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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse — Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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Musk changes reason for visiting Wisconsin to hand out $2 million ahead of Supreme Court election — Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the state's hotly contested Supreme Court was to be decided.
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Musk butts up against Wisconsin state law with (now deleted) $1 million check giveaway
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NEW: Ahead of April 1 Elections, DNC Blankets Wisconsin Newspapers to Call Out Elon Musk's Scheme to Buy Wisconsin Election for Brad Schimel
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Elon Musk Backtracks on a Legally Questionable Plan to Pay Voters
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Wisconsin Democratic leader accuses Musk of ‘illegal’ actions in Supreme Court race
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Major Law Firm Makes Deal to Avoid Punishing Order, President Says — Where Things Stand — Law firm deal: President Trump announced that the major law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono work …
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Another law firm targeted by Trump sues to block punishing executive order — Jenner & Block is the second law firm to try to fight Trump in court over his executive orders. — A law firm targeted by President Donald Trump sued Friday to bar enforcement of his executive order that seeks …
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Trump gets $100M deal with Skadden law firm amid pressure campaign
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Law Firm Skadden Chooses To Surrender To Trump
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They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them — The worst thing that the federal government has done to labor unions in my lifetime happened last night. Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that the government will no longer recognize and bargain with a huge portion of the unions that represent federal workers.
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Trump moves to strip unionization rights from most federal workers — It's the latest effort in his drive to disempower the federal bureaucracy. — President Donald Trump is trying to revoke collective bargaining rights from most federal employees — the latest move in his aggressive campaign to weaken the federal workforce.
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Vance, citing threats from Russia and China, urges Greenland to ‘cut a deal’ with the U.S. — “When the president says 'We've got to have Greenland,' he's saying this island is not safe,” the vice president said. — Vice President JD Vance on Friday did not rule out using military action …
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Live updates: Trump reiterates desire to control Greenland as Vance visits the country
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USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Press — SECRETARY RUBIO: Grant? — QUESTION: The Ukrainian children who — SECRETARY RUBIO: Oh, the data. The data is secured. We secured the data. We'll transfer it to the appropriate party. We've ensured that.
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Here Are The Students Trump Wants to Deport Over Their Speech
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Dow sinks 600 points. Stocks are on track for their worst quarter since 2023 — New York CNN — US stocks were lower Friday as investors digested souring consumer sentiment and inflation data that showed an uptick in one of the Federal Reserve's key gauges, underscoring the delicate state …
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Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case … President Donald Trump pardoned Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton for his October 2022 conviction of federal crimes related to defrauding investors with false claims about the success of the electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker.
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Trump Can Fire Two Agency Heads, Appeals Court Says — Donald Trump can fire members of two independent agencies, a divided federal appeals court in Washington ruled, boosting the president's efforts to dramatically reshape the US government. — In a 2-1 order issued Friday …
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This Is Just Dumb — It's not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it's the stupidity. We're all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and his team don't actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws. But we knew that already.
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Federal judge blocks mass firings of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau workers — U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a preliminary injunction Friday that blocks the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau.
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Vance to wipe ‘improper ideology’ from the Smithsonian — The project offers the vice president the opportunity to make headway on his yearslong crusade against progressive principles. — Vice President JD Vance has a new job: erasing what the White House considers “improper ideology” …
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff …
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Texas Never Wanted RFK Jr.'s Unproven Measles Treatment
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's ‘kafir’ tattoo draws criticism. What does it mean? — Hegseth has previously attracted attention over his many tattoos. This time, new photos show that he has the word ‘kafir’ on his upper arm. What does that mean and what do critics say it's indicating?
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Strong earthquake strikes central Myanmar, panic in Bangkok — A powerful earthquake killed more than 140 people in Myanmar on Friday, authorities said, toppling buildings and wrecking infrastructure across a wide area, including a skyscraper under construction in neighbouring Thailand.
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'If We Don't Get Our S—t Together, Then We Are Going to Be in a Permanent Minority' — It's been months since Democrats suffered a devastating defeat at the polls. For all the talk about the party's need for change, few seem actually willing to make the leap.


Russian medical researcher at Harvard, who protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE — Kseniia Petrova's attorney said her previous arrest in Russia and social media activity “will almost certainly ensure a nice, hefty jail sentence for her” if she is deported back.


Judge orders release of Venezuelan couple caught up in Trump gang crackdown — Immigration officials accused the pair of being “associated” with Tren de Aragua, which they deny. — A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a Washington-area Venezuelan couple who contend they've …


RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say — The entire staff of the federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off, multiple federal health officials told CBS News Friday. The moves are part of a broader …


Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water — Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over opposition from dentists and national health organizations who warn the move will lead to medical problems and disproportionately affect low-income communities.
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Cuomo held up Citi Field mass vaccine site amid beef with de Blasio — The account, shared by nine people involved in New York's pandemic response, conflicts with the image Cuomo cultivated as a steady leader in a time of tumult. — NEW YORK — In early 2021, pandemic-battered New Yorkers …
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Officials say texts sent by Waltz, Ratcliffe in Signal chat may have damaged US' ongoing ability to gather intel on Houthis — Current and former US officials have told CNN they believe two texts sent by national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe …
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