U.S. — Humanity's long-awaited first contact with advanced extraterrestrials came to a disappointing end this week after visiting aliens returned home and officially classified Earth as a barren, unintelligent world following a brief encounter with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The Department of Education is transferring two of its key responsibilities to other parts of the executive branch, marking the administration’s latest effort to wind down the agency’s operations.

The agency is moving its Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to the Department of Health and Human Services. OSER staff will work with HHS to “ensure that programs that support individuals with disabilities are administered more effectively and in a way that results in better outcomes for individuals with disabilities,” a senior department official told reporters on a Tuesday press call.

“Federal rights and protections provided under the programs administered by OSERS, including the [Individuals with Disabilities Education Act] and the Rehabilitation Act, are critical to individuals with disabilities and their families, yet families often described to the secretary and her team here at the department, long bureaucratic, costly efforts and additional barriers to securing the services their children need and to which they are entitled to under federal law,” an official said.

The official stressed that special needs students will not lose any rights in the move, including their right to a free, public education. States will continue to receive federal funds for programs administered by the office, and they will receive an additional $144 million for fiscal year 2026.

“This partnership between OSERS and HHS will support the ability for OSERS expert staff to collaborate with HHS staff to ensure that programs that support individuals with disabilities are administered more effectively and in a way that results in better outcomes for individuals with disabilities,” the official said.

The Education Department also signed an interagency agreement with the Civil Rights Office of the Justice Department. The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights will refer complaints to the Department of Justice for evaluation, investigation, and potential resolution.

“This partnership will not impact students, parents, or families,” an official said. “Any individual who believes that discrimination has occurred in an education program or activity funded by the department may still file complaints with OCR.”

Investigations of the Education Department’s civil rights office will not be affected, the official said, and office staff will remain available to answer questions about complaints.

“The department and OCR and CRT will now begin discussions on various items relating to implementation, including staffing timelines, necessary assets, and also workforce inventories,” an official said in response to a question from the Daily Signal, “but our primary goal will continue to be resolving complaints. enforcement, and we will partner with DOJ to make sure that that we are able to to meet those priorities.”

The British government has suggested it may ban VPN services as it seeks to enforce its upcoming social media ban for children under 16.

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Iranian soccer star Mohammad Mohebi fired the finger gun shot heard around the world on Monday, following his goal against New Zealand.

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U.S. federal law enforcement officers extradited a former Mexican Customs agent who is wanted in his home country on organized crime charges.

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A federal judge who attended a political event of a prosecutor who once pursued charges against then-former President Donald Trump recused herself from a case in which the Justice Department is seeking Georgia voter registration data.

U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia granted the Justice Department’s motion to step aside from the case after the department noted she attended a partisan political event for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who led grand jury charges against Trump and allies over alleged conspiracy related to his challenge of the 2020 election outcome in Georgia.

“Judge Ross has granted our motion to recuse in the Georgia voter rolls litigation,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon posted on X Tuesday. She added, “Glad to see that our specific legal arguments and common sense prevailed in this motion.”

The Justice Department referred to a reprimand from the 11th U.S. Circuit Judicial Conduct Committee. The reprimand only identified Ross as a “subject judge,” 11Alive in Atlanta reported.

In 2024, Ross, nominated to the court by President Barack Obama in late 2013 and confirmed by the Senate in 2014, attended Willis’ 2024 campaign victory party. Ross said her attendance was only for the purpose of “reuniting” with past colleagues and that she did not speak at the event.

“A judge who attended a party celebrating the election of a Democrat best known for prosecuting a Republican president for alleged election interference cannot then preside over a case concerning that president’s efforts to ensure election integrity,” the DOJ argued in its motion for the judge to recuse.

Ross wrote, “Even assuming that an objective observer would construe the undersigned’s attendance at the mixer as favoring the Democratic Party, recusal on this basis is not required because this case concerns the federal government’s ability to enforce voting integrity laws, not partisan politics.”

Nevertheless, she wrote she was recusing herself out of an “abundance of caution.”

“Specifically, this case concerns the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain Georgia’s unredacted voter registration list in furtherance of the administration’s objective to uphold election integrity in Georgia, and Willis is known for her role in the prosecution of President Trump over his alleged interference in Georgia’s elections,” Ross wrote. “Both the Trump administration’s present and Willis’s past efforts have become heavily polarized.”

The Justice Department sued to obtain the Georgia voter rolls in December. Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, argued state law allows only partial data sharing and does not permit the release of Social Security numbers or dates of birth.

The president of the international soccer federation FIFA, Gianni Infantino, made a surprise appearance in the locker room of the Iranian national team on Monday night to offer words of support and comfort following a 2-2 tie against New Zealand in the World Cup.

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The DOJ has intervened in a pollution lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI company, now a division of SpaceX, claiming the AI firm plays a vital role in military operations and national security.

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British Member of Parliament, Rupert Lowe, has been conducting an eighteen-month investigation of Muslim rape gangs in the U.K. as perpetrated against young, white, British girls.  Today he released his 212-Page report. Lowe describes the systemic raping of British pre-teen and teenage girls, as one of the most extensive and devastating failures in modern British […]

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A reverend at a leftist counter-event to President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 celebrations urged attendees to give thanks to "every God."

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U.S. import prices rose sharply in May for the third consecutive month, driven by another surge in fuel costs and rising prices for capital goods and technology products tied to the artificial-intelligence investment boom. Import prices increased 1.9 percent in

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U.S. — According to sources, a routine agreement negotiated by President Donald Trump has resulted in control of the original 13 colonies being transferred back to Great Britain.