Federal workers around nation's capital worry over Trump's plans to send some of them elsewhere

Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation's capital and its suburbs. During former President Donald Trump 's administration, her office under the U.S. Department of Agriculture was told it would be moving. A rushed process that failed to consider the need to find homes, jobs for spouses and schools for children prompted some retirements, she said, and some took other federal jobs, hurting the agency in the end.

New unproductive forces: the Chinese youth owning their unemployment

After quitting the education industry last August due to China's crackdown on private tutoring, He Ajun has found an unlikely second life as an unemployment influencer. The Guangzhou-based vlogger, 32, offers career advice to her 8,400 followers, charting her journey through long-term joblessness. China is under instruction to unleash "new productive forces", with government policies targeting narrow areas of science and technology including AI and robotics.

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels fire 2 missiles at a container ship as an oil tanker burns

Yemen's Houthi rebels fired two missiles targeting a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Gulf of Aden, though the projectiles splashed down nearby without causing any damage, authorities said Saturday. The attack comes after the Houthis repeatedly assaulted and then boarded a Greek-flagged oil tanker in the nearby Red Sea, planting explosives on it they later detonated. In the attack Friday night, two missiles exploded in close proximity to the vessel some 240 kilometers (150 miles) east of Aden, the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said.

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