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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration must temporarily halt its sweeping government overhaul because Congress did not authorize it to carry out large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies, a federal judge says. CBC | World News
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Why Canadian voters living in the Big Apple have a growing interest in the federal election
Canadian voters living in New York are following the federal election — a race that’s been dominated by the country’s relationship with the U.S. following the imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods and threats by the Trump administration to make Canada the 51st state. CBC | World News
Read More »Luigi Mangione indicted on U.S. federal murder charge in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a required step as prosecutors work to make good on the Trump administration’s order to seek the death penalty for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination.” CBC | World News
Read More »Trump claims he can fire Federal Reserve chair ‘if I want him out’
U.S. President Donald Trump attacked U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday for not cutting interest rates and said he could fire him if he wanted to, renewing a threat from his first term that could cause a major legal showdown over the issue of the central bank’s long-standing political independence. CBC | World News
Read More »Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing
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Read More »U.S. federal workers clamp down on their communications in climate of DOGE-induced fear
Federal workers with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the first government department targeted by DOGE, have locked down their credit, shut off their Alexas and turned to the secure, encrypted Signal app for communications — just as they’d operate in foreign, autocratic countries. CBC | World News
Read More »Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in U.S. federal cuts
Hundreds of weather forecasters and other U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees, including meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in the National Weather Service, were fired on Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said. CBC | World News
Read More »Elon Musk vows to fire U.S. federal workers who fail to report what they’ve accomplished in past week
The threat, issued in a post on the social media site X, was made just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump posted on his own social media network Truth Social that DOGE should get more aggressive in its attempts to downsize and reshape the federal workforce. CBC | World News
Read More »Ottawa removing half of federal internal trade barriers: source
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Read More »It’s barely 2025 and Trump’s project to overhaul federal civil service is well underway
A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for filling federal government jobs. Now, Donald Trump and Republican loyalists appear to be making good on promises in recent years to make radical changes to the civil service. CBC | World News
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