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While many of the targeted federal agencies have offices outside Washington, Trump's dream budget would hit the region disproportionately, with tens of thousands of jobs at risk. The cuts would be felt throughout the city, with fewer people riding the already-beleaguered Metro subway or eating at restaurants. It would also hurt Washington's already-shaky market for office space. Economist Stephen Fuller of George Mason University, who has studied the regional economy for decades, estimated 20,000-24,000 federal employees and 10,000 federal contractors would lose their jobs under Trump's proposal. That equates to 5 percent of federal workers in the region. With those...

Xenophobia has reached new heights with the Italian minister Umerto Bossi. He suggests firing cannons at illegal immigrants. Bossi is the leader of the rightwing extremist party Lega Nord, and wants to implment tougher measures against illegal immigration which is increasingly a problem for Italy. – There are two ways of enforcing the law. Our ships will either confront illegal immigrants who try to sneak into land secretely, or we will have to write in black and white that violence will be used, Bossi says to the Corriere della Sera newspaper according to the AFP. – After the second or...