The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for workers to pursue employment discrimination claims over job transfers, unanimously siding with a female police sergeant in St. Louis who said she was reassigned to a less prestigious role because she is a woman. Federal civil rights law prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics such as sex, race ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson is plowing ahead on a foreign aid plan that has roiled his conference and prompted two Republicans to push an effort to oust him from the chamber’s top job. But instead of the complex four-part plan he floated this week, Johnson now intends to try to pass five bills — one each for aid to Ukraine, ...
In early February, congressional Republicans made a conspicuous choice. They decided to kill a bipartisan Senate deal that included tough border security measures. Instead, they pressed forward with what was essentially a messaging exercise: impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The confluence of events was telling. Even by the accounts of several Republicans, their party preferred attacking the Biden administration ...
When the second day of his Manhattan criminal trial wrapped Tuesday, former president Donald Trump headed uptown to visit a bodega. It was a campaign stop, alerted to the media in advance and summarized in a news release afterward. And despite insistences from Trump and his allies that having to attend the trial is an encumbrance designed to keep him ...
A senior U.S. Air Force leader deployed in Niger is raising an alarm over the Biden administration’s reluctance to heed an eviction notice from the military junta that last year overthrew the West African nation’s democratically elected government. The airman, in a private whistleblower complaint to Congress obtained by The Washington Post, accused top officials at the U.S. Embassy in ...
The Senate voted Wednesday to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which allege he mismanaged an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Both votes were along party lines. The impeachment trial came to a close a little more than three hours after it started, following a GOP senator’s move to quickly quash an offer ...
Donald Trump, whose social media posts fueled his improbable rise to the presidency, has found a new use for his favorite political tool — as ammunition in his legal battle against charges that he falsified business records in New York. That strategy became clear on the second day of jury selection on Tuesday, as Trump lawyer Todd Blanche repeatedly used ...
Several Kennedy family members plan to endorse President Biden for reelection at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Thursday, saying that Biden reflects the values and “moral leadership” of their clan’s most celebrated members, in a move intended in part to counter the independent campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. More than a dozen Kennedys — including siblings of Robert ...
Stocks sold off Friday as inflation and geopolitical worries once again dented investor sentiment on Wall Street. A broad decline in major bank shares also weighed on the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 475.84 points, or 1.24%, closing at 37,983.24. The S&P 500 tumbled 1.46% at 5,123.41. The Nasdaq Composite pulled back by 1.62% at 16,175.09. At one point in the trading session, the ...
Stocks sold off Friday as inflation and geopolitical worries once again dented investor sentiment on Wall Street. A broad decline in major bank shares also weighed on the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 475.84 points, or 1.24%, closing at 37,983.24. The S&P 500 tumbled 1.46% at 5,123.41. The Nasdaq Composite pulled back by 1.62% at 16,175.09. At one point in the trading session, the ...