A flood of federal workers leaving their jobs likely won’t impact the national labor market — yet

The DC metropolitan area could see the greatest economic effect of Trump’s buyout offer to federal workers.  The Trump administration’s buyout offer to federal employees likely won’t affect enough workers to have a immediate impact on the national job market, economists say. More than 65,000 federal employees accepted the deferred-resignation offer, according to the White…

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Judge orders Trump administration to immediately unfreeze federal funding and to stop violating his rulings

A judge on Monday found that President Donald Trump was flouting his order to pause a funding freeze. The Trump administration is violating a federal court order by continuing to freeze funding for federal programs, a judge in Rhode Island found Monday. In a sharply worded response, US District Judge John J. McConnell Jr., who’s…

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Dismantling the CFPB would turn the consumer finance world into the ‘wild, wild west,’ its former director says

Elon Musk has said he wants to “delete” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  The first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned against eliminating the independent watchdog agency, telling B-17 that it would strip oversight of financial firms and harm US consumers. “We’d be back to the wild, wild west for financial services that…

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What’s wrong with US shipbuilding? A top Trump advisor called it an ‘absolute mess’ as Musk’s DOGE eyes military waste

Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is set to look into fraud and waste in US military spending. President Donald Trump has given Elon Musk’s DOGE a new target — the Department of Defense. The White House expects it to find billions of dollars in waste, including in what his national security adviser called the “absolute…

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Russia is sending ‘hundreds’ of its war wounded for treatment in North Korea, ambassador says

Hundreds of wounded Russian troops are being sent for treatment in North Korea, Moscow’s ambassador to Pyongyang said. Russia is sending soldiers who were wounded in the Ukraine war to recuperate in North Korea, its ambassador to Pyongyang told state media. The comment from Alexander Matsegora, Moscow’s diplomat to North Korea for over a decade,…

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I supercommuted over 4 hours every day for 10 years. The sacrifice for a city salary and life in the country was worth it.

Anna-Louise Dearden This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Anna-Louise Dearden, a 50-year-old freelance public relations specialist and journalist living in Wellingborough, United Kingdom. It has been edited for length and clarity. I grew up in Thornaby, a small town in northeast England. In the late 1990s, I lived in London while working…

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