Nine former FBI employees involved in the classified documents case against President Donald Trump filed suit Thursday against FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging their firings were “unlawful.” The group’s suit says they were fired without cause for their work on the case involving Trump, and that the firings appeared to…
The White House said Friday that it planned to cut $810 million in bipartisan, congressionally approved funding, spurring criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The executive branch would effectively send the funds back to Congress using so-called pocket rescissions, a rare budgetary tactic that the Trump administration has used before to negate…
Civil rights organisation AfriForum has formally demanded that the Thaba Chweu Local Municipality and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) immediately rectify a controversial solar panel levy imposed on local households. In a formal legal letter issued to the municipality, the organization raised serious concerns regarding new charges appearing on residents’ monthly municipal…
More than 25% of journalists do not receive a monthly salary, 42% earn below the national minimum wage, just 8% receive medical benefits and almost half of all journalists are not registered with the National Social Security Insurance Trust, denying them rights and benefits they are entitled to by law, according to the recently released…
At least 22 Palestinians, including two young children, are among the latest deaths in Israel’s round-the-clock bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, adding to the 72 Palestinians killed over the last 24 hours, medical sources have said. Ten of those who were killed since dawn on Thursday were in Gaza City, where Israeli forces are…
