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Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website — “People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk's programmers, said one federal intelligence employee. — LOADING — WASHINGTON — Elon Musk's team at the so-called Department …
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website — The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media.
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Federal prosecutor will sign motion to dismiss Adams charges in bid to save colleagues' jobs, sources say — A federal prosecutor agreed on Friday to file a motion to dismiss the criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in a bid to spare other career staff …
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Seventh prosecutor in Eric Adams case resigns and calls out Trump's former lawyer in scathing letter — A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering letter that accused top leaders at the Justice Department of looking for a …


Trump Attorney General Bondi expects Eric Adams case to be dismissed Friday after mass resignations … Attorney General Pam Bondi said she expects the criminal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dismissed Friday, after seven federal prosecutors quit in protest …
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Live Updates: Upheaval Over Adams Case Spreads as Calls for His Resignation Grow — A Manhattan prosecutor quit on Friday, the latest in a series of resignations over an order from a top Justice Department official to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. — Here's the latest.


124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)
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Eric Adams Highlights Coordination With Trump's Border Czar on Fox News


Senior Republican senator ‘puzzled’ and ‘disturbed’ by Hegseth's Ukraine remarks — Live coverage from Munich: POLITICO is on the ground at the Munich Security Conference, where we're having conversations with top officials, lawmakers and experts at our POLITICO Pub. Follow our exclusive coverage here.
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JD Vance attacks Europe over migration, free speech
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Hegseth stands by Ukraine comments as GOP senator slams “rookie mistake”
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Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal
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VP Slaps Down Hegseth by Threatening Putin With U.S. Troops
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JD Vance stuns Munich conference with blistering attack on Europe's leaders
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Mass layoffs now paused at US nuclear weapons agency — The Department of Energy has paused the firings of hundreds of employees who work for a key agency maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, multiple sources tell ABC News. — Managers with the National Nuclear Security Administration …
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Hundreds laid off at US nuclear weapons agency: Sources — Hundreds of staff at the agency responsible for maintaining the U.S. nuclear stockpile were fired Thursday in the wave of mass Trump administration terminations, multiple current and former employees told ABC News.
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Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit offices of loans, nuclear security, sources say
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‘National security crisis’ as Trump fires multiple nuclear weapons safety officials
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Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies — Employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years are being targeted — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across public health …
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The AP provides a model of effective press resistance — 🧭 🗺️ 🌎 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
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The White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’
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White House limits AP access to Oval Office, Air Force One indefinitely
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Read the Resignation Letter From Hagan Scotten — Hagan Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote to Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams. … Around the New York Region — A look at life, culture, politics and more in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts — In 2021, JD Vance gave a speech to the National Conservatism Conference, a gathering of Trumpist thinkers and politicians, titled “The Universities Are the Enemy.” It contained the usual complaints about critical race theory …
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Trump orders end in funding to schools that require Covid vaccines
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Treasury watchdog begins audit of Musk DOGE team's access to federal government's payment system — The Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government's payment system, after Democratic senators raised red flags …
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‘Rogue judges must go!’ MAGA panics after Musk DOGE lawsuit handed to Judge Chutkan
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Vulnerable Republican fires warning shot on House budget — Pennsylvania Rep. Rob Bresnahan is the latest swing-district Republican to issue a warning over deep spending cuts GOP leaders are targeting for key safety net programs in a bill to enact President Donald Trump's massive domestic agenda.
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They Are a Minority — For many politically minded people who are not fascists, the weeks since Donald Trump's inauguration have felt like an unstoppable whirlwind of doom. By plowing ahead with plans to shutter entire federal agencies, cut tens of thousands of federal workers …


DOGE's ‘Nerd Army’ Is Breaking the Government by Threatening to Snitch to Elon — “I can't believe this is how they're blowing up the Constitution,” says a federal official on the receiving end of DOGE threats — Every regime's enforcement mechanisms rely on threats and politicized intimidation.
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Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says — A new bill would allow for Nazi and Confederate flags to be displayed in some instances in Utah schools and government buildings, but pride flags would be banned. — An ongoing fight in Utah to ban pride flags …
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Former CFPB official warns 12 years of critical records at risk — The former chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warns that twelve years of critical records could be “irretrievably lost” in the DOGE purge of the agency, per an affidavit filed in federal court Friday.
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This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats' Latino Woes — During the final, frenzied week of the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both made campaign stops in a place whose significance in the election had largely been overlooked by observers: Reading …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story


Marjorie Taylor Greene Bought Tesla Stock After Named As Chair Of DOGE Subcommittee — Just weeks after being named chair of the House subcommittee overseeing Elon Musk's efforts to slash what he deems wasteful spending, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) bought thousands of dollars of shares in Tesla.
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Trump Admin Adds Note Rejecting ‘Gender Ideology’ on Sites Court Ordered Them to Restore — After being forced by a court order to restore certain pages about gender and diversity to government websites, the Trump administration has added a note to the top of those pages saying …
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Louisiana Department of Health says it will no longer promote mass vaccination — The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination, the state's surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, told state health workers Thursday. — “The State of Louisiana and LDH …
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Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds — Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Texas measles outbreak 2025: Dozens of cases reported in last 3 weeks — Skin of a patient after 3 days of measles infection — A measles outbreak in the Texas Plains continues to grow. — Cases doubled from 24 to 48 between Tuesday and Friday. — More cases are expected.
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