Federal workers urge congressional lawmakers to reverse job cuts
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Washington — As federal workers continue to face massive layoffs, some are bringing their job search to Capitol Hill.
The newly-formed Fork Off Coalition, composed of recently laid off government employees, held a job fair and staged a sit-in at a Senate building Tuesday. They targeted the offices of Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Tammy Duckworth and Lindsey Graham.
Organizers have been holding informal training sessions with terminated workers over several days on the Hill. Representing an alphabet soup of agencies with various levels of tenure, each worker is paired up and dispatched to a Senator's office to share their stories.
Exactly three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion and under pressure from President Trump, a senior Ukrainian official said negotiations over a deal that would give Washington access to Ukraine's vast mineral reserves were "in the final stages."
U.S. consumer confidence plummeted in February, the biggest monthly decline in more than four years, a business research group said Tuesday, with inflation seemingly stuck and a trade war under President Donald Trump seen by a growing number of Americans as inevitable.
Apple shareholders on Tuesday rejected a proposal to end the iPhone maker's diversity, equity and inclusion program.
Denny's is the latest breakfast chain to charge extra for orders containing eggs, an ever-costlier commodity in short supply due to the killing of millions of egg-laying hens as a result of bird flu.
This season's influenza vaccine may have been a poor match to a strain of the flu virus that caused many infections this winter, early data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma death row inmate who was joined in his bid to have his conviction thrown out by the state's Republican attorney general.
Washington — The House is aiming to vote Tuesday on a budget proposal that would enact trillions of dollars in spending reductions and tax cuts key to President Trump's agenda. But the outcome remained unclear Monday night, as Speaker Mike Johnson continued meeting with members of his conference who were not yet satisfied with the plan.
Elon Musk told federal workers Monday evening that they had "another chance" to justify their work or lose their jobs. The original deadline for them to comply passed later on Monday. Employees at multiple federal agencies had been told to disregard his initial directive.
Over the last month, the U.S. government has worked quickly to pause, disband and dismantle the U.S. effort to fight foreign meddling in elections, raising concern among federal lawmakers and election officials across the country who rely on the federal cybersecurity agency and its counterparts to warn them about attacks on election systems.
ALTADENA, Calif. — As flames engulfed a nearby canyon, dozens of residents in a sober-living home fled to an unoccupied building about 30 miles south. The evacuees, many of whom were previously homeless, watched helplessly as their home burned on live TV.
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.
At the edge of Appalachia in the Allegheny Mountains, the regulars at Caporale's Bakery almost always leave with their hands full — just like they've done for the last 118 years in the city of Cumberland, Maryland. While Dave Caporale is the fourth generation to man the counter, his dad Gus still helps out in the back.
A new plant species called the Wooly Devil has been discovered at Big Bend National Park in Texas, the National Park Service announced Monday.