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BBC News
3 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Business Matters Trump, tariffs, and legal troubles
After US President Donald Trump's tariff policy got a last minute reprieve in the federal courts, we unpick the latest twist in American trade policy. Meanwhile, we hear from an international student at Harvard University caught up in the institution's legal battle with the Whitehouse. Elsewhere, we can reveal how western countries are helping fund Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And Devina Gupta speaks to the attorney at the centre of the 'largest settlement of a price-fixing case in Canadian history' that's worth $500-million. Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Whitehouse ranked 25th safest city in Texas
WHITEHOUSE, Texas (KETK) — A recent crime data analysis by Safewise named the City of Whitehouse as the 25th safest city in Texas, based on violent and property crime rates. What are the top 5 safest cities in Texas? The study showed that Whitehouse has a population of about 9,609 with a violent crime rate of 1.14 per 1,000 people and a property crime rate of 5.20 per 1,000 people. This means just a little over one violent crime is committed for every 1,000 people that live in the city. Whitehouse's safety rating has improved every year since 2022 when it placed 67th. The City of Whitehouse said the ranking speaks for the dedication that law enforcement, residents and city leadership enacts to keep the city a safe space. The city's violent crime rate is 2.67 below the national average with property crime coming in at 13.9 below that national average. The wants to build on this momentum by investing in public safety resources building strong relationships between law enforcement and residents. Those who hold positions of power in the city are proud of the ranking. Tyler's Miracle League offers inclusive baseball for young athletes 'Our community's commitment to public safety and proactive crime prevention has never been stronger. This recognition from Safewise is a direct result of the hard work and vigilance of our police department, city staff, and engaged citizens. Improving public safety during periods of commercial and residential growth is exceptional. Thank you for making Whitehouse an exceptionally safe place to live, work, and play.' Mayor of Whitehouse James Wansley Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Politico
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Politico
Zeldin tangles with Senate Democrats at budget hearing - Live Updates
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday turned acrimonious as the former Republican congressmember and several Democratic senators sparred over the Trump administration's effort to reshape the agency and his allegations of wrongdoing during the Biden administration. The exchanges underscored the growing animosity between Zeldin and Democrats as the Trump administration seeks to dramatically slash EPA's budget and reorganize the agency to rollback dozens of regulations to aid the growth of fossil fuels. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the panel's ranking member, came out of the gate with questions about EPA's termination of almost 800 grants. Whitehouse pointed to a senior EPA official's statement in a lawsuit that he had individually reviewed each terminated grant on a single day. Zeldin, however, said that the review had been conducted by multiple people over a longer period, and their conversation quickly devolved into the two men shouting over each other. 'We're not going to waste dollars just because you insist on EPA lighting taxpayer dollars on fire,' Zeldin retorted to Whitehouse. 'The American taxpayers, they put President Trump in office because of people like you. They have Republicans in charge of the House and Senate because of people like you, because you don't care about 99 percent of this story.' Whitehouse replied that he wanted Zeldin to "explain why the Department of Justice lawyers representing EPA in court under a duty of candor, have said that everything you've just said isn't true." Whitehouse's time then expired, and Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) remarked on the animosity between Zeldin and Whitehouse. 'All right, well, we seem to have a little bit of a disagreement,' he said, suggesting the two sides 'work on this in the future.' Zeldin also traded barbs with Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who slammed him for terminating $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants without evidence of waste, fraud or abuse. As he did in prior hearings over the last two weeks, Zeldin offered to read his list of allegations of self-dealing and other structural criticisms of the GGRF program. 'Let's see how far down the list you let me go before you cut me off,' Zeldin said. Markey started to ask about what evidence EPA had presented in court. 'You cut me off before the first example of evidence,' Zeldin replied. Markey tried to ask again about court proceedings, but Zeldin pushed forward with his contentions, including about the 'gold bars' claims that the EPA was rushing money out of the agency at the end of the Biden administration, as well as concerns about the ability of Appalachian Community Capital, one of the recipients, to manage its large grant. The duo continued their sniping as Markey's five-minute questioning period came to a close. 'You keep using this inflammatory language without any evidence being presented in court in order to defend these public accusations,' Markey said. "You've wasted your entire five minutes," Zeldin replied. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who at that point was chairing the hearing, had to shout over the pair to regain control. Also during the hearing, Zeldin mocked Sen. Adam Schiff after the California Democrat made a long statement criticizing him for terminating grants "without justification," working to overturn California's clean car waivers and proposing to slash EPA's budget. 'With that wind up, by the way — I understand that you are an aspiring fiction writer, I see why,' Zeldin told Schiff, apparently referencing Schiff's hobby of writing screenplays. 'I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water, their air,' Schiff replied. 'That, to me, is a big fiction, Mr. Zeldin.' Schiff added that Zeldin is "totally beholden to the oil industry. You could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes." Zeldin was cut off from responding because Schiff's time was up. The heightened animosity was notable in the room. Near the end of the hearing, Chair Shelley Moore Capito ( apologized to Zeldin for having stepped away during most of the proceedings. 'I heard it was very lively,' she quipped.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Adam Schiff tells EPA's Lee Zeldin he'll cause cancer after shoutfest: 'Could give a rat's a--'
The typically calm confines of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee were the site of several clashes on Wednesday between Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin and Democrats on the panel adjudicating his annual budget request. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., rattled off a list of cancers he claimed Zeldin's actions at the agency could cause, remarking the New York Republican must be proud of how many regulations he's slashed in such a short time. "Your legacy will be more lung cancer — it'll be more bladder cancer, more head and neck cancer. There'll be more breast cancer, more leukemia and pancreatic cancer, more liver cancer, more skin cancer, more kidney cancer, more testicular cancer, or colorectal cancer — more rare cancers of innumerable varieties. That will be your legacy. … My kids are gonna be breathing that air, just like yours," he said. "If your children were drinking the water in Santa Ana, Mr. Zeldin… maybe you would give a damn," he said after holding up a glass of water and claiming the EPA's move toward streamlining its grants and expenditures will lead to a panoply of bad outcomes. Kash Patel Enrages Schiff In Clintonian Battle Over The Word 'We' And A January 6 Song "You need the money for a tax cut for rich people because you're totally beholden to the oil industry," Schiff fumed, accusing Zeldin of unlawful termination of congressionally appropriated grants. Read On The Fox News App "You could give a rat's a-- about how much cancer your agency causes," Schiff said, raising his voice as Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., banged the gavel to note his time was up. Earlier in the hearing, Zeldin clashed with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., over grant reviews and claimed the administrator couldn't "get [his] story straight." Whitehouse appeared to make the claim that the EPA was not individually reviewing each of the grants it was canceling and cited court testimony from Zeldin official Travis Voyles that he had conducted an "individualized review" as of February. Flashback: Schiff, Who Repeatedly Claimed Evidence Of Russian Collusion, Denounces Durham Report As 'Flawed' "You guys are gonna have to start getting your story straight," Whitehouse said, "because there are three completely different statements, and they cannot all be true. It cannot be that Voyles personally himself conducted—" "He did," Zeldin cut in. "… the review of 781 grants—" Whitehouse continued. "He did; I did," Zeldin cut in again. "… and that [Deputy Administrator Daniel] Coogan saw to it that it was individually done," Whitehouse said as the two men talked over each other. After some more back-and-forth, Zeldin told Whitehouse that it must be a "crazy concept" for him to consider that more than one person could review the hundreds of grants in question and for more than one per calendar day. Zeldin said he and his EPA colleagues have been "busting their a--" to identify waste and abuse and that Whitehouse was only interested in scoring political points. "I'm using the facts as your employees stated them," Whitehouse claimed. "We're on it every single day, because we have a zero-tolerance policy towards wasting dollars," Zeldin shot back. "You don't care about wasting money," he went on, adding that he had promised committee member Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., at a prior hearing that he would make reviewing grants in this way a priority of his tenure. "I have to come back here in front of Sen. Ricketts today, and even though you don't care about wasting tax dollars, Sen. Ricketts does." Fox News Digital reached out to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., chair of the Committee on Environment and Public Works for comment, but did not hear back by press article source: Adam Schiff tells EPA's Lee Zeldin he'll cause cancer after shoutfest: 'Could give a rat's a--'
The Hill
21-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Zeldin, Democrats spar over grants and rollbacks
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said the testimony of agency officials and statements made in court by government lawyers contradict the administration's comments about the thoroughness of its grant reviews. Specifically, he pointed to a court document where EPA official Travis Voyles stated, 'On February 25, 2025, I conducted an individualized review of EPA grant programs,' as well as Zeldin's own comments that the administrator himself had conducted a grant review. Whitehouse also said that 'On May 16, [Justice Department] career lawyers … filed a pleading in federal court that conceded that you had not done individualized, grant-by-grant reviews.' 'The problem with your assertion here today is that it is belied by your own employees' sworn statements in court and by the decision of the Department of Justice to admit that what you say isn't true, ' Whitehouse told Zeldin. After a back-and-forth, Zeldin said, 'We're not going to waste dollars just because you insist on EPA lighting taxpayer dollars on fire.' 'The American taxpayers, they put President Trump in office because of people like you. They have Republicans in charge of the House and Senate because of people like you, because you don't care about 99 percent of this story,' he continued. Zeldin also entered into a tense exchange with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) over the agency's environmental rollbacks and a particular grant. Schiff opened his remarks by rattling off rollbacks at the Trump EPA and saying that Zeldin's legacy would be more cancer. He also asked about a specific grant related to preventing lead poisoning in children in Santa Ana, Calif. Zeldin retorted, 'With that wind up, by the way, I understand that you are an aspiring fiction writer. I see why.' 'I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency, and it won't affect people's health or their water, their air. That, to me, is a big fiction,' Schiff replied. 'If your children were drinking water in Santa Ana, Mr. Zeldin, maybe you wouldn't be so cavalier about whether there was lead in their water,' he continued. ' You could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes.'
