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‘Utterly Unjustified’: Conservative Legal Scholars Criticize GOP Effort To Impeach Alejandro Mayorkas

Multiple conservative legal scholars have attacked the House Republican Conference’s attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayrokas as unconstitutional, according to letters and op-eds published on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mayorkas has been the target of House Republicans’ ire since he assumed office, owing to the dramatic increase in the number of illegal immigrants who have entered the United States via its southern border with Mexico, which rose to nearly 2.5 million in Fiscal Year 2023, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The frustration with Mayorkas’ policies and previous testimony before Congress has led to an impeachment

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‘He’s Afraid’: Alyssa Farah Griffin Complains That Mike Pence Didn’t Criticize Trump Enough During Town Hall

‘He’s Afraid’: Alyssa Farah Griffin Complains That Mike Pence Didn’t Criticize Trump Enough During Town Hall Harold Hutchison on June 8, 2023 “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin complained Thursday that former Vice President Mike Pence didn’t criticize former President Donald Trump enough during a CNN town hall. Pence announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in the 2024 election Wednesday, calling out former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol building during a speech in Iowa. The former vice president also appeared at a CNN town hall, where he ripped Trump on

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US, UN criticize Vietnam’s detention of climate activist

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and United Nations on Friday criticized Vietnam’s detention of members of an environmental group including its founder, saying such actions were part of a broader trend toward curbing free speech. “The United States is concerned by the detention of leaders and staff of CHANGE, including the ongoing detention of CHANGE’s founder Hoang Thi Minh Hong,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. Hong and the other members were taken into custody on Wednesday according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. While others were released, Hong was detained on charges of

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School District Files Report With FBI Over Alleged ’Threats’ After Parents Criticize Transgender Locker Room Policy

School District Files Report With FBI Over Alleged ’Threats’ After Parents Criticize Transgender Locker Room Policy Kate Anderson on May 9, 2023 An Arizona school board filed a report with the FBI over alleged ‘threats’ after the district halted families from criticizing a policy allowing transgender students in the locker room of their choice.   The district was set to have a meeting on April 25 but canceled it due to concerns of alleged threats made to the district, according to a Facebook post from the CFSD account.  “What [the board] ‘interpreted’ as a threat we now know was not a

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‘I’m Always Rejected’: Students Criticize Diversity, Equity And Inclusion As Discriminatory During DeSantis Panel

‘I’m Always Rejected’: Students Criticize Diversity, Equity And Inclusion As Discriminatory During DeSantis Panel Alexa Schwerha on March 13, 2023 Two Florida students accused Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) of discriminating against students at colleges during a Monday morning panel led by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The panel, called “Exposing The DEI Scam,” invited several higher education experts to discuss how DEI is embedded in Florida higher education. Two students were invited to speak about their experience as college students and put universities on blast for favoring DEI over merit. “All of my professors, especially now that I’m in my

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More top Pitney Bowes shareholders criticize management amid activist pressure

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two more top shareholders in Pitney Bowes Inc are criticizing how management is running the shipping and mailing company, echoing activist investment firm Hestia Capital’s calls to oust the chief executive and replace board members. Swiss asset manager BWM AG, which has been invested for five years and owns 1.5% of Pitney Bowes, told Reuters it has serious concerns about the company’s strategy and execution. In September BWM AG wrote a letter to the board highlighting poor execution in the ecommerce segment, excessive debt, overly high corporate costs and the chief executive officer’s

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Republican lawmakers criticize U.S. grant to battery company with China ties

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two senior Republican lawmakers on Wednesday were highly critical of the decision by the U.S. Energy Department to award $200 million to Microvast Holdings over the lithium battery company’s ties to the Chinese government. In October, Texas-based Microvast won a $20 million U.S. grant from the department to help build a new EV battery components plant in Tennessee. Representative Frank Lucas, top Republican on the House Science Committee, said nearly 80% of Microvast’s assets are in China and 61% of its revenue in 2021 originated in China. “Award of funding to a company with

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Blake Masters Releases Online Game To Criticize Mark Kelly’s Political Record

Republican senatorial candidate Blake Masters released a new online, space-themed game Wednesday, focused on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s alleged failures as part of his final push to win the seat. The game, called “Mr. Spaceman: A realistic simulator where Mark Kelly destroys the things you love” and available online, places the player in command of a spaceship with Kelly, a former NASA astronaut. A player must click on objects moving towards them in space to destroy it in order to win, with each of the objects representing a favored item that Kelly’s policy platform would allegedly destroy. In this way, some

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Former Colombian finance ministers criticize Petro comments on central bank

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – A string of former Colombian finance ministers criticized the Andean country’s President Gustavo Petro on Thursday after he took to Twitter to question the central bank’s decision to hike its benchmark interest rate last week. Last Thursday the bank’s board voted by majority to raise the rate by 100 basis points to 10%, inline with other central banks as world monetary policy authorities struggle with rampant inflation. However, Petro’s comments followed a report by the government’s DANE statistics agency on Wednesday, which revealed that inflation in September rose 0.93% – with food prices

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Ex-Federal Police detectives criticize Brazil’s ‘authoritarian and illegal’ Supreme Court

By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -A group of retired Federal Police detectives has released a statement accusing members of Brazil’s Supreme Court of using the force to take what they called “authoritarian and illegal measures”. The statement by about 100 ex-officers comes just days after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized a Federal Police raid on wealthy supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro. According to a report by online news site Metropoles, the businessmen had discussed in WhatsApp groups the virtues of a military coup if the far-right leader lost his upcoming re-election attempt. The raid fueled questions

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Toms River to Pay $244,000 to Fix Eroded Beach as Residents Criticize ‘Private’ Beach Owners

TOMS RIVER, NJ – As Toms River Township officials approved a $244,000 contract with Vulcan Construction Group of Burlington County to replenish beach sand lost during the early may nor’easter, residents took to the podium at town hall to complain about restrictive beach access. Many communities in Toms River are billed as ‘private beaches’ and residents asked the town to install signs to notify the public about public beach access at those so-called private beaches. Although public beach access is available at the township-owned beachfront in Ortley Beach, Toms River residents say their Toms River Purchased beach badges should be

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Contenders to lead Pemex union criticize old-guard rival ahead of vote

By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY – Candidates vowing to shake up the culture inside Mexico’s massive oil workers’ union lashed out on Monday against a leadership rival seen by some of them as holdover from what they described as its troubled past, just days ahead of a key vote. Some 90,000 workers from national oil company Pemex are eligible to cast ballots on Jan. 31 in the first direct election in the powerful union’s 86-year history, mandated by a recent labor reform that aims to let workers choose their representation and break the grip of entrenched trade unions. Two

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Take Migrants At Their Word’: Republicans Criticize Process Allowing Illegal Immigrants To Get Through Airport Security Without ID

Republican lawmakers are raising concerns over illegal migrants without identification traveling on commercial flights throughout the country, according to an email exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The email revealed that the national vetting center used by TSA processed over 42,000 non-citizens and non-U.S. nationals requesting document validation between the first of the year and mid-October. Republican Texas Rep. Lance Gooden has been probing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as part of his office’s investigation into whistleblower documents alleging an operation to move migrants across the country without standard documentation. Gooden, along with Republican Reps. David McKinley of

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If you criticize the poor performance of Vice President Kamala Harris, you’re a racist and a sexist, Psaki says

Facing record-low approval ratings, allegations of internal conflict between her office and the West Wing and staff issues within her own internal staff, Vice President Kamala Harris is now on the hot seat. Now, Democrats are saying that those who criticize the poor job performance of Harris amounts to nothing more than sexism and racism being the first woman of color to hold the office. White House Press Secretary Jen Paski said that’s exactly what it is and it has nothing to do with her poor performance on the job. “Criticism from the outside absolutely,” Psaki said. “I do think

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Employees Criticize Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin For Being ‘Mostly Male And Overwhelmingly White’

A letter written by current and former employees of Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin took aim at the company’s workplace culture. The letter, posted on website Lioness and written by former Head of Blue Origin Employee Communications Alexandra Abrams along with 20 unnamed current and former employees, criticized the company’s culture and work environment as “stuck in a toxic past.” “One-hundred percent of the senior technical and program leaders are men,” the employees wrote, bashing the Blue Origin workforce for being “mostly male and overwhelmingly white.” The employees claimed Blue Origin’s workplace culture was sexist, alleging that several senior

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