Multiple furloughed workers from the Department of Education had out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown automatically sent from their email accounts without their consent ...

At this point, you sort of expect Donald Trump’s big-picture assaults on free speech, foreigners, and the rule of law. (Sometimes, as in the case of the new outright attack on US higher ed, all three ...

On Wednesday, the first day of the US government shutdown, employees at the Department of Education (DOE) set their automatic out-of-office email responses to inform recipients that they would be ...

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced their personalized out-of-office e-mail notifications with ...

Wednesday morning, as the government shutdown began, chief officers at the Department of Education distributed a standard out-of-the-office statement to all furloughed staff members and instructed ...

The Education Department violated its furloughed employees’ First Amendment rights when it modified their out-of-office emails to blame the ongoing government shutdown on congressional Democrats, a ...

Every year at Thanksgiving, inboxes fill with Out of Office replies. Sometimes they’re for happy reasons, family gatherings, holidays or vacation travel. Sometimes they’re not. What if we were honest ...

So, you’ve finally done it. No more putting it off, pushing through the grind, waiting for a more opportune time once things settle down. Alas, you’ve mustered up the gall to cash in on your paid ...

Five civil servants working at the Department of Education told NBC News that their out-of-office messages had been altered with political language blaming Democrats for the government shutdown. The ...