Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems  —  The agreement came in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of committing an “unlawful action” by giving private info to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice  —  Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office.  A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.

Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments  —  A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.

Democrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee  —  “He's the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought.  —  LOADING

Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI  —  On Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span, laying out the agency's new policies …

How Trump's Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos  —  Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime  —  WASHINGTON—A half-dozen of the most senior officials …

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’  —  An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”  —  A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …

Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump's D.E.I. Orders  —  The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective.  —  Google tried for years to diversify its work force …

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers  —  Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

Tesla's sales plummet across Europe  —  Registrations in Germany fall 59% amid consumer backlash against Elon Musk's political activism  —  Sales of Tesla's electric vehicles have fallen sharply across many of its key European markets amid a consumer backlash against Elon Musk's interventions in the region's politics.

The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us  —  ELON MUSK, OUR NEW UNELECTED OVERLORD, is mad at Bill Kristol.  Very, very mad.  And because this is the world we live in now, his hordes of online minions are mad, too.  —  Let me explain.  This week, Elon has been amplifying several tweets alleging …

White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest  —  The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump's government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies.

Elon Musk Says His Efficiency Team Will Tackle F.A.A. Technology  —  His announcement comes after an outage last week to the primary system that provides pilots safety alerts in real time.  —  Elon Musk's team will now dig into the nation's aviation system, the Trump administration announced on Wednesday.

White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees  —  The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.  —  The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing …

Republican ire at USAID finds an unusual target: Politico  —  Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government.  Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.

Trump moves to shutter environmental offices across the government  —  The administration plans to close the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental justice office and remake the Justice Department's environmental division.  —  In a little over two weeks, the Trump administration …

The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children  —  The world's richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world's poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.”

Panama denies State Department claim US government vessels can now transit canal for free  —  Panama denied a claim made by the State Department on Wednesday that the Central American nation had agreed to no longer charge fees for US government ships to transit the country's famous canal.

List: Examples of Trump's Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits  —  Other presidents have occasionally claimed a constitutional right to bypass particular laws.  But in the opening weeks of his second term, President Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through …

Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund  —  The U.S. had committed the most money to the global fund, which helps over 100 countries grapple with the changing world.  —  The Trump administration has canceled $4 billion in U.S. pledges to the world's largest climate fund …

Nancy Pelosi faces primary challenge from former AOC aide  —  Saikat Chakrabarti, a former tech worker, is calling for generational change in Democratic Party.  —  Another chapter in a generational battle over the future of the Democratic Party appears to be taking shape in San Francisco …

Justice Dept. Says It Will Not Bring Charges in Investigation of Project Veritas  —  Prosecutors in New York had spent years pursuing a case against the conservative group over its role in the theft of a diary kept by Ashley Biden.  —  The Justice Department said on Wednesday …

The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany's Merz  —  Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump's second presidency.  —  The German chancellor candidate told …

“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump  —  In the face of the Trump administration's aggressive efforts to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency and drive out its workers, more than 300 career employees have left their jobs since the election …

Health agencies sued after taking down data following Trump order  —  It's the latest lawsuit pushing back on the Trump administration's shakeup of the federal government.  —  A liberal-leaning medical advocacy group is suing over the removal of health data from government websites …