The Daily Populous

Former president Donald Trump said that if he returns to the White House in 2025, he will mandate that federal employes take a civil service test and workers who do not pass would be fired.

“I will require every federal employee to pass a new civil service test, demonstrating an understanding our constutitional limited government,” he said.

“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” he said at the time. »

The species of seaweed used to make the film Alamy/Nature Picture Library.

A cling film made from an invasive seaweed can withstand high temperatures yet is still easily compostable.

Large quantities of thin plastic films, like those for wrapping produce or baked goods, are used every year. »

In southeast Oklahoma, the sheriff of McCurtain County, one of his investigators and a county commissioner are accused by a newspaper of discussing killing a local reporter and lamenting that modern justice no longer includes hanging Black people.

The FBI and the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office also have copies of the recording, according to the newspaper.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Oklahoma sheriff and commissioner accused of discussing racism and killings. »

Officials in the U.S. largely treated the leak as genuine; Ukraine tried to downplay its importance, warning of Russian propaganda.

Here is what that was all about – and the key takeaways from the leak.

The documents didn’t all come in a single neat package and have floated around in haphazard bundles. »