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We employ you, we employ you not: Fired probationary CDC employees living in a surreal limbo Elon Musk has justified his U.S. DOGE Service's slashing of the federal government by claiming that it is filled with lazy employees "pretending to work." In some cases, though, the outcome seems ironic. "I'm literally being paid to do nothing. Not because I don't want to do anything, but because I'm being barred from doing my work," said S., who spoke on condition of anonymity. Read more. By Eric Boodman |
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8 key players inside RFK Jr.'s HHS HHS is filling out with allies to both Trump and RFK Jr. Taken together, they reveal a pattern: Trump loyalists and those with a conservative pedigree are front and center, but Kennedy has some who share his priorities, too. Here are eight people to know inside of the nation's giant health agency. Read more. By Isabella Cueto
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'We've vanished': U.S. aid cuts leave health workers around the world reeling For eight years, Ntombi, who worked at a health organization in Johannesburg, helped caregivers tell their HIV-positive children about the disease they had. She made sure those children stayed on the medications that suppressed the virus. She visited her patients at their homes to get them any food and financial support they needed. But then, one day in late January, she was told she had to stop her work, immediately. Read more. By Andrew Joseph
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