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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say — Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees …
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Trump administration directs 70% cut to internal OPM staffing, programs — Trump administration officials are taking major steps to cut down the size of the workforce and federal programs at the Office of Personnel Management. — During an internal meeting Friday morning …
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Talking Points Memo


Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system — A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk's DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems. — The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department …
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Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It's a Scary One — President Donald Trump has granted Elon Musk unprecedented power to carry out his war on the “deep state.” The justification for this is supposed to be that the government is corrupted to its core precisely …
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Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency — Elon Musk's former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.
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Elon's Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It's Even More Dangerous — from the twisting-the-chaos-knob-on-the-levers- of-power dept — Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government.


Elon Musk Is Trying to Get Control of Key Payment System—at Any Cost
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FBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations are expected to be fired Friday — The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations …
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Interim U.S. attorney fires more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors in D.C. — The lawyer and pro-Trump podcaster has fired Jan. 6 prosecutors, launched investigations of the Capitol riot investigation and threatened a Democrat with an inquiry.


Trump administration forces out multiple senior FBI officials — The move came hours after FBI director nominee Kash Patel testified in his confirmation hearing he was “not aware of” plans to remove FBI officials who investigated Trump. — Trump administration officials have forced …
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FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge
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Head of FBI Washington Field Office is forced out in Trump administration purge
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White House says Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China will come Saturday. No word on exemptions — President Donald Trump will put in place 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China effective on Saturday, the White House said …
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Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China begin Saturday, White House says
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The Treasury official who oversees payments resigns suddenly.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Paul Krugman and Raw Story


Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies — At the direction of the Trump administration, the federal Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies are purging its websites of information and data on a broad array of topics — from adolescent health to LGBTQ+ rights to HIV.
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CDC site scrubs HIV content following Trump DEI policies
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CDC removal of databases on sexual orientation, gender identity sparks alarm
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Brett Kavanaugh has very bad news for Donald Trump — Fearless journalism needs your support now more than ever. Become a Vox Member today. — On Friday afternoon, a federal judge in Rhode Island temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to halt a simply enormous amount of domestic federal spending.
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Axios, Louisiana Illuminator and Washington Examiner
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USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites — The directive could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives. — Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites …
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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day — The mandate is the latest effort in the Trump administration's push to end DEI. — President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025.
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Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble — Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive amounts of water from Kaweah and Success lakes.
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Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs — REALLY?! — Federal employees were told they could use their paid time off to explore “dream destinations” before quitting.


New York doctor indicted for prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana — A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.
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Governors Identify 2 Soldiers Killed in Black Hawk Collision While Third Name Withheld by Service — Two of the three soldiers who were killed Wednesday when their Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger airline have been identified by service and public officials …
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Trump administration seeking access to database of immigrant minors — The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for caring for unaccompanied minors, has long operated independently of ICE. — The Trump administration is seeking to grant U.S. immigration officers access …


CBS staff alarmed by reports of settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ Harris interview — Journalists, including some at CBS News, are expressing alarm at reports that CBS parent company Paramount Global is trying to settle a legally dubious lawsuit lodged by President Donald Trump last fall.
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CBS News Set to Hand Over Transcript of ‘60 Minutes’ Interview to F.C.C.


Career prosecutors withdraw from federal criminal investigation of GOP Congressman Andy Ogles — Local prosecutors are not commenting, but move may signal plans to drop investigation of one of President Trump's Republican allies — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Federal prosecutors based …
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Raw Story


Scoop: New White House video has “Angel Moms” blasting Selena Gomez on immigration … - “You don't know who you're crying for,” Tammy Nobles, an “Angel Mom” whose daughter, Kayla Hamilton, was killed in July 2022 by a gang member, says in the video, addressing Gomez.
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Yahoo News, The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Mail


The Situation: Kash Patel's “Odor of Mendacity” — Any FBI agent who testified as the FBI Director nominee did would lose his job. — Meet The Authors … The Situation on Wednesday focused on the unique danger of Kash Patel among Donald Trump's nominees, in the context of the purge …
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Wired, New York Times and Mother Jones


Tennessee GOP passes immigration law to criminalize elected officials' votes — Tennessee Republicans finalized an immigration bill Thursday establishing a new enforcement office exempt from public records law and criminalizing local officials who support sanctuary policies for immigrants.
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Nashville Banner, The Daily Wire, Tennessee Lookout and New York Times


Watch live coverage: Plane crash in Philadelphia leaves multiple houses on fire, causes explosion — Emergency crews are responding to an explosion in Northeast Philadelphia after a small medical jet crashed in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue, Philadephia police confirmed to CBS News Philadelphia.
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