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Stormy Weather for NOAA as Efficiency Cuts Claim Hundreds of Jobs

Hundreds of staffers on probationary status at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were laid off Thursday as the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to slash the federal workforce.

Workers in front of monitors at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Trump Promises Trade Deal with UK That Sidelines Tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump publicly affirmed Thursday he is working on a trade deal with the UK and suggested Britain could be exempt from tariffs if one is agreed, setting the country on its own post-Brexit path as the European Union braces for punitive imposts.

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 27: (L-R) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Dona

Music Mogul Irv Gotti Cause of Death Revealed

The cause of death for Irv Gotti, the music mogul who crafted hits for Ja Rule, Ashanti, DMX and Jennifer Lopez all while founding the record label Murder Inc., has been revealed.

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 28: Irv Gotti attends the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center o

U.S. Passes China as Germany’s Single Biggest Trading Partner

Move over China, America is coming through. That was the message Wednesday when new figures showed Germany’s biggest single trading partner is now the U.S. for the first time since 2015, displacing China from the top spot as exports to the Asian power declined.

A ship docked at the Port of Seattle in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 202

Director Todd Haynes: Hollywood Must Resist Trump’s ‘Barbaric Assault on American Democratic Institutions,’ His ‘Hateful Campaign Against Trans People’

Resurgent President Donald Trump is popular, getting things done, and making good on a liberating agenda as promised during last year’s election campaign. Those three things are enough to have sparked a grim warning Sunday that Hollywood’s gilded elites need to oppose and resist Trump to avoid being “contaminated” by the radical changes he is delivering.

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCT 13: Todd Haynes at Apple's special screening and Q+A of "The Velvet

Senate Confirms RFK Jr. as Trump’s Health Secretary

The U.S. Senate voted 52-48 on Thursday afternoon to confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr., better known as RFK Jr., as President Donald Trump’s head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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