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The Department of Defense announced it will fire 5400 probationary civilian federal employees next week, the first tranche of up to 61,000 jobs to be cut out of a civilian…
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Kyle Diamantas was appointed to replace Jim Jones, becoming Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Human Foods Program at the Food and Drug Administration. Diamantas is a Florida attorney and hunting…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, paused a contract for development of a COVID vaccine in pill form, blocking clinical trials that were about to begin.…
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Jordan Bardella, leader of French far-right political party National Rally, cancelled his speech at the U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference after Steve Bannon finished his speech there with a Nazi…
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Federal District Judge Dale Ho indefinitely delayed the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, but did not accede to the Department of Justice’s request to dismiss it. (more…)
In one month since Donald Trump’s inauguration, China, Japan and the UK offloaded $81 billion in USA Treasury bonds. The amounts unloaded were: China: $9.6 billion, leaving a holding of…
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In the midst of tax filing season, 6700 probationary employees at the Internal Revenue Service were fired. (more…)
Donald Trump wants to dissolve the board that runs the U.S. Postal Service and move the Postal Service into the Commerce Department where the executive branch can more directly control…
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Arkansas became the first Southern state, one of only a handful of states in the USA, to offer universal breakfast at no cost to children at school. (more…)
The Department of Justice shut down and deleted a database that tracked police misconduct. (more…)
Donald Trump’s regime ordered the Centers for Disease Control to indefinitely postpone the next public meeting of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The panel makes recommendations to CDC for…
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The Department of Justice acted to drop its case against Elon Musk’s company SpaceX for discrimination, refusing to consider hiring asylum recipients or refugees. Technically, today the DOJ asked the…
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued to compel Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” to comply with laws pertaining to retention and disclosure of government document, and requested…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE began putting a $1 spending limit on most government credit cards for employees and contractors, starting at the General Services Administration. (more…)
Federal District Court Judge Amir Ali reiterated his temporary restraining order for Donald Trump’s regime to release the appropriate foreign aid it has frozen. Most of the funds are still…
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The National Science Foundation reclassified hundreds of its federal employees from permanent to probationary status without notification. Reclassification violated labor union contracts and made the workers vulnerable to being fired…
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After Donald Trump touted his intention to put 30,000 immigrants at Guantánamo Bay (Gitmo) as part of his mass deportation scheme, his regime flew out nearly all the immigrants who…
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Federal Appeals Court Judge Danielle Forrest did not agree with the government that reinstatement of Donald Trump’s executive order is an emergency and was not convinced the appeal has a…
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The Senate confirmed Kash Patel as the new Director of the FBI by a vote of 51 to 49. All Democratic Senators and two Republicans, Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski…
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Defense chiefs John Healey (UK) and Tore Sandvik (Norway) began negotiations at Norwegian Joint Headquarters for form a new “deep, ambitious” defense pact to bolster NATO and counteract threats, especially…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE released a feature on its website to show how much federal spending the team has cut. NPR’s dive into the data found considerable errors. (more…)
Federal District Judge Dale Ho asked probing questions in court when Department of Justice attorneys requested that he dismiss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. (more…)
Through Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Donald Trump attempted to intimidate New York Governor Kathy Hochul into ending New York City’s month-old congestion charges. Then Trump declared himself king in social…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order to essentially eliminate in all but name the Presidio Trust, Inter-American Foundation, U.S. African Development Foundation and U.S. Institute of Peace. (more…)
Donald Trump signed an executive order directing nearly all independent regulatory agencies to submit to direct control by the White House. (more…)
The Wall Street Journal broke the story that Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has been threatening advertisers that they must spend more on X, or else. A…
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Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin launched Operation Whirlwind as an investigation into purported threats against Elon Musk’s DOGE. The first target of the operation is Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). DOGE…
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GlomarResponder, a racist, pro-fascist, anti-COVID-vaccine, hate-filled account in X (formerly Twitter), has been revealed as belonging to James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, who is Assistant Chief Counsel for ICE in the…
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A refugee has filed the first legal challenge against UK’s decision to ban refugees who arrive in the UK by “irregular” means from ever gaining citizenship. (more…)
Two airplanes collided at Marana Regional Airport about 21 miles northwest of Tucson. One person died. Click here for more details.
European leaders met in a second emergency summit two days after the first to decide how to respond to Donald Trump’s radical reversal against support for Ukraine in its resistance…
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Donald Trump’s regime is considering ending the program that sends free COVID test kits to households. Most of the $500 million stockpile of tests are still valid. They were paid…
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Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to fire all remaining prosecutors from the Biden administration. (more…)
The National Science Foundation fired 168 of its 1700 employees, targeted at probationary employees and temporary “intermittent expert” employees brought in for specific expertise. (more…)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Turkey regards Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty as non-negotiable. (more…)
Donald Trump’s regime ordered an immediate halt to work on a $200 million contract for legal representatives to help children who enter the USA unaccompanied. The Acacia Center for Justice…
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Denise Cheung, a U.S. Attorney who supervised criminal cases in the DC office, resigned rather than carry out an order to freeze assets of a Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency grant…
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Steven Reilly, the engineering lead for the federal government’s Notify system, resigned rather than grant full administrator access to Elon Musk’s DOGE. (more…)
The Department of Agriculture belatedly realized it fired several federal employees who were working on containing the H5N1 avian flu outbreak that is decimating egg and poultry suppliers, and cross-infecting…
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After widespread news reports that NASA’s probationary employees would be fired, they got a last-minute reprieve. It may be temporary. No explanation for the reprieve was given. Programs involving diversity,…
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Brazil’s Attorney General Paulo Gonet charged former president Jair Bolsonaro and six associates with leading a far-right conspiracy to stay in office by military coup d’état. Gonet said the plot…
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Teams from the USA and Russia held talks in Saudi Arabia about ending the war in Ukraine, but did not allow Ukraine or Europe to attend. Donald Trump had already…
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Donald Trump is pressuring Romania to lift travel restrictions on Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate. The brothers and two Romanian women await trial on human trafficking, sexual misconduct…
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Four deputies of New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned after the federal Department of Justice requested dismissal of corruption charges against him, reserving the ability to refile charges. (more…)
FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods James (Jim) Jones resigned, saying the widespread firings of workers by Elon Musk’s DOGE for Donald Trump’s regime would render his role “fruitless.” (more…)
Delta DL4819 from Minneapolis-St. Paul crashed upon landing at Toronto’s airport, turning upside down and catching on fire. No one died. (more…)
Protests occurred across the USA against Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s regime, not only at capitols but at other locations such as city halls. (more…)
A federal District Court Judge blocked deportation of three Venezuelans to detention at Guantanamo Bay, but they were deported to Venezuela the day after the court’s ruling. (more…)
Leaders of a handful of leading European countries met in Paris for an emergency summit about how to respond to Donald Trump’s radical shift away from supporting Ukraine. (more…)
The first-ever nationwide assessment of the state of nature in the USA will be completed and released despite Donald Trump’s attempt to quash it. More than 150 scientists have been…
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