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Trump administration scrambling to rehire workers cut by DOGE to fill critical government roles

11h Departments and agencies across the federal government are scrambling to fill crucial roles left vacant over the Department of Government Efficiency’s mass firings and deferred resignation offers. For months, DOGE has demanded departments and agencies dramatically downsize as part of efforts to cut government spending. Some employees have been incentivized to leave with early retirement offers or buyouts. Others, such as probationary employees, have been dismissed. But now, those same d ...

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Trump says decision on Fed chair will be out soon

June 6, 2025 7:12 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday that a decision on the next Federal Reserve chair will be coming out soon, adding that a good Fed chair would lower interest rates. "It's coming out very soon," Trump told reporters on Air Force One. When asked specifically about former Fed governor Kevin Warsh, Trump said, "he's very highly thought of." Warsh is considered a frontrunner to be Trump's pick to ...

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Musk floats 'The American Party' after Trump tiff

06/06/25 8:26 PM ET Elon Musk floated a new political party on Friday after falling out with President Trump over the big, beautiful bill. He launched a Thursday poll on the social platform X, which he owns, asking about whether or not the country needed a new faction for political nominees. “The people have spoken. A new political party is needed in America to represent the 80% in the middle! And exactly 80% of people agree. This is fate,” Musk wrote, citing numbers from his survey. He foll ...

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Veterans protest against Trump cuts at DC rally: 'Promises made to us have come under attack'

Fri 6 Jun 2025 17.09 EDT Last modified on Fri 6 Jun 2025 18.29 EDT A flurry of red, white and blue American flags fluttered across the National Mall on Friday as more than 5,000 military veterans and their allies descended on Washington to protest against the planned elimination of 80,000 jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the cancellation of hundreds of contracts for veterans services with community organizations. “I hope that in the future veterans will be able to get their ...

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Layoffs loom at Pentagon-funded think tank after Hegseth slashes weapons-testing office

June 6, 2025 / 6:00 PM EDT Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent personnel cuts in the Pentagon office responsible for weapons testing has halted all work and cleared the way for potential layoffs at the Pentagon-funded think tank that supports it, the Institute for Defense Analyses, or IDA. In a letter obtained by CBS News, the institute's president, retired Air Force Gen. Norton "Norty" Schwartz, told staff he'd received a notice on Monday "terminating all IDA ...

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Headline Changed: Kilmar Abrego Garcia back in US to face charges of helping traffic 'thousands' of migrants

Mistakenly deported Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on his way back to the United States where he will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., according to sources familiar with the matter. More than two months after the Trump administration admitted it mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia from Maryland to his native El Salvador, a federal grand jury has indicted him for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the United States, ...

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Supreme Court lets DOGE access sensitive Social Security Administration information

Updated on: June 6, 2025 / 4:44 PM EDT Washington -- The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to access sensitive information kept by the Social Security Administration while legal proceedings move forward. In an unsigned order, the high court agreed to temporarily lift an injunction issued by a federal district court in Maryland that limited DOGE's access to agency systems of records containing the personal information of ...

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Outrage after Republican representative disparages Sikh prayer in the US House

A Republican congresswoman is facing widespread backlash after saying that a Sikh should not have conducted a prayer in the US House. Mary Miller, an Illinois representative, on Friday published – then deleted – a post on X saying that Giani Singh, a Sikh Granthi from southern New Jersey, should not have delivered the House’s morning prayer. Miller at first mistakenly identified Singh as a Muslim and said that it was “deeply troubling” someone of that faith had been allowed to lead prayer in t ...

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Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say

Updated 4:18 PM EDT, Fri June 6, 2025 CNN — The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources. Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems ...

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Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.

Four years ago, an unconscious Kentucky man began to awaken as he was about to be removed from life support so his organs could be donated. Even though the man cried, pulled his legs to his chest and shook his head, officials still tried to move forward. Now, a federal investigation has found that officials at the nonprofit in charge of coordinating organ donations in Kentucky ignored signs of growing alertness not only in that patient but also in dozens of other potential donors. -snip- Typi ...

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A US territory's colonial history emerges in state disputes over voting and citizenship

1 min ago - Updated 12:49 PM EDT, June 7, 2025 WHITTIER, Alaska (AP) — Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated enough that it’s reachable by just a single road, thro ... (AP)

FAA to restrict Newark flights through December following outage turmoil

49 min ago - 06/07/25 12:37 PM ET The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday announced it will restrict the number of arrivals and departures through the end of the year at the embattled Newark Liberty International Airport. As the airport continues to e ... (The Hill)

Scoop: Rocket launchers, missiles to be featured in Trump's Army parade

1 hr ago - 5 hours ago Army officials are preparing to display rocket launchers and missiles along with more than a hundred military aircraft and vehicles next weekend at the D.C. parade celebrating the Army's 250th anniversary, Axios has learned. Why it matter ... (Axios)

White House security staff warned Musk's Starlink is a security risk

2 hrs ago - June 7, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Elon Musk's team at the U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried about potential security breaches when DOGE personnel installed Musk's Starlink internet ... (Washington Post)

U.S. Rep. Mike Flood (NE-R) seeks to protect the National Weather Service from cost-cutting

2 hrs ago - Julie Anderson 4 hrs ago Critical National Weather Service staff would be classified as part of the nation’s public safety apparatus, like FBI agents and air traffic controllers, and protected from future reductions in force under a measure Rep. ... (http://archive.today/OtfUw)

Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates

2 hrs ago - President Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill. “If he does, he’ ... (NBC News)

Dupont Circle Park fencing comes down ahead of WorldPride weekend events

3 hrs ago - June 7, 2025, 11:33 AM Shortly before WorldPride festivities kicked off in D.C. on Saturday, fencing around Dupont Circle Park was being removed following a week of flip-flopping by District officials and backlash from community members. In a message ... (WTOP Washington, D.C.)

Remains of World War II navigator identified and returned home after 80 years

3 hrs ago - U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Milton L. Hymes, Jr., a navigator on a B-24J bomber, was killed in a crash over the Baltic Sea in 1944. By Graham Cawthon AJ Sisson Updated: 8:21 AM CDT Jun 7, 2025 SAVANNAH, Ga. — Missing for 81 years, 2nd Lt. Milt ... (KETV)

JD Vance Tells Theo Von Musk Might Never Be Allowed Back In MAGA 'Fold' Because He's 'Gone So Nuclear'

4 hrs ago - Jun 7th, 2025, 9:48 am Vice President JD Vance is not sure it’s “possible” for Elon Musk to be invited back into the MAGA “fold” after the billionaire went “nuclear” on President Donald Trump, even accusing him of ... (MEDIAite)

Musk deletes post claiming Trump 'in the Epstein files'

4 hrs ago - -snip- "Time to drop the really big bomb: (Trump) is in the Epstein files," Musk posted on his social media platform, X as his growing feud with the president boiled over into a spectacularly public row. -snip- Musk did not reveal which files he was ... (AFP)

Democratic states double down on laws resisting Trump's immigration crackdown

5 hrs ago - Updated 1:07 AM EDT, June 7, 2025 As President Donald Trump’s administration targets states and local governments for not cooperating with federal immigration authorities, lawmakers in some Democratic-led states are intensifying their resistance ... (AP)

DHS wants National Guard to search for and transport unaccompanied migrant children

5 hrs ago - June 6, 2025, 11:48 PM EDT A Department of Homeland Security request for 21,000 National Guard troops to support "expansive interior immigration enforcement operations" includes a call for troops to search for unaccompanied children in some cases and ... (NBC News)

David Huerta, president of SEIU California, detained during L.A. ICE raids

5 hrs ago - By Rebecca Ellis, Rachel Uranga, Clara Harter, Ruben Vives and Kaitlyn Huamani June 6, 2025 8:37 PM PT Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid ... (LA Times)

Supreme Court to hear Alabama appeal in push to execute intellectually disabled man

5 hrs ago - The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Alabama’s Attorney General’s Office in its push to execute an intellectually disabled man, according to an order released early on Friday. [.....] In 1997, Smith beat Durk Van Dam to death with a h ... (The Independent)

Immigration agents mistakenly detain deputy U.S. marshal in Tucson, feds confirm

6 hrs ago - Jun 6, 2025 Updated 9 hrs ago A deputy U.S. marshal was mistakenly detained by immigration agents inside the federal building that houses Tucson's immigration court, U.S. Marshals Service officials confirmed on Thursday. The wrongful detention was a ... (Arizona Daily Star)

Ice agents use pepper spray and smoke grenades to disperse LA protesters

6 hrs ago - The Department of Homeland Security conducted raids on multiple locations across Los Angeles on Friday, clashing with the crowds of people who gathered to protest. Masked agents were recorded pulling several people out of two LA-area Home Depot store ... (The Guardian)

Neo-Nazi group 'actively seeking to grow in US' with planned paramilitary training event

6 hrs ago - An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI, which once dismantled it in a nationwide effort. The Base, founded i ... (The Guardian)

Supreme Court Suffers Embarrassing 'Software Malfunction'

6 hrs ago - Published Jun. 6 2025 10:42PM EDT The U.S. Supreme Court has suffered an embarrassing technical screw-up after releasing the cases it would hear to attorneys and others in the legal community days ahead of schedule. It’s the second such event i ... (Daily Beast)

Judge says administration can dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services

7 hrs ago - 12h A federal judge on Friday denied a request by the American Library Association to halt the Trump administration's further dismantling of an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the country, saying that recent court decisions suggested ... (msn/The Independent)

Musk floats 'The American Party' after Trump tiff

7 hrs ago - 06/06/25 8:26 PM ET Elon Musk floated a new political party on Friday after falling out with President Trump over the big, beautiful bill. He launched a Thursday poll on the social platform X, which he owns, asking about whether or not the country ne ... (The Hill)

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