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• Überparteiliche Maßnahme enthält Mittel für Secret Service und TSA, schließt jedoch Operationen zur Durchsetzung der Einwanderungsbestimmungen aus • Teilweiser Government Shutdown endet, nachdem der Kongress für die Finanzierung des DHS gestimmt hat • Das US-Repräsentantenhaus hat dafür gestimmt, große Teile des Department of Homeland Security zu finanzieren – mit Ausnahme von Operationen zur Durchsetzung der Einwanderungsbestimmungen – und den längsten Shutdown einer Regierungsbehörde in der Geschichte zu beenden.

• Der Wohnungsbauminister und der Staatssekretär für Wohnungsbau sind die jüngsten Kritiker dieser Idee, die zudem von der Downing Street 10 ausgeschlossen wurde. • Hochrangige Minister haben die Idee, die Mieten im privaten Sektor für ein Jahr einzufrieren, verspottet – weniger als 48 Stunden nachdem der Guardian enthüllte, dass Rachel Reeves dies in Erwägung zog. • Steve Reed, der Wohnungsbauminister, und Matthew Pennycook, der Staatssekretär für Wohnungsbau, gehören zu den jüngsten Regierungsvertretern, die das Konzept kritisierten, welches inzwischen von No 10 verworfen wurde. Weiterlesen...

The firms said last week that they will be reducing parental leave and other benefits for employees starting next yearRecent moves by US companies Deloitte and Zoom to reduce how much paid parental leave they offer employees could signal a larger reduction in benefits in corporate America, according to labor market experts.American workers are already seen as having less benefits and labor protections than many of their counterparts across the world, especially in Europe. Continue reading...

US judge orders release of a woman and her five children who were family of the 2025 Colorado fire attack suspectA woman and her five children, whose immigration detention of more than 10 months marked the longest family detention under Donald Trump’s second administration, were released on Thursday hours after a judge’s order, their lawyer said.US district judge Fred Biery of the western district of Texas ordered the family’s release. Continue reading...

Campaign is said to be first time Labour-affiliated Unison is lobbying en masse against a key party policyMigrant workers and the UK’s largest union will carry out a mass leafleting campaign in Shabana Mahmood’s Birmingham constituency to protest against a planned change in immigration policy.The Labour-affiliated Unison union says the changes will adversely affect migrant care workers. About one-third of all care workers and one-fifth of all NHS workers are migrants. Continue reading...

Lord Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at ‘historic low’ and two allies are likely to keep divergingUK politics live – latest updatesBritain’s high military dependence on the US “is no longer tenable” and the UK has to become increasingly independent of the special relationship with Washington, a former Nato chief has warned.Lord Robertson, who last week accused British leaders of a “corrosive complacency” towards defence, said on Wednesday the traditional allies were diverging over values – and that even after Donald Trump, the separation was likely to continue. Continue reading...

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth makes announcement and calls military’s flu vaccine mandate ‘broad’ and ‘not rational’Members of the armed services will no longer be required to have an annual flu vaccination shot under a new policy announced Tuesday by Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary.In a video statement posted to social media, Hegseth described the mandate as “overly broad” and “not rational” and the decision to drop the vaccine requirement as “seizing this moment to discard any absurd overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities”. Continue reading...