Day: February 17, 2025

All 80 people aboard the Delta flight from Minneapolis clambered out of the plane, with 18 suffering injuries.

All 80 people aboard the Delta flight from Minneapolis clambered out of the plane, with 18 suffering injuries.

Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, resigned this weekend after more than 30 years of service amid the row with DOGE.

Last week’s round of probationary employee firings hit workers in small Alaska communities hard. And some of the those dismissed say they’ve worked for agencies for decades, not months.

As the dust settles from the first wave of firings at health agencies, here’s how many people got cut, and the impact of the roles that were lost.

A former Watergate prosecutor on Monday urged the federal judge presiding over the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams to assign a special counsel to help decide how to handle the Justice Department’s request to drop charges. Attorney Nathaniel Akerman told Judge Dale E. Ho in a letter filed in the case record in Manhattan federal court that he sought to intervene because nobody was representing the public’s interest after three attorneys from the Justice Department in Washington made the request Friday. Finally, the judge might appoint an independent special prosecutor to continue the case with access to grand jury materials and other evidence, Akerman said.