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Pam Bondi was sworn in this week as U.S. Attorney General. One of her early memos has workers at the Justice Department worried about the possibility of mass firings. Will those who investigated the president be singled out?
I'm Michelle Martin, that's A. Martinez, and this is Up First from NPR News. Under political pressure, some big companies have quietly ended their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
We have seen companies start to decide that the reward is not necessarily outweighed by the risk anymore.
Is this the end of corporate DEI? Plus, it is respiratory virus season and the flu is peaking for a second time. But there's better news on the horizon about COVID.
This is the smallest winter wave we've had since the pandemic began.
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This week, the Senate voted to confirm Pam Bondi as President Trump's new attorney general.
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