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Stephen J. Gardner, CEO of Amtrak, is stepping down after more than two years at the helm and 16 years with the rail service. His resignation, announced Wednesday, follows a rising political push to privatize Amtrak—fueled in part by recent comments from Elon Musk and shifting federal priorities under President Trump’s administration.

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Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing has been awarded the contract for the Air Force's next-generation stealth fighter plane, which the 47th US president said would be named the F-47. The contract aims to develop the replacement for the F-22 jet -- which has been in operation for some two decades -- with a new, more advanced aircraft able to operate alongside uncrewed drones.

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The Trump administration has frozen $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania for allowing transgender athletes to compete in women's sports, defying the president's recent executive order. This move represents nearly one-fifth of the Ivy League university's federal funding received last year, primarily from the Department of Defense and Department of Health and Human Services.

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After years of delays and partial disclosures, the Biden administration has released approximately 80,000 pages of previously classified documents related to John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination. The National Archives made these files available on March 18, completing a decades-long process of declassification.

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