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Apple and Google removed the app after the Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting firms from doing business with TikTok as long as it is controlled by China-based ByteDance. (Image credit: Ashley Landis)

Trump administration begins mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies: Sources  ABC News OPM advises agencies to fire probationary employees after ‘deferred resignation’ deadline  Federal News Network Trump Layoffs Hit Federal Workers With Less Than a Year on Job  The Wall Street Journal VA

About 70-100 employees were terminated at the CFPB, following dozens of recent workers who were fired earlier this week. Agency staff are bracing for even wider layoffs. (Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Economists warn that enacting tariffs at a time of persisting price pressures is a risky move.

Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Trump’s health chief after a close Senate vote  The Associated Press Mitch McConnell takes his revenge on Trump  Axios Newly sworn-in HHS Secretary RFK Jr. vows to tackle physical, as well as

A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams’s legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the mayor of America’s largest city.

The president said his advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies affecting trade with the United States.

Trump says US to increase military sales to India, eventually provide F-35 jets  Reuters Trump talks trade with Modi after ordering new tariffs  BBC.com ‘Viksit Bharat 2047 means Make India Great Again’: Key highlights of PM Modi, President Trump meet at White

The bill passed after Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans ended a public dispute. It includes a mandatory death penalty for capital crimes committed by people without legal status. (Image credit: Kate Payne)

A new study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that bird flu has silently spread from animals to some veterinarians, echoing two smaller studies that detected evidence of infection in previously undiagnosed farmworkers.