: “you hit the nail right on the head or should i say racist!!” Herbert later shared a video saying he was happy...

In the wake of MSNBC personality Matthew Dowd making absolutely horrific comments about Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination in Utah, the outlet faced vociferous online criticism and responded by firing the personality. Dowd had claimed, in his immediate response to the shooting, that Charlie was responsible for the shooting because of his “hateful thoughts.” Dowd was speaking to MSNBC’s Katy Tur on her show “Katy Tur Reports” when those awful comments came, and the conversation was sparked by Tur asking, “Matthew, I’m going to bring you in on this. Talk to me about the environment. You know,...

Eleven years after the death of Ferguson, Missouri, teen Michael Brown sparked national protests over police brutality, the man who accompanied Brown on that fateful day in August of 2014 is dead. Dorian Johnson, 33, was shot and killed around 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning in an apartment complex less than a mile from where the incident between himself and Brown, who were black, and then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, played out.Dorian Johnson you mean the kid that lied until he got in front of the FBI then had to tell the truth about hands up don't shoot?...

PBS informed 34 staffers Thursday they were being laid off as part of a broader downsizing effort that's resulted in 100 jobs being cut in recent months. The cuts were triggered in part by the Trump administration’s rescission package, which slashed over $1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. "Due to the loss of federal funding, PBS eliminated close to 100 positions over the last several months, including 34 valued PBS staff members notified yesterday their employment is ending. In this unprecedented moment, we remain focused on what matters most: ensuring our member stations can deliver quality content and...

MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been informed that he will be deported to the African country of Eswatini. .... Snip.... Per Fox News reporter Bill Melugin: @FoxNews has obtained an email ICE sent to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers this afternoon notifying them that ICE now plans to deport him to the tiny African country of ESWATINI due to him claiming fear of persecution/torture in Uganda & 20+ other countries, which ICE says is “hard to take seriously”.

A Missouri veteran says he “100 percent” regrets voting for President Donald Trump after his British-born wife, a longtime green card holder, was detained by federal agents and now faces deportation. Donna Hughes-Brown, 59, was stopped by officers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on July 29 after returning from a holiday in Ireland. She spent five days in custody in Chicago before being transferred to a detention facility in Campbell County, Kentucky, where she remains while removal proceedings play out. Hughes-Brown’s husband, James Brown, said he believed he was voting to remove “criminal illegal immigrants,” not trap law-abiding residents with...

Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the dean of the New York congressional delegation, has decided not to run for reelection next year, his office told CNN on Monday. Nadler, 78, told the New York Times in an interview published Monday he was convinced it was time for generational change and that a younger person “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.” He did not discuss who should succeed him, the Times said, but noted that many of his allies might enter the race. The move comes around a month after Liam Elkind, a 26-year-old Democrat, entered the race for...

An 11-year-old boy was pronounced dead at a hospital Sunday after he was shot while running from a home he had rung the doorbell on, Houston city officials said. The boy had been ringing doorbells Saturday night in the area and running as part of a game known as “doorbell ditch,” the city said in a statement. “A witness stated the male was running from a house, after ringing the doorbell, just prior to suffering a gunshot wound,” it said. Officers responding to the shooting on the 9700 block of Racine Street released a person who had been detained for...