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After dismantling the U.S. foreign aid office, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency will be coming for the Pentagon and Department of Education, President Donald Trump said Friday.

“He will be looking at education pretty quickly and he will be looking at military, too," Trump said, discussing Musk at a news conference at the White House with the prime minister of Japan.

The Education Department has long been a target for conservatives who want to see it abolished, and it was clear before Trump's comments that Musk was going after the agency. A top official at the department told staffers in a meeting Tuesday that DOGE was examining its operations.

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When Nannie Helen Burroughs established the National Association of Wage Earners in the early 20th century, Black women and girls were facing unchecked racism and sexism in the workplace.

They were often relegated to low-paying jobs like sharecropping or domestic service, two occupations in which women suffered harassment, violence and even jail time for the smallest infractions, according to Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, author of "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World." Burroughs tried to register her organization as an official union under the American Federation of Labor, now known as the AFL-CIO, but its leaders turned her down.

So Burroughs led her own employment agency in Washington, D.C., where she made uniforms for domestic workers and held lectures on women’s rights and issues affecting Black workers across the nation. She had established her own school to educate female students in fields they were barred from, like stenography, and provide them credentials Burroughs hoped would make employers take them more seriously.

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President Donald Trump said Friday he is revoking former President Joe Biden's security clearances and access to intelligence reports after Biden did the same thing to Trump in 2021.

"There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings."

Biden cut Trump off from intelligence reports shortly after taking office in 2021. The decision came a month after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Biden said Trump's "erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection" warranted the move. The intelligence information traditionally is provided to former presidents.

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Rescue teams in Alaska were desperately searching over land and ocean Friday after a small passenger plane with 10 people on board went missing as it traveled along the state's western coast, authorities said.

The turboprop Cessna Caravan operated by Bering Air was reported missing Thursday around 4 p.m. local time, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Carrying nine passengers and a pilot, the plane was flying from Unalakleet, Alaska, to Nome when its position was lost 12 miles offshore, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Before the plane was reported missing, the Nome Volunteer Fire Department said the pilot had told Anchorage Air Traffic Control that "he intended to enter a holding pattern while waiting for the runway to be cleared."

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A historic Black church in Washington, D.C., whose Black Lives Matter sign was vandalized by members of the Proud Boys, plans to launch a project Monday to further support its social justice work and those of national groups.

“It will be a place for people to think about what we do next, how we move forward,” William Lamar, pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview. “We will be considering questions like what do we all do next? How do we go forward and how can we be victorious in the space in which we find ourselves, politically and spiritually and emotionally?’’

The project, which will be posted on the church website, will provide a space for discussions about social justice concerns and ways to address them, Lamar said.

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