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Website arrives before government’s two-week ultimatum to schools and universities to dismantle programDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.The Trump administration has launched a controversial online portal allowing citizens to report diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in public schools, escalating an aggressive campaign to purge those initiatives from American education.Unveiled on Thursday, the Department of Education’s “End DEI” portal arrived just before the expiration of the administration’s contentious two-week ultimatum for schools and universities to dismantle DEI programs or face funding cuts. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-administration-dei-reporting-website Author

Rhianan Rudd, 16, was referred to Prevent by her mother after becoming ‘fixated on Hitler’, inquest toldA teenager who killed herself after becoming the youngest person in the UK to be charged with terror offences had been groomed online by an American “neo-Nazi”, an inquest has been told.Sixteen-year-old Rhianan Rudd, who was autistic, had been referred to the government’s Prevent counter-radicalisation programme by her mother, Emily Carter, the counsel to the inquest Edward Pleeth told the hearing. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/27/uk-teenager-killed-herself-terror-charges-groomed-neo-nazi-inquest Author : Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-27 19:29:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Agency had accused banking giant of cheating consumers out of more than $2bn in interest payments on savings accountsThe US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday dropped a legal action against Capital One, which the agency had accused last month of cheating consumers out of more than $2bn in interest payments on savings accounts.The dismissal continues Donald Trump’s rapid moves to dismantle the agency, which he has said should be eliminated, but comes the same day as his nominee to head the CFPB, Jonathan McKernan, testified before the Senate in a confirmation hearing. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/us-consumer-watchdog-drops-case-capital-one Author

Estimated 987,000 people aged 16 to 24 were not in education, employment or training in October to DecemberExperts say the UK faces a youth jobs crisis after a rise in the number of young people not in education, employment or training (neets) to almost a million, the highest level in more than a decade.Figures from the Office for National Statistics show there were about 987,000 young people aged 16 to 24 who were neets in October to December last year, up from 877,000 in the fourth quarter of 2023 and the highest level since 2013. Continue reading... Source link :