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Chicago Protest Erupts After Federal Agents Use Tear Gas

By  Mary Norkol, Anthony Vazquez and Kade Heather Federal agents chased a car through a residential neighborhood on the Southeast Side of Chicago Tuesday, and then intentionally crashed into the car in a risky maneuver restricted by some police departments nationwide. The maneuver was caught on local security cameras, which showed the car being hit by the feds’ vehicle, leading the occupants of the car to fall out while it was moving. The occupants then fled on foot as agents ran behind. The commotion attracted a crowd of onlookers and protesters, who converged near the scene of the crash at 105th Street and Avenue

MacKenzie Scott Donates Millions to Support Education

MacKenzie Scott continues to make large, unrestricted donations to HBCUs and institutions dedicated to advancing education for students of color. Her latest gifts include $42 million to 10,000 Degrees, a Bay Area nonprofit that helps first-generation students attend and complete college. According to Fortune, the donation is the largest in the organization’s 45-year history. Scott also contributed tens of millions to Native Forward, the nation’s largest scholarship provider for Native students, and $70 million to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to build pooled endowments across 37 historically Black colleges and universities. These donations reinforce Scott’s reputation for trust-based philanthropy—large grants given quickly and

UPS Packages Stuck in Customs Chaos Under New Regulations

By Kayla Steinberg Thousands of U.S.-bound packages shipped by UPS are trapped at hubs across the country, unable to clear the maze of new customs requirements imposed by the Trump administration. As packages flagged for customs issues pile up in UPS warehouses, the company told NBC News it has begun “disposing of” some shipments. Frustrated UPS customers describe waiting for weeks and trying to make sense of scores of conflicting tracking updates from the world’s largest courier. “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.” Wasserbach’s New York City-based shipping services firm

Trump’s Layoffs Slash Education Department Workforce by 20%

By Colin Binkley A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools in areas from special education to civil rights enforcement to after-school programs. The Trump administration started laying off 466 Education Department staffers on Friday amid mass firings across the government meant to pressure Democratic lawmakers over the federal shutdown. The layoffs would cut the agency’s workforce by nearly a fifth and leave it reduced to less than half its size when President Donald Trump took office on Jan.

Stephen Lackey Backs 2025 Las Vegas HBCU Classic

The Stephen Lackey Family of Companies (SLFC) today announced its role as Presenting Sponsor of the inaugural 2025 Las Vegas HBCU Classic, which will feature Jackson State University vs. Grambling State University on Saturday, October 25, at Allegiant Stadium. The Las Vegas HBCU Classic is a first-of-its-kind event in Nevada, created through a partnership between the Las Vegas Raiders, Legends Global, Russ Potts Productions, Inc., and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). The game will highlight the proud traditions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, while showcasing elite athletic competition at a world-class venue. As part of its sponsorship, SLFC will donate more than 100 free game

Trump Admin Reverses CDC Layoffs Amid Shutdown Chaos

By Julie Tsirkin, Megan Shannon and Megan Lebowitz The Trump administration on Saturday reversed some layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after hundreds of scientists received “incorrect notifications” that they were laid off during the government shutdown, according to an official familiar with the matter. “The employees who received incorrect notifications were never separated from the agency and have all been notified that they are not subject to the reduction in force,” the official told NBC News. “This was due to a glitch in the system.” The reversed layoffs, first reported by The New York Times, come just after the administration moved to

Military Families Struggle as Government Shutdown Looms

By Ben Finley The nation’s third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay. While they would receive back pay once the impasse ends, many military families live paycheck to paycheck. During previous shutdowns, Congress passed legislation to ensure that troops kept earning their salaries, but time is running out before they miss their first paycheck in less than a week. Among those nervous for the future is Heather Campbell who lost her job working for a food bank over the summer because of

Federal Workers Share Resources Amid Government Shutdown

By Sean Michael Newhouse group of former and current civil servants started a petition in September urging Congress to vote against a continuing resolution needed to avoid a government shutdown unless it also included provisions pushing back on the Trump administration’s federal workforce overhauls. While they were spearheading the letter, which has since been signed by more than 2,000 federal employees, the group also was thinking about what to do if a shutdown actually did happen. The federal employees came up with a crowdsourced spreadsheet of organizations that are providing assistance to workers who are not getting paid because of the government shutdown, which

NY AG Letitia James Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges

By Madeline Halpert New York Attorney General Letitia James has been criminally indicted on federal charges by a grand jury. James, who led a civil fraud investigation against Trump in 2023, was indicted on charges of bank fraud in the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, according to court documents. Prosecutors accuse James of alleged bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution regarding a mortgage loan for a house in Norfolk, Virginia, the documents state. In a statement, James accused the president – who recently publicly pressured prosecutors to file criminal charges against her – of a

Judge Blocks Trump’s National Guard Order in Illinois

By Jon Siedel For U.S. District Judge April Perry, it all came down to credibility. Should she believe local law enforcement officials, who say they have protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration campaign well in hand? Or Trump, whose aides claim a “brazen new form of hostility” targeting federal law enforcement had broken out in Illinois? In the end, Perry concluded the Trump administration’s “perception of events” around Chicago “are simply unreliable.” She’d seen “no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois,” nor that Trump “is unable … to execute the laws of the

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