Dismissed: Mass firings have taken place on seven of the 10 Fridays since Trump has been in office, a move that one expert said is designed to reduce media coverage and make it more difficult for civil servants to get legal help. Job cuts at the FDA removed employees critical to reviewing new medicines, and the Health Department might reinstate some workers and ask others to return temporarily. Among the latest casualties is National Security Agency director Timothy Haugh.
More territory: Soldiers carrying out the operation east of Gaza City were letting civilians out through organized routes as they took more land and issued evacuation warnings that now cover about a third of the strip. Israel killed a Hamas commander in Sidon, Lebanon, along with his wife and daughter. It also struck four air bases in Syria that Turkey was thinking of deploying forces as part of a planned joint-defense pact.
Multiple Ukrainians legally in the U.S. received an email saying their status had been revoked and they had seven days to leave or "the federal government will find you." The government said it sent the email by mistake.
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