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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) [a] was a second Trump administration initiative in the United States. Despite its name, it was not a federal executive department. President Donald Trump established it by executive order on January 20, 2025, by renaming the United States Digital Service as the United States DOGE Service and creating a temporary organization scheduled to end on ...
Sally Kristen Ride was born on May 26, 1951, in Santa Monica, California, [1][2]: 6 the elder child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce Ride (née Anderson). [2]: 4–6 She had one sibling, Karen, known as "Bear". [2]: 7–8 [3] Both parents were elders in the Presbyterian Church. Her mother, who was of Norwegian descent, had worked as a volunteer counselor at a women's correctional facility ...
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the ...
Taiwan, [I][k] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [II] is a country [29] in East Asia. [n] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It has an area of 35,808 square kilometers (13,826 ...
Comcast Corporation, formerly known as Comcast Holdings, [note 1] is an American multinational mass media, telecommunications, and entertainment conglomerate. Comcast's corporate headquarters is at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, [8] while NBCUniversal, Comcast's New York operations and other major Comcast assets are headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York ...
York is a city in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. [4] Located in South Central Pennsylvania, the city's population was 44,800 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Pennsylvania. [5] The city has an urban area population of 238,549 and has a metropolitan area population of 456,449. Founded in 1741, York served as the temporary ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (/ rɛnsəˈlɪər / ren-sə-LEER; RPI), a private research-university in Troy, New York, United States, is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and in the Western Hemisphere. Stephen Van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton established RPI in 1824 for the "application of science to the common purposes of life". [7] Built on a hillside, RPI's ...
Tennessee (/ ˌtɛnɪˈsiː / ⓘ, locally / ˈtɛnɪsi /), [10][11][12] officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the southwest, and Missouri to the northwest. Tennessee is the 36th ...