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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired all of the workers in its program that seeks to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills.

Everyone who had been working on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) was let go on Tuesday, according to now-former employee Andrew Germain.

“Every single federal staff member that worked on LIHEAP was let go, so there are no federal staff members left to work on the program,” Germain told The Hill.

He said that prior to both probationary cuts and the latest round of firings, there had been about 15 people working on LIHEAP.

The program doles out funds to states, which in turn use the money to help people pay to heat and cool their homes and prevent utilities from shutting off the air or heat.

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The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from its library.

A spokesperson for the Navy confirmed to The Hill that the Academy removed the nearly 400 books from the Nimitz Library collection “in order to ensure compliance with all directives outlined in Executive Orders issued by the President.

The library, according to the spokesperson, has roughly 590,000 print books, 322 databases and over 5,000 print journals and magazines.

Fifty-one senators, including four Republicans, voted on Wednesday to end President Donald Trump's tariff on Canadian goods in a bipartisan rebuke of the administration's trade policy.

It comes just hours after Trump implemented 10% across-the-board tariffs on imports and additional reciprocal tariffs on goods from 60 countries, a significant escalation in the global trade war. The vote marks the first substantive bipartisan pushback to Trump's policies since he took office just over two months ago.

The resolution put forward by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., would end an emergency order Trump declared in February over concerns about fentanyl crossing the northern border with Canada. That order has been used as the basis for 25% tariffs on Canadian goods.

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A Pennsylvania man is suing billionaire Elon Musk and his America PAC as part of a lawsuit that claims canvassers are still owed millions of dollars for getting people to sign petitions during last year's presidential election.

According to court records obtained by USA TODAY, the federal lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed on Tuesday in Pennsylvania by a man who was not identified for safety reasons. The suit alleges that Musk and the America PAC owe upwards of $5 million to about 100 people.

In the lawsuit, the man says he and other registered voters were promised $100 if they signed a petition supporting free speech and gun rights. The voters were then promised another $100 for every person they got to sign the petition, according to the court document.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously overturned a lower court’s decision that the Food and Drug Administration incorrectly blocked companies from selling fruit- and candy-flavored vaping products.

The court rejected the conclusion that the FDA changed the rules on the companies as it was evaluating the companies’ marketing requests.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the court "cannot say that the FDA improperly changed its position."

But the decision did not resolve the companies' complaint that the FDA also didn't consider its proposals to keep its products out of the hands of minors. The court directed the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider that aspect of the case under a different legal standard.

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Tourists and residents of a town in south-west Iceland have been evacuated after a volcanic eruption.

The volcano is close to the fishing town of Grindavik and the famous Blue Lagoon spa, which is a popular attraction. A small number of people refused to evacuate the town, local media reported.

The volcano has been spewing lava and smoke in a fiery display of orange and red since Tuesday morning, creating a huge crack in the ground which has grown to 1.2km (0.75 miles) long.

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