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Feb 2025
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Buyout block, Indian deportees, January ...

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A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s proposed buyout for federal workers after labor unions sued to stop it. U.S. jobs growth likely slowed in January on the back of the California wildfires and cold weather. And the Kansas City Chiefs aim for an unprecedented ‘three-peat’ against the Philadelphia Eagles at the Super Bowl, with Trump in attendance at the New Orleans Superdome. Plus, a look at the first U.S. military flight to fly to India carrying 104 undocumented Indian immigrants.  


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