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DOGE Cut Workers Rehired • Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost- cutting blitz were asked to return to work. The General Services Administration told the employees who managed government workspaces to accept or decline reinstatement after what amounted to a seven- month paid vacation. “They didn’t have the
people they needed to carry out basic functions,” Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official, told the Associated Press. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency identified the GSA as a chief target of its campaign to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government. It slashed headquarters staff by 79%, its portfolio managers by 65%, and facilities managers by 35%.
Military Accepts Classic Learning Test • U.S. military academies plan to accept scores from the Classic Learning Test (CLT), a relatively recent learning assessment used mainly by private religious schools and homeschoolers, starting with the 2027 admissions cycle. The CLT, developed
by the for-profit company Classic Learning Initiatives in 2015 as an alternative to the SAT and ACT, focuses on assessing students on a variety of topics including classical literature and the philosophy of ancient
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Greece and Rome;
sciences such as physics and genetics; and history, including American founding documents. Secretary of War Pete
Hegseth said on social media, “The CLT is the gold standard, and our academies need to attract the very best.”
Ben Carson Joins MAHA • Ben Carson, former Housing and Urban Development secretary, has been appointed to a new advisory role at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he will focus on nutrition, healthcare, and housing. The USDA described
Carson’s position as central to advancing the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, a policy agenda aimed at reshaping federal health and nutrition programs. A retired
neurosurgeon and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, he served as HUD secretary from 2017 to 2021, during Donald Trump’s first term. In his new role, Carson
will be the department’s “chief voice” on nutrition, rural healthcare, and housing issues.
Pope Replaces NOLA Archbishop • Pope Leo XIV named a successor to embattled New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond, after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million proposed
No Bailout for Socialist Mayor
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he Trump administration would not bail out New York City if Democrat
mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani followed through with his socialist financial plans, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. “I guarantee you — and there are not a lot of things in
life that are sure — that New York City will be coming to the federal government for a bailout if the Mamdani plans are implemented,” Bessent told Fox Business Network. Asked if he would give the city a bailout under those
circumstances, Bessent said, “It will be the same thing that Gerald Ford said: ‘Drop dead.’” While Ford never actually said those words, a New York tabloid headline used the phrase to capture the moment in 1975 when the Republican president refused to bail out New York as it was on the verge of bankruptcy.
settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse. He appointed Bishop
James Checchio of Metuchen, New Jersey, as the coadjutor archbishop of New Orleans. The position puts Checchio in line to automatically succeed Aymond when he retires. Checchio, 59, handled
the fallout in Metuchen from the explosive 2018 sexual misconduct revelations of one of his predecessors there, then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Prior to arriving in Metuchen in 2016, Checchio had served as the rector of the U.S. seminary in Rome for a decade.
Tragic Summer Camp to Reopen • Camp Mystic plans to reopen next summer near the site in Kerr County, Texas, where 27 girls and counselors died in a July 4 flood. The campers and
counselors were swept to their deaths when fast-rising floodwaters of the Guadalupe River roared through the girls’ summer camp in a low- lying area known as “flash flood alley.” All told, the destructive flooding in Texas killed at least 136 people and washed away homes and vehicles. In an email sent to the
families of the victims, the camp said when it reopens, its planning and procedures will follow the “requirements of the camp safety legislation you bravely championed.” The parents successfully pushed for Texas to pass bills to improve the safety of children’s camps by prohibiting cabins in dangerous parts of flood zones and require camp operators to develop detailed emergency plans.
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