Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called on multiple federal agencies to exempt federal seasonal firefighters from President Donald Trump’s executive order implementing a federal hiring freeze. In a letter to the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Interior and the Office of Management and Budget, Schiff noted that Trump’s hiring freeze issued on Jan. 20
WASHINGTON — U.S. job growth slowed at the start of the year, the government said Friday, as business services, manufacturing and other major industries held back on adding new jobs amid increased uncertainty about the economy. The Los Angeles-area wildfires, which began Jan. 7, didn’t have a material effect on the nation’s employment numbers, the Bureau of
Last Updated:February 06, 2025, 15:45 IST Fiona Cicconi, Alphabet’s chief people officer, in an email to staff says the company will no longer set aspirational hiring goals, a shift from its previous strategy to improve representation, especially outside California and New York. Previously, Google had been a strong advocate for diversity, especially following the 2020
Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, the blue-chip venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, defended to investors their decision to hire Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide last year, according to an internal memo viewed by The New York Times. Andreessen Horowitz, the memo said, is most likely the largest
Without evidence, President Trump and other administration officials claimed that DEI programs led to Wednesday’s fatal air crash. DEI has recently become a common talking point to blame disasters on.
President Donald Trump issued an extraordinary attack on diversity and inclusion and suggested the controversrial hiring policies were to blame for one of the deadliest plane crashes in U.S. history. The commander-in-chief said the collision that took 67 lives was a ‘tragedy of terrible proportions’ and that those flying the Black Hawk helicopter should have ‘seen
Clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health and at organizations it funds may continue, and patients may still travel to trial sites to participate in research, despite the Trump administration’s restrictions on travel and communications, the acting director of the N.I.H., Dr. Matthew Memoli, said in an email to staff on Monday. While Dr.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was sitting right next to Brian Schottenheimer, his new head coaching hire, on Monday when he said what a lot of fans and various team alumni were thinking when the news broke. This hire is a big risk. Schottenheimer was introduced as the Cowboys’ next head coach after Jones’ decision
The F.B.I. has taken drastic steps to comply with President Trump’s hiring freeze, causing deep uncertainty in the bureau’s ranks and rattling new employees. The moves appear at odds with the executive order that the president issued hours after taking office, which specifies that such a freeze would not apply to national security or public
The F.B.I. has taken drastic steps to comply with President Trump’s hiring freeze, causing deep uncertainty in the bureau’s ranks and rattling new employees. The moves appear at odds with the executive order that the president issued hours after taking office, which specifies that such a freeze would not apply to national security or public