Thursday, June 4, 2026
DoJ investigates 15 medical schools over alleged discrimination in admissions
Announcement follows DoJ’s recent findings that medical schools at UCLA and Yale illegally used race in admissions
The US Department of Justice’s civil rights division has launched investigations into 15 medical schools over allegations of potential race discrimination in their admissions processes.
Thursday’s announcement follows the DoJ’s recent findings that the medical schools at the University of California, Los Angeles and Yale University illegally used race in their admissions.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/doj-medical-schools
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers
Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policy
Donald Trump has signed an executive order making it easier to fire thousands of the best-paid workers in the US government aspart of a broader drive by his administration to overhaul the federal workforce.
The order, released by the White House and the office of personnel management (OPM) on Wednesday, strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers – about 8,000 employees – earning up to almost $200,000 a year, and who are deemed to be “influencing” government policy.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/trump-order-federal-workers
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
US says it fired missile at Iran-bound oil tanker
The US military says the vessel's engine room was hit after the crew "ignored repeated warnings".
Acting attorney general says Trump’s $1.8bn anti-weaponization fund is scrapped
However, Todd Blanche said the IRS will still be prohibited from auditing Donald Trump, his family and related entities
The federal government is abandoning an effort to create a $1.8bn secretive fund to compensate Donald Trump’s allies, but is maintaining an agreement that prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from auditing Trump, his family and related entities, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Tuesday.
“We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche said during a House appropriations committee hearing on Tuesday. “The reasons for the fund is something that President Trump talked about for a long time, which is the fact that there were a lot of people in this country who had their government weaponized against them. The reasons for the fund, I think, remain as important as they were before, but we are not moving forward with the fund.”
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/trump-weaponization-fund
Monday, June 1, 2026
California’s conservative Huntington Beach could get a gay, Democratic congressman
Robert Garcia became the lead contender in Tuesday’s primaries for congressional district 42 after redistricting
The conservative California community of Huntington Beach, known for banning the Pride flag from city property and fighting the state over pandemic and housing policy, could soon be represented by a gay, Democratic congressman.
Robert Garcia, an incumbent two-term Democratic LGBTQ+ congressman, immigrant and Donald Trump critic, is considered the leading contender in Tuesday’s primary race for the US House seat. Thanks to a successful restricting effort that redrew California’s voting maps to favor Democrats, Huntington Beach is now part of Garcia’s congressional district 42.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/california-robert-garcia-huntington-beach-congress-race
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