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Trump Says Musk’s Email To Federal Workers Is “ingenious” Feb 25, 2025

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Federal workers spent Monday trying to figure out how – or even whether – to respond to Elon Musk’s weekend email blast telling them to explain their work last week or risk losing their job. A day of confusing and often contradictory guidance left many federal workers still unclear ultimately how to handle Musk’s request. Some were told to comply, others were advised not to, and still others were awaiting instructions from their agency’s leaders until late in the day.

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Trump Fires Top U.S. General In Unprecedented Pentagon Purge Feb 22, 2025

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President Trump makes an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon as he carries out a promise from Pete Hegseth before he even became the Secretary of Defense. In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force.

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Must Touts Gov’t Cuts By Waiving Around Chainsaw At CPAC Feb 21, 2025

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During an appearance at CPAC, Elon Musk used a chainsaw as a prop to tout his efforts to shrink the federal workforce in the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.

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Trump’s Intensifies Attacks On Zelensky Feb 20, 2025

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President Donald Trump falsely called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Trump’s accusation, posted on Truth Social, came just hours after Zelensky accused him of repeating Russian disinformation.

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Trump: I Won’t Let Musk Have A “Conflict Of Interest” Feb 19, 2025

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Donald Trump is revealing more about Elon Musk than ever before and why he sees him as critically important to his administration. Trump says Musk is not officially running the agency taking a sledgehammer to the government.

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Delta Jet Crash Lands In Toronto; All 80 On Board Survive Feb 18, 2025

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Stiff winds blew over Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport Monday afternoon as a slim aircraft, cleared by air traffic controllers to land, and its 80 passengers and crew moved to land on the tarmac as snow whipped in the air. But within moments, the plane crashed into the runway, sending fire crews scrambling to extinguish the rising flames around the overturned jet.

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DOJ Moves to Dismiss Adams Case Amid Protest Resignations Feb 15, 2025

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The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a crisis inside the Trump Justice Department, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove led a meeting with the Justice Department’s public integrity section. His message: they had to choose one career lawyer to file a dismissal of the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to three people briefed on the meeting.

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High-Ranking DOJ Officials Resign Over Orders To Drop Adams Case Feb 14, 2025

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Three senior Justice Department officials in New York and Washington resigned Thursday instead of complying with orders from the Trump administration to dismiss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

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Trump Teases Putin Meeting, Says Russia And Ukraine Want Peace Feb 13, 2025

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Mass firings have begun at federal agencies, with terminations of probationary employees underway at the Department of Education and the Small Business Administration, federal employees and union sources told CNN. The mass firings mark the first from the Trump administration as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency aim to dramatically shrink the federal workforce.

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Marc Fogle Thanks Trump For Freedom After Russia Freed Him Feb 12, 2025

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Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained for more than three years in Russia, was welcomed back to the US by President Donald Trump on Tuesday night after the White House secured his release in an “exchange.” Fogel arrived at the White House late Tuesday draped in an American flag and was greeted by Trump, who said it was “an honor to have played a small role” in his release.

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