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Trump loves saying 'You're fired.' Now he's making it easier to fire federal workers
The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential government functions will be politicized.
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Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department
The federal judge also told the administration to reinstate department employees who lost their jobs during the reduction-in-force announced in March.
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Attorney representing a student protestor detained by federal immigration agents
Amir Makled sat down with All Things Considered host Juana Summers to describe his experience, and what it could mean for other attorneys who are going against the wishes of the Trump administration.
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But if you click and listen to NPR's executive editor, Terry Samuel, this may be the closest we get to NPR conceding that its Trump coverage 2016 to now didn't work because it tried to use normal tools and assumptions. To me that's significant, and it almost never happens.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167856064/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-of-nprs-coverage-of-trumps-indictment
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This 9-foot Atari video game joystick claims the record as the world's largest
The giant controller, created Mary Flanagan of Dartmouth College, is nearly 14 times the size of an original classic Atari joystick. It made it into the Guinness World Records 2022 as the biggest.
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