Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer allegedly fostered a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace when she led the department, a scathing watchdog report released Thursday found.
An investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General said Chavez-DeRemer, who resigned in April, regularly drank alcohol during the workday, failed to properly report expensive gifts she had received and had an “inappropriately close and unprofessional relationship” with a member of her security detail.
The report comes nearly five months after Chavez-DeRemer left the Trump administration amid allegations of misconduct and abuse of power. She was the third member of President Trump’s Cabinet to step down.
Investigators interviewed at least 38 witnesses who consistently described the secretary’s office as “toxic,“ according to the report. Senior officials allegedly berated staffers in front of colleagues, discussed inappropriate personal matters and threatened to terminate employees.




At about 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 17, 2023, Fraser Bohm had just picked up an order of tacos and was heading to meet friends, according to court records obtained by USA TODAY. Bohm, a college baseball prosect who lived in a $2.5 million Malibu home with his mother at the time, was driving the 2016 BMW his parents gave him shortly before they filed for divorce in 2017, court records show.
During a settler attack aimed at stealing sheep, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and a young man on Wednesday evening in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah.
Let me introduce you to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Israel’s far-right Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party, the minister of national security, and an almost cartoonishly evil man. You’ll have heard his name before: he made international news when he filmed himself taunting bound activists who had been detained trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. But you might not be familiar with many of his recent shocking comments, because they haven’t been widely covered by much of the US media.
Federal prosecutors have brought charges against an officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for lying to investigators about a shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this year.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s redrawn congressional map cannot be used in this year’s midterm elections, dealing a major blow to Republicans.





























