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Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other military officers

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR
Updated 9:30 PM CST, February 21, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign led by his defense secretary to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

The ouster of Brown, only the second Black general to serve as chairman, is sure to send shock waves through the Pentagon. His 16 months in the job had been consumed with the war in Ukraine and the expanded conflict in the Middle East.

“I want to thank General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family,” Trump posted on social media.

Brown’s public support of Black Lives Matter after the police killing of George Floyd had made him fodder for the administration’s wars against “wokeism” in the military. His ouster is the latest upheaval at the Pentagon, which plans to cut 5,400 civilian probationary workers starting next week and identify $50 billion in programs that could be cut next year to redirect those savings to fund Trump’s priorities. ...

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Kash Patel to be named acting ATF chief, sources say

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Kash Patel, the newly sworn-in director of the FBI, is expected to also be named acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, two Justice Department sources confirmed to CBS News Saturday.

Following a lengthy process, Patel, a Trump loyalist, was confirmed by the Senate Thursday as FBI director in a slim 51-49 margin, with two Republican senators joining all Democrats in dissent.

The ATF, like the FBI, is an agency within the Justice Department. It has more than 5,200 employees and a budget of approximately $1.6 billion...
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The stock market closes out worst day of 2025

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The stock market closed out the week with the worst day of 2025. The losses are coming amid growing concerns about economic growth. Elise Preston reports on how Americans are reacting.
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Trump fires top-ranking military officer in an unprecedented move

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President Trump fired Four Star Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown, the highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. Trump said he will nominate Three Star Air Force Let. Gen. Dan Caine as the replacement. Willie James Inman has the details.
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Trump expected to name Kash Patel as acting ATF director: Sources

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Donald Trump is expected to name FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, sources told ABC News.
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Dem and GOP governors urge Trump to ‘let the states play a role’ in immigration decisions

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Two governors, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, found common ground at a
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Elon Musk says federal workers must justify their work — or resign

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Billionaire Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to federal employees Saturday, saying in a post on his social media platform X that employees must respond to an email justifying the work they completed this week or resign.

Federal employees have already began receiving the email, sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The email, sent from the Office of Personnel Management and shared with NBC News, asked employees to send approximately five bullet points listing what they accomplished this week, CC’ing their managers.

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Trump-Putin summit preparations underway, Russian foreign minister says

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Preparations are underway for a face-to-face meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia's deputy foreign minister told state media on Saturday.

Sergei Ryabkov said a possible Putin-Trump summit – which would be a clear departure from Western efforts to isolate Moscow over its war in Ukraine – could involve broad talks on global issues, not just the ongoing war.

"The question is about starting to move toward normalizing relations between our countries, finding ways to resolve the most acute and potentially very...
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Trump rattles off ‘flagrant scams’ uncovered by DOGE, takes aim at Fort Knox in CPAC speech

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President Donald Trump celebrated his whirlwind first four weeks back in the Oval Office in a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday afternoon, mentioning what he called "flagrant scams" uncovered by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.

"I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency — you probably haven't heard of it — which is now waging war on government waste, fraud and abuse. And Elon is doing a great job," Trump said at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center Saturday...
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Elon Musk says federal employees must fill out productivity reports or resign

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Tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that all federal employees are being instructed to report their productivity in a new Trump administration initiative.

In a post Saturday on X, Musk said the report will come in the form of an email that will give federal workers a chance to report how productive they were the previous week.

If the email is ignored, Musk said, the federal government will interpret that as a resignation.

"Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email...
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USDA launches review at University of Maine over transgender sports policy after Trump-Gov. Mills blowup

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Saturday announced it was launching a compliance review of the University of Maine "following the State of Maine’s blatant disregard for President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14201, ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.’"

The review follows investigations launched by the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services in the last 24 hours after a tense exchange between President Trump and Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills over transgender student-athletes playing in women’s sports...
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Coal still key to US energy dominance, says West Virginia governor

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘King Coal’ still reigns as one of the most affordable, reliable and transportable sources of energy – and the U.S. still has a lot of it, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey told Fox News Digital in an interview at the National Governors Association's winter meeting.

Morrisey acknowledged America's ongoing race with China to be the most powerful nation in terms of both energy development and AI technology. West Virginia, he said Saturday, seeks to lead the way.

"I'm still very hopeful that there's a future for coal," Morrisey said. "Let...
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Mali to investigate claims soldiers 'executed' women and children

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Tuareg separatists accuse Russian Wagner fighters and Malian soldiers of killing 24 civilians.
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Tom Homan tells migrant terror groups Trump will ‘wipe you off the face of the Earth’

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Trump administration Border Czar Tom Homan warned criminal aliens Saturday that they would all be arrested and said he would make good on his promise to immigrant terror groups to "wipe you off the face of the earth."

Homan, who previously served as the acting director of ICE and currently leads the Trump administration’s border efforts, told a rapt audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that the number of illegal immigrant "gotaways" is down by 95%.

"We had about 1,800 a day in 2023. You know how many we had yesterday...
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Seven New Zealand churches targeted in suspected arson spree

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Four churches were burned while evidence suggests three more were targeted but did not catch fire.
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DOGE's Musk says federal employees must document their work or resign

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Federal workers will have to document everything they did last week or face resignation.

These instructions come from a Saturday afternoon post on X by Elon Musk, the head of the White House's Department of Government Efficiency.

President Trump earlier in the day posted on Truth Social saying that Musk is doing a great job in reducing the federal government and that he would like to see him get more aggressive in the pursuit.

"Remember, we have a country to save, but ultimately, to make greater than before," he wrote.

Musk seemed to have...
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