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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
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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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
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.
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
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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CNN:
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 …
Steve Vladeck / One First:
124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)  —  Two very different episodes on Thursday provide growing evidence of a Department of Justice that is showing less respect, by the day, for the rule of law.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” a weekly newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to all of us.
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
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.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Eric Adams Highlights Coordination With Trump's Border Czar on Fox News
New York Times:
How the Justice Dept. Helped Sink Its Own Case Against Eric Adams
Politico:
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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Wall Street Journal:
Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal  —  In interview with The Wall Street Journal, vice president says Ukraine must have ‘sovereign independence’  —  PARIS—Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Hegseth stands by Ukraine comments as GOP senator slams “rookie mistake”
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Vance takes MAGA to Munich with speech scolding European leaders
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
The White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’  —  The Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely.  —  The AP, one of the world's biggest news outlets, was singled out by the White House earlier …
New York Times:
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.
STAT:
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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New York Times:
Trump Officials Escalate Layoffs, Targeting Most of 200,000 Workers on Probation
ABC News:
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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Reuters:
Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit offices of loans, nuclear security, sources say
ABC News:
Hundreds laid off at US nuclear weapons agency: Sources
Discussion: Al Jazeera
The Hill:
Republicans put health care cuts front and center to advance agenda  —  House Republicans are putting cuts to Medicaid at the top of their list of budget cuts to help pay for their wide-ranging agenda that spans tax cuts, energy production and border security.
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Sweeping safety-net cuts have GOP centrists questioning Johnson's budget
Discussion: Semafor, Washington Examiner and NOTUS
Politico:
Vulnerable Republican fires warning shot on House budget
Discussion: Raw Story
Rolling Stone:
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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Reuters:
Elon Musk's tactics frustrate some White House senior officials
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
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 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Verge
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Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
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 …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
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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Washington Post:
Trump officials ask CDC, FDA to use gender notice on restored websites
Discussion: CBS News
Addy Baird / Salt Lake Tribune:
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 …
Emily Peck / Axios:
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Guardian
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
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 …
Meg Tirrell / CNN:
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 …
Zach Everson / Forbes:
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.
Discussion: Fox News
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
‘Open Season’: Local Republicans Rush to Out-Trump Trump on Immigration  —  WHEN YOU THINK OF A BOUNTY HUNTER, maybe you think of one of those reality-TV shows, like Dog the Bounty Hunter.  But for me, it's Star Wars that comes to mind.  —  The mysterious rogue, Boba Fett, sharing a scene with Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back?
Discussion: Washington Post
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
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 …
Julia Love / Bloomberg:
The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk's Texas Gigafactory  —  Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.  —  Cristy was in her early 50s when she took a job with a cleaning subcontractor on a construction project …
Adam Fullerton / FOX 26 Houston:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and Grabien
New York Times:
TikTok Returns to Apple and Google App Stores  —  The popular social media app was removed to comply with a new law that banned it in the United States.  President Trump has paused enforcement of the ban.  —  Apple and Google restored TikTok to their U.S. app stores on Thursday evening …
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
US deports 119 immigrants of varying nationalities to Panama  —  People from Afghanistan, Iran, China and other countries flown out as Trump's deportation effort intensifies  —  The US has sent undocumented immigrants from several Asian countries whose governments have refused to accept them to Panama …
 
 
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Vance meets with leader of far-right German political party backed by Musk
Ailia Zehra / The Hill:
Senate Democrat rips ‘indefensible, indiscriminate’ firings at CDC
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
American citizen arrested in Russia for weed gummies, state media says
Discussion: Reuters and Fox News
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NIH and Its Agencies Are Being Smothered
Politico:
DOGE discussing Housing Department layoffs
Discussion: Bloomberg and Baltimore Sun
Nick Gilbertson / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Trump Expected to Halt Federal Funding to Schools with COVID Vaccine Mandates
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
More Tesla showroom protests planned for this weekend
Discussion: Wired
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Reich:
Say what this is: a coup.  —  I want to talk today about the media's coverage of the Trump-Vance-Musk coup.
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Elon Musk's Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO
more at Techmeme »
Reuters:
Trump closed a loophole for low-cost imports ‒ until all hell broke loose
Discussion: The Federalist
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
The Opposition Is Already Growing
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Fool Me Twice, I'll Make You FBI Director
Jason Leopold / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk's DOGE Targets FOIA Requests at Agency Under its Purview
New York Times:
Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk's Government Initiative
 

 
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Warner Bros Discovery says John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of directors and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A group of professors specializing in copyright law files an amicus brief supporting authors suing Meta for allegedly training AI on ebooks without permission

Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Netflix files an appeal to France's Council of State over the windowing rules that force the streamer to wait 15 months to access newly released films
 
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