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Gender–thehill.com

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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD Transgender Americans affected by Trumps executive orders barring them from serving openly in the military and being housed in prisons aligned with their gender identities have also taken legal action against the administration. Two LGBTQ rights groups, on behalf of six active service members and two people seeking enlistment, challenged Trumps directive to deem transgender troops as physically or mentally incapable of service as a violation of the Constitutions e

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 1, 2024

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Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Civil service protections–thehill.com

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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD At least three lawsuits have been filed over Trumps order creating a new class of federal employee, Schedule F , which would allow those workers to be hired and fired with ease like political appointees. The challenges, brought by federal employee unions and a worker alliance, contend that Trumps order threatens protections given to federal employees by Congress.

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