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4:35 PM ET, February 8, 2025

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Washington Post:
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately  —  The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.  —  The Trump administration …
Discussion: Science, The Guardian, APLU and STAT
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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
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 …
Discussion: Townhall, CBS News and Instapundit
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New York Times:
Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk's Team  —  The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation's laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge orders sweeping restriction on DOGE access to sensitive Treasury payment systems  —  The judge limited access to “civil servants with a need for access” who have “passed all background checks and security clearances.”  —  A federal judge on Saturday issued a sweeping block …
Alex Galbraith / Salon:
“The greatest threat we've ever faced”: US Treasury division classifies DOGE staff as extreme danger
Discussion: Raw Story, Wired and FedScoop
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Why Trump's in-your-face campaign will never end … - On Jan. 31, the Rapid Response account posted a message portraying House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as violent for promising that Democrats will “fight” Trump's agenda “legislatively... in the courts, and ... in the streets.”
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Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump's Gaza proposal strikes fear in his new Arab American supporters
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
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.
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Axios:
Trump's legal fight with X is officially over
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
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 …
Politico:
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 …
Discussion: RedState, Twitchy and EADaily
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New York Times:
The courts have slowed many of Trump's plans.
Discussion: Raw Story
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa
Discussion: Raw Story
Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
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.
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Elon's X army takes the wheel … - Musk, who typically posts between 50 and 100 tweets per day, is taking the bottom-up approach by letting foot soldiers supply suggestions that get seen — and acted on — by his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). … Then on Monday, he declared that Trump “agreed” to shut it down.
Discussion: Fox News
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Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal
Olivia Diaz / Associated Press:
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 …
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:   Republicans retool their ‘parents’ rights' playbook for the Virginia governor's race
Bloomberg:
'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 …
Joey McFadden / The Daily Beast:
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 …
Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
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.
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Who is helping Elon Musk gut the US government?  —  The billionaire's cost-cutting ‘Doge’ staff includes wealthy executives, far-right ideologues and young engineers  —  Elon Musk's rapid attempt to defund and depopulate the federal government has thrown US politics into chaos while the billionaire's …
Maegan Vazquez / Washington Post:
Trump dismisses archivist to the United States  —  The National Archives became the target of Trump's ire when the independent agency sought to retain documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.  —  President Donald Trump has terminated the head of the National Archives and Records Administration …
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María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
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 …
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Trump orders U.S. to prioritize refugee resettlement of South Africans of European descent
New York Times:
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 …
Joe Conason / Alternet.org:
Why would a ‘Christian’ destroy the world's largest relief agency?  —  For Christians here and across the world, the ongoing confrontation over the fate of USAID dramatically illustrates the moral degeneration of the politicians who most fervently profess their piety.
Casey Michel / The Moscow Times:
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 …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
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 …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
This senator says Democrats need to invoke villains, namely Elon Musk  —  Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut calls on his party to be more aggressive in going after Trump's billionaire allies as it tries to win back the hearts of voters.  —  Sen. Chris Murphy thinks that Democrats have been too timid …
New York Times:
Trump Administration Moves to Send $8 Billion in Arms to Israel, Bypassing Some Lawmakers  —  President Biden announced the arms sales at the end of his administration, and President Trump is pushing it soon after his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
Discussion: New York Post, CNN and WTOP News
 
 
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Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Scientists, researchers work to archive federal health data purged by Trump administration
The Hill:
Ed Martin is the wrong person to investigate Biden-era prosecutors
Discussion: Axios
Nick Reisman / Politico:
New York lawmakers moving to deny House GOP a key vote
Washington Post:
Trump administration cuts teams that fight foreign election interference
Discussion: Global News
Olga Tanas / Bloomberg:
Moldova Seeks Deal to Keep the Lights on After Russia Cut Gas Supply
Politico:
German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk's platform
Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts
Discussion: New York Times and Boston Herald
 Earlier Items: 
John Ismay / New York Times:
Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity
Soumya Karlamangla / New York Times:
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Discussion: Gizmodo
Naomi LaChance / Raw Story:
30K tons of food ‘going to waste’ in Houston after Trump halted aid
Aaron Wiener / Washington Post:
Federal workers who took Trump buyout feel fear, regret after judge's order
Discussion: ZeroHedge News and NBC News
Allison Walker / International Business Times:
Trump Signs Order to Kill Federal Agency Investigating Tesla
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk?
Wall Street Journal:
The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring
 

 
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Source says “most” journalists at Voice of America were put on administrative leave, a day after Trump signed an EO aimed at eliminating the USAGM

The Times:
An investigation into the unsolved 1977 murder of The Sunday Times foreign correspondent David Holden in Egypt suggests he doubled as a KGB spy and had CIA ties

Jackson Healy / Courthouse News Service:
Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sues G/O Media over March 2024 articles in Gizmodo and Kotaku accusing him of workplace harassment, discrimination

 
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