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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2025 (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care and other services for millions of veterans, according to an internal memo obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top-level officials at the agency Tuesday that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000. That would require terminating tens of thousands of employees after the VA expanded during the Biden administration, as well as

What’s the difference between wholemeal and wholegrain bread? Not a whole lot

Hawthorne (Australia), Mar 5 (The Conversation) If you head to the shops to buy bread, you’ll face a variety of different options. But it can be hard to work out the difference between all the types on sale. For instance, you might have a vague idea that wholemeal or wholegrain bread is healthy. But what’s the difference? Here’s what we know and what this means for shoppers in Australia and New Zealand. Let’s start with wholemeal bread According to Australian and New Zealand food standards, wholemeal bread is made from flour containing all parts of the original grain (endosperm, germ

Jadavpur University protests enter 3rd day, students set deadline for VC to address grievances

Kolkata, Mar 5 (PTI) Protests at Jadavpur University continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, with students demanding action against alleged assaults on their peers and set a 4 pm deadline for vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta to address their grievances. The agitating students warned of intensified protests if Gupta did not turn up on the campus to meet them within the stipulated time. They claimed that the VC and university authorities had shown no urgency to resolve the crisis. “Vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta has not shown any courtesy or urgency to meet us. We have given a 4pm deadline, after which

Trump jokes ‘nobody has heard’ of Lesotho

Washington, March 5 (AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Tuesday mocked tiny Lesotho as a country “nobody has ever heard of” as he defended his sweeping cuts in aid. Trump highlighted the landlocked African constitutional monarchy during an address to Congress as he gave a long list of past US aid projects. “Eight million dollars to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho,” Trump said, struggling with the pronunciation. “Which nobody has ever heard of,” Trump added, as Republican lawmakers laughed and Vice President JD Vance and Speaker Mike Johnson grinned behind him. Lesotho has one of the

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