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Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice — Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.


C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees — The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force. — The C.I.A. sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired …
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King Musk's Government Purge Hits a Snag
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White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest — The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump's government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies.
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The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk's Impossible Power Grab And America's Crisis — There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn't a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it's as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of genius, innovation …


Trump White House Moves to Allow for a Musk Takeover of Government IT — The Office of Personnel Management is trying to make it easier to put ideologues and cronies in key tech roles. — It's a rather wonky position in the US government: chief information officer. Most federal agencies and departments have one.
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Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker's office in backlash against Musk — Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson's office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department.
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Senate's top appropriator says Elon Musk has gone too far
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New Democratic bill targets Elon Musk
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Republicans Lose Their Minds After Democrats Try to Subpoena Elon Musk
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Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments — A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
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Inside Trump's Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza
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How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip
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The Madness of Donald Trump
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Trump officials try to walk back president's Gaza comments - as it happened
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Pam Bondi issued a flurry of orders on Day 1 as Trump's attorney general — Trump's newly sworn in AG released a series of directives. — Pam Bondi is officially in control of the Justice Department — and she's gone right to work. — President Donald Trump's attorney general issued …
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Bondi Becomes Trump's Attorney General Amid DOJ Shake-Up
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Trump Considers Labeling Migrants a Measles, Tuberculosis Risk
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There Is No Going Back — Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything, the past week would still be one of the most serious examples of executive branch malfeasance in American history. — Musk has seized hold of critical levers of power and authority within the federal government …
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Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn — In an effort to tamp down the outcry around Elon Musk's autocratic and illegal power grabs, the Treasury Department has sent a new letter to Congress that casts Musk's takeover of the agency in benign terms.
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NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’ — An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.” — A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
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This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all of the agency's Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.
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DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud — Elon Musk's allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week — Representatives of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been working at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services …
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DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA — Employees working for the agency now known as DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject …
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List: Examples of Trump's Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits — Other presidents have occasionally claimed a constitutional right to bypass particular laws. But in the opening weeks of his second term, President Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through …
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Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab
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Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Policy and Purpose.
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Judge weighs short-term block on Musk allies' ability to share Treasury records outside the department — A lawsuit alleges that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is compromising Treasury's payment system. — A federal judge on Wednesday declined to immediately block …
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Judge weighs interim ban on Elon Musk's DOGE accessing the financial data of millions of Americans
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The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us — ELON MUSK, OUR NEW UNELECTED OVERLORD, is mad at Bill Kristol. Very, very mad. And because this is the world we live in now, his hordes of online minions are mad, too. — Let me explain. This week, Elon has been amplifying several tweets alleging …
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Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine — The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's equipment at the time of Musk's assault. … Since coming into power, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID …
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Thousands protest Trump administration policies in cities across the US — A movement to protest the early actions of President Donald Trump's administration took off Wednesday, as thousands of demonstrators gathered outside a federal courthouse in Philadelphia and at state capitols in Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin and Indiana.
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In photos: Thousands across the U.S. protest Trump and Musk's policies
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Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu — A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows. — Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds …
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Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled … - States that voted for Trump last November, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for former Vice President Harris. — “That dependence is, in large part …
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Judge issues nationwide injunction blocking Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship — The judge heard arguments from lawyers for five pregnant undocumented women. — President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order to create a US sovereign wealth fund …
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L.A. Times Owner Has Financial Motivations for Boosting RFK Jr. — Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's biotech firm is preparing three applications needing approval from the Food and Drug Administration. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate HELP Committee hearing for his pending confirmation …
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Elon Musk says DOGE will make ‘rapid safety upgrades’ to the air traffic control system following deadly plane crash — Amid a blitz across the federal government, DOGE is set to take on the FAA next. — Musk said that DOGE would “aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system.”
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Head Start childcare programs are still unable to access federal money after Trump's funding freeze — Programs serving 20,000 children have faced funding delays since Trump's administration announced (and then announced rescinding) a temporary freeze on federal aid last week.
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