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Agency staffers overseas – except those deemed essential – placed on leave as diplomats’ union plans legal actionThe Trump administration is placing US Agency for International Development direct-hire staffers around the world on leave, except those deemed essential.A notice posted online on Tuesday gives the workers 30 days to return home, upending the aid agency’s six-decade mission overseas. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-us-aid-workers-overseas Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2025-02-05 03:09:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Bondi approved 54-46 as staunch political ally of president propelled to top perch of US law enforcementThe US Senate confirmed Pam Bondi on Tuesday as the next attorney general to steer the justice department through Donald Trump’s second term and his clear intent to turn it into an extension of his executive power, especially as a cudgel against his personal and political adversaries.The 54 to 46 vote to confirm Bondi was largely across party lines. All Republicans voted to confirm and all but one Democratic senator, John Fetterman, voted against. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/pam-bondi-confirmed-trump-attorney-general Author : Hugo Lowell

Jasmine Crockett, Maxine Waters, Ayanna Pressley, Chuck Schumer and others rally outside treasury buildingUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk has proposed a “wholesale removal of regulations” in an intensification of his crusade to slash US federal government spending.On a call aired on X, the social media platform he owns, the multibillionaire entrepreneur said regulations should be “gone” amid growing opposition to his mission as Donald Trump’s enforcer and head of a newly created “department of government efficiency” (Doge). Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/musk-regulation-spending Author : Robert Tait in Washington Publish date : 2025-02-05 00:23:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Unfair dismissal claim is examining how and why reporter was taken off air after she posted about Israel-Gaza war on social mediaFive things we’ve learned this week from Antoinette Lattouf’s alleged unfair dismissal case against the ABCThe Antoinette Lattouf v ABC hearing continues today in Sydney’s federal court with the ABC managing director, David Anderson, the next witness to be called.The hearing schedule is already a day behind, the court was told yesterday, as Lattouf’s cross-examination extended over two days – more than the expected five hours.The party’s schedule has been completely exploded. We’re a day behind after two days.