内容摘要：Foreign Minister Timcho Mucunski said he discussed the possibility of a free-trade agreement with the U.S. at a meeting in Washington last week with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Foreign Minister Timcho Mucunski said he discussed the possibility of a free-trade agreement with the U.S. at a meeting in Washington last week with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

to lead the charge through DOGE. Musk left his role last week.Tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired, have left their jobs via deferred resignation programs, or have been placed on leave. There is

, but at least 75,000 federal employees took deferred resignation, and thousands of probationary workers have already been let go.Illston’s order directs numerous federal agencies to halt acting on the president’ssigned in February and a

by DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management. Illston was nominated by former Democratic President Bill Clinton.Among the agencies affected by the order are the departments of Agriculture, Energy, Labor, the Interior, State, the Treasury and Veterans Affairs. It also applies to the National Science Foundation, Small Business Association, Social Security Administration and Environmental Protection Agency.

The Supreme Court set a deadline of next Monday for a response from the unions and cities, including Baltimore, Chicago and San Francisco.

Some of the labor unions and nonprofit groups are also plaintiffs in another lawsuit before a San Francisco judge challenging the mass firings of probationary workers. In that case, Judge William Alsup ordered the government in March toFranco has been free on supervised release, although he had been required to make monthly control visits to the judge.

He was also arrested and granted another supervised release in November forin his vehicle. The arrest followed an argument in an apartment complex parking lot. Another man and a woman also were detained in the confrontation. Two firearms were seized, police said. Dominican judge Viamerca Ruiz said Franco needs to report to court once a month while he is being investigated for carrying the firearm that was registered under his uncle’s name. One of Franco’s lawyers said because the gun has a license, “there’s nothing illegal about it.”

A conviction for illegally possessing a firearm could prompt a three- to five-year prison sentence.No, but he was for nearly a year after Dominican authorities opened their probe.