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Saturday, February 22, 2025 4:43 PM ET

Politics

Acting head of ICE reassigned amid frustrations over deportation efforts

CBS News - 1 hour ago

Caleb Vitello was installed by President Trump to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in an acting capacity at the start of his second administration in January.

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Breitbart

Musk: Federal Employees to Be Questioned About Job Accomplishments

Breitbart - 10 minutes ago

Elon Musk revealed that "all federal employees" would be receiving an email asking them to explain what they accomplished over the past week.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

Farmers hit by a federal funding freeze scramble to respond ahead of spring thaw

NBC News - 9 hours ago

Many farmers made investments based on Agriculture Department funding that the Trump administration has put on hold. Some are in financial peril.

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Los Angeles Times

Column: Bass fires the L.A. fire chief, but her own smoldering political crisis is far from over

Los Angeles Times - 53 minutes ago

To columnist Steve Lopez, the firing of the Los Angeles Fire Department chief looks like an act of political desperation as much as a take-charge moment by Bass.

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Huffington Post

DOGE’s only public ledger is riddled with mistakes - The Boston Globe

Boston Globe - 1 hour ago

While the DOGE team has surely cut some number of billions of dollars, its slapdash accounting adds to a pattern of recklessness by the group, which has recently gained access to sensitive government payment systems.

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Euractiv

Ukraine liveblog: Polls finds Zelenskyy's popularity rising, and scepticism of US-Russia talks

Euractiv - 1 hour ago

Ukraine is on the menu of the great powers and Europe doesn’t yet have a seat at the table. Read our liveblog for updates as they come in.

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Fox News

Meet Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in Hamas captivity

Fox News - 1 hour ago

Edan Alexander spent most of his life in Tenafly, New Jersey, before moving to Israel and enlisting in the IDF. On Oct. 7, 2023, he was taken hostage and is still being held in Gaza.

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Breitbart

New FBI Director Kash Patel plans to move up to 1,500 workers out of Washington, AP source says

AP News - 8 hours ago

New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate 1,000 employees from Washington to field offices around the country and move an additional 500 to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

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