Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has upended DHS staffing in her first year, pairing high-level leadership ousters with a growing staff exodus. Why it matters: Multiple reports describe a culture of fear inside DHS as Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski have fired, reassigned and demoted people throughout the department's 23 sub-agencies. The big picture: About 10% of employees left DHS last year, according to a review by Federal News Network. - Roughly 80% of career leadership at ICE has been fired or demoted under Noem's tenure, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. The agency is under immense pressure to reach arrest and deportation goals. - This includes the early demotion of the first acting agency…
President Trump’s first-term “Maximum Pressure” policies and aggressive diplomacy significantly lowered tensions with North Korea and set a path toward denuclearization and normalization of relations. […] Source
The Trump administration has rescinded the Obama administration’s 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding for gases like carbon dioxide. You may now exhale without worrying that […] Source
Good Friday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 9:30 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Working Breakfast with Governors 10:30 AM THE […] Source
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) asked the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general to look into the impact of accusations that Renée Good and Alex Pretti were domestic terrorists.
The Justice Department has struggled to meet White House demands to prosecute noncitizen voters as theories that President Trump has pushed in public fail to hold up.
Keeping students off their devices is the new norm in many schools. We talked to students and educators at one Kentucky school to see how it's working.
Easier than a blood test, saliva tests have the potential to detect cavities, infections and even cancer. But a lack of insurance coverage and other obstacles stand in the way of wider use.
Overdose deaths are falling, but America's illicit drug supply is re-engineering itself into lethal cocktails: fentanyl plus stimulants, sedatives, and novel synthetics that hide in party powders and pressed pills. Why it matters: Those polydrug blends — nicknamed "pink cocaine," "rhino tranq," "benzo-dope" and others — are harder to detect, harder to reverse, harder to message against and can even result in the loss of limbs. - That makes recent overdose declines fragile and public-health victories reversible if policy, testing and treatment don't catch up. - "When we crack down on one drug, the market innovates," Sheila Vakharia, managing director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy…