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Legal questions surround Trump’s federal worker resignation offer  NPR DOJ sidesteps language endorsing legality of buyouts in email to staff  The Hill ‘Fear’ and ‘chaos’ grip federal workers as Trump rapidly remakes the government  NBC News Continuing resolution creates doubts agencies can honor

Legal questions surround Trump’s federal worker resignation offer  NPR Trump Administration Live Updates: Latest on Federal Workers and Tariffs  The New York Times Trump’s hiring blitz aims to restore accountability in federal workforce  KATU Continuing resolution creates doubts agencies can honor OPM’s ‘deferred

More and more questions are being raised about the legality of the Trump administration’s offer to nearly all federal workers to resign now and keep their pay through Sept. 30. (Image credit: Jim Watson)

Trump administration changes have upended the U.S. agency charged with providing humanitarian aid overseas, with senior officials put on leave, contractors laid off and a sweeping freeze imposed on foreign assistance.

The Pentagon has said in recent years that it is impossible to count the total number of transgender troops.

North America braces for new Trump tariffs as Saturday deadline nears  Reuters Your complete guide to tariffs: How much you’ll pay, and when  CNN Ahead of Possible Tariffs, No Rush to Get Goods In From Canada and Mexico  The New York Times Trump

North America braces for new Trump tariffs as Saturday deadline nears  Reuters Canada Your complete guide to tariffs: How much you’ll pay, and when  CNN Ahead of Possible Tariffs, No Rush to Get Goods In From Canada and Mexico  The New York Times

Conspiracy theories about vaccines. Secret meetings with dictators. An enemies list.

Spend the shortest month of the year with a book that is worth your time. The best new books to read in February include best-seller Ali Hazelwood’s latest romance, transgender activist Jennifer Finney Boylan’s second memoir, and Virginia Feito’s blood-soaked

The tariffs would also invite retaliation. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, has already vowed to counterpunch by pulling American alcohol off store shelves in the Canadian province.