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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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Democrats push back over Trump's pick for FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino

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Dan Bongino, the former Secret Service agent turned Fox News host and conservative podcast personality, is set to be the next deputy director of the FBI.
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Fox News Politics Newsletter: DOGE Demands Desk Duty

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Trump rescinds Biden order protecting gender clinics from investigation, signals new whistleblower protections

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The Trump administration is rescinding a Biden-era directive protecting hospitals from investigations and signaled that beefed-up protections for medical whistleblowers would be forthcoming.

The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) announced Friday it would be rescinding an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden in March 2022, which, among other things, gave hospitals the right not to comply with state-level investigations related to their provision of transgender medical treatments to minors. Trump's directive eliminates these...
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'Nightmare': Blue state resident rails against bullet train construction in her own backyard

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As the Trump administration investigates California’s bullet train project, which has come under scrutiny for very little progress in 17 years, a small area where construction is underway has made life a "nightmare" for some people north of Fresno.

Dalia Pena, who resides in Madera County, California, said that the construction of an overpass for cars has not only created a major eyesore in her backyard, but the construction has also been a loud disruption, including vibrations, for the once-quiet neighborhood.

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Scottish businessman found dead in Kenya

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Campbell Scott was attending a conference in Nairobi when he was last seen on 16 February.
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Israel challenges Syria's new leaders with demand for demilitarisation of south

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Israel's PM said it would not allow the forces of HTS or the new Syrian army "enter the area south of Damascus".
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Fired federal workers hunt for new jobs but struggle to replace their old ones

  • News source: Matt Sedensky | The Associated Press
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HIRING: Park ranger. SEEKING: Nuclear submarine engineer. WANTED: Sled dog musher.

If they seem unlikely postings, they probably are. But a laid-off federal worker can dream.

Axed from jobs not easily found outside government, thousands of federal workers caught in President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting efforts now face a difficult search for work.

“If you’re doing, say, vegetation sampling and prescribed fire as your main work, there aren’t many jobs,” says Eric Anderson, 48, of Chicago, who was fired Feb. 14 from his job as a biological science...
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DOGE will use AI to assess the responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email

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Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they'd accomplished over the past week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary or not, according to three sources with knowledge of the system.

The information will go into an LLM (Large Language Model), an advanced AI system that looks at huge amounts of text data to understand, generate, and process human language, the sources said. The AI system will determine whether someone’s work is...
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FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier

  • News source: Matthew Perrone | The Associated Press
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Barely a week after mass firings at the Food and Drug Administration, some probationary staffers received unexpected news over the weekend: The government wants them back.

Beginning Friday night, FDA employees overseeing medical devices and other key areas received calls and emails notifying them that their recent terminations had been “rescinded effective immediately,” according to messages viewed by The Associated Press.

Three FDA staffers impacted by the decisions spoke with the AP on condition of anonymity because they planned to continue...
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Yosemite National Park workers hang upside-down U.S flag to protest cuts

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An American flag was hung upside down from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Saturday in protest of the Trump administration's cuts to the federal workforce, which included thousands of National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service workers.

A group of workers at California national park positioned the U.S. flag on Saturday near the Horsetail Fall, an area where crowds of nature enthusiasts and photographers typically gather to witness Yosemite's annual firefall.

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DeSantis promotes his wife as next Florida governor and takes a shot at Trump's pick

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As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approaches the end of his term in office, he’s talking up one potential heir to succeed him in 2026: his wife Casey DeSantis
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'Medical ethics have prevailed': UVA hospital to phase out youth transgender treatments after Trump order

  • News source: FOX News
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The University of Virginia Health Hospital will end its service providing transgender treatments to new patients as young as 11, falling in line with President Donald Trump's order after being at risk of losing federal funding.

The medical center, an academic healthcare facility associated with the University of Virginia (UVA), has been offering transgender medical care to minors aged 11 to 25, including providing children with puberty blockers that delay sex-related physical changes and cross-sex hormones, like testosterone and estrogen.

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Secret Service agent who attempted to shield JFK from assassination dead at 93

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The Secret Service agent who heroically jumped into action to try to shield President John F. Kennedy during his assassination in 1963, Clint Hill, has died at the age of 93.

"It is with a broken heart that I must announce the passing of my remarkable husband, Clint Hill. He died peacefully at home, in my arms, on February 21, 2025," Hill's wife, Lisa McCubbin Hill, posted to Instagram, confirming his death.

Hill died Friday at his home in California, the Associated Press reported.

Hill was a 31-year-old Secret Service agent assigned to first lady Jackie Kennedy's security detail when he traveled with the first couple to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
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DeSantis declines to endorse Trump pick Byron Donalds for Florida governor, touts wife Casey DeSantis

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that he would not necessarily support President Donald Trump's pick to replace him, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and acknowledged the rumor of his wife, Casey DeSantis, potentially running next year.

Donalds has not formally announced plans to run for governor of Florida in the 2026 race, but Trump said in a TRUTH Social post Thursday that Donalds had his "complete and total endorsement" if he so chooses. DeSantis, meanwhile, has been rumored to be floating the idea of his wife running for governor to donors...
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Federal judge halts planned move of trans inmates to facilities for their biological sex

  • News source: FOX News
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A federal judge in the District of Columbia Monday issued a temporary restraining order halting the Trump administration's plans to move transgender inmates to facilities corresponding to their biological sex.

"[P]ending further Order of this Court, Defendants shall maintain and continue the plaintiff's housing status and medical care as they existed immediately prior to January 20, 2025," wrote Royce C. Lamberth, a Reagan-appointed U.S. district court judge.

Lamberth noted a "likelihood of success on the merits of the plaintiffs’ Eighth Amendment...
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