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19-year-old Musk surrogate has State Department email address  —  The move illustrates that Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service aides are being asked to fulfill multiple roles at once.

Democracy is Crumbling.  Is Anybody Doing Anything?  —  This past weekend a federal district court in Massachusetts issued a nationwide injunction ordering Elon Musk and his team of young tech supremacists to stop accessing payment and other systems at the Department of Treasury …

The NSA's “Big Delete”  —  Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a “Big Delete” of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including “privilege,” “bias,” and “inclusion.”  The “Big Delete,” according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed …

Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.  —  When we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.

22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments  —  Attorneys general seek court order to halt 15% cap on research overhead costs  —  Attorneys general representing 22 states sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a federal judge to temporarily block …

House Democrats create a Trump-focused ‘rapid response task force’  —  House Democrats are ramping up their efforts to respond to President Donald Trump's sweeping overhaul of the federal government by creating a task force that could lead to lawsuits against the administration.

Trump administration seeks urgent end of ‘impermissible’ court order blocking access to Treasury systems  —  The order blocked DOGE access to a critical government payment mechanism.  —  The Trump administration is making an urgent push to end a court order barring top officials' access …

Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds  —  The White House had repeatedly said the funding freeze would not impact benefits that go directly to individuals.  —  Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department …

Scoop: Trump planning to pardon Rod Blagojevich … - Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended the Republican National Convention.  — The former governor defended Trump after Trump was indicted in the New York hush money case and likened Trump's legal problems to his own.

Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship  —  And they're not even trying to hide it at this point. … 🗣️ 🎤 🤯  —  Donald Trump is busy seizing power through executive orders and letting Elon Musk and his gang of racist DOGE bros run amok through America's government agencies.

“'Women' is a banned word”: Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women  —  Under the guise of “protecting women,” the military, schools and labs are forced to take women's safety away  —  In a country where 1 out of 6 women have experienced rape or attempted rape …

For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast  —  Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered in president's first weeks  —  It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers.

Judge says Trump administration violating order to lift spending freeze  —  The judge ordered the administration to “immediately restore frozen funding.”  —  A federal judge says the Trump administration has been violating his order to resume funding federal grants that the White House attempted …

Musk's Threats Suddenly Darken as Trump Legal Losses Trigger MAGA Fury  —  Rage is mounting among President Donald Trump's allies over the losses that Trump's agenda has suffered in court, which are clearly becoming a serious obstacle to him.  It's gotten so bad that Elon Musk shared a tweet …

‘Mark my words’: George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could ‘end’ U.S. democracy  —  George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.  —  Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts …

DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort  —  Tax-collecting agency has thousands of special agents in its criminal-investigation division  —  WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security has asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to deputize some law-enforcement workers …

Trump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again  —  The president's suggestion that he would seek to stay in office beyond the constitutional limit comes as he has pushed to expand executive authority.  —  Standing inside the Capitol for the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday …

Trump fires boards of U.S. military service academies  —  The president said that schools like West Point had been invaded by so-called “woke” ideology.  —  President Donald Trump on Monday said he had ordered the firings of the boards of visitors for all of the U.S. military's service academies …

Russia-U.S. relations “balancing on the brink of a breakup,” Kremlin warns … - Russian authorities will not end the war until Putin's terms outlined last year are met, which include Ukraine dropping its NATO ambitions and withdrawing troops from Russian-controlled regions.

Mediocre questions, rambling answers, no follow-ups: Fox News' Super Bowl interview with Donald Trump  —  Bret Baier misses an opportunity during the first presidential pre-game interview since 2022 … The presidential interview during the Super Bowl pregame returned on Sunday as President Donald …

Schumer warns of ‘Trump shutdown,’ lays out 4-pronged plan for Democrats  —  Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) in a letter to colleagues Monday warned of the possibility of a “Trump shutdown” and reminded fellow senators that Democrats have the power to make or break any bill to fund the government past March 14.

Sabotaging the Pax Americana  —  Trump and Musk are making us distrusted, friendless and weak  —  Elon Musk — with Donald Trump's acquiescence, but clearly Musk was calling the shots — has effectively destroyed USAID, the aid agency that was, aside from its humanitarian role, a major pillar of US foreign policy.

Mayor Adams to Top Commissioners: Don't Criticize Trump, Don't Interfere with Immigration Enforcement  —  Mayor Eric Adams gathered his top commissioners and officials early Monday to give marching orders under the new administration: don't criticize President Trump, don't interfere …