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Musk threatens to fire federal workers who don't reply to next email

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WASHINGTON — Elon Musk said that federal workers will be given a second opportunity to respond to a government-wide email detailing what they did last week, and threatened to fire any employee who doesn’t meet his demands, despite guidance from the Office of Personnel Management they can ignore his request.

“Subject to the discretion of ...Read more

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A Somali man's deportation battle cracks a window into how ICE is operating in Alaska

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Federal immigration authorities are trying to deport a Somali asylum-seeker living in Anchorage, as his attorneys argue he should not be held because his country is on a list of nations the U.S. has determined are too dangerous to return migrants to.

Roble Ahmed Salad, 27, is one of five people detained in Alaska by U.S. ...Read more

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Florida school employees' retirement accounts drained of $1 million in fraud scheme, feds say

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Five Florida residents worked together to steal more than a million dollars from the retirement accounts of school district employees in the Sunshine State, federal prosecutors said.

One of the individuals involved, Ronald Vargas, worked for the company that oversaw their 401(k) accounts, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the ...Read more

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South Korea's impeached president Yoon faces final court hearing

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol will get his last chance to defend himself before judges as they wrap up a trial to decide whether to permanently remove him from office for his ill-fated martial law declaration.

Yoon is set to deliver his final arguments at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday afternoon, ...Read more

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Massachusetts cities sue Trump administration over threats to federal funding

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A pair of Massachusetts cities that maintain “sanctuary” policies have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over threats to cut federal funding if they don’t comply with the president’s plans for mass deportations.

The cities of Somerville and Chelsea announced the lawsuit on Monday. Oren Sellstrom, Litigation Director at ...Read more

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Musk seeks to use Starlink terminals in US airspace system

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade of the information technology networks that support the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s national airspace system, according to people familiar with the matter.

The effort raises questions about conflicts of interest for Musk’...Read more

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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he's OK with federal firings, announces website to help workers find new jobs

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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a new website Monday, which he said is designed to help laid off and fired federal workers navigate unemployment and find new work.

The Republican governor stressed that Virginia is hiring and ready to take on a potentially large influx of newly unemployed federal workers.

“We have 250,000 jobs that are...Read more

Missouri bill defining 'sex' aimed at helping schools set transgender bathroom policies

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A St. Charles County lawmaker wants to create a legal definition of sex so school districts could bar transgender students from using bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identities.

A bill filed by state Sen. Adam Schnelting, R-St. Charles, would define “sex” to mean “the two categories of humans, ...Read more

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Jury selection begins in Ilinois parade shooting trial

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WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Jury selection began Monday in Lake County in the case of Robert Crimo III, who is charged in the mass shooting that killed seven people at the 2022 Independence Day parade in Highland Park.

At the conclusion of the day, attorneys had agreed on seven people who will eventually decide whether Crimo is guilty of first-degree ...Read more

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NYPD cops temporarily stripped of guns and shields after arrest of retired cop's son

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NEW YORK — Two NYPD police officers were temporarily stripped of their guns and shields over a caught-on-camera arrest where they were recorded punching the son of a retired NYPD detective and the man’s father reached out to department brass, the New York Daily News has learned.

Police Officers Brian Guzman and Anthony Riccardi were pulled ...Read more

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Musk seeks to install Starlink terminals in US airspace network

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade of the information technology networks that support the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s national airspace system, according to people familiar with the matter.

The effort raises questions about conflicts of interest for Musk’...Read more

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The city of LA sent his home for the last 5 years down a flood channel along with many others

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LOS ANGELES — A team of Los Angeles workers watched while waters from the Arroyo Seco flood channel carried away Alejandro Diaz's belongings as he broke down his home of the last five years Monday morning.

"It's an injustice," Diaz, 29, said in Spanish with tears streaking down his face. "The city doesn't care about anything other than ...Read more

Idaho woman's removal from town hall garners national attention

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A legislative town hall in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has received scrutiny after an interrupting attendee was dragged from the event. Videos of the incident have gone viral.

The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee held a Legislative Town Hall on Saturday afternoon at Coeur d’Alene High School. The committee described the event on ...Read more

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Listeria reported in shakes used in nursing homes, leading to hospitalizations and deaths

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Frozen supplemental shakes sold to hospitals and long-term care facilities in 21 states are making people sick and already have led to 12 deaths.

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration published an urgent warning instructing consumers to discard Prairie Farms Dairy’s meal replacement shakes under the brands Lyons ReadyCare and Sysco Imperial. ...Read more

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Former two-term Gov. Jim Edgar diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

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Jim Edgar, who led Illinois government through a period of fiscal austerity with great positive acclaim from voters during his two terms as governor, announced Monday that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Edgar, 78, who served as the state’s chief executive from 1991 to 1999 and currently leads a bipartisan program through the ...Read more

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Minnesota bill would ban using AI to create sexually explicit deepfakes of real people

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A bipartisan group of Minnesota state senators is pushing for more restrictions on convincing computer-generated sexually explicit images of real people.

Under a new bill, companies that provide artificial intelligence-generated “deepfakes,” or photorealistic videos or images of people, would have to shut off their ...Read more

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join Columbia University

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NEW YORK — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is joining Columbia University as a fellow, its International Relations School announced Monday.

Pompeo, who served in the first administration of President Donald Trump, will meet with students and contribute to ongoing policy work for one year at Columbia’s School of International and ...Read more

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Trump breaks from allies with extraordinary move to deflect Ukraine blame from Russia

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President Donald Trump deepened Washington’s split with allies over Ukraine, withdrawing U.S. condemnation of Russia’s 2022 invasion at the United Nations and among Group of Seven countries as he aims to end the war on terms agreeable to Moscow.

In New York on Monday, the U.S. and Russia both voted against an European-backed resolution in ...Read more

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Email: CDC workers can ignore 'What did you do last week' demand

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An email demand over the weekend to all federal employees, including those at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for a list of work accomplishments in the past week has led to chaos across the government workforce.

Those instructions were changed Monday for all Department of Health and Human Services employees — ...Read more

'Five-alarm fire': Minnesota domestic violence groups are scrambling after federal funding paused

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Jen Polzin has been crunching the numbers, and they don’t look good.

The CEO of Tubman said their organization gets about a third of its annual funding − or roughly $3 million − from the federal government. They’ve relied on those funds to reimburse them for work they do across the state, including providing shelter for victims of ...Read more