Federal judge blocks Musk's DOGE from access to Treasury Department material  —  The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department's records and systems, if any.”  —  NEW YORK — A federal judge issued …

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets  —  Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead.  Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.  —  The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy Friday …

Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’  —  The assessment, done by the contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, came before Treasury tapped an ally of Elon Musk to oversee the sensitive payment system.  —  The Treasury Department was warned in a confidential assessment …

How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE's crosshairs  —  Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.  —  Pete Marocco was furious.  —  It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered …

Russell Vought takes the helm at CFPB as Musk's DOGE accesses key systems  —  Russell Vought, an architect of Project 2025 and the new director at the Office of Management and Budget, is now also the acting leader of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records  —  President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records.

Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them  —  Ed Martin, a loyal Trump soldier, oversees the U.S. attorney's office, which is likely to help turn the investigative powers of the government on several of the president's perceived enemies.

Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?  —  In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed …

Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate  —  A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.  —  In late January, two children in Gaines County were hospitalized for measles.

Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself as Chair  —  The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.  —  President Trump announced his intention …

'It's a Circus': Trump Unleashes Chaos at Key US Science Agency  —  Muddled directives and early-morning emails at NOAA, one of the world's top weather and climate forecasters, have put the agency on edge.  —  The email arrived in US government workers' inboxes just after 1 a.m. East Coast time on Friday …

Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’  —  Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities …

Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners  —  His executive order accuses South Africa's government of seizing property from White landowners and calls for their resettlement as “refugees” in the U.S.  —  President Donald Trump on Friday signed …

Trump chops away at the government and the fallout is felt in the Virginia governor's race  —  The Trump administration's aggressive push to cut government jobs is reverberating in the early stages of this year's race for governor in Virginia.  The fast-moving effort by Republican President Donald …

Washington Has Given Up the Fight Against Kleptocrats.  Here's What Democracies Should Do  —  On Feb. 6, new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a series of new directives from President Donald Trump's administration outlining her office's priorities.  Taken together, they represent …

The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring  —  Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters early in Trump's second term  —  The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over.  —  Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across …

Trump's Gaza proposal strikes fear in his new Arab American supporters  —  Whether Trump can keep these new supporters could have significant implications on key upcoming statewide races, but also on the fragile coalition the party assembled to gain new ground.

The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal  —  On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him.

30K tons of food ‘going to waste’ in Houston after Trump halted aid  —  About 30,000 tons of food is stuck at a port in Houston after Trump halted foreign aid for 90 days.  The food, intended to feed people overseas, is stalled at a warehouse,the Houston Chronicle reported.

Trudeau Caught on Hot Mic Revealing Trump's Plans for Canada  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders that U.S. President Donald Trump's interest in annexing Canada was a very real plan aimed at controlling the country's vast mineral resources.Trudeau was caught …

Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity  —  The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his “unconventional approaches” to an audience that included women and people of color.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave his first public address …

Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk?  —  The cover of the venerable newsweekly, long an object of fixation for the president, put Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk.  —  The president did not look amused.  He was meeting the Japanese prime minister …

German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk's platform  —  Researchers win a legal battle against the platform formerly known as Twitter, securing crucial access to social media data to probe potential election interference.  —  BERLIN — A German court handed Elon Musk's X …

Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out  —  Don't get distracted.  Don't get overwhelmed.  Don't get paralyzed and pulled into the chaos that President Trump and his allies are purposely creating with the volume and speed of executive orders; the effort to dismantle the federal government …

Claims about USAID funding are spreading online.  Many are not based on facts  —  As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, false and misleading information is being pushed on social media to support the change, much of it spread by the administration and Elon Musk.

Federal workers who took Trump buyout feel fear, regret after judge's order  —  A judge in Massachusetts paused a Feb. 6 deadline to decide on whether to take the buyout, pending a Monday court hearing in a lawsuit seeking to nullify the Trump administration's deferred resignation program.

Moldova Seeks Deal to Keep the Lights on After Russia Cut Gas Supply  —  A last minute agreement to resolve a dispute that cut Russian gas supplies to the Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria could be finalized this weekend.  —  Oxana is running out of time.