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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?
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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.
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This week, the Senate voted to confirm Pam Bondi as President Trump's new attorney general.
Bondi takes over at the Justice Department
as the Trump administration makes aggressive moves to take over the federal bureaucracy.
Over the past few weeks,
the new administration has already pushed out senior career officials at the department and at the FBI,