On Inauguration Day, the Senate confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state, voting quickly and unanimously (99-0 was the result) to give President Donald Trump the first member of his new Cabinet; Rubio was among the least controversial of nominees

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  26.000 images have been reportedly flagged for removal in the Pentagon’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) purge, including references to the esteemed Tuskegee Airmen and the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan during World War II

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  All 21 people hospitalized after Monday’s crash of US Delta Air Lines flight 4819 at Toronto Airport have been released, the airline confirmed; five major US aviation disasters occurred in 2025, one involving a commercial airline, causing 87 casualties

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  The tariff rate on aluminum imports have been raised to 25%, from 10%, with no exceptions, impacting millions of tons of steel and aluminum imports that had been entering the US duty free under quota deals, exemptions and thousands of product exclusions

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  A federal judge in Massachusetts postponed the 6 February deadline set by the Trump administration offering 2 million federal workers the chance to leave their jobs in exchange for 7 months of pay, part of an effort to drastically cut federal work force

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