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Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week as part of billionaire Elon Musk's crusade to slash what he describes as “waste everywhere” in the federal government. Musk, who serves as President Donald Trump's cost-cutting chief, teased the extraordinary request on his social media network on Saturday. “Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk posted on X, which he owns.
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'Daddy's home': Trump gets rock star welcome at conservative convention
Greeted by wild applause and chants of "USA!USA!"
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Musk says all US govt staff must justify their work or lose jobs
Elon Musk, the billionaire advisor to Donald Trump, said Saturday that all US federal employees must justify their work or lose their jobs, hours after the president pushed him to be "more aggressive" in slashing government spending.Earlier Saturday, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that Musk was "doing a great job, but I would like to see him get more aggressive."
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Federal employees told to justify jobs in email or Musk says they face dismissal
Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Elon Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
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How the world changed in a month
President Donald Trump spent the first month of his second term on an extraordinary mission — dismantling the global system the United States spent the past 80 years building.
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Police officer killed, 5 other people wounded after gunman holds Pennsylvania hospital staff hostage, officials say
Police responded to an active shooter incident at a hospital in York, Pennsylvania, on Saturday morning and there is no ongoing threat, officials said.
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Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition
The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection that doctors say remains touch-and-go and will keep him hospitalized for at least another week.
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Draft US-Ukraine rare earth minerals deal not one President Zelensky would accept, source says
A draft deal between the United States and Ukraine over rare earth minerals and other natural resources is “not the one President Zelensky would accept,” according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
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8-year-old boy dies as boat carrying 'reverse flow' of migrants capsizes off Panama coast
A boat carrying 19 migrants — part of a “reverse flow” of migrants who once hoped to reach the United States — capsized off the Caribbean coast of Panama on Saturday, claiming the life of an 8-year-old Venezuelan boy, border authorities said. The boat, full of mostly Venezuelans and Colombians, carried 21 people in total, including two Indigenous Panamanians in charge of maneuvering the vessel headed toward Colombia. A growing number of migrants who once hoped to reach the U.S. have begun a “reverse flow” back to their countries of origin due to a tightening of immigration policy under U.S. President Donald Trump.
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What we know about the dispute over transgender athletes between Maine’s governor and the Trump administration
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to strip Maine of its federal funding if it refuses to comply with his executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports, marking the White House’s latest front in the nation’s culture wars.
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Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was a Yogi: ‘She was often taking care of herself’
Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.
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Phoenix police arrest suspect in 1986 murder, their oldest cold case
Lachelle “Shelly” Jeannine Waite was 18 years old when her older sister, Annette, found her dead in their family home in 1986. After nearly four decades, police in Phoenix, Arizona, have finally arrested a suspect.
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'Worst is over' as Chile's 'stolen' babies reunite with mothers
Four decades after they were cruelly forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother fell into each other's arms Saturday at the airport in Santiago, Chile.Garcia had flown to Santiago with four other women born in Chile and adopted in the United States.
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Trump says US wants return on Ukraine aid money
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was trying to get money back for the billions of dollars sent to support Ukraine's war against Russia."We're going to get our money back because it's just not fair.
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Pope Francis in hospital: How to reduce the chances of contracting pneumonia and other respiratory infections
In light of Pope Francis’ latest diagnosis, Dr. Leana Wen explains why older adults are especially at risk for serious disease due to respiratory infections.
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Musk orders US federal workers to report on work by Monday or get fired
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk, the billionaire head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, threatened on Saturday to fire any federal worker who fails to explain what work they have accomplished during the previous week. The threat, issued in a post on the social media site X, was made just hours after President Donald Trump posted on his own social media network Truth Social that DOGE should get more aggressive in its attempts to downsize and reshape the federal workforce. "All federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week," Musk posted on X. "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation."
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Trump revels in mass federal firings and jeers at Biden before adoring conservative crowd
President Donald Trump said Saturday that “nobody's ever seen anything" like his administration's sweeping effort to fire thousands of federal employees and shrink the size of government, congratulating himself for “dominating” Washington and sending bureaucrats “packing.” Addressing an adoring crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside Washington, Trump promised, “We’re going to forge a new and lasting political majority that will drive American politics for generations to come.” The president argues that voters gave him a mandate to overhaul government while cracking down on the U.S.-Mexico border and extending tax cuts that were the signature policy of his first administration.
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Migrant boat sinks off Panama with 21 on board
A boat with 19 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia and two crew sank off Panama, border police in charge of the rescue operation said Saturday.The migrants were returning from Mexico and Central America en route to Colombia after being blocked from entering the US by President Donald Trump's strict new border rules.
Time
U.S. Companies Scaling Back DEI Efforts Amid Trump's Orders
Trump has been targeting DEI efforts at the federal level, and the impact is being felt far and wide.
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NY governor makes case for Manhattan tolls in meeting with Trump after feds ordered a halt
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made the case for Manhattan's congestion tolling during an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump after federal officials ordered a halt to the program, a spokesperson for the Democratic governor said. Hochul and Trump met for more than an hour on Friday afternoon and also discussed other issues including immigration, infrastructure, economic development, energy, offshore wind and nuclear power, press secretary Avi Small said. The White House did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Saturday.

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