ID ); $exclude_types = array( '' ); $exclude_types = apply_filters( 'eat_exclude_types', $exclude_types ); // do nothing if the post has already a featured image set if ( $already_has_thumb ) { return; } // do the job if the post is not from an excluded type if ( ! in_array( $post_type, $exclude_types ) ) { // get first attached image $img = rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ); $attachment_id = attachment_url_to_postid( $img ); if ( $attachment_id ) { // add attachment ID add_post_meta( $post->ID, '_thumbnail_id', $attachment_id, true ); } } } // set featured image before post is displayed (for old posts) add_action( 'the_post', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); // hooks added to set the thumbnail when publishing too add_action( 'new_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'draft_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'pending_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'future_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); function rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ) { // Find the images in the post_content. $output = preg_match_all( '//i', $post->post_content, $matches ); $first_img = isset( $matches[1][0] ) ? $matches[1][0]:''; // if no images found, do nothing if ( empty ( $first_img ) ) { return false; } return $first_img; } } Federal Agency Halts Trump Administration’s Firing of 6 Government Employees – BCI 24 News Network
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Federal Agency Halts Trump Administration’s Firing of 6 Government Employees

26 February 2025 12:06 PM
BCI 24 News Network

A federal agency on Feb. 25 stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from firing six probationary workers, at least for now.
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) sided with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and imposed a 45-day stay on the terminations of six workers.
Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, said in a filing to the board that the terminations violated federal law in part because officials did not adequately evaluate the performance of the employees before firing them.
Federal law lets the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) request an MSPB member stay a termination for 45 days if the OSC determines there are “reasonable grounds to believe that the personnel action was taken, or is to be taken, as a result of a prohibited personnel practice.”…