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Trump’s Open Plot to Break the Federal Government

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Of the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil servants that the former president and his allies deride as the “deep state.”

Federal employees have long been an easy mark for politicians of both parties, who occasionally hail their nonpartisan public service but far more frequently blame “Washington bureaucrats” for stifling your business, auditing your taxes, and taking too long to

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„The Government Shutdown“ ist eine karikaturistisch schlechte, aber dennoch erschreckende Fortsetzung

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19. September 2023

Die jüngsten Bösewichte im Kongress sind die rechtsextremen Nihilisten der Republikaner, aber ihre Motive für die Sabotage der Regierung ergeben keinen Sinn.

Der Abgeordnete Matt Gaetz, ein Mitglied des rechten House Freedom Caucus, spricht mit Reportern auf dem Weg zu einem Treffen der republikanischen Fraktion des Repräsentantenhauses im US-Kapitol am 19. September 2023 in Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Regierungsschließungen sind wie Fortsetzungen von Horrorfilmen: nachlässig geplant und besetzt, auf maximale Anzüglichkeit

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Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide

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Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be declassified.

Photographs of former President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger displayed during “Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship,” an exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile in 2017. (Martin Bernetti / AFP via Getty)

On August

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Striking junior doctors accused of ‘politically-motivated’ campaign to bring down Government, as health bosses warn their walkouts have cost NHS £1billion

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Striking junior doctors were today accused of running a ‘politically-motivated’ campaign aimed at bringing down the Government. 

The British Medical Association (BMA) welcomed a pay offer from the Scottish government last month and is balloting its members on the package north of the border. 

But Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chair of the BMA’s junior doctors committee, sparked fury by signalling he would not agree the same deal with the ‘ideological’ Tories in Westminster. 

Junior doctors, seeking a salary hike of 35

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French government warns German AfD is ‘peril for European stability’ – EURACTIV.com

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The German far-right AfD, whose party congress this weekend asserted that the EU has “failed”, is “founded on hatred” and looks to “destroy what already exists”, French EU minister Laurence Boone said on Monday (7 August).

Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party members gathered over the course of two successive weekends (29-30 July and 5-6 August) to adopt a shared political platform ahead of the 2024 European elections. Leading Eurosceptic AfD MEP Maximilian Krah was voted in last week to

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Government highlights ‘cause for concern’ for drivers this summer amid safety risk

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Drivers have been warned new figures are a “cause for concern” with motorists likely at risk of breakdowns while travelling this summer.

New statistics from National Highways show a staggering number of tyre breakdowns in recent weeks which could be a major blow to road users.

One in seven vehicle breakdowns on England’s major A roads and motorways were tyre-related on the first weekend of the summer.

Officers reported a staggering 756 breakdowns on July 22 and 23 with 124

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I’m a single mum with cancer running a private sex offender register identifying thousands of sick abusers. Why is the government leaving the safety of our children up to me?

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A single mum operating a private sex offender registry while undergoing treatment for cancer is calling on on the Albanese government to introduce a larger, government-run list after the horrific crimes of a childcare worker were exposed.

Since starting Offenders Exposed about nine years ago, Tania Roy has publicly identified 4,604 people found guilty of sexual crimes across Australia.

Ms Roy, from Gympie in Queensland, said the registry she runs full-time by herself would be dwarfed by the scale of

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Swiss Women Sue Government Over Climate Change Protections

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The women live scattered around Switzerland, speak a mix of the country’s languages — German, French and Italian — and have worked in varying professions.

But the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz, a group of about 2,400 Swiss women aged 64 and over, say they have a common fear: soaring temperatures and heat waves that are threatening them with health ailments in their final decades.

“It is difficult to go outside — it is difficult to breathe,” said Fatima Heussler, 71, a member

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