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Federal judge blocks Musk's DOGE from access to Treasury Department material — The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department's records and systems, if any.” — NEW YORK — A federal judge issued …
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Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk's Team — The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation's laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
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“The greatest threat we've ever faced”: US Treasury division classifies DOGE staff as extreme danger
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Washington Post:
Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’
Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge orders sweeping restriction on DOGE access to sensitive Treasury payment systems
Judge orders sweeping restriction on DOGE access to sensitive Treasury payment systems
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Wired:
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
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State of California:
Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration Over DOGE's Unlawful Access to Americans' Personal Information
Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration Over DOGE's Unlawful Access to Americans' Personal Information
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Michael Stratford / Politico:
Treasury elevates Musk ally to lead government payment system
Treasury elevates Musk ally to lead government payment system
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Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets — Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps. — The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy Friday …
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Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates — Related Announcements — Issued by — Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD) — Purpose — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards a large number of grants providing …
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Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them — Ed Martin, a loyal Trump soldier, oversees the U.S. attorney's office, which is likely to help turn the investigative powers of the government on several of the president's perceived enemies.
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How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE's crosshairs — Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze. — Pete Marocco was furious. — It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered …
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Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records — President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records.
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Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
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'It's a Circus': Trump Unleashes Chaos at Key US Science Agency — Muddled directives and early-morning emails at NOAA, one of the world's top weather and climate forecasters, have put the agency on edge. — The email arrived in US government workers' inboxes just after 1 a.m. East Coast time on Friday …
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Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate — A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level. — In late January, two children in Gaines County were hospitalized for measles.
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Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk? — In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed …
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Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ — Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities …
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Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself as Chair — The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control. — President Trump announced his intention …
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Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners — His executive order accuses South Africa's government of seizing property from White landowners and calls for their resettlement as “refugees” in the U.S. — President Donald Trump on Friday signed …
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Trump orders U.S. to prioritize refugee resettlement of South Africans of European descent
Trump orders U.S. to prioritize refugee resettlement of South Africans of European descent
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30K tons of food ‘going to waste’ in Houston after Trump halted aid — About 30,000 tons of food is stuck at a port in Houston after Trump halted foreign aid for 90 days. The food, intended to feed people overseas, is stalled at a warehouse,the Houston Chronicle reported.
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Washington Has Given Up the Fight Against Kleptocrats. Here's What Democracies Should Do — On Feb. 6, new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a series of new directives from President Donald Trump's administration outlining her office's priorities. Taken together, they represent …
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Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show — Patel, President Trump's nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company that has promoted anti-Western views advanced by the Kremlin, documents show. — Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's nominee …
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Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk? — The cover of the venerable newsweekly, long an object of fixation for the president, put Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk. — The president did not look amused. He was meeting the Japanese prime minister …
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They still want ‘one big, beautiful bill.’ They're nowhere close. — GOP leaders are trying to lasso various factions as the Senate races ahead with its own plan for President Donald Trump's tax cuts and other priorities. — House Republicans are still far from finalizing several key details …
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Republicans in House, Senate on collision course over sweeping Trump budget bill
Republicans in House, Senate on collision course over sweeping Trump budget bill
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Trump's Gaza proposal strikes fear in his new Arab American supporters — Whether Trump can keep these new supporters could have significant implications on key upcoming statewide races, but also on the fragile coalition the party assembled to gain new ground.
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The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring — Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters early in Trump's second term — The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over. — Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across …
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Trudeau Caught on Hot Mic Revealing Trump's Plans for Canada — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders that U.S. President Donald Trump's interest in annexing Canada was a very real plan aimed at controlling the country's vast mineral resources.Trudeau was caught …
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The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal — On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him.
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German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk's platform — Researchers win a legal battle against the platform formerly known as Twitter, securing crucial access to social media data to probe potential election interference. — BERLIN — A German court handed Elon Musk's X …
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Federal workers who took Trump buyout feel fear, regret after judge's order — A judge in Massachusetts paused a Feb. 6 deadline to decide on whether to take the buyout, pending a Monday court hearing in a lawsuit seeking to nullify the Trump administration's deferred resignation program.
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Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal — Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication …
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Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity — The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his “unconventional approaches” to an audience that included women and people of color. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave his first public address …
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Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out — Don't get distracted. Don't get overwhelmed. Don't get paralyzed and pulled into the chaos that President Trump and his allies are purposely creating with the volume and speed of executive orders; the effort to dismantle the federal government …