## Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food

Authored by apnews.com

At the National Institutes of Health, the world’s leading health and medical agency, the layoffs occurred as its new director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, began his first day of work.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on social media as he celebrated the swearing-in of his latest hires: Bhattacharya and Martin Makary, the new Food and Drug Administration commissioner.

The plan would consolidate agencies that oversee billions of dollars for addiction services and community health centers under a new office called the Administration for a Healthy America.

AP AUDIO: Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food AP correspondent Julie Walker reports layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food.

Among the hardest-hit centers was the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, with more than 1,000 employees.

Beyond layoffs at federal health agencies, cuts are beginning at state and local health departments as a result of an HHS move last week to pull back more than $11 billion in COVID-19-related money.

__ 2,400 jobs at the CDC, which monitors for infectious disease outbreaks and works with public health agencies nationwide. »

### Dave Coulier Is Cancer-Free 5 Months After Being Diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Authored by people.com

Dave Coulier was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in October 2024.

His former co-star Candace Cameron Bure also shared the exciting news in an Instagram post, writing: "DAVE IS CANCER FREE!!!!".

Just months after he revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Dave Coulier is cancer-free!. »

### Trump Admin Admits Deporting the Wrong Guy to El Salvador Mega Prison. They Still Won’t Bring Him Home

Authored by thedailybeast.com

The Trump administration admitted it accidentally deported a Maryland father with protected status to a notorious Salvadoran mega prison, but officials are refusing to bring him home—and the government claims the courts can’t make them.

The Trump administration is paying El Salvador to jail him, but the U.S. can’t force El Salvador to return the jailed men, the government claims.

An American deportee is booked into an El Salvadoran prison after being accused of gang ties by the Trump Administration. »

### A PUBG dating sim has been released for April Fool’s, portraying each of its guns as schoolgirls

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

Created in collaboration with Krafton‘s AI game development studio ReLU Games, the dating sim has players attending a school and looking for romance.

As well as the dating sim, PUBG Battlegrounds itself will get an in-game event called Land, Love, Survive, which lasts until April 8 and encourages co-op play.

PUBG Battlegrounds isn’t the only game potentially getting an unexpected dating sim for April Fool’s Day. »

### Francis Fukuyama warns Trump is not a realist | Francis Fukuyama, Charlie Barnett

Authored by iai.tv

Francis Fukuyama, in The End of History and the Last Man, predicted that liberal democracy would be humanity's final stage of ideological evolution.

Professor Francis Fukuyama: Just to state the obvious, we're in a very different period than when my original article and book came out.

I think that this retreat has been accelerating, especially with Donald Trump taking office in the United States. »

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