3 h. ago Lurid sex chats among NSA agents exposed as intel chief Tulsi Gabbard vows to punish workers posting about 'kinks, fetishes and polyamory'

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was irate and promised to root out National Security Administration agents alleged to have taken part in lurid sex chats on the job.

Politics

24 h. ago Dem Senator lays in to Elon Musk as the 'ultimate bad boss' with expletive ridden post as deadline for federal workers to respond to his email looms

Hundreds of thousands of workers began their week in chaos after Musk's team gave staff roughly 48 hours to report five specific things they had accomplished last week

Economics

31 h. ago Tulsi Gabbard joins Kash Patel in defiance of Elon Musk over DOGE email demands

Tulsi Gabbard has joined Kash Patel and a growing list of department heads who have said to ignore 'First Buddy' Elon Musk's demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished each week.

Politics

33 h. ago Trump administration eliminating 2,000 USAid positions in US, notice says

All but handful of agency’s personnel around world to be placed on paid leave, according to notice sent to workersThe Trump administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of USAid personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and eliminating about 2,000 of those positions in the US, according to a notice sent to agency workers and posted online.“As of 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all USAid direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally,” the notice said. Continue reading...

Politics

36 h. ago Another member of Trump’s inner circle rebels against Musk’s productivity email

Tulsi Gabbard joins Kash Patel and the Department of Defense in instructing employees not to respond to the email

Politics

3 d. ago Germany at a crossroads: the reprise of the far right – photo essay

Germany is experiencing a political shift that is alarming many citizens. The photographer Fabian Ritter has spent years documenting the rise of the far-right AfD party and more extreme groups. Recent events illustrate the growing tensionIn the run-up to Sunday’s election in Germany the political climate has become more heated. There have been attacks on politicians and campaign workers, and election posters have been destroyed. Many felt unsettled or even threatened after Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-right CDU, proposed a bill to tighten immigration control that had the backing of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland.Björn Höcke, the AfD’s leader in Thuringia and head of its nationalist wing, speaks at the Domplatz in Erfurt during the party’s final campaign event before state elections, 31 August 2024. Continue reading...

Culture

3 d. ago The dark side of UK's top secret defence lab: How airman died after being exposed to deadly nerve agent and pigs have been BLOWN UP in experiments at Porton Down

Porton Down, Britain's top secret military research centre, is just a few miles away from where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury in 2018.

Events

3 d. ago Labour opens the door to tens of thousands of European workers and students as it seeks closer post

A youth mobility scheme has been among the key demands of EU member states as the Prime Minister bids for closer post-Brexit relations with the bloc.

Politics