Author: The Gazette
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CDC set to lose quarter of staff with latest layoffs, union says
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Layoff notices sent over the weekend to U.S. CDC staff would see the agency lose almost a quarter of its workforce since President Donald Trump took office this year, the union representing them said on Tuesday. The CDC notified some 1,300 employees they would be laid off on Friday night…
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Doctors without Borders shutters Haiti emergency clinic in ‘last resort’
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Doctors without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday it is indefinitely closing an emergency clinic in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince due to extended violent clashes in the area that threaten the safety of staff and patients. MSF had suspended operations at health clinic in Turgeau, located near a high school and some government ministries, since…
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Letitia James’s grandniece ‘willfully avoiding’ probation living in Virginia home
A relative of indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James has been listed as a fugitive in North Carolina for years while living in the Democratic prosecutor’s Virginia home, according to state correctional officials. Nakia Thompson, James’s grandniece, has resided with her three children at James’s three-bedroom house in Norfolk since 2020. This is the…
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US-India expert who advised US administrations arrested over secret documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A leading expert on U.S.-India relations who has advised successive U.S. administrations has been arrested and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information, including over a thousand pages of top secret and secret documents at his home, court documents showed. Ashley Tellis, 64, who served on the National Security Council of former…
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Madagascar’s president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina was toppled Tuesday in a military coup that capped weeks of youth protests over poverty, power outages and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island country. Right after parliament voted to impeach Rajoelina, who fled the country fearing for his safety, the leader of Madagascar’s…
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Massachusetts man behind PowerSchool hacking gets 4 years in prison
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions of students and teachers and extort the company was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison. Matthew Lane, 20, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Margaret Guzman in Worcester, Massachusetts, after he…
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BNSF grain train derails in South Dakota, no injuries or hazmat
(Reuters) -Railroad operator BNSF said on Tuesday it had received a report of a train derailment in Scotland, South Dakota, that has disrupted operations on its main track. The derailed train was carrying grains, BNSF said in an e-mail to Reuters. The Berkshire Hathaway-owned railroad said there were no reported injuries to the crew and…
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Trump targets China cooking oil trade – but sales were already tanking
By Kanishka Singh, Ella Cao and Joe Cash WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he was considering terminating some trade ties with China, singling out cooking oil, which traders and analysts said would have little impact as such shipments had already plummeted from China over the past year. “I believe that China purposefully not…
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Israel to limit Gaza aid crossings due to Hamas’s slow release of deceased hostages
The Israeli government is withholding half the number of humanitarian aid trucks originally set to flow into Gaza due to Hamas’s slow release of the deceased hostages. Following its successful release of all 20 living hostages back to their families in Israel on Monday, Hamas only released four out of 28 deceased hostages still in…
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Mikie Sherrill launches ‘Opioid Jack’ website to taunt Ciattarelli despite defamation lawsuit threats
Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) has continued to slam her Republican gubernatorial opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, on his ties to the opioid industry despite Ciattarelli’s threat to bring a defamation lawsuit against her for her claims. Sherrill alleged during last week’s New Jersey gubernatorial debate that Ciattarelli profited from the nation’s opioid crisis through his medical publishing company…