The United States Agency for International Development said Thursday it is resuming food deliveries to hundreds of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia, four months after assistance was halted over a widespread scheme to steal supplies. The decision was made after Ethiopia’s government agreed to remove itself from the dispatch, storage …
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he has hired a private attorney, after the home of a top fundraiser for the mayor was raided by the FBI last week. The FBI searched the home of Brianna Suggs, a 25-year-old campaign consultant for Adams, and during the raid agents seized …
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In December, 2005, reform was in the air at the stolid United Nations. Kofi Annan, then Secretary General, established whistleblower protections for everyone who worked there, together with a new Ethics Office to receive the disclosures of wrongdoing from employees and appeals for relief from reprisal. That was the high …
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Former Philadelphia labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty and a codefendant were convicted Thursday of using more than $650,000 in union funds for personal use, marking the second conviction federal prosecutors have secured against the long-powerful figure since a sweeping 2019 indictment. Dougherty, who led Local 98 of the International …
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Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen is urging the University of Arizona to take advantage of an opportunity from PresidentDonald Trump’s administration to be one of nine initial signatories of theCompact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. In a letter obtained byFox News Digital, Petersen encouraged University of Arizona President Suresh …
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