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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.


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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The Madness of Donald Trump — To Benjamin Netanyahu's delight, Trump proposes the wholesale ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the creation of a new “Riviera.” — More than five hundred years ago, Machiavelli, the philosopher of political practice and modern republicanism, suggested, in …
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Michigan's Arab American community offers muted response to Trump's Gaza takeover plan
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How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip
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Inside Trump's Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza
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Australian opposition leader praises Trump over Gaza comments - as it happened
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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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There Is No Going Back — Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything …
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A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury's $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn
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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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Judge appears likely to block DOGE from accessing Treasury Department records
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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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Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI — On Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span, laying out the agency's new policies …
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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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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
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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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Democrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee — “He's the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought. — LOADING
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Senate Democrats promise all-night marathon of speeches in protest of Vought's nomination
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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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Republicans Lose Their Minds After Democrats Try to Subpoena Elon Musk … The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee attempted to subpoena Elon Musk on Wednesday, only for Republicans to block the move, refusing to even entertain debate on having the tech mogul testify before Congress.
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Senate's top appropriator says Elon Musk has gone too far
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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 …


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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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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Trump Considers Labeling Migrants a Measles, Tuberculosis Risk — Advisers have been searching for disease threats that would merit emergency health law invoked during Trump's first term to designate migrants a Covid-19 risk — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is considering a move …
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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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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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Trump Has Paralyzed Renewables Permitting, Leaked Memo Reveals — Chaos within the Trump administration has all but paralyzed environmental permitting decisions on solar and wind projects in crucial government offices, including sign-offs needed for projects on private lands.


The House speaker defends Trump's Gaza plan, while other Republicans express doubts. — Amid global alarm, top administration officials sought to soften elements of President Trump's proposal to force Palestinians out of the territory and take it over. Experts said the plan would violate international law.
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The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany's Merz — Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump's second presidency. — The German chancellor candidate told …


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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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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