Barely a week after mass firings at the Food and Drug Administration, some probationary staffers received unexpected news over the weekend: The government wants them back.
FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier
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President Donald Trump names ‘pardon czar’ to advise on clemency
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was naming Alice Johnson, whose life sentence he commuted during his first term, as his “pardon czar” to advise him on criminal justice issues.
Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88
Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long after, died Monday.
Federal workers confront mass confusion as Elon Musk’s deadline to list accomplishments looms
Confusion and chaos loom as hundreds of thousands of federal employees begin their workweek on Monday facing a deadline from President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting chief, Elon Musk, to explain their recent accomplishments or risk losing their jobs.
Today in History: Jean Harris found guilty of shooting ‘Scarsdale Diet’ author Dr. Herman Tarnower
On Feb. 24, 1981, a jury in White Plains, New York, found Jean Harris guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of “Scarsdale Diet” author Dr. Herman Tarnower. (Sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, Harris was granted clemency by New York Gov. Mario Cuomo in December 1992.)
They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning
Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and Colombia – have given up after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum, and are returning to the countries they once sought to escape.
The Trump administration is firing 2,000 USAID workers and putting thousands of others on leave
The Trump administration said Sunday that it is eliminating 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and placing all but a fraction of other staffers worldwide on leave.
Democratic governors balance whether to fight or pacify after Donald Trump threatens one of their own
President Donald Trump’s real-time confrontation with Maine’s governor over transgender athletes captured the conundrum many Democratic governors are facing in the Republican’s second term.
Key agencies, including some led by Donald Trump loyalists, refuse to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand
Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their jobs.
The leaders of France and Britain head to Washington to urge Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine
The leaders of France and Britain are making tag-team visits to Washington this week as Europe attempts to persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine in pursuit of a peace deal in the three-year-old war with Russia.