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This is your 24/7 news update, the latest views this hour in just four minutes. The Trump administration is putting dozens of USAID senior officials on administrative leave. Mark Mayfield reports. This is according to multiple reports that site current and former officials with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Those placed on leave include more than 50 career civil servants and foreign service officers, an email obtained by various media outlets indicates the employees were placed on leave after they tried to circumvent Trump's executive orders. Monday's action reportedly targeted senior attorneys with the agency. I'm Mark Mayfield. Immigration raids ordered by President Trump are now happening on the West Coast with reports of weekend arrests in Los Angeles. The state's Democratic leaders are blasting the move saying it will devastate the economy. California Congresswoman Norma Torres notes immigrants make up 73 percent of all farm workers and one in three construction workers, she says, are migrants from supporters are Tom Holman vowed to conduct the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, a tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is now the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history according to state officials. There are currently nearly 70 people being treated for TB on the Kansas side of Kansas City. Nearly 80 latent cases have also been confirmed. Taken cases are when people are infected with tuberculosis bacteria that don't actually have the disease. Lady Gaga will release her new album just in time for spring. The pop star announced Mayam will drop on March 7th. Fans got their first taste of Gaga's next era when she released the lead single disease in October. This will be her first solo studio album since she released Chromatica in 2020. Gaga is set to headline Coachella in April. The Miami Heat are suspending forward Jimmy Butler for a third time. This time it's at least five games, but as listed as indefinite, the statement the team says is due to a continued pattern of disregard of team rules engaging in conduct after metal to the team and intentionally withholding services. I'm Tammy Trujillo. House Speaker Mike Johnson says he feels like the U.S. is entering a new era of government. Lisa Taylor reports. The Louisiana congressman spoke ahead of President Trump meeting with House GOP members in Dorale, Florida. When the president says he wants to make the government more efficient and effective and we say we want to limit the size and scope of government, it means that everything is on the table for re-evaluation. He added that he expects the U.S. to handle negotiations with countries on deportation flights the same way it did with Colombia over the weekend. It comes as House Republican leaders have signaled they will attempt to put Trump's legislative agenda into one bill that would include measures on energy and the border. I'm Lisa Taylor. Trump's expected to sign three executive orders as he aims to reshape the nation's military. One of the orders will reportedly include reinstating service members with back pay for those who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Another will ban transgender service members from serving in the U.S. armed forces, while the third will ban any diversity-related programs in the military. A cardiologist in Tampa, Florida says one of his patients began shedding cholesterol through his hands after adopting a carnivore diet. Michael Kastner explains. Dr. Kostas Marmaki Losis of Tampa General Hospital co-published a paper in a cardiology journal. He treated a man in his 40s who showed up in his office. He came to our office last spring without any cardiac symptoms but with a new rash that showed up in his hands. Marmaki Olas says the man's diet included six pounds of butter, cheese and greasy hamburgers, giving him a cholesterol level five times normal. He says patients shouldn't adopt this diet without regular monitoring by a physician. I'm Michael Kastner. Tickets for Super Bowl 59 are cheaper than last year's big game but they're still some of the most expensive in Super Bowl history. The average ticket price is about $8,000 while the cheapest ticket as of Monday was just over $5,700. I'm Tammy Trujillo.