All posts tagged "Government"

A whistleblower who passed comment on the state of Immigration and Customs Enforcement believes the agents are inadequately trained to the point of endangering people.

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank passed comment on the state of ICE agent training at a deposition earlier this week. The former assistant chief counsel quit earlier this month and has since aired worrying standards within the agency. Schwank says the current training does not meet the minimum standards required of a government agency and said, "Deficient training can and will get people killed.

"DHS told the public that new cadets receive all of the training they need to perform their duties, that no critical material or standards have been cut. This is a lie....

Donald Trump's administration is falling short on foreign policy and domestic issues because he runs it "like a family business".

Politico commentator Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, suggested the shortcomings of the president and his team is because of how internal affairs are handled. Daalder would suggest there's "very little evidence" to indicate Secretary of State Marco Rubio was relying on staffers, and that other department heads had a very stripped-back workforce.

Though Daalder would focus his attention on Rubio and Trump's hand in negotiating peace between Russia and Ukraine, he would suggest others in the president's circle were also struggling with how the administration runs. ...

New York (AFP) - Since announcing plans in late March to replace CEO Dave Calhoun at the end of 2024, Boeing's problems have seemingly gone from bad to worse, complicating an already daunting executive search. In the ensuing weeks, Boeing has endured troubling congressional hearings with whistleblowers and safety experts, repeat delays to a space launch, and a steep decline in commercial plane deliveries that has deepened financial losses. On Tuesday night, the Department of Justice said Boeing had breached a 2021 criminal settlement over the 737 MAX crashes, opening the company up to possible......

Washington (AFP) - Like many Americans struggling to lose weight, Marissa Montanino felt compelled to try Ozempic or one of the other new so-called "wonder drugs" described as revolutionary in the fight against obesity. "I would work out sometimes three times a day, I was doing hours worth of classes. I was eating really, really clean… and nothing was changing" the 36-year-old esthetician told AFP in a recent interview. "I heard about Ozempic for a while and then you start to see other people doing it like celebrities and then dropping weight super fast," she said. Fearing gastrointestinal iss......

Washington (AFP) - Ratings agency Fitch put the United States on notice Wednesday that its perfect credit rating could be jeopardized if the White House and Republican opposition fail to overcome their impasse on raising the nation's borrowing limit, a week before a key deadline. Fitch placed the country's AAA-ranked credit on "rating watch negative" -- a move it said "reflects increased political partisanship that is hindering reaching a resolution to raise or suspend the debt limit" before June 1. That is the "X-date" when the US Treasury Department says that -- short of an agreement -- the ......

Waco (United States) (AFP) - Blood had already been spilled during the armed standoff between US agents and the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, when lawyer Dick DeGuerin got a phone call. The worried mother of cult leader David Koresh said her son needed legal help. She hired DeGuerin. He was the first outsider to pass through the security cordon and enter the Mount Carmel compound, where the Davidians were holed up. DeGuerin came face to face with a badly wounded Koresh, and was in position to try to broker an end to the stalemate. Three decades later, as the story pours forth from the 8......