The Department of Education announced Tuesday it was firing nearly half of its workforce, the latest Trump administration move to shrink the federal government that could face swift legal challenge.
A senior department official said 1,315 staffers will be let go and received the notification Tuesday.
The Education Department started President Trump’s second term with more than 4,000 employees, but even before Tuesday, hundreds had already been put on leave or had taken a buyout offer.
After this reduction, there will be 2,183 employees left with the department, which Trump has repeatedly called to shutter completely.
The senior official said the reduction in employees will not impact student aid, Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms, formula...
The House on Tuesday passed a funding bill to avert an end-of-the-week government shutdown, teeing up the measure for consideration in the Senate.
The chamber cleared the continuing resolution (CR) in a largely party-line 217-213 vote, with just one Democrat — Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) — bucking his party’s leaders to back the measure. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the lone GOP “no” vote.
The legislation would fund the government through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, while boosting funds for defense programs and imposing cuts to nondefense funding. Current funding expires at 11:59 p.m. Friday.
“This was a big vote on the House floor, the Republicans stood together and we had one Democrat vote with us to do the ...
Baltimore, MD – Mar.11, 2025 - BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira of Robert Neuberger, z’l, brother of Randye Danziger.
Shiva will be observed at 2016 Myrtlewood Rd., Baltimore, MD, 21209, from Wed. morning, March 12 - Sunday evening, March 16.
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Baltimore, MD – March 11, 2025 - 4:38 (BJL) Northern Parkway East is backed up from I-83 to Sinai Hospital and Coldspring Lane is closed. Consider an alternate route.
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In my capacity as a television show host, I have seen and heard a lot. But nothing prepared me for the statement of Shir, daughter of recently released hostage Keith Siegal, who survived 484 days of captivity and joined his wife Aviva, who was also held hostage for 51 days.
I was certain that Shir, like the emotional relatives of other released captives, had come to the Channel 14 studio to call on viewers to support the hostage deal at any cost. I admit: I struggle with that. On the one hand, after all they’ve been through, they have the right to say whatever is on their mind. But on the other hand, don’t those who think differently also have that same right? Not to say everything, but to disagree slightly? To raise questions and concerns? To suggest other ways to free captiv...
President Trump said on Tuesday he was buying a Tesla vehicle as he doubled down on his support of Elon Musk, who has come under mounting scrutiny for leading the Trump administration’s government cost initiatives.
“I’m gonna buy because number one, it’s a great product. As good as it gets. Number two, because this man [Elon Musk] has devoted his energy and his life to doing this and I think he has been treated unfairly,” Trump told reporters outside of the White House Tuesday afternoon.
Trump delivered the remarks alongside Musk and his son, just hours after he first announced on social media he would buy a Tesla in support of the tech entrepreneur. Multiple Teslas, including the Cybertruck model, were parked outside of the White House.
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The U.S. will immediately restore military aid and intelligence sharing to Ukraine following bilateral talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, with Ukraine expressing “readiness” to accept a 30-day ceasefire proposal.
“Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” according to a joint statement after the talks.
“The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace,” it added.
“The United States will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sh...
Baltimore, MD – March 11, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Chaim Dovid Mandanipour (Baltimore) and Chaya Radparvar (Brooklyn) on their engagement!
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – March 11, 2025 - 12:12PM - The traffic light is out in both directions at the intersection of Sudbrook and Reisterstown.
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Baltimore, MD - March 11, 2025 - Johns Hopkins University is among 60 colleges and universities around the country that received warnings from Education Secretary Linda McMahon Monday that they could face penalties under the Civil Rights Act if they fail to protect Jewish students from antisemitism during pro-Palestinian campus protests.
Last year, the Beach at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus was the site of an encampment by pro-Palestinian protesters who called on the university to divest “from all companies with ties to the state of Israel.”
The encampment ended two weeks after it began after university officials agreed to review its investments.
Although Johns Hopkins is the only colleges in the state to receive McMahon’s warning, American University ...
Baltimore, MD - March 11, 2025 - The top 10 highest-paid Baltimore City employees in fiscal year 2024 all hailed from the city’s fire and police departments, according to data analyzed by The Baltimore Sun.
Most of the top earners took in between $150,000 and $250,000 more than their expected salaries for the fiscal year. The highest-paid employee was a paramedic, who made more than $245,000 beyond his listed salary, for a total income of $358,586.
The city’s police commissioner, Richard Worley, ranked third on the list, taking home just over $320,000 in gross pay last fiscal year, but other highest-paid positions included police lieutenants and sergeants, battalion fire chiefs, firefighters and EMTs. The data comes from the “Baltimore City Employee Salaries&...
Baltimore, MD – March 10, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Avi and Dina Dear on the birth of a daughter.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
What can be wrong with canned corn? All the ingredients are kosher. Let's listen to Rabbi Mordechai Stareshefsky a Rabbinic Coordinator at the OU as he explains some potential issues with the most basic food items. This serves as a reminder why one should always ensure that there is a good hechsher on everything they buy.
A federal judge on Monday scheduled a Wednesday court hearing for Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), forbidding the government from moving forward with deportation efforts before then.
Lawyers for Khalil, a legal immigrant and leading pro-Palestinian demonstrator whose arrest was cheered by President Trump, have also filed a motion seeking his return to New York.
Khalil’s attorney, Amy Greer, said in a statement to The Hill that it hadn’t been immediately clear where ICE took Khalil. His team had originally thought New Jersey, but reports, including from The New York Times, indicated he had been taken to Louisiana.
Trump and his administration celebrated Khalil’s detentio...
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir held talks today (Monday) with commanders of operational units of the rank lieutenant colonel and above, and clarified that the war is not over and that they should prepare for battle.
"The IDF operates in seven arenas in a multi-arena combat procedure. We have accumulated great operational experience from the war that must be utilized," said Zamir.
He also said that "the release of the hostages is a top goal. We need to return them all. When I was at the Western Wall, that was my message - the wellbeing of the IDF soldiers and the return of our dear hostages."
He also said that "the trust of citizens in the IDF and the trust of IDF soldiers in their commanders are the bedrock of our existence. The IDF does not belong to me, all my considerations are for th...
Washington, D.C. - Mar. 10, 2025 - The US Department of Education announced that 60 institutions of higher learning have been warned that they could lose federal funding over their handling of antisemitic incidents on campus after Columbia University lost $400 million in federal grants last week.
The letters are addressed to all US universities that are presently under investigation for Title VI violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination. In addition to Columbia, fellow Ivy League institutions Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and Cornell received warnings.
“The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite US campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life ...
Pro-Palestinian cyberhacking group Dark Storm claimed that it hacked X/Twitter on Monday.
This comes after X CEO Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform experienced a massive cyberattack that "was done with a lot of resources," he wrote. "Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved."
The social media site was down for several hours for over 40,000 users internationally, according to Downdetector.com.At 5:40 p.m., the app had approximately 28,570 outage reports, the website found. Some 57% of users reported problems with the app, while 32% reported issues with the website.
Earlier X/Twitter outages
Reuters previously reported that the social media site was down for some 11,000 people, user-submitted data on the outage-tracking websit...
