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Social Security Administration aims to cut about 7,000 jobs, prompting fears of customer service impact

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Calling its workforce “bloated,” the Social Security Administration announced Friday plans to slash about 7,000 jobs, or roughly 12% of its staff. The potential cuts are part of a larger reorganization at the agency in line with the Trump administration’s drive to downsize the federal government. The move comes

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Luigi Mangione’s attorney says some evidence in Pennsylvania probe should be tossed because of an illegal search

By Kara Scannell and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last year, is attempting to throw out evidence taken from his backpack and other belongings collected during his arrest, arguing he was illegally stopped and searched by police. In a motion filed last week

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‘Where are we supposed to go?’ Israel’s West Bank campaign leaves families with nowhere to call home

By Jeremy Diamond, Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder, CNN Nur Shams, West Bank (CNN) — Fatima Tawfeeq, 63, has lived through numerous Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank. She witnessed Israel’s takeover of the Palestinian territory in 1967 and lived through Israel’s crackdown during the first and second intifadas, the fierce Palestinian uprisings

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Vance previously slammed Zelensky for lack of gratitude. This time, it placed him at center of tense Oval Office exchange

CNN By Kit Maher and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two years being hailed by Western leaders as a hero. “You know what I wish Zelensky would

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Dozens arrested in global operation over AI-generated child sexual abuse material

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-five people have been arrested in a global operation over AI-generated child sexual abuse material, said Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, in a statement Friday. Operation Cumberland, which was led by Danish law enforcement, is one of the world’s first cases involving this kind of child abuse

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Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say

By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent

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