[Epoch Times] A prominent Wall Street law firm has struck a deal with the White House to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP will dedicate the services to causes supported by both the firm and the Trump administration, including assisting veterans and other public servants, ensuring fairness in the U.S. justice system, and combating anti-Semitism.
The firm also committed to funding at least five law graduates under a fellowship dedicated to supporting the causes each year and employing merit-based hiring practices, vowing not to deny representation to members of politically disenfranchised groups.
A White House statement explained that Skadden had approached Trump about its "strong commitment to ending the weaponization of the justice system and the legal profession." Jeremy London, the firm’s executive partner, said the two parties worked "constructively" to reach an agreement.
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A good lawyer knows the law and a great lawyer knows Justice. The fact that Trump has to strong arm, threaten and pressure a law firm to actually meet the basic values of a legal professional is a sad reflection of the swamp.
🚨BREAKING: China just dropped a BOMBSHELL that could DESTROY foreign business in their country. New laws allow them to SEIZE foreign Intellectual Property at will.
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They were already doing it, they just passed a law to tidy things up.
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Anytime a company builds something in China, they are choosing to enslave people and creating a competitor that will steal their designs and create a competing knockoff product to compete with them.
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Anyone that does business with China aka the CCP deserves whatever they get at this point.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump’s administration has announced plans to effectively close the US international development agency USAID, formalizing widely criticized plans to dramatically cut foreign aid spending.
“Today, the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have notified Congress on their intent to undertake a reorganization that would involve realigning certain USAID functions to the Department by July 1, 2025,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says in a statement.
The State Department, he said, also plans on “discontinuing the remaining USAID functions that do not align with Administration priorities.”
“Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago,” he says. “As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high.”
After taking office in January, Republican President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing US foreign aid for 90 days.
Dramatic cuts to various USAID programs followed, with some exemptions granted for vital humanitarian aid.
The aid freeze has caused shock and dismay at the independent agency created by an act of the US Congress in 1961.
Prior to its closure, the agency managed an annual budget of close to $43 billion, accounting for more than 40 percent of the world’s humanitarian aid. Most of its staff were placed on administrative leave shortly after Trump took office.
USAID staff were informed in a memo on Friday of plans to eliminate all jobs not required by law, according to multiple US media organizations.
In the memo, Jeremy Lewin, the acting head of the independent agency, reportedly said the State Department also planned to retire most of USAID’s independent operations in the coming months.
2026 Congress passes new budget for USAID II.
Seeing a need to refill the DC political pockets and various NGO's that kick a % of the $$$$$ back as Campaign donations.
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Based on the new ability of Trump to transfer money from Dept to Dept at will, funding USAID or DOE further just gives Trump a slush fund he can use on the border. With USAID programs transferred to State, we are still likely continuing to fund the Taliban as State is full of Taliban supporters. Getting rid of those folks and those programs ought to remain a priority for us.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
