FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns
The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.
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Firings at FDA Decimated Teams for AI and Food Safety. Those Hires Are Now Gone.
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Top FDA official resigns, warns firings will backfire on RFK Jr.
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Trump's AI safety cuts
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Dems demand answers on workforce safety cuts
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30 things we love in the world of food, 2025
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Zegras Earns Hearing with Player Safety for Hit on Rasmussen
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Stanford AD Muir expected to resign, sources say
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FDA declares end to Wegovy and Ozempic shortage
The agency first declared a shortage of semaglutide, the main ingredient used to make Ozempic and Wegovy, in 2022.CBS News - 3d -
FDA Asks 300 Fired Scientists to Return
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Officials Are Fired at Traffic Safety Agency Investigating Musk’s Company
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has laid off 4 percent of its workers, a transportation official said. The agency has raised questions about crashes involving Tesla’s ...The New York Times - 1d -
F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers
The agency changed course just days after firing employees who oversee the safety of food and life-sustaining medical devices. Dozens of workers said they and others were back at work Monday.The New York Times - 8h -
Duffy on cuts at FAA: 'We kept all the critical safety positions'
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Monday defended workforce cuts at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), saying that people in “critical safety positions” were kept and that the only ...The Hill - 8h -
USDS Engineering Director Resigns: ‘This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve’
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Top Justice Department prosecutor resigns over climate spending probe
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‘You know what? They quit!’ Resigning by proxy and the crisis of corporate Japan
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Elon Musk says federal workers must justify their work — or resign
Billionaire Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to federal employees Saturday, saying in a post on his social media platform X that employees must respond to an email justifying the work they completed ...NBC News - 1d -
List weekly accomplishments or resign, Musk tells US federal workers
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Why the resignation of 7 DOJ lawyers in the Eric Adams case matters
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Elon Musk demands federal employees justify their work or resign
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NZ minister resigns after he 'placed hand' on staff's arm
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Some federal employees told not to respond to Musk ultimatum to document work or resign
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DOGE's Musk says federal employees must document their work or resign
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Longtime Stanford athletic director Bernard Muir reportedly set to resign
Bernard Muir took over at Stanford for Bob Bowlsby in 2012.Yahoo Sports - 26m -
FDA says Ozempic and Wegovy shortage is ending. That’s bad news for this wellness stock.
“We will continue to offer access to personalized treatments as allowed by law to meet patient needs,” Hims & Hers CEO said.MarketWatch - 3d -
Ozempic and Wegovy officially moved off FDA's drug shortage list
Ozempic and Wegovy, the widely popular forms of semaglutide sold to treat diabetes and obesity, have officially been removed from the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) drug shortage list nearly ...The Hill - 3d -
Shortage of Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and Ozempic drugs is resolved, FDA says
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Novo’s Weight Loss Drugs Removed from FDA Shortage List
The FDA said weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic are no longer on shortage list.Inc. - 2d -
FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier
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FDA rehires staff to its medical devices division after mass layoffs
Around 180 FDA medical device workers were laid off earlier this month by DOGE.NBC News - 4h -
Los Angeles mayor removes fire department chief
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Firing of Joint Chiefs Chairman and Others Draws Criticism
Democratic lawmakers and retired military officers expressed concern about the politicization of the military under President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.The New York Times - 2d -
FBI Director Kash Patel to be named ATF chief
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Trump fires CQ Brown as Joint Chiefs chairman
President Donald Trump announced he had fired Gen. C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and planned to replace him with Air Force lieutenant general.ABC News - 1d
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