Looking at State Department documents, it appears the department went from 57,340 total employees in 2007 to 72,895 in 2015 to 80,214 in 2024. So it grew by nearly 23,000 employees before the 'devastating' cut of 1,300.

Looks like a little trimming at the State Department was in order. A 1.6% cut sounds about right. Could easily be more.

CO₂ did not cause a single one of the multiple warm & cold eras that enabled the rise & fall of every empire in modern history. Nor did CO₂ create the Quaternary Ice Age 2.58 million years ago or the cycles of iceworld glacials & interglacials (at least 40). It didn't start the

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🚨 JUST IN: It's official - in one fell swoop, ice cream producers composing 90% of the American supply are REMOVING artificial dyes out of their products. NOT possible without President Trump and Secretary Kennedy. "We have all come together as the ice cream industry to lead

In this week's #SciencePodcast🎙️, postdoctoral fellow Tatiana Feuerborn reveals her team's work sequencing 98 genomes from modern and ancient sled dogs, illuminating the canine’s current diversity and suggesting approaches for conservation. 🎧 Listen here:

Ukraine launches the “Test in Ukraine” program — foreign manufacturers will be allowed to test the latest weapons directly on the battlefield against the Russian Federation, — Reuters

Ladybugs are Catholic! During the Middle Ages, crops were saved from a plague of pests after people prayed to the Virgin Mary. A swarm of red, black-spotted insects arrived and devoured the threat. They were named Our Lady’s Bugs - now simply called ladybugs.

We were so excited to welcome our students to Indianapolis tonight for our 2025 Summit! Over the next two days, our talented chapter leaders will take part in workshops and trainings to strengthen their skills in leadership and barrier breaking. Stay tuned...🌉

BREAKING: Outrage in Sweden after anti-Israel protesters hung dolls dressed like Jewish Holocaust victims The dolls wore yellow Stars of David & had the same type of striped uniforms prisoners were forced to wear in Auschwitz The text at the top says "a genocide is genocide"

Day 2 of our National Summit kicks off today with our students starting their workshops on marketing, team building, and collaboration! Follow along for photos and updates from Indianapolis!

Day 2 of our Summit is in the books! Thanks for coming to our first workshops with curiosity and focus.

And that is a wrap on the 2025 BridgeUSA National Summit! Thank you to our students, our national team, partners including TEAMTRI, and so many others. We'll continue to share photos and videos from the weekend but, for now, BridgeUSA is signing off, proud and grateful. 🌉

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1/ Billionaire and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt produces drones to intercept "Shaheds": what is known about his cooperation with Ukraine Billionaire and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has actively joined efforts to strengthen Ukraine's air defense. As a figure widely known in

During 40 years under socialism Poland‘s GDP barely changed. Switch to capitalism and free market in 1989 triggered an economic boom making Polish people much wealthier. Socialism always means bitter poverty and misery for all. Why are young people so fascinated by socialism?

Here's a look at one of our favorite events. We host a Bridge The Gap at every summit and this year in Indianapolis was no different! Ten tables. Ten topics. Total freedom to disagree. This is what Bridge building is all about!

We should be warned. A society only needs one generation to abandon the task of learning and transmitting its culture, for that culture to become an alien, lifeless, irrelevance. A powerful, radical left-wing clerisy is bent on destroying what every past generation would have

BREAKING: Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi reveals that 50 thousand Iranian government officials and army officials have signed up to join the opposition through the special website for defections that he launched during the 12 Day War between Israel and the Islamic Regime in Iran