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Termination notices went out to 150 NBC News Group employees Wednesday as the financial health of the traditional television business continues to erode. The cuts have been anticipated for months as NBC is seeing declines in TV ratings and ad revenue that are not being fully offset by a growing digital business. Audience migration to streaming platforms has put pressure …

Approximately 550 employees of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be laid off, according to an announcement made on the agency’s website on Monday (Oct. 13). The news comes in the midst of an ongoing U.S. government shutdown and the looming threat of the single largest funding reduction in NASA’s 66-year history. Due to those potential cuts, NASA has been …

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Monday that it will cut around 550 jobs — around 10% of its staff. In a statement posted online, the lab’s director, Dave Gallagher, said the layoffs are part of a broad “realignment of its workforce” and not a result of the government shutdown. The cuts will affect positions across the NASA center’s technical, business …

Mike Tomlin has seen plenty of Joe Flacco through the years. He’ll see the veteran quarterback again on “Thursday Night Football” this week, as Flacco makes his second start for the Cincinnati Bengals, who acquired him from the Cleveland Browns in an intra-division trade last week. Meeting with the media on Monday, Tomlin shared a frank assessment of that trade. …

A person walks past the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images Sweeping layoffs announced Friday by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for overseeing special education, according to multiple sources within the department. The reduction-in-force, or …

Lay’s wants you to remember that it came from humble, homegrown beginnings. PepsiCo, which owns the chip giant, is giving the brand a makeover worthy of a movie montage: stripping its artificial dyes, updating the logo, and putting a potato right there on the packaging. Remember the potatoes. New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the …

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, July 24, 2025. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Trump administration began laying off federal workers on Friday, the 10th day of the U.S. government shutdown, administration budget chief Russell Vought …

The big talk in the food world this year has been about the ingredients found in the U.S. foodways. This year started with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) revoking the authorization for the synthetic food dye FD&C Red No. 3, with plans to eliminate the six remaining synthetic dyes by the end of 2026, including FD&C Green No. …

Conor McGregor wants in on UFC White House. But his services won’t come cheap. The former two-division champion took to Twitter on Thursday morning and appeared to lay out exactly what it would take for him to fight at the proposed White House event, which is currently in the works to take place around July 4, 2026, to celebrate the …

At a GE Appliances plant in Louisville, Kentucky, 5,000 workers craft kitchen essentials, including 2 million dishwashers per year, according to the company. “Every 15 seconds, per line, I’ve got a dishwasher coming off the line,” Bill Good, the vice president in charge of the plant, told CBS News. But back in May, nearly 150 workers, mostly Cuban immigrants, were …