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Fox's Doocy presses White House spokesperson on stock trends, DOGE cuts

Fox News reporter Peter Doocy pressed White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday on how the struggling stock market might effect the administration's government reform efforts. "Is ...

The Hill - 3d

Trump administration cancels disaster training for meteorologists amid staffing, travel cuts

The Trump administration has canceled a training that prepares meteorologists to forecast during disasters, The Hill has learned. The incident meteorologist training for the National Weather ...

The Hill - 3d

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

The New York Times - 3d

US education department plans to cut half its workforce

The mass layoffs will impact nearly 2,100 people who are set to be placed on leave from 21 March.

BBC News - 3d

PwC cuts record number of UK partners and halts tech apprenticeship scheme

Moves come as consultants strain to protect annual profit pool of close to £1mn per partner

Financial Times - 2d

Canada cuts rates as trade war shakes consumer and business confidence

Reduction to 2.75% comes hours after US tariffs on aluminium and steel take effect

Financial Times - 2d

Musk’s cuts fail to stop US federal spending hitting new record

Government spending rose to $603bn in February despite hyperactive efficiency drive, data shows

Financial Times - 2d

Union for Education Department workers reacts to sweeping job cuts

The Trump administration is placing more than a thousand Department of Education workers on leave beginning March 21. American Federation of Government Employees Local 252 President Sheria Smith, ...

CBS News - 2d

Progressive group targets GOP lawmakers over Musk, health cuts

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care First in The Hill Nonprofit launches ad campaign urging GOP to stand up to Musk The digital campaign from progressive ...

The Hill - 2d

‘Be careful about this’: Warnings abound as GOP considers writing off tax cuts

Republicans will discuss the accounting maneuver with President Donald Trump on Thursday.

Politico - 2d

Mom worries about daughter with Down Syndrome after Education Department cuts

Hope Katz Zogby, a 7th grader in Baltimore, gets speech therapy and occupational therapy she receives onsite at her local charter school -- programs made possible through funding from the Education ...

CBS News - 2d

Federal Agency Dedicated to Mental Illness and Addiction Faces Huge Cuts

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced by 50 percent.

The New York Times - 2d

Trump administration cuts export office staff amid escalating trade war

The Trump administration has fired numerous employees at the International Trade Administration (ITA), a Commerce Department branch that is set to play a key role in enacting President Trump’s ...

The Hill - 1d

Stock Market Remains Uncertain Amid Trump’s Whipsawing Tariffs and Budget Cuts

The administration’s whipsawing moves are leaving investors guessing. The risk is that this uncertainty comes at a real cost to the economy.

The New York Times - 1d

FirstFT: Musk’s government spending cuts fail to halt rising costs

Also in today’s newsletter, Putin’s frontline visit and a new FT film on Nvidia’s rise

Financial Times - 1d

FTC seeks delay in Amazon trial, citing recent cuts in staff, budget

Lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission says agency needs to seek trial delay in case against Amazon due to staffing and budgetary challenges.

CBS News - 1d

Are Trump’s campus funding cuts an attack or a defense of free speech?

What critics fail to acknowledge is that there are dangers to free speech on both sides — in inaction as well as overreaction.

The Hill - 1d

EPA Cuts Expose Businesses in Disadvantaged Areas to Pollution Risks

Closure of the EPA’s environmental justice offices end their work protecting communities battling pollution with Trump officials justifying the move.

Inc. - 1d

NFL world reacts to Patriots cutting eight-year captain David Andrews

Here's how NFL fans reacted to the shocking news that the New England Patriots were releasing eight-year captain David Andrews.

Yahoo Sports - 1d

Starmer suffers cabinet uprising over UK spending cuts

Opposition grows to plans in areas such as welfare but prime minister insists he will not bend rules to allow more borrowing

Financial Times - 1d

USPS to cut 10,000 workers through voluntary early retirement program

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy confirmed that the Elon Musk-led DOGE is now working with USPS.

CBS News - 1d

Farmers face steep losses in the middle of Trump's trade war and funding cuts

Jennifer Gilkerson never imagined that her West Virginia farm’s freeze-dried fruits would get caught up in political fights in Washington, D.C.

NBC News - 19h

Hundreds of federal offices to start to empty this summer due to DOGE cuts: AP

Federal agencies will begin to vacate hundreds of offices nationwide this summer under a frenetic and error-prone push by DOGE to scrap leases it says waste money.

CBS News - 16h

Rayner and Cooper criticised cuts in ‘tense’ UK cabinet meeting

‘Large minority’ of ministers protested about planned spending reductions in their own departments

Financial Times - 13h

Social Security Administration to cut phone service for direct-deposit transactions

Account changes must be made either online or at a field office starting March 29.

MarketWatch - 12h

Trump CMS nominee Dr. Oz won't commit to opposing Medicaid cuts

President Donald Trump has promised to preserve Medicaid and other federal safety-net programs.

CNBC - 10h

Dr. Oz dodges questions on Medicaid cuts during Senate confirmation hearing

President Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services faced questions from the Senate Finance Committee on Friday.

MarketWatch - 7h

Trump Foreign Aid Cuts Threaten Refugees’ Survival: ‘People Will Die’

At the world’s largest refugee camp, for Rohingya people in Bangladesh, the food allowance per person is set to fall to just $6 per month, far below what aid officials say is required for survival.

The New York Times - 7h

Mauna Loa Observatory’s Lease May End Because of NOAA Cuts

NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

The New York Times - 2h

Vance says pro-Ukraine protestors confronted him while he was with his daughter

Vice President Vance said that he was confronted by a group of pro-Ukraine protestors while he was walking with his 3-year-old daughter on Saturday. Vance wrote that he encountered “Slava Ukraini” ...

The Hill - 6d

‘It’s not because I want people to think I’m great’: Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts

The actor grew up poor, got rich, then lost everything backing the 2019 Homeless World Cup. Now he’s giving away more of his money to help 900 total strangers. Doesn’t he think he’s done enough?. ...

The Guardian - 4d

‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared ...

The Guardian - 4d

Mike Bianchi: Olympian Omari Jones will make Orlando proud once again as he embarks on his pro boxing career

ORLANDO, Fla. — “Just a kid from Orlando.” That’s what it said on the front of homegrown Olympian Omari Jones’ T-shirt the other day when he held a training session at a local gym in preparation ...

Yahoo Sports - 18h

Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy | Simon Jenkins

The PM sounds like Elon Musk when promising to fight the ‘blockers’, but his government’s plans will weaken the link between peoples and politics. Every new prime minister has an Elon Musk moment. ...

The Guardian - 18h

Jessie Holmes wins his first Iditarod after five top-10 finishes

Mar. 14—NOME — Jessie Holmes, a 43-year-old who came to Alaska from Alabama more than 20 years ago, earned his first victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Friday. Holmes crossed under ...

Yahoo Sports - 14h

‘Life Below Zero’ Alum Jessie Holmes Wins Iditarod Race In His Eighth Try

Jessie Holmes, who appeared on the long-running Nat Geo series Life Below Zero that follows people living subsistence lifestyles in the most remote parts of Alaska, won the famed Iditarod Trail ...

Yahoo Sports - 2h

East Carolina baseball player whose leg was amputated below knee records his first career hit

East Carolina's Parker Byrd, whose right leg was amputated below the knee after a boating accident three years ago, got his first hit as a college player when he singled in the Pirates' 12-0 win ...

Yahoo Sports - 1h