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President Donald Trump addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk's cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The . Those who accept must report to work on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation.
"Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed," said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. "They didn't have the people they needed to carry out basic functions."
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Hillary Clinton 'welcomes' Trump's shift on the Russia-Ukraine war
Clinton dealt with Russian President Vladimir Putin when she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.
She was asked about his turnabout during a wide-ranging interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and said, "I welcomed what the president said."
Usually a Trump critic, Clinton said his comments suggested he's "coming to grips" with the fact that Putin doesn't respond to rhetoric.
"He only responds to strength," she said.
Trump said Tuesday he now believes Ukraine can win back all the territory it has lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from his past calls for Ukraine to concede the land to end the war.
Trump's biggest strengths are border security and crime
Trump has turned border security into a strength of his second term, a sharp reversal from his first term in office.
Most Americans approve of Trump's approach to border security. He gets higher marks on that than on his handling of the presidency overall or other issues that had previously been top strengths, including immigration and crime. This has also emerged as a unique strength of his second term. Only about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approved of Trump's approach to border security in 2019, during which time Trump was focused on securing funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
His approval on immigration is slightly lower than it was early in his second term, but it remains a bit higher than his overall job approval.
Trump's strongest issues have changed from first term, poll finds
President Trump's second-term strengths look different from his first, according to new polling.
Once strengthened by economic issues, Trump's approval is now relatively low on the economy — and he's leaning on his stronger issues of crime, border security and immigration. Concerns about the economy and immigration helped propel him to the White House, but polling over the past year shows Americans' faith in the Republican president's handling of the economy is low — particularly among independents — and his approval on immigration has fallen slightly.
Now, Trump's strongest issues are border security and crime, but there were signs of potential weakness on crime in the most recent poll from The -NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Ukrainians cautious after Trump shifts his stance, saying they can win the war against Russia
Ukrainians were cautious Wednesday in their response to a surprise pivot in U.S. President Donald Trump's views on their prospects for defeating Russia's invasion, after he said they could win the three-year war and retake land captured by Moscow.
Some Ukrainians expressed hope that Trump's words would be backed up by concrete support for Ukraine in Washington, while others were wary about the American president's unpredictability.
Russian officials, meanwhile, said developments on the battlefield showed Ukraine is unable to reclaim the occupied territory and dismissed Trump's description of Russia as a "paper tiger."
"Russia isn't a tiger, it's more associated with a bear," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "There are no paper bears. Russia is a real bear."
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