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I think both sides of the aisle would love it, he wouldn't have to go to stupid meetings or handle anything, and he would go out with a huge fan base.

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The plan to carry out mass firings of civilian probationary employees at the Department of Defense has been temporarily paused until a more thorough review of the impacts can be done, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The pause comes after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the military services to identify $50 billion in programs that could be cut next year.

Pentagon lawyers reportedly started reviewing the legality of the planned firings after CNN reported it could conflict with Title 10 section 129a of the US Code.

The North Carolina Supreme Court denied the state board of elections’ petition to bypass the appeals court level in an ongoing legal bid by GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin to overturn his 2024 election loss. As a result of the court’s 4-2 order issued today, Griffin’s challenge will proceed in the North Carolina Court of Appeals before ultimately ending up in the state Supreme Court — a move that could potentially benefit his legal efforts to unseat incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs.

By contrast, bypass directly to the North Carolina Supreme Court might have been more favorable to Riggs, as it would have enabled a recent Wake County Superior Court ruling rejecting Griffin’s challenge to remain in place if the justices (with Riggs recused) deadlocked in a 3-3 split.

According to these sources, IRS employees slated for termination were “deemed as not critical” to the ongoing tax filing season. Managers have been told be be “hands-on-deck” in the office Thursday and Friday to help with the offboarding process.

According to the latest data from the Office of Personnel Management, the IRS had more than 15,000 employees with less than a year on the job, as of May 2024. In some cases, however, IRS employees may have probationary periods that exceed one year.

Doreen Greenwald, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union, called the layoffs “arbitrary and unlawful,” and said NTEU “will keep fighting until every wrongful termination is reversed.”

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Thursday cut protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants, leaving them vulnerable to deportations by August.

“We are returning integrity to the TPS system, which has been abused and exploited by illegal aliens for decades,” a DHS official said in a statement. “President Trump and Secretary Noem are returning TPS to its original status: temporary.”

It’s the second time Noem has revoked an extension of Temporary Protected Status renewed under the Biden administration. TPS allows people from countries deemed too dangerous to return to their home due to violence, natural disasters or other unstable circumstances to obtain U.S. work permits and protection from deportation.

The red billboard, located at Sealy Avenue and University Boulevard in Galveston, (Texas) says "Welcome to the Gulf of America" in a white font and all capital letters. "Sponsored by Enron" appears below the message.

Enron had not posted about the billboard on its social media pages, as of Friday morning.

The company didn't immediately respond to a request to confirm its sponsorship of the billboard.

The red billboard, located at Sealy Avenue and University Boulevard in Galveston, (Texas) says "Welcome to the Gulf of America" in a white font and all capital letters. "Sponsored by Enron" appears below the message.

Enron had not posted about the billboard on its social media pages, as of Friday morning.

The company didn't immediately respond to a request to confirm its sponsorship of the billboard.

The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told ProPublica she didn’t believe DOGE had the legal authority for the actions it’s taken. She called it a “made-up federal department” that’s wasting taxpayer dollars.

“This unlawful effort is stealing federal funds from American families and businesses,” DeLauro said.

Most of DOGE’s money, records show, has come in the form of payments from other federal agencies made possible by a nearly century-old law called the Economy Act. To steer those funds to the new department, the Trump administration has treated DOGE as if it were a federal agency. And by dispatching members of its staff to other agencies and having those staffers issue edicts about policy and personnel, DOGE has also behaved as if it has agency-level authority.

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Federal agencies employed more than 17,000 wildland fire staffers last year, many of them in seasonal roles. This year, many of those workers had job offers rescinded — or had their transfers and promotions put on hold — just as they were set to begin onboarding and training for the 2025 fire season.

Trump’s efforts to cut the federal workforce are led by his newly created commission dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, helmed by billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.

Aside from the hiring freeze, the Forest Service fired an additional 3,400 staffers last week, many of whom provided critical support for wildfire operations. Meanwhile, Trump’s freeze on federal spending has cut off funding for projects such as prescribed burns to reduce future risk. Wildfire officials offer mixed reports on whether that funding has been restored in the wake of judicial rulings.

That fiercely-defended stewardship is reportedly in part why there has not been much public forward progress on the casting of a new actor to play Bond, after Daniel Craig departed the series with the release of No Time to Die in 2021. Last December, a report by the Wall Street Journal alleged that Broccoli and Wilson’s relationship with Amazon since the purchase of MGM Studios had “collapsed,” as the involved parties failed to establish trust that Amazon could develop a new Bond movie–with Broccoli allegedly telling people close to her that she believed that Amazon executives were “fucking idiots.”

The lack of progress on a new Bond movie since 2021, as well as constant pushback from Broccoli and Wilson over just what kind of actors the team were looking for to become the new 007, recently lead to an outlandish claim at staking ownership over the franchise. This past week, it was reported that Austrian businessman Josef Kleindienst had made several legal filings in Europe in an attempt to gain the rights to Bond, citing UK and European laws over non-use of a trademark. Kleindienst alleged that as Amazon had not developed a new Bond film since the release of No Time to Die yet, limitations of non-use after five years would open up the chance for the property developer to take over the trademarks himself, using them to expand the world of Bond into areas such as the restaurant industry.

An order obtained by NPR on Wednesday that was sent to service members showed that they were instructed about a deployment for more than 180 days, to a location that was redacted.

The doctors and others who are getting deployed were told the site would be at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo and would last six months, according to internal communications reviewed by NPR and two sources familiar with the planning who were not authorized to talk publicly.