The Federal Trade Commission has secured a $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon.com, Inc., as well as Senior Vice President Neil Lindsay and Vice President Jamil Ghani, to settle allegations that Amazon enrolled millions of consumers in Prime subscriptions without their consent, and knowingly made it difficult for consumers to cancel. Amazon will be required to…
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb [pictured] has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s unlawful attempt to take over the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). The lawsuit targets the President’s August 11 Executive Order and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s August 14 order to Mayor Muriel Bowser invoking a never-before-used provision of the…
On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation’s capital and vowed to make streets there safe again. The National Guard is now playing a big part in that effort, assisting both federal and local law enforcement personnel in enforcing existing laws and taking violent criminals off the streets. FBI, Homeland…
WASHINGTON — You can keep your shoes on now at airport security! Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a new policy this week which will allow passengers traveling through domestic airports to keep their shoes on while passing through security screening at TSA checkpoints. The new policy will increase hospitality for travelers and streamline the TSA security…
NEWPORT NEWS, VA — Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced that Virginia-class submarine USS Arkansas (SSN 800) was recently launched into the James River at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division. Shipbuilders transferred the submarine from a construction facility to the floating dry dock, where it was launched and moved by tugboats to a submarine pier…
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that its disability benefits compensation claims backlog is under 200,000 for the first time since March 5, 2023. A VA claim is considered backlogged once it has been pending for more than 125 days. Since President Trump was inaugurated Jan. 20, the backlog has dropped from 264,717…
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said internal data shows a massive spike in applications to join the United States Secret Service (USSS). From January 20, 2025, to May 1, 2025, USSS received over 22,000 applications to join its ranks. This is a 200% increase over the same period from 2024, where only…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal job cuts just keep on coming. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a dramatic restructuring in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order, “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative.” The restructuring will address this and serve multiple goals without impacting critical services. First,…
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced its plans for an agency-wide reorganization with a 43% reduction in its workforce. The agency says it is returning to its founding mission of empowering small businesses, and to restore accountability to taxpayers – ending the expansive social policy agenda of the prior Administration, eliminating non-essential roles, and…
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced it will finish the nationwide rollout of its Hearing Recording and Transcriptions (HeaRT) system this month. The HeaRT system replaces an antiquated and bulky hardware system in each hearing office with a software only solution that records and produces transcripts for each case at the hearings level to ensure…