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The president of the University of Virginia has resigned his position under pressure from the United States Department of Justice, which pushed for his departure amid scrutiny of the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices. In an email sent to the university community on Friday and circulated on social media, university president James Ryan […]
CNN — The head of a new aid distribution program for Gaza, backed by the US and Israel, has resigned after weeks of controversy, citing concerns over impartiality and urging Israel to allow more aid into the blockaded enclave. The
A Georgia police officer has resigned from his job after erroneously pulling over a teenager, causing her to spend more than two weeks in a federal immigration jail, and leaving her facing deportation. The officer, Leslie O’Neal, was employed at the police department in Dalton, a small city more than an hour north of Atlanta. […]
A senior health official in the US, who was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of life-saving vaccines, has resigned abruptly, citing the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “misinformation and lies”. Dr Peter Marks served as the FDA’s top vaccine official. He had been lauded […]
WASHINGTON — The head of the Pentagon’s sprawling health care system resigned abruptly Friday a week after the Trump administration purged several top military officers, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Army Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland, who had overseen the Defense Health Agency, has been replaced, according to a statement issued by […]
A top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., abruptly resigned on Tuesday after she declined a request from Trump administration officials to freeze assets of a government contractor, saying she had insufficient evidence to do so. In her resignation letter, which was obtained by The New York Times, the prosecutor, Denise Cheung, who oversaw the office’s […]
NEW YORK (WABC) — The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday as the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in addition to two officials in Washington. It follows […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned Thursday after refusing a Justice Department order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Before quitting,
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump, an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead. The department disclosed Smith’s departure in a court filing Saturday, saying he had […]
Jack Smith, the special counsel who led two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, has resigned from the Justice Department before the president-elect takes office later this month. According to a court filing submitted on Saturday, Mr Smith “separated from the Department” on Friday. CBS News, the BBC’s US media partner, reported in November that […]