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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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These US cities could see surge in disease-spreading pests this spring

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Deviations from normal weather patterns are putting several regions in the U.S. at risk for an uptick of disease-spreading pests, a pest-management group says.
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Undocumented immigrants who fail to join registry threatened with jail time, fines

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The Trump administration is threatening to punish some immigrants in the U.S. illegally with criminal penalties, including jail time and fines, if they fail to sign up for a government registry, as it ramps up its far-reaching immigration crackdown.

The move, announced Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security, applies to immigrants over the age of 13 who are in the U.S. unlawfully and who have not submitted fingerprints or registered with the federal government.

The Trump administration said it would give those who have not registered a...
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Ukraine, U.S agree to terms for rare earth minerals deal, sources say

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Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals, three senior Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.

The officials, who were familiar with the matter, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. One of them said that Kyiv hopes that signing the agreement will ensure the continued flow of U.S. military support that Ukraine urgently needs.

The agreement could be signed as early as Friday and plans are being drawn up...
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Trump signs executive order to make healthcare prices 'transparent'

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to make healthcare prices transparent.

The order directs the departments to "rapidly implement and enforce" the Trump healthcare price transparency regulations, which he claims were slowed by the Biden administration.

The departments will ensure hospitals and insurers disclose actual prices, not estimates, and take action to make prices comparable across hospitals and insurers, including prescription drug...
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GOPers press for the release of JFK, Epstein files: Here’s why they’re not out

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Republicans are mounting pressure on the Justice Department to advance the release of classified documents and records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and other federal secrets.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January for agencies to create plans to distribute the files, as well as documents pertaining to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

But Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who is leading the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of...
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Ukraine official says minerals deal agreed with US

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Donald Trump says the deal would give Ukraine "the right to fight on" in its war with Russia.
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Myanmar villagers reveal 'desperate' illegal kidney sales

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Two Burmese men tell the BBC they used forged documents and middlemen to undergo surgery in India.
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Billion Indians have no spending money - report

  • News source: BBC News - World
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India's population is 1.4 billion but its consuming class is only 140 million, or about as big as Mexico.
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White House takes control of press pool that covers Trump

  • News source: BBC News - World
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It will determine which outlets participate in the rotating pool that reports from the Oval Office and Air Force One.
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Nurse charged over video that boasted about harming Israeli patients

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Australian authorities say there is "no evidence" that patients were actually harmed.
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Claims of white genocide 'not real', South African court rules

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Donald Trump has been raising the alarm over the number of white farmers killed in the country.
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Couple's trauma after body placed next to them on flight

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Cabin crew placed the body of a passenger who died mid-flight in an empty seat beside the pair.
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Putin offers Russian and Ukrainian rare minerals to US

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The proposal to give the US access to minerals would also include those from territories taken from Ukraine.
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'We are still at war': Syria's Kurds battle Turkey months after Assad's fall

  • News source: BBC News - World
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As Syria's interim leader plans its future, Kurds in the north-east are battling Turkish-backed forces.
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Can Europe still count on the US coming to its defence?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Trump has engaged Putin and hinted the US may not defend European allies, causing alarm about Nato's future.
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