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  • How Trump’s war on DEI is roiling US police: ‘it doesn’t mean work will stop’

    As Trump administration fights diversity, some officers fear for future of policing as they observe culture shifts

    After the murder of George Floyd, protests pushed some police agencies to bring in a new class of professionals including Colleen Jackson to help make departments more representative of and responsive to the communities they serve.

    Hired as the first chief diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) officer in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 2021, Jackson has assisted in a hiring process that swore in a class of women, Black and Asian American recruits and has surveyed residents on their experiences with the police. She is now organizing an event to bring together young residents and Black officers that she hopes will lead to safer interactions on the street.

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  • Two suspects arrested for theft of Kristi Noem’s purse, Secret Service says

    Noem’s purse was nabbed on Easter Sunday and reportedly contained about $3,000 in cash, her keys and identification

    Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft last week of the US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s purse as she ate at a Washington DC restaurant, officials said Sunday.

    Noem’s purse was nabbed on Easter Sunday and reportedly contained about $3,000 in cash and her keys, driver’s license, passport and homeland security badge. The homeland security department said Noem had cash in her purse to pay for gifts, dinner and other activities for her family on Easter.

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  • Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker livestream sit-in against GOP funding plan

    Democratic House leader and New Jersey senator protest on steps of US Capitol over proposed Republican budget

    House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and New Jersey senator Cory Booker were holding a sit-in protest and discussion on Sunday on the steps of the US Capitol in opposition to Republicans’ proposed budget plan.

    Billed as an “Urgent Conversation with the American People”, the livestreamed discussion comes before Congress’s return to session on Monday, where Democrats hope to stall Republicans’ economic legislative agenda.

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  • Kristi Noem says purse – and $3,000 in cash – stolen from DC restaurant

    Passport, driver’s license and keys also reportedly taken but not clear if theft was random or if Trump ally was targeted

    A purse belonging to Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, that contained $3,000 in cash, her passport, driver’s license and her apartment keys was stolen while she ate dinner at a restaurant in downtown Washington on Sunday night.

    The secretary revealed the theft to reporters at the White House Easter egg roll on Monday. Noem said the incident remained unresolved.

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  • More than 400 anti-Trump rallies planned in another wave of US protests

    Organizers have called for 11 million people across country to participate this weekend in effort to ‘protect democracy’

    The US will witness its second wave of protests in a fortnight on Saturday as organizers seek to turn discontent with Donald Trump’s presidency into a mass movement that will eventually translate into action at the ballot box.

    More than 400 rallies are anticipated across the nation loosely organized by the group 50501, which stands for 50 protests in 50 states, one movement.

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  • Trans woman falsely linked to DC plane crash sues influencer for defamation

    Jo Ellis was thrust into the spotlight after Matthew Wallace amplified baseless claims of her involvement

    A transgender woman who was erroneously identified as a helicopter pilot involved in the Washington DC crash that killed 67 people has filed a lawsuit against one of the conservative influencers who spread the false claims about her.

    Jo Ellis, whom the Guardian wrote about after she was thrust into the spotlight, is suing Matthew Wallace, the person behind the X account, for defamation, claiming Wallace “concocted a destructive and irresponsible defamation campaign” that monetized a “false narrative” about her.

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  • Tens of thousands rally against Trump at DC ‘Hands Off’ protest

    Congress members Jamie Raskin, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar among speakers as demonstrators denounce ‘fascism’

    Demonstrators estimated to be in the tens of thousands gathered in Washington on Saturday in a display of mass dissent against Donald Trump’s policies that organizers hoped would snowball into a rolling cycle of protests that could eventually stymie the US president in next year’s congressional elections.

    Anger with Trump and his billionaire lieutenant, the SpaceX and Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk, was expressed in a sea of placards and banners on the Washington mall, in the shadow of the Washington monument. Multiple messages denounced the two men for shuttering government agencies, cutting jobs and services and – in often graphic terms – for threatening the survival of US democracy.

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  • Head of DC’s African American museum on leave as Trump targets Smithsonian

    Kevin Young has been absent since 14 March, weeks before president’s order taking aim at ‘anti-American’ content

    Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC, is not currently in charge of the museum and has been on leave since 14 March, as Donald Trump targets the Smithsonian museum network for its content.

    The Washington Post first reported that Young has been on a personal leave for an “undetermined period”, according to an email obtained by the newspaper from Kevin Gover, the Smithsonian under secretary for museums and culture. Shanita Brackett, NMAAHC’s associate director of operations, is now serving as interim director.

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  • US House to vote on ‘reckless’ $1bn budget cut to Washington DC

    Trump and congressional Republicans attempting to exert control over mostly Democratic capital city

    Washington DC has found itself in the crosshairs of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in recent weeks, with efforts by both to exert more control over the overwhelmingly Democratic capital city.

    The president on Thursday signed an executive order he said would make Washington DC “safe, beautiful, and prosperous” by stepping up crime fighting, arrests of undocumented immigrants and the processing of permits to carry concealed weapons. Trump separately directed JD Vance to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, which has many museums in and around the city.

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  • Close call between Delta plane and military craft at Reagan National airport

    Both flights received corrective instructions to avoid possible collision two months after crash killed 67 at same airport

    A passenger flight preparing to take off near Washington DC and an incoming US military jet received instructions to divert and prevent a possible collision on Friday, officials said.

    The close call at Ronald Reagan Washington National airport came about two months after a passenger jet and US army helicopter collided near the airport, killing all 67 people onboard both aircraft. The earlier crash – on 29 January – prompted federal investigators to recommend a ban on some helicopter flights in that area.

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