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Wisconsin will enshrine the state's voter ID law in the state constitution after voters approved the proposal on Tuesday.
The Associated Press called the vote at 9:48 p.m. EST.
Wisconsin already requires that voters have photo ID in order to participate at the
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WAUKESHA, Wis. — The liberal-leaning candidate is projected to win a high-profile and historically expensive election in Wisconsin[1] on Tuesday, protecting progressive majority control of the battleground state's Supreme Court, which is likely to rule on
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Elon Musk visited Central Intelligence Agency[1] headquarters on Tuesday to discuss his government efficiency program.
The visit was the first for Musk since the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is charged with rooting out
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Filmmaker Oliver Stone urged legislators in Washington, D.C.[1], Tuesday to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and reassess everything from the crime scene to the courtroom, including the rifle and bullets used,
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A fifth 21% happy with NHS in Britain, finds long-running poll, with waits and staffing of major concern....
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Republican Jimmy Patronis, the former Florida chief financial officer under Gov. Ron DeSantis, fended off his Democrat opponent and successfully won the race to succeed former Rep. Matt Gaetz in Florida's special election on Tuesday.
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When top White House defense and national security leaders discussed plans for an attack[1] on targets in Yemen over the messaging app Signal, it raised many questions[2] about operational security and recordkeeping and national security laws. It also puts
It probably feels obvious that having a close friend can influence your well-being. But do the groups that you’re a part of also affect your well-being? For example, does the culture of your work colleagues influence your productivity?
It may seem like
Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos – delicious Latin American pastries – fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. Here we’re tracking evolution in real time, measuring
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As Donald Trump takes office on January 20, concerns over ‘bond vigilantes’[1] in the United States have resurfaced
Like Bill Clinton before him, Trump now faces the prospect of ‘bond vigilantes’ – so-called because they punish
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Reuters was first to report[1] that Meta has warned it may have to “roll back or pause” some features in India due to an antitrust directive which banned WhatsApp from sharing user data for advertising purposes. A non-public court filing seen
Business & Finance
Reuters was two-and-a-half minutes ahead[1] of rivals on Eli Lilly’s unscheduled trading update, which showed fourth-quarter sales of its weight-loss drug Zepbound would miss Wall Street estimates. The drugmaker’s shares slumped 8% on 
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has halted dozens of research grants[1] at Princeton University, the latest Ivy League school to see its federal money threatened in a pressure campaign targeting the nation’s top universities.
Princeton was notified this week that several dozen federal grants are being suspended by agencies including the Department of Energy, NASA and the Defense Department, according to a campus message sent Tuesday by Christopher Eisgruber, the university's president.
Eisgruber said the rationale was not fully clear but that Princeton will comply with the law. The school is among dozens facing federal investigations into antisemitism following a wave of pro-Palestinian protests last year.
"We are committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of discrimination, and we will cooperate with the government in combating antisemitism," Eisgruber wrote. "Princeton will also vigorously defend academic freedom and the due process rights of this University."
As President Donald Trump presses his political agenda on universities across the country, he has paid special attention to Ivy League institutions.
Columbia University was the first one targeted, losing $400 million[2] in federal money with threats to terminate more if it didn't make the campus safer for Jewish students. The school agreed to several demands[3] from the government last month, including an overhaul of student discipline rules and a review of the school's Middle East studies department.
The government later suspended about $175 million[4] in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer who previously competed for the school. On Monday, a federal antisemitism task force said it was reviewing almost $9 billion in federal grants and contracts at Harvard University amid an investigation into campus antisemitism.
The pressure has created a dilemma for U.S. colleges, which rely on federal research funding as a major source of revenue.
Eisgruber came forward as a voice of opposition as the Trump administration ratcheted up pressure on Columbia, calling it the greatest threat to American universities in decades.
“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America's leadership in research,” Eisgruber wrote in a March 19 essay in The Atlantic magazine. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights.”
Several agencies on the federal antisemitism task force did not immediately respond to questions about the action at Princeton, nor did the agencies behind the research grants.
Princeton was among 60 universities that received a warning letter from the Education Department in March over accusations of antisemitism. It said the schools could face enforcement action if they didn't address anti-Jewish bias on campus. All but two Ivy League schools, Penn and Dartmouth, were on the list.
The Education Department launched an investigation at Princeton in April 2024 under the Biden administration. It was in response to a complaint filed by the editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, a conservative news organization, the outlet reported. The complaint cited a pro-Palestinian protest that reportedly included chants of “Intifada” and others described as antisemitic.
The outlet's editor has filed dozens of other antisemitism complaints with the Education Department.
The Trump administration has promised a more aggressive approach against campus antisemitism, accusing former President Joe Biden of letting schools off the hook. It has opened new investigations at colleges and detained and deported[5] several foreign students with ties to pro-Palestinian protests.
Trump and other officials have accused the protesters of being “pro-Hamas.” Student activists say they oppose Israel’s military activity in Gaza[6].
It follows a campaign by Republican in Congress who demanded answers from university leaders after the wave of protests. A series of hearings on Capitol Hill[7] contributed to the resignation of presidents at Harvard[8], Columbia[9] and Penn[10].
Columbia's interim president, Katrina Armstrong, resigned last week[11] after the school agreed to the government’s demands.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has again started pushing for deferred resignations and early retirements among Defense Department civilian workers as he seeks to slash 50,000 to 60,000 jobs -- 5% to 8% of a workforce that includes thousands of veterans.
Hegseth signed a memo Friday to restart a deferred resignation program that emerged out of billionaire Elon Musk's "Fork in the Road" email, which went out to all federal employees in late January and offered them a chance to walk away from their jobs while still getting paid until October.
The memo said the Defense Department, the largest federal agency, was giving those employees the chance to voluntarily leave instead of being fired later. The resignation offers are meant "to maximize participation so that we can minimize the number of involuntary actions that may be required to achieve the strategic objectives," Hegseth wrote in the memo that was publicly released Monday[1].
Read Next: House Republican Pushing for Tax Exemption for Military Bonuses to Be Included in Trump Agenda Bill[2]
Musk, the world's richest man, and President Donald Trump have spent the first months of his administration firing huge swaths of federal employees -- including Department of Veterans Affairs[3] workers, IRS personnel, weather forecasters and health care workers -- and dismantling agencies across the federal government without the consent of Congress. The moves have caused chaos, public outrage and a deluge of lawsuits.
The defense secretary has been focused on cutting jobs in the Pentagon from his first days in office and, until recently, was personally involved in some of the decisions surrounding which employees could stay or go.
"As the secretary made clear, it is simply not in the public interest to retain individuals whose contributions are not mission-critical," Darin Selnick, the man who was performing the duties of the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said in a February memo announcing an effort to fire 5,400 probationary employees[4]. Selnick has since become Hegseth's deputy chief of staff.
The Trump administration's mass firings of probationary employees at the Pentagon and elsewhere were temporarily halted by the courts[5], which found legal issues with the terminations and ordered that the employees return to work.
With mass firings on hold, the Pentagon has begun focusing on voluntary resignations to dramatically reduce the number of civilian employees, who provide a wide range of services across the department.
Two weeks ago, a senior defense official told reporters that -- between the firings, a hiring freeze also ordered by Hegseth, and the resignation program -- resignations were far and away the most successful at getting employees off the Pentagon's books.
The official told reporters that, at the time, the department had "approved more than 20,000 ... nearing 21,000 of the applications from employees that volunteered."
By contrast, the firings and hiring freeze have not only raised legal challenges but become a source of constant scrutiny for the Pentagon as it has laid off or fired employees who turned out to be necessary.
Military.com was the first to report that, as part of these cost-cutting and firing efforts, the Pentagon halted programs that administered the military recruiting exam[6] -- a key step in getting people into the military -- at remote locations and inside high schools.
A week later, on March 14, the military reversed its decision[7] and brought all the impacted civilians who ran the programs back off furlough.
A memo, written by Selnick's successor, just days after that about-face, specifically exempted jobs at military entrance locations[8] from the hiring freeze. However, despite these carveouts, services across the military have continued to be impacted.
Last week, Hill Air Force Base[9] in Utah was forced to close one of its two day care centers[10] as a result of the hiring freezes, despite the fact that child care center staff were exempted from the job cuts.
By returning to a program that incentivizes resignations, it seems that Hegseth is hoping to find thousands more employees willing to leave their jobs, enabling officials to then simply close those positions once they are vacant.
Hegseth will then use the funding from those jobs to offer "increased resources in the areas where we need them most." Neither Hegseth nor the Pentagon has disclosed what positions they deem unnecessary; what areas are in need of more resources; or which employees are leaving, despite promises to be transparent.
The offer to civilians did not seem to address any specific areas or jobs in the department, meaning there appeared to be no effort at targeted reductions. The memo released Monday noted that both the deferred resignation and early retirement offers were available to all Defense Department civilians -- about 760,000 civilian employees total[11] -- and "exemptions should be rare."
The latest memo also claimed the effort is "not about a target number of layoffs," even though Selnick's statement in late February that kicked off the job cuts said that the goal was to reduce the number of civilian employees by 5% to 8%.
Pentagon officials have also not offered any response to the job cuts disproportionately affecting veterans -- more than 30,000[12] are employed by the Pentagon.
"Within the military, there are times where you see that individuals will leave service when their services are no longer directly in the nation's interest," the senior official told reporters two weeks ago. "The same thing is true in the civilian side, and some of those people will be veterans that served in uniform previously."
Related: Pentagon Pushes Ahead on Cutting 60,000 Civilian Workers Using Firings, Resignations and Hiring Freeze[13]
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has again started pushing for deferred resignations and early retirements among Defense Department civilian workers as he seeks to slash 50,000 to 60,000 jobs -- 5% to 8% of a workforce that includes thousands of veterans.
Hegseth signed a memo Friday to restart a deferred resignation program that emerged out of billionaire Elon Musk's "Fork in the Road" email, which went out to all federal employees in late January and offered them a chance to walk away from their jobs while still getting paid until October.
The memo said the Defense Department, the largest federal agency, was giving those employees the chance to voluntarily leave instead of being fired later. The resignation offers are meant "to maximize participation so that we can minimize the number of involuntary actions that may be required to achieve the strategic objectives," Hegseth wrote in the memo that was publicly released Monday[1].
Read Next: House Republican Pushing for Tax Exemption for Military Bonuses to Be Included in Trump Agenda Bill[2]
Musk, the world's richest man, and President Donald Trump have spent the first months of his administration firing huge swaths of federal employees -- including Department of Veterans Affairs[3] workers, IRS personnel, weather forecasters and health care workers -- and dismantling agencies across the federal government without the consent of Congress. The moves have caused chaos, public outrage and a deluge of lawsuits.
The defense secretary has been focused on cutting jobs in the Pentagon from his first days in office and, until recently, was personally involved in some of the decisions surrounding which employees could stay or go.
"As the secretary made clear, it is simply not in the public interest to retain individuals whose contributions are not mission-critical," Darin Selnick, the man who was performing the duties of the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said in a February memo announcing an effort to fire 5,400 probationary employees[4]. Selnick has since become Hegseth's deputy chief of staff.
The Trump administration's mass firings of probationary employees at the Pentagon and elsewhere were temporarily halted by the courts[5], which found legal issues with the terminations and ordered that the employees return to work.
With mass firings on hold, the Pentagon has begun focusing on voluntary resignations to dramatically reduce the number of civilian employees, who provide a wide range of services across the department.
Two weeks ago, a senior defense official told reporters that -- between the firings, a hiring freeze also ordered by Hegseth, and the resignation program -- resignations were far and away the most successful at getting employees off the Pentagon's books.
The official told reporters that, at the time, the department had "approved more than 20,000 ... nearing 21,000 of the applications from employees that volunteered."
By contrast, the firings and hiring freeze have not only raised legal challenges but become a source of constant scrutiny for the Pentagon as it has laid off or fired employees who turned out to be necessary.
Military.com was the first to report that, as part of these cost-cutting and firing efforts, the Pentagon halted programs that administered the military recruiting exam[6] -- a key step in getting people into the military -- at remote locations and inside high schools.
A week later, on March 14, the military reversed its decision[7] and brought all the impacted civilians who ran the programs back off furlough.
A memo, written by Selnick's successor, just days after that about-face, specifically exempted jobs at military entrance locations[8] from the hiring freeze. However, despite these carveouts, services across the military have continued to be impacted.
Last week, Hill Air Force Base[9] in Utah was forced to close one of its two day care centers[10] as a result of the hiring freezes, despite the fact that child care center staff were exempted from the job cuts.
By returning to a program that incentivizes resignations, it seems that Hegseth is hoping to find thousands more employees willing to leave their jobs, enabling officials to then simply close those positions once they are vacant.
Hegseth will then use the funding from those jobs to offer "increased resources in the areas where we need them most." Neither Hegseth nor the Pentagon has disclosed what positions they deem unnecessary; what areas are in need of more resources; or which employees are leaving, despite promises to be transparent.
The offer to civilians did not seem to address any specific areas or jobs in the department, meaning there appeared to be no effort at targeted reductions. The memo released Monday noted that both the deferred resignation and early retirement offers were available to all Defense Department civilians -- about 760,000 civilian employees total[11] -- and "exemptions should be rare."
The latest memo also claimed the effort is "not about a target number of layoffs," even though Selnick's statement in late February that kicked off the job cuts said that the goal was to reduce the number of civilian employees by 5% to 8%.
Pentagon officials have also not offered any response to the job cuts disproportionately affecting veterans -- more than 30,000[12] are employed by the Pentagon.
"Within the military, there are times where you see that individuals will leave service when their services are no longer directly in the nation's interest," the senior official told reporters two weeks ago. "The same thing is true in the civilian side, and some of those people will be veterans that served in uniform previously."
Related: Pentagon Pushes Ahead on Cutting 60,000 Civilian Workers Using Firings, Resignations and Hiring Freeze[13]
© Copyright 2025 Military.com. All rights reserved. This article may not be republished, rebroadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without written permission. To reprint or license this article or any content from Military.com, please submit your request here[14].
Here's a look at what celebrities have been up to as of late!
Doechii[1] performed "Doo Wop (That Thing)" at the Fugees concert in Miami, Florida in a custom Levi’s® cropped Original Trucker Jacket and 517™ Bootcut Jeans.
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Selma Blair[2] attended the
Play with clay! Kendall[1] and Kylie Jenner[2], Gwyneth Paltrow[3], Seth Rogen[4], Rosie Huntington-Whiteley[5] and Hailey Bieber[6] have been flocking to Patrick Johnston's[7] Temple of Mediclaytion ceramics studio[8] in Venice, California, and there’s a special
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Glow brighter than the sun! Hilary Duff's[1] esthetician Anush Movsesian[2] sat down with ET to share her top tips for maintaining glass-like skin all year long.
The sought-after skincare expert, and owner of Routine[3] in Studio City, California, is booked
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Wisconsin will enshrine the state's voter ID law in the state constitution after voters approved the proposal on Tuesday.
The Associated Press called the vote at 9:48 p.m. EST.
Wisconsin already requires that voters have photo ID in order to participate at the
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WAUKESHA, Wis. — The liberal-leaning candidate is projected to win a high-profile and historically expensive election in Wisconsin[1] on Tuesday, protecting progressive majority control of the battleground state's Supreme Court, which is likely to rule on
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Elon Musk visited Central Intelligence Agency[1] headquarters on Tuesday to discuss his government efficiency program.
The visit was the first for Musk since the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is charged with rooting out
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Read more https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elon-musk-visits-cia-headquarters-discuss-doge-cuts
A fifth 21% happy with NHS in Britain, finds long-running poll, with waits and staffing of major concern....
For dogs housed at Texas kennels, age and fecal score are important factors for screening for subclinical Giardia infections.
A new form of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy, a form of personalized cancer immunotherapy, dramatically improved the treatment's effectiveness in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal cancers, according to results of a clinical trial. The findings offer hope that this therapy could be used to treat a variety of solid tumors, which has so far eluded researchers developing cell-based therapies.
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CINCINNATI -- Nathan Eovaldi[1] pitched a four-hitter for the majors' first complete game of the season, and the Texas Rangers[2] blanked the Cincinnati Reds[3] 1-0[4] on Tuesday night.
Eovaldi struck out eight and walked...
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Arsenal[1] face a potential injury crisis in defense ahead of their Champions League showdown with Real Madrid[2] after Gabriel Magalhães[3] and Jurriën Timber[4] picked up injuries in Tuesday's Premier League[5] win over Fulham[6].
The Gunners moved...
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New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic[1], when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for many tasks and lasted for a long time.
Disease forecasts are like weather forecasts: We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular storm, but we can often identify when these threats are emerging and prepare accordingly.
The viruses that cause avian influenza are potential threats to global health. Recent animal outbreaks[1] from a subtype called H5N1...
Curious Kids[1] is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [2]. Why do dogs love to play with trash? – Sarah G٫ age 11٫ Seguin٫ Texas When I think about why dogs do something, I try to imagine what motivates them. What does a dog get
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The primitive hate on display in the streets around the globe cries out for a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.
It is time to end the Jewish Problem once and for all.
Both the problem and solution are simple, and this instruction can be short.
The decision and responsibility for it are yours.
First one bank announced it will only accept digital currency.
Now the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced it is heading into digital currency.
As the moth is to the flame, so are the follies of man.
Artificial intelligence and the next level of quantum computing will render passwords and encryption efforts obsolete.
The point of having a nation of laws is twofold: (a) you know how to prosper, and (b) you know how to stay out of jail.
The persecution of President Trump has revealed a new threat of charlatan prosecutors and agency administrators cobbling together disparate statutes which the media kindly calls “innovative”, “artful” or “novel” interpretations or constructions.
But these recombinations are actually new laws because they are the nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and contexts in criminal statutes, strung together in new combinations to create newly criminalized conduct after a citizen has engaged in some conduct.
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