Author: The Gazette
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Trump pushes back decision on federal employee mass firings by ‘four or five days’
President Donald Trump is delaying a decision regarding how many federal employees his administration will permanently fire amid the government shutdown. “I’ll be able to tell you that in four or five days,” Trump told reporters Tuesday at the White House. “If this keeps going on, it’ll be substantial, and a lot of those jobs…
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Stephen Miller says AOC helps ‘Republican approval ratings go up’ amid spat
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller laughed off Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s (D-NY) suggestion that her supporters should “laugh at” him. Ocasio-Cortez railed against Miller during an Instagram livestream on Sunday that had 4,000 viewers. While the viewers commented in real time to express they were “scared,” Ocasio-Cortez recommended that they start mocking the…
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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid denounces ‘extremist and failed government,’ calls for ‘new direction’
Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel’s opposition, denounced the “extremist and failed government” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, blaming it for the country’s current precarious position. In an essay published in Foreign Affairs on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Hamas, Lapid let loose some of his most scathing criticisms…
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Virginia police union tells Jay Jones to withdraw from attorney general race immediately
A top Virginia police union told Jay Jones to immediately withdraw his nomination for Democratic attorney general, days after a scandal involving his text messages surfaced. Jones is facing intense backlash after it was revealed that he wished death upon a Republican lawmaker and his family in 2022. At the time, he wrote that Todd…
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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins says Trump is more ‘accessible’ than ‘typical’ president
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins said the media’s accessibility to President Donald Trump is greatly different from past presidents and that he recognizes “the value of a camera and a microphone.” Collins said “a typical president,” such as Joe Biden, would not turn a swearing-in ambassador ceremony into a newsworthy event. However, she said Trump will…
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FBI tracked GOP senators’ locations in addition to phone records, Hawley says
The FBI tracked the locations of Republican senators as part of a sweeping surveillance effort during former special counsel Jack Smith‘s investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Tuesday, fueling concerns over political targeting that took place under the Biden administration. “I believe they also tracked our location over a…
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Putin says Russia has captured nearly 5,000 square km in Ukraine this year
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of land in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained complete strategic initiative on the battlefield. Russia’s 2025 gains would amount to nearly 1% of Ukraine’s land area, and the country controls nearly 20%…
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Trump pushes back decision on federal employee mass firings by ‘four or five days’
President Donald Trump is delaying a decision regarding how many federal employees his administration will permanently fire amid the government shutdown. “I’ll be able to tell you that in four or five days,” Trump told reporters Tuesday at the White House. “If this keeps going on, it’ll be substantial, and a lot of those jobs…
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Factbox-Who is still working and who has been furloughed in the US government shutdown?
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of U.S. federal workers have been ordered not to report to work, while others have been told to stay on the job during the U.S. government shutdown, which started on October 1. Here is an overview of who has been furloughed at major government agencies, based on…