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Workers for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau describe chaos and fear as lawsuits and basic functions grind to a haltThe termination email for a score of employees at the top US consumer watchdog arrived in the late hours of the night.“Unfortunately, the Agency finds that you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the agency’s current needs,” dozens of probationary staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were informed on 11 February. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-consumer-financial-protection-bureau Author : Joseph Gedeon in Washington Publish date : 2025-02-14 19:41:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Claudia Scheinbaum warns of reciprocal action if Washington designates country’s cartels as terrorist groupsMexico’s president has warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action as accomplices of organized crime if Washington designates the country’s cartels as terrorist groups.The Latin American country, which is under mounting pressure from Donald Trump to curb illegal drug smuggling, wants its neighbor to crack down on firearms trafficking in the other direction. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/14/mexico-gunmakers-lawsuit-terror Author : Agence France-Press in Mexico City Publish date : 2025-02-14 18:06:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, whose documentary is up for an Oscar, have called out the US president’s plan of ethnically cleansing the regionThe Oscar-nominated film-makers behind the documentary No Other Land have expressed shock and dismay over Donald Trump’s Gaza plan.The president has called for the US to take control and bring an effective ethnic cleansing of Gaza giving Palestinians “no alternative” but to leave. He has claimed it would be a “real estate development for the future”, saying Gaza could be “the Riviera of the Middle East”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/14/no-other-land-film-makers-trump-gaza Author : Benjamin Lee Publish

Major union as well as federal worker advocacy group condemn moves to fire probationary employees as thousands told to leaveThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lose about 10% of its employees after the Trump administration ordered the firing of all hires still in their probationary period, the Associated Press reports.That amounts to about 1,300 employees, according to the AP, which reports the order was communicated verbally to staff by the health and human services department, which oversees the agency tasked with fighting diseases such as Covid-19. Here’s more:The Atlanta-based agency’s leadership was notified of the decision Friday morning.