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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Judge blocks Trump administration's mass firings of federal workers  —  A federal judge ruled that the terminations at several agencies, including the Department of Defense, were likely illegal.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management …
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The Guardian:
‘Cruel and thoughtless’: Trump fires hundreds at US climate agency Noaa  —  Employees informed by email that their jobs would be cut off at end of day in move a worker called ‘wrong all around’  — Don't let a billionaire's algorithm control what you read.  Download our free app to get trusted reporting.
CNN:
NOAA fires about 800 employees, with more possible Friday  —  The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two sources close to the agency.
Discussion: OPB, USA Today, NPR and Washington Examiner
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Judge orders Trump administration to rescind directives on probationary employee firings  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to rescind directives that caused the mass firings of recent hires and other federal employees on their probationary periods.
The Guardian:
Judge temporarily blocks Trump's mass firings at federal agencies
Discussion: Townhall
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
NOAA begins firing hundreds of staffers
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge halts mass firings of federal workers at some agencies
Discussion: Fox News
Janie Har / Associated Press:
US judge in San Francisco will hear request by unions to halt mass firings of probationary workers
Discussion: RedState
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
OPM tells court it never ordered mass firings, contradicting prior claims
Katherine Li / Business Insider:   Judge says mass firings of probationary employees by the Trump administration were invalid
Washington Post:
FBI investigating Trump EPA claims of fraud in $20B Biden grant fund  —  While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.  —  Just now  —  FBI agents this week questioned …
Discussion: Reason
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Former defense chiefs denounce Trump's ‘reckless’ Pentagon firings  —  The five former leaders urged Congress to hold the president accountable for what they called his unjustified removal of the Joint Chiefs chairman and other top military officers.  —  Five former defense secretaries …
Discussion: Reuters, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Trump and GOP leaders discuss using tariffs to pay for agenda
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Signal
Rebecca Crosby / Popular Information:
BREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions  —  In December, Popular Information reported that Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLF), a new venture backed by President Donald Trump and his family.
Discussion: Bloomberg and CoinDesk
CDC Newsroom:
CDC Statement on Measles Outbreak  —  RELEASE  —  CDC Media Relations  —  (404) 639-3286  —  media@cdc.gov  —  CDC continues to be in close communication with Texas health authorities about the measles outbreak in West Texas, following the death of a child.  HHS sends its deepest condolences to the family.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
'He's Full Of S**t': Pediatrician In Congress Blames RFK Jr. For Child's Death From Measles
US Department of Justice:
Attorney General Pamela Bondi Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files  —  Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), declassified and publicly released files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his sexual exploitation …
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Here's what on the Jeffrey Epstein list that the Trump DOJ is set to release later today
Stephanie Nolen / New York Times:
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World  —  Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.  —  Starting Wednesday afternoon, a wave of emails went out from the State Department …
Discussion: Politico
Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
Behind the scenes, GOP senators challenge legality of Trump's aid cuts  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally who lauded the USAID cuts, quietly joined Democrats in expressing alarm.  —  Just now  —  A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm …
Discussion: Wired, Reuters, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Associated Press:
Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog were dead for some time, warrant shows  —  Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were found dead in different rooms of their Santa Fe home, and they had apparently been dead for some time, according to investigators.
Wall Street Journal:
Inside DOGE's Clash With the Federal Workforce  —  With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk's programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.-At 12:01 p.m. on Jan. 20, as Donald Trump …
U.S. Department of Education:
U.S. Department of Education Launches “End DEI” Portal  —  WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Education launched EndDEI.Ed.Gov, a public portal for parents, students, teachers, and the broader community to submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools.
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Education Department Opens Snitch Line Against Diversity
Discussion: Salon, Raw Story and The Hill
Des Moines Register:
Iowa lawmakers pass bill removing trans civil rights protections, sending it to governor  —  Stephen Gruber-Miller Marissa Payne Sabine MartinDes Moines Register  —  Over the protests of hundreds of Iowans chanting “no hate in our state,” Iowa's Republican-dominated Legislature voted Thursday …
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Politico:
Judge orders Trump administration officials to give sworn testimony on DOGE  —  The Justice Department fought the effort to put staffers involved in the controversial cost-slashing effort under oath.  —  A federal judge has ordered Trump administration officials involved in Elon Musk's …
Politico:
23 Dem AGs think they've cracked the code to fighting Trump  —  Democratic state attorneys general have been planning their lawsuits for a year.  —  The resistance meets daily on Microsoft Teams.  —  The country's 23 Democratic state attorneys general log on at 4pm ET …
Discussion: The Daily Wire, Raw Story and E&E News
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Marie J. French / Politico:
Dems are icing out Tesla lobbyists over Elon Musk's Trump ties
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Kash Patel's Whirlwind Start at the FBI  —  The new FBI director ordered officials to undertake a $100 million restructuring with no clear way to fund it—and took on a second job  —  WASHINGTON—FBI officials from regional field offices gathered on a video call this week to hear …
Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce  —  The Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off at least 7,000 people from its workforce of 60,000, according to a person familiar with the agency's plans who is not authorized to speak publicly.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
MAGA Loses It as DOGE Staffer Identities Revealed  —  The New York Times identified several dozen employees working for the Department of Government Efficiency, but conservatives were surprisingly unhappy about the transparency.  —  “The so-called New York Times outs 45 people working for DOGE …
Washington Post:
Harsh findings on Trump's aid freeze kept secret by USAID watchdog  —  Two reports showing dire impacts on Africa and Gaza have not been released in fear of Trump's wrath, official says  —  The watchdog for the U.S. Agency for International Development has yet to release two critical reports …
Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:
CNN Fact-Checker Floored By Trump Cabinet Meeting: ‘There Was Just So Much’  —  Daniel Dale picked apart the president's statements during the first meeting of his new administration's department heads.  —  President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting Wednesday of his new administration …
Discussion: Mediaite, CNN, Raw Story, USA Today and Grabien
Jake Lahut / Wired:
Elon Musk's Takeover Is Being Aided by a Trumpworld Power Couple  —  Stephen and Katie Miller—he's “the prime minister,” sources say; she's DOGE's comms guru—liaise between the White House and Elon Musk, and are centrally involved as he tears the government apart.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Victor Goury-Laffont / Politico:
Trump is ‘no longer an ally,’ former French President Hollande says
Discussion: Politico
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The states that could feel DOGE cuts the most
Hatice Kamer / Voice of America:
VOA Kurdish: Turkey's Kurds react to PKK leader's call to disarm group
 Earlier Items: 
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Social Security Admin warns employees of “massive reorganizations”
Discussion: CBS News
Annie Nova / CNBC:
Trump administration removes student loan repayment applications from Education Dept. website
Discussion: Washington Post and The Guardian
Scott Neuman / NPR:
Pentagon directs removal of trans service members from military
Chris Isidore / CNN:
Elon Musk says upgrade of FAA's air traffic control system is failing and SpaceX needs to take over Verizon's contract
Jay Willis / Balls and Strikes:
Elon Musk's Attacks On Judges Are Getting More Racist and More Dangerous
Discussion: The Daily Wire
 

 
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CNBC:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months”

Ian King / Bloomberg:
At the Intel Vision conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says Intel plans to spin off non-core assets, create new products including custom semiconductors, and more

 
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