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Cabinet Meeting Highlights Tensions Over Musks Federal Demands

Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration and US education secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, from left, Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, and US President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photo by Al Drago/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cabinet Meeting Highlights Tensions Over Musks Federal Demands

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), from left, Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration and US education secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, from left, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, US President Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photo by Al Drago/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cabinet Meeting Highlights Tensions Over Musks Federal Demands

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), from left, Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration and US education secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, US President Donald Trump, and Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photo by Al Drago/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cabinet Meeting Highlights Tensions Over Musks Federal Demands

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), from left, Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration and US education secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, US President Donald Trump, and Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photo by Al Drago/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cabinet Meeting Highlights Tensions Over Musks Federal Demands

Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration and US education secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, from left, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, US President Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photo by Al Drago/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cabinet Meeting Highlights Tensions Over Musks Federal Demands

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), from left, Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration and US education secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, from left, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, US President Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photo by Al Drago/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cabinet Meeting Highlights Tensions Over Musks Federal Demands

Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration and US education secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photo by Al Drago/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cabinet Meeting Highlights Tensions Over Musks Federal Demands

Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration and US education secretary nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photo by Al Drago/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Report reveals sexual abuse of female inmates in U.S. federal prisons

STORY: Report reveals sexual abuse of female inmates in U.S. federal prisons DATELINE: Dec. 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: LAW/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views and the report 2. STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent "The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a report in mid-December to reveal sexual abuse of female inmates in federal prisons. According to the report, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees sexually abused female prisoners in at least two-thirds of federal prisons that have held women over the past decade. 'The BOP has failed to prevent, detect, and stop recurring sexual abuse, including by senior prison officials.' At the all-women's prison in the city of Dublin in California, the former warden and chaplain both sexually abused female prisoners, the report has found. 'Sexual abuse of inmates is a gross abuse of human and Constitutional rights,' said U.S

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Ex-employees of machine tool maker held over spying

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows Yoshizuka Seiki Co. in Kawasaki near Tokyo on June 21, 2012. Two former employees of the machine tool maker were arrested the previous day on suspicion of unlawfully copying confidential blueprints of a press machine and handing them to a Chinese company.

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2 climbing companions of ex-F1 driver Katayama found dead

GOTEMBA, Japan - Former Formula One racing driver Ukyo Katayama speaks to reporters in front of the Gotemba police station in Shizuoka Prefecture on Dec. 19, 2009, after seeing the bodies of his two climbing companions. Katayama and his company's employees Eiichi Usami and Toshio Horikawa began climbing the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji on Dec. 17 but were stranded on the mountain.

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Police arrest ex-Mitsui officials over gas data fabrication

TOKYO, Japan - Yasunori Yokote (R), senior executive managing officer at Mitsui & Co., apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on June 14 after police arrested two former Mitsui employees and a former official of a Mitsui subsidiary on suspicion of fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particulate filter.

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6 JCO officials plead guilty to negligence charges

MITO, Japan - Kenzo Koshijima (R), the former head of JCO Co.'s uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, enters the Mito District Court in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on April 23. Koshijima and five other JCO employees pleaded guilty to charges of negligence resulting in death in Japan's worst nuclear accident in 1999 during the first hearing of their cases. Two of the workers -- Hisashi Ouchi, 35, and Masato Shinohara, 40 -- died from radiation sickness in December 1999 and April last year, respectively.

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Police raid Nichiei's head office over threat allegations

KYOTO, Japan - Police officers enter the head office of loan company Nichiei Co. in Kyoto on Dec. 8 on suspicion that two former employees used threatening loan-collection tactics in October. Police also raided a Nichiei office in Osaka. A Japanese law on money lending prohibits the use of threats to collect loans.

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Police arrest ex-Mitsui officials over gas data fabrication

TOKYO, Japan - Yasunori Yokote (R), senior executive managing officer at Mitsui & Co., apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on June 14 after police arrested two former Mitsui employees and a former official of a Mitsui subsidiary on suspicion of fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particulate filter. (Kyodo)

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Police arrest former JCO execs over nuclear accident

MITO, Japan - Kenzo Koshijima, former head of JCO Co.'s uranium-processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, is among six former executives and current employees of the company who were arrested Oct. 11 on suspicion of negligence resulting in death in Japan's worst-ever nuclear power accident last year at the plant. Two plant workers who were exposed to massive radiation in the accident subsequently died from radiation sickness.

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6 JCO officials plead guilty to negligence charges

MITO, Japan - Kenzo Koshijima (R), the former head of JCO Co.'s uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, enters the Mito District Court in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on April 23. Koshijima and five other JCO employees pleaded guilty to charges of negligence resulting in death in Japan's worst nuclear accident in 1999 during the first hearing of their cases. Two of the workers -- Hisashi Ouchi, 35, and Masato Shinohara, 40 -- died from radiation sickness in December 1999 and April last year, respectively.

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2 climbing companions of ex-F1 driver Katayama found dead

GOTEMBA, Japan - Former Formula One racing driver Ukyo Katayama speaks to reporters in front of the Gotemba police station in Shizuoka Prefecture on Dec. 19, 2009, after seeing the bodies of his two climbing companions. Katayama and his company's employees Eiichi Usami and Toshio Horikawa began climbing the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji on Dec. 17 but were stranded on the mountain. (Kyodo)

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Hostage-taker at Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank arrested

KYOTO, Japan - Eiichi Tokuda (L), who barricaded himself at Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank and held two hostages for nearly 17 hours, was arrested early Dec. 27. Tokuda, a former executive of a real estate company with extensive borrowings from the bank, walked into the bank's head office the previous day with a handgun and took four employees hostage. Two of them were released later. (Kyodo)

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Police raid Nichiei's head office over threat allegations

KYOTO, Japan - Police officers enter the head office of loan company Nichiei Co. in Kyoto on Dec. 8 on suspicion that two former employees used threatening loan-collection tactics in October. Police also raided a Nichiei office in Osaka. A Japanese law on money lending prohibits the use of threats to collect loans.