Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired in the Trump administration's mass layoffs of federal employees. read more
National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated -- but they struggled to find them because they didn't have their new contact information. read more
Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett on Sunday made what she called an "admission to MAGA" about immigrants taking jobs. There's an immigrant taking people's jobs ... his name is Elon Musk," the lawmaker wrote. "He's snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals), & those that are keeping us safe (FAA), meals on wheels workers, head start, and the list goes on, so I'll be the bigger person and admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn't take our jobs. You were 1000 percent correct." read more
Two people have died after a small plane crashed soon after it took off from a municipal airport in Georgia, around 30 miles east of Atlanta. There have been increased concerns and fears over flight safety in the wake of a number of aviation disasters across the country in recent weeks. These include the tragedy when a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport collided midair with a Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk military helicopter, killing 67 people onboard both the aircraft. On Monday, a private jet owned by Mtley Cre frontman Vince Neil was involved in a plane crash in Arizona, which left a pilot dead and the star's girlfriend, Rain Hannah Andreani, injured.
A relative of Vice President JD Vance says an Ohio hospital has refused to put her 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list over her vaccine status. read more
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