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More than 280,000 job cuts have so far been announced in the government sector this year. A home available for sale in Austin, Texas, on May 22, 2024. A home available for sale in Austin, Texas, on May 22, 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images The number of active listings of homes for sale in the District of Columbia area jumped by 25.1 percent in April, year-over-year, according to real estate brokerage Redfin. Redfin attributed the jump in housing inventory to the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce, and highlighted...

The restaurant belonging to the husband of CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell was raided by ICE on Tuesday. A local D.C. Fox affiliate reported that ICE agents went into "Chef Geoff’s" restaurant in D.C. that morning and asked to see staff members’ I-9 forms proving they are legally allowed to work in the U.S. The visit reportedly sent staff into "a panic." "Chef Geoff’s" is owned by Geoff Tracy, who is married to the longtime CBS News anchor and correspondent. According to Fox 5, "Nearly a dozen law enforcement and...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A dump truck crashed into a minibus on a downhill road in Indonesia’s Central Java province, killing 11 people, all of them kindergarten teachers, officials said Wednesday. The truck, loaded with construction materials, collided with the minibus before crashing into a house in Kalijambe village, in Purwerjo district. The minibus was carrying a group of teachers from Magelang district who were attending a funeral in Purworejo district, the local disaster management agency said in a statement. “The truck allegedly lost control and hit the minibus,” said...

Every day is different from every other, but in D.C., Saturday seemed for a long while to be the twin of Friday. However, as sundown approached, Saturday’s skies assumed a scowl that made it seem far more likely to produce rain. Until daylight began to wane, the two days, Saturday and Friday, seemed cut from identical atmospheric cloth. As of 5 p.m. Saturday, the high each day was 84 degrees, well above average. Resorting to each day’s low temperature as a tiebreaker made it barely possible to separate the two....

Sims, 70, was working on around five different projects on a recent visit to his Baltimore workshop. But it was an average workload, and he wasn’t worried about deadlines because a lot of his projects are about time and patience, he said. The largest project on his plate is for the Takoma Park Maryland Library. Sims has been working with the suburban city for about four years, by his estimate, to turn parts of three willow oak trees that officials cut down into 17 tables. It’s all part of the...

Under a proposal that would cut $1 billion in federal funding to the District and shrink the public insurance program by $2 billion, Abria’s mother said her daughter could lose access to doctors who treat her chronic lung disease, epilepsy and cardiac condition as well as speech, physical and aquatic therapy and a therapeutic summer camp that focuses on children with special needs. “People think this is a game,” LaJoy Johnson-Law said of her “miracle baby” turned theater kid. “It’s not. This is life and death. So I want to...

A two-year-old girl who died in a hotel room in Prince William County, Virginia, had fentanyl in her blood, and her parents have been arrested, the county police said Friday. The police did not say how they believe the drug came to be in the girl’s bloodstream. Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic opioid that has been implicated in many overdose deaths. The girl, who was not named, was found dead on April 16 in a hotel in the 17100 block of Dumfries Road, in the Dumfries area of Prince...