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Lawmakers to Pentagon: Curtail defense spending ‘wish lists’

WASHINGTON — Influential lawmakers from both parties urged the Defense secretary in a letter Tuesday to curtail the department’s submission to Congress of “unfunded priorities lists” — annual requests for billions of dollars in military spending above White House budget proposals.

Tribune News Service

No level of engagement would have stopped anti-refugee protests, Minister says

"We’ve seen a building set on fire as a result of an untrue rumour, we’ve seen migrants attacked, again, as a result of an untrue rumour"

Dublin Live

Lawmakers to Pentagon: Curtail defense spending 'wish lists' - Roll Call

Influential lawmakers from both parties urged the Pentagon to curtail its requests for billions of dollars above White House budget proposals.

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Department of Health ‘has missed deadline’ for 23/24 pay review body

A former health minister said he is ‘astonished’ ministers are yet to submit evidence.

The Independent UK

Congress tightens U.S. manufacturing rules after battery technology ends up in China

The Department of Energy allowed a taxpayer-funded breakthrough in batteries to transfer overseas with little oversight

WEKU

Why Did Other Cops Fail To Stop the Lethal Assault on Tyre Nichols?

"Active bystandership" training aims to overcome the pressures that discourage police officers from intervening when their colleagues use excessive force.

Reason

3 arrested, 2 cops assaulted in Times Square protests over Tyre Nichols death, NYPD says

NEW YORK — Three people were arrested and two police officers were assaulted during New York City protests over the death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers, New York Police Department officials said Saturday.

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Chicago cop avoided being fired after arrest in drunken Milwaukee bar fight. He was later hired by a suburban police department

Robert Pet pointed a bullet magazine against a man’s chest and was quickly pummeled by a group of people, one of whom wrestled his gun away, according to a newly released report by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blow for Omagh shared education campus as project could face delay until 2027

The estimated finish date has been pushed back again as only one tender offer was submitted

Belfast Live

Meet the Justice Department attorney who'll square off in House GOP investigations

WASHINGTON — Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte has spent months preparing to face off against House Republicans as they unleash a gantlet of congressional investigations into the Justice Department.

Los Angeles Times

Norma Foley won't debate homework with President Michael Higgins after his call for it to be banned

Minister Foley finally broke her silence on the matter last night when she told the Irish Mirror that she was not going to get into it with the President.

Irish Mirror

Call for children to be 'involved' in discussions around homework as President speaks out against it

It comes days after President Michael D Higgins called for homework to be banned at home and for all work to stay in the classroom. Irish Mirror readers were also overwhelmingly in favour of banning homework, with 98% of our readers in favour.

Irish Mirror

South Coast daycare centre to close as lease with Department of Education not renewed

Parents with children at a South Coast daycare centre have been given one month to find a new service after the Department of Education announced it would not renew the lease for the site.

ABC News

20 states sue feds over parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans

Twenty states sued the Department of Homeland Security and its leadership Tuesday over a humanitarian parole program the Biden administration hopes will reduce irregular migration from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua, arguing that it is a violation of federal immigration law and an overreach of executive power.

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Number of struggling households getting financial support amid cost of living crisis doubles

New figures from the Department of Social Protection shows that 97,224 Additional Needs Payments were awarded in 2022, compared to 55,552 in 2021

Irish Mirror

Department of Health clarifies reason for end of Operation Transformation sponsorship after recent 'criticism'

The programme has been called out by eating disorder groups, such as Bodywhy for its unhealthy portrayal of 'diet culture', however the Department has confirmed that this had no weight in their decision

Tribune News Service

Newspaper seeks sanctions after police search of slain reporter’s phone

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Review-Journal is asking a judge to impose sanctions on the Metropolitan Police Department for not informing the newspaper that investigators have searched the cellphone of slain reporter Jeff German.

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DOJ tells House Oversight it can’t share info on ongoing investigations

The DOJ's letter Friday states that "any oversight requests must be weighed against the department’s interests in protecting the integrity of its work.”

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Mother's death in custody raises prison healthcare concerns as family demands answers

The heartbroken family of a young woman who died in custody are trying to piece together what happened and say questions must be answered about her medical care in the lead up to her death.

Daily Record

New update for people on legacy benefits who fail to make a claim for Universal Credit before deadline

People will have three months from the date o n the managed migration letter to make a claim for Universal Credit.

The Independent UK

US settlement signals protections for addiction medicine

A former Tennessee correctional officer could receive $160,000 in back pay and damages after he was forced to resign for taking Suboxone to treat his opioid use disorder

Belfast Live

Department 'does not have resources' to provide gritting at all NI schools

The Department for Infrastructure has been called on to do more to help children and parents arriving at school in winter weather

WEKU

Who is Robert Hur, the special counsel leading the Biden classified documents inquiry

Hur spent much of his legal career serving in multiple positions in the Department of Justice. He is also the former U.S. attorney in Maryland, appointed by then-President Donald Trump.

Belfast Live

Coalisland parking restrictions to be introduced

The new restrictions will see parts of the town subject to two hour maximum stays from Monday to Saturday

Belfast Live

"We have to keep fighting": Downpatrick group protest school merger at Department of Education

A decision was made to merge three schools into one 1600-pupil school split over three sites in Downpatrick

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