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FDA’s top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership

By MATTHEW PERRONE
Apr 01, 2025 8:53 am - The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as sweeping cuts hit the agency and staffers across the federal health workforce Tuesday.
US automakers make mad dash to push Trump to temper tariffs

Keith Naughton and David Welch
Apr 01, 2025 7:12 am - U.S. automakers are making a last-ditch effort to sway the Trump administration on tariffs set to take effect this week, contending that levies on the thousands of parts they source abroad could have catastrophic effects on the industry.
Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food

By CARLA K. JOHNSON
Apr 01, 2025 7:09 am - Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.
Trump's promised 'Liberation Day' of tariffs is coming. Here's what it could mean for you

By JOSH BOAK
Mar 31, 2025 2:46 pm - President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day" — a moment when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
A Kremlin official says Russia sees efforts to end Ukraine war as a drawn-out process

By The Associated Press
Mar 31, 2025 10:43 am - Russia views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as “a drawn-out process,” a Kremlin spokesman said Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the two countries’ leaders as he tries to bring about a truce.
Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Mar 31, 2025 8:46 am - President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.
Slow US tax collections spark angst about debt ceiling X-date

Jarrell Dillard, Alex Tanzi and Alexandra Harris
Mar 31, 2025 8:29 am - Tax collection projections are down. Refunds are up. That’s a formula that could dampen U.S. government revenue and, if it persists, portend an earlier deadline for Congress to raise the debt ceiling — or risk a federal payments default.
Musk-funded political group spends big and goes door to door in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race

By THOMAS BEAUMONT
Mar 31, 2025 8:27 am - Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are not immediately obvious but could be critical to Tuesday's outcome.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor calls for ‘fearlessly independent’ judges

By Justin Jouvenal
Mar 29, 2025 8:00 pm - Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to criticize recent attacks on the courts by President Donald Trump and his allies Friday evening in remarks at Georgetown ...
DOGE fires nearly all staff at U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters

By Abigail Hauslohner and Derek Hawkins
Mar 29, 2025 7:35 pm - The Trump administration summarily fired the staff of the U.S. Institute of Peace late Friday night, less than two weeks after forcibly removing the congressionally funde...

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