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Judge blocks Trump from placing USAID workers on paid leave

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dealt President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, saying he will order a temporary halt to plans to pull thousands of agency staffers off the ...

How the slash-and-burn tactics Musk brought to Washington backfired at Twitter

When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he laid off thousands of employees, stopped paying rent and auctioned off coffee makers and office chairs in hopes of a big turnaround. Now the world's richest man has brought the same slash-and-burn strategy to the federal government, and some people ...

19 states sue to stop DOGE from accessing Americans’ personal data

Nineteen Democratic attorneys general sued President Donald Trump on Friday to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans. The ...

Practicing empathy vs. primal emotion

While navigating life’s pathways, we encounter clashes within ourselves. They center on our compassion and understanding vs. primal emotions, such as fear, anger and self-preservation, to name a few. Primal emotions are innate and are designed for self-preservation. They come into play when ...

Record-high US egg prices are totally Donald Trump’s fault!

During the campaign, Donald Trump stood before a table of groceries, a box of eggs included, and promised: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.” It’s now past day 14, and eggs prices are hitting record highs. Or to use a Trumpian locution, egg prices are ...

Federal prisons are being used to house immigration detainees

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday, returning to a strategy that drew allegations of mistreatment during his first term. In a statement to The ...