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News of more layoffs for federal workers is prompting increased concern about the repercussions of those cuts.“There are ways to cull federal service. This is not the way to do it,” said a local federal worker who asked not to be identified.On Thursday and Friday, the federal government laid off thousands of workers as part…
The escalating conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo will dominate an African Union summit opening Saturday, with the DRC president absent after Rwandan-backed forces seized a second major city on his territory. African Union summit opens, overshadowed by DR Congo conflict The 55-nation body meets in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa as Africa faces devastating…
President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, February 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP) The campaign led by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to reduce the size of the US bureaucracy resulted in the termination of more than 9,500 federal workers on Friday….
OpenAI on Friday rejected a $97.4 billion bid from a consortium led by billionaire Elon Musk for the ChatGPT maker, saying the startup is not for sale and that any future bid would be disingenuous. The unsolicited approach is Musk’s latest attempt to block the startup he co-founded with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman – but…
CNN — Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know…
Three people have been arrested in connection with several juvenile overdoses in Gwinnett County, including the fentanyl-related death of a 14-year-old boy, police said. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Brenda Alfaro-Alvarado, 21, was arrested on Jan. 28 after investigators determined she sold fentanyl-laced Percocet to Marco Machado Ramirez, 14. His…
The nonprofit groups track the imprisonment of Chinese political dissidents and the expansion of state censorship. They speak out for persecuted minority groups like the Uyghurs and Tibetans. And they help sustain attention on Beijing’s crackdown of freedoms in Hong Kong. The future of their work is now in question as Elon Musk’s government efficiency…
Vice President JD Vance’s defense of a divisive far-right political party in Germany was the latest jarring example of his willingness to embrace a provocative political issue and showed how hard-line immigration policy has emerged as the thread tightly knitting together a global patchwork of populist movements. The thrust of Mr. Vance’s speech on Friday…
The White House barred a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding the presidential airplane Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump, saying the news agency’s stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion. It represented a significant escalation by the White House in a…
“It is a plain violation of the First Amendment, and we urge the Trump administration in the strongest terms to stop this practice.” In a letter to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Pace said the administration’s actions were discriminatory against a viewpoint. “It is among the most basic tenets of the First Amendment…