DOGE workers are revolting against Elon Musk and Donald Trump by signing a dramatic resignation letter vowing not to defund 'public services.' 

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The workers wrote that they could no longer honor the commitments of their office

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Big tech billionaire grants extension to initial deadline as administration’s Office of Personnel tells agencies that answering mailout is ‘voluntary’, sowing confusion

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The workers wrote that they could no longer honor the commitments of their office

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OPM says failure to respond to email will not be considered resignation but Trump ally digs in and threatens job lossesThe US government’s human resources office has walked back an ultimatum issued by Elon Musk that would have forced its workers to resign if they did not submit a bullet-point list of their recent accomplishments, in one of the first signs of internal pushback to the Tesla billionaire’s campaign to downsize the federal workforce.The demand, made in an email sent to million of government employees over the weekend and quickly sued over by a coalition of labor and advocacy groups, represented the latest salvo by the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Trump-sanctioned cost-cutting initiative Musk chairs. Continue reading...

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Cheshire MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks following a shameful incident outside a Frodsham taxi rank

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Agency reportedly seeking guidance from DoJ as Musk’s demand sparks confusion across key government agenciesThe new FBI director, Kash Patel, has told his agency employees to hold off on responding to an email from the Donald Trump administration asking them to list their accomplishments in the last week as tech billionaire Elon Musk expands his crusade to slash the federal government’s size.Hundreds of thousands of federal workers had been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they achieved to the office of personnel management (OPM), sparking confusion across key agencies that included the US’s top law enforcement agency. Continue reading...

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Emergency service personal and other public sector workers do difficult jobs for relatively low levels of pay and save countless lives

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Fire services are urging the public to take care of e-bikes

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John Swinney is under fire to explain how public bodies including the NHS are navigating the Equality Act amid a political row over gender self-ID.

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Daily $9 fee designed to reduce traffic in heart of Manhattan and raise billions to upgrade subway train and bus systemsThe Trump administration announced on Wednesday it intends to rescind approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program that is designed to reduce traffic in the heart of busy Manhattan and, in the process, raise billions to upgrade New York’s subway train and bus systems.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the public-private entity that provides public transportation services in the New York metro area, immediately sued the government in an effort to block its move. Continue reading...

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Despite the best efforts of the public and emergency services who rushed to the scene and commenced CPR, the 17-year-old driver was sadly declared deceased at the scene

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Economic adviser jailed last year growing in influence as court filing reveals world’s richest man’s role in administration limited to employee status

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Billionaire’s role in administration limited to senior adviser and employee status, court filing reveals, as acting commissioner Michelle King resigns over data access row

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Departures follow justice department shelving charges widely seen as reward for Eric Adams helping Trump administrationFour deputies to New York’s mayor, Eric Adams, resigned on Monday as the growing chaos following a justice department request to drop corruption charges against him, widely seen as a reward for his help with Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, engulfs his three-year-old administration.According to reports, four of Adams’ deputies – first deputy mayor Maria Torres Springer, deputy mayor for operations Meera Joshi, deputy mayor for health and human services Anne Williams-Isom, and deputy mayor for public safety Chauncey Parker – said they were stepping down. Continue reading...

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Tagline has quickly become the subject of derision, with some critics likening it to a clearance sale slogan A New Zealand tourism campaign targeting Australian visitors has been ridiculed for sounding like a clearance sale slogan and for being tone-deaf amid widespread public service job cuts and record numbers of New Zealanders moving overseas.The government launched its “Everyone must go!” campaign on Sunday, in a bid to encourage Australian holiday-makers to visit New Zealand. The NZD$500,000 campaign will run on radios and social media in Australia between February and March. Continue reading...

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