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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, February. 24, 2025

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Trump backs Musk as he roils the federal workforce with demands and threats

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Updated 8:06 PM CST, February 24, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump backed Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments by the end of Monday or risk getting fired, even as government agency officials were told that compliance with Musk’s edict was voluntary.

Confusion and anger over the situation spawned new litigation and added to turmoil within the federal workforce.

“What he’s doing is saying, ‘Are you actually working?’” Trump said in the Oval Office during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. “And then, if you don’t answer, like, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired, because a lot of people aren’t answering because they don’t even exist.”

The Republican president said Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has found “hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud” as he suggested that federal paychecks are going to nonexistent employees. He did not present evidence for his claims. ...

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Poland scrambles military aircraft as Russian missiles target western Ukraine

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Poland scrambled "military aviation" in its airspace early Tuesday morning in response to Russian missile strikes in Ukraine, the country's Operational Command said.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump warns major Dem against move that could cost voters trillions

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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's White House is warning that a key Democrat's move to end the president's energy national emergency would kill hundreds of jobs and cost $3.6 trillion in higher prices and lost energy output.

"Tim Kaine wants to impoverish Americans. President Donald Trump’s executive order brings America into the future and unleashes prosperity. Senator [Tim] Kaine wants to cost the economy trillions and risk losing nearly a million jobs," said deputy press secretary Anna Kelly in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital...
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Judicial pushback on Trump 'hurting American people,' says GOP rep leading impeachment charge

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Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde, who earlier this month announced he was drafting articles of impeachment against a Rhode Island judge overseeing one of President Donald Trump's legal challenges, condemned judges who continue to bar Trump's agenda from being implemented.

Clyde is working in conjunction with Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., who is also preparing impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer. The Georgia Republican said the real victims of judicial pushback against Trump's policies are the American people.

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Who is Daniel 'Razin' Caine? Air Force general tapped for top advisor role in Pentagon upheaval

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration's Friday evening shakeup at the Pentagon saw the firing of six senior officers as Secretary Pete Hegseth made good on promises to upend the agency's leadership.

President Donald Trump and Hegseth fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. C.Q. Brown, and replaced him with a relatively unknown figure in Lt. Gen. Dan Caine.

The choice of Caine shows the president’s preference for irregular warfare and special operations: Caine was among a group of military leaders who met with the president in December 2018 at...
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Israel demands complete demilitarisation of southern Syria

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The announcement could make conflict between Israel and the new leadership in Syria more likely.
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Major Asia bank to cut 4,000 roles as AI replaces humans

  • News source: BBC News - World
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It makes DBS one of the first major banks to offer details on how AI will affect its operations.
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Trump dominates Liberal leadership debate in Canada

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The debate is the first of two in the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader.
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Uganda probes death of Nigerian footballer in shopping mall

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Abubakar Lawal, 29, reportedly fell from a third-floor balcony of a shopping mall in Kampala.
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Watch: Macron fact-checks Trump over Ukraine funding

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The two leaders discussed funding the Ukraine war effort on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion.
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Deciphering Donald Trump: How his rhetoric sends different messages

  • News source: FOX News
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Among the critics who posted on X Sunday after my Fox News show was one who made an argument that surprised me.

Don’t pay attention to what President Trump says, this person wrote. Pay attention to what he does.

Now that’s a novel idea. What the President of the United States says is unimportant and should be ignored. I doubt that this person applied the same standard to President Joe Biden.

And yet there’s an interesting thought exercise here. Trump says a lot of things, especially since he talks to journalists at length virtually every day. Not...
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2/24: CBS Evening News Plus

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Key takeaways from Trump-Macron meeting; Reporter's Notebook: Ukraine war revisionism
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Super Bowl champion Eagles to visit White House if invited, sources say

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Philadelphia Eagles would visit the White House if they're invited following their Super Bowl win over the Kansas City Chiefs, league sources said on Monday night.

CBS News Philadelphia has reached out to the Eagles and the White House for comment on this story but has not yet heard back.

Rumors of the Eagles declining an invitation to the White House swirled on social media over the weekend after a weeks-old post from The Sun gained traction online.

With a 40-22 win in Super Bowl LIX, the Birds prevented the Chiefs from becoming the first...
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Macron suggests Ukraine truce could be weeks away

  • News source: BBC News - World
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During a visit to the White House, the French leader said any peace deal must "not be a surrender of Ukraine".
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Federal workers left confused as Musk doubles down on threat

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Employees get conflicting advice over compliance with a Musk-backed order to list their last week's work or face termination.
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