These national park trails were created by America’s first Black soldiers
Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...
National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers
The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of fired National Park Service employees and hiring nearly 3,000 ...
Firings Squeeze National Parks: ‘You Won’t Have the Full Experience’
With 1,000 full-time employees out, and the fate of thousands more seasonal workers unclear, tours are being canceled and ...
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Ex-ranger on how Trump’s mass government firings are affecting the National Park Service
At the direction of the president, Elon Musk and his team are firing federal workers at a breakneck pace. This week, some ...
Trump’s firing of 1,000 national park workers raises concerns about maintenance and operating hours
The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees as part of its broad-based effort ...
Trump announces National Garden of Heroes during Black History Month celebration
President Donald Trump welcomed attendees to the White House Thursday to celebrate Black History and announced the planned ...
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'I'm not sure what's next': National Park ranger in Iowa among thousands fired Friday
When 1,000 National Park Service employees were unexpectedly fired on Valentine's Day, Iowan Brian Gibbs was among them. Gibbs' Facebook post announcing his sudden departure quickly went viral ...
Trump marks Black History Month, reveals American icons' statues for new national garden
President Donald Trump marked Black History Month at the White House with an announcement celebrating Black icons.
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After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts
But nothing was definitive. Gibbs said he was hired at the National Park Service in June 2024 under a career conditional, competitive service status – meaning he was placed on a one-year ...
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White House forcing out top leadership at National Archives in major shakeup
CNN has reached out to the National Archives and the White House for comment. The role of the National Archives took on new prominence in recent years in the wake of the FBI search of Trump’s ...
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To these Black retirees, the federal civil service now under attack was a path to the middle class
And Calvin Stevens had a dual military and federal service ... Black professionals got their first chance to pursue executive-level jobs, said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National ...