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U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are undertaking a sweeping campaign to slash the size of the 2.3 million-strong civilian federal workforce, firing or offering buyouts so far ...

A California federal judge on Thursday ordered six U.S. agencies to reinstate thousands of recently-hired employees who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump's purge of the federal ...

The recent surge in federal layoffs has raised concerns about delays in unemployment benefit payouts, with many states struggling to process claims effectively, according to Axios.  Tens of thousands of ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead with an antitrust probe of Microsoft that was opened in the waning days of the Biden administration, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, ...

The U.S. Department of Education said on Tuesday it would lay off nearly half its staff, a possible precursor to closing altogether, as government agencies scrambled to meet President Donald ...

Major companies such as Amazon and Google on Wednesday signed a pledge to support the goal of at least tripling the world's nuclear energy capacity by 2050, on the sidelines ...

GE Aerospace said on Wednesday it would invest nearly $1 billion in its U.S. factories and supply chain in 2025, as it works to strengthen its manufacturing and increase the ...

In today’s economy, one job is no longer enough for many Americans.  Recent job data shows a significant rise in the number of people holding multiple jobs — reaching a ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday began notifying 1,068 employees, representing about 3% of its civilian workforce, of their eligibility for the Trump administration's buyout program for federal ...

U.S. job openings increased in January, but demand for labor is likely to soften in the months ahead amid concerns that uncertainty over import tariffs and aggressive government spending cuts ...