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The Trump administration will eliminate Elon Musk's program that required federal employees to email a summary of five workplace achievements from the previous work week. The Office of Personnel Management [OPM] is announcing plans to end the required emails to HR representatives across the federal government on Tuesday, the administration confirmed to FOX Business. "We communicated with agency HR leads that OPM was no longer going to manage the five things process […]

A dream vacation took a dark turn after passengers on board a Celebrity Cruises vessel reportedly experienced a temporary loss of power over the weekend, leaving it adrift for several hours.The ship, Constellation, was sailing near the Italian coast on Saturday, Aug. 2, when it encountered a power outage that a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean Group, Celebrity Cruises’ parent company, described as a "technical issue."Reports indicate the vessel was without electricity […]

Almost half of the states in the country allow some illegal immigrants to benefit from in-state tuition in some form or another, with Texas being the first to do so but the most recent to undo its policy.Twenty-three states – plus the District of Columbia – offer undocumented students the ability to pay the same rate as residents, whether through waivers or established law.In 2001, Texas passed a law allowing […]

The Trump administration's effort to modernize federal payment systems is coming to Social Security, which will start phasing out paper Social Security checks.The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced in mid-July that it would no longer issue paper checks starting on Sept. 30. The agency noted in a blog post announcing the move that electronic funds transfers (EFTs) get payments to beneficiaries faster than paper checks, while also providing increased security against fraud and […]