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How FEMA cuts are spreading far beyond Washington
Aileen Reneau, 30, had worked at the Federal Emergency Management Agency for less than a year, helping to train first responders at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, the only such facility in the country. She was also deployed to North Carolina for six weeks after Hurricane Helene.
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Stocks' sell-off worsens as Wall Street wonders how much pain Trump will accept for the economy
The U.S. stock market’s sell-off accelerated as worries built about pain for the economy because of tariffs and other policies by President Donald Trump.
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Musk says DOGE is in almost every federal agency and plans to double staff
The tech billionaire also indicated he wasn’t leaving government soon as he faces growing pushback to his chainsaw-style budget cutting.
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Fact Check: RFK Jr. misleads on vitamin A, unsupported therapies for measles
In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly focused on vitamin A, including from cod liver oil, and two non-standard medications as treatments for measles.
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Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency's programs gone
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is signaling that the Trump administration has finished its six-week dismantling of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Pro-Palestinian group vandalizes Trump's Scottish golf resort
President Donald Trump’s golf course in Scotland was vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti.
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Trump loves Gilded Age tariffs, a great time for the rich but not for the many
In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the country thrived in the 1890s, when tariffs were high, but historians say there were other factors.
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DC begins removing ‘Black Lives Matter' plaza from street near White House
“You can erase this, but you cannot erase our history,” a Kappa Alpha Psi member said while bidding goodbye to Black Lives Matter Plaza.
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Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance
At 83 years old, Bernie Sanders has emerged as an unlikely leader of the Democratic resistance to Donald Trump.
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Mystery surrounds DOGE acting administrator Amy Gleason after sudden rise to prominence
Amy Gleason, a former emergency room nurse-turned-health care technologist, was scared. It was 2010 and no doctor could figure out what was behind her daughter Morgan’s strange constellation of symptoms, including rashes and muscle weakness so severe that she could no longer walk upstairs, NBC News reported.
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Trump wants to see more than just a minerals deal to restart aid and intel to Ukraine
As U.S. and Ukrainian officials prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia this week, President Donald Trump has privately made clear to aides that a signed minerals deal between Washington and Kyiv won’t be enough to restart aid and intelligence sharing with the war-torn country, according an administration official and another U.S. official, NBC News reported.
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says
The arrest appeared to be among the first known actions under Trump’s pledge to deport international students who joined the protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
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Panama releases dozens of detained deportees from US into limbo
Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days.
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CDC will research widely debunked link between vaccines and autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is initiating expanded research into understanding autism and potential links between vaccines and autism, a source familiar with the CDC’s planning said, NBC News reported.
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HHS sends all employees a $25,000 voluntary buyout offer
The agency’s approximately 80,000 employees were emailed Friday night with the offer of a “voluntary separation incentive payment.”
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DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan have blamed lower-than-expected ICE arrest numbers on recent leaks about planned operations.
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Activists vandalize Trump golf resort over his comments on emptying out Gaza
Trump has called for Gaza’s population to be resettled elsewhere permanently so that the United States can take over the territory and develop it.
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Elon Musk's Starlink has a growing footprint in the federal government
Starlink, the satellite internet service controlled by billionaire Elon Musk and his rocket company SpaceX, is expanding its footprint in the federal government weeks after the billionaire began slashing the federal workforce and agency budgets under President Donald Trump’s direction, NBC News reported.
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‘Pissed off': Canadians drop their politeness in the wake of Trump's tariffs
Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods, coming on the heels of his taunting threats to make the country the 51st U.S. state, are eroding the inherent politeness of Americans’ northern neighbors and rallying them around their own flag.
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Trump's DEI order may remove iconic Rosie the Riveter photos from government websites
Jeanne Gibson rarely misses a Friday at Richmond’s Rosie the Riveter Museum. Now, she’s taking time to share her story with visitors. Jodi Hernandez reports.