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The Context The swipes come amid a tumultuous week for the administration, as news broke that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had mistakenly shared sensitive military attack plans in a Signal group chat with other top Trump administration officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2025 -
Mike Flynn was gone by February 13th over his failure to disclose his contacts with Russian officials during the transition.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article A Connecticut man was arrested after allegedly pointing a BB gun at a clerk during a robbery at a Southington AutoZone.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
19 Mar. 2025
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Tina Peters served as the clerk and recorder of Mesa County – the official responsible for running the county’s elections.—
Mike Davis,
The Denver Post,
19 Mar. 2025
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Three of the four people who died were firefighters and one was a public servant, according to the Yonhap news agency.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 2025
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Mary is a dedicated public servant and Naperville’s current park board president, a position her fellow commissioners unanimously elected her to for three consecutive years.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Photos from the capital of Naypyidaw showed multiple buildings used to house civil servants destroyed by the quake, and rescue crews pulling victims from the rubble.—
David Rising,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Critics say the move is a power grab by the prime minister against an independent-minded civil servant, and tens of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated in support of Bar, including outside Netanyahu’s residence Friday.—
Ibrahim Hazboun,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Millions of Black citizens registered, voted, and helped elect the first generation of Black officeholders in the South since Reconstruction—and the first Black president.—
Essence,
Essence,
10 Mar. 2025
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Aspiring officeholders increasingly disguise their obvious lust for power with a transparent sheen of public-spiritedness.—
Jack Butler,
National Review,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Officiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/officiary. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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