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In federal District Court, Attorneys General for 22 states sued the Trump Administration to at least temporarily block a policy change by the National Institutes of Health that would cut…
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Donald Trump appealed against District Court Judge McConnell’s second order blocking Trump’s sweeping freeze of federal funding. (more…)
USAID Inspector General Paul Martin released a report criticizing Donald Trump’s extreme downsizing of the agency, citing calamitous effects. (more…)
American Council on Education, Association of American Universities, Association of Public & Land-grant Universities, and others filed a lawsuit in federal District Court against the new regime’s abrupt cut of…
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AFT, IAMAW, NARFEA, NFFE, and six individuals sued the Office of Personnel Management, Department of the Treasury and Department of Education in federal District Court against DOGE’s compromise of sensitive…
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Donald Trump continued to freeze grant funding at NIH in violation of court orders. Click here for more details.
District Court Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the FBI must search its records for information pertinent to an outstanding FOIA request and work toward its release. (more…)
Hamas suspended further release of hostages indefinitely, saying the ceasefire deal has been violated. (more…)
Federal District Court Judge John McConnell again ordered Donald Trump to restore the sweeping range of federal funding frozen by executive order. (more…)
Federal District Court Judge Joseph Laplante became the third judge to block Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to restrict birthright citizenship. Laplante granted a preliminary injunction requested in the…
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Probationary federal employees (in their jobs less than a year) who were fired via mass email Friday evening received new email saying their firing notifications were a mistake, so they…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking enforcement of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. (more…)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was dismantled over the weekend, and Elon Musk’s DOGE team got access to its IT systems which contain data useful to his businesses. (more…)
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania successfully completed switchover of their electrical grids from connection with Russia’s to connection with the European network through Poland. (more…)
Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of several more people who have at some point been involved in investigations into him. (more…)
A German court ordered Elon Musk’s social media platform X to immediately allow researchers to access data about its political content ahead of the country’s election. (more…)
Federal District Court Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a temporary restraining order barring Elon Musk’s DOGE, a subset of a White House IT group, from access to Treasury Department records…
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed new laws from the state Assembly allocating $50 million, half to defend state policies from attack by Donald Trump and half to defend immigrants from…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting financial assistance to South Africa and offering asylum to white people there. For everyone else, the USA’s asylum system is currently suspended. Click…
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Donald Trump terminated former President Biden’s security clearances and intelligence briefings. (more…)
Judge Carl Nichols issued a temporary restraining order blocking the new regime’s directive putting 2,200 USAID workers on administrative leave. The 500 already placed on such leave are to be…
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Several transgender and non-binary people sued Donald Trump in federal District Court against his new policy prohibiting them from having passports that match their gender identities. Click here for more…
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Donald Trump sent email to fire Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of the Special Counsel. (more…)
The University of California Student Association sued the Department of Education in federal District Court for illegally sharing personal financial data with Elon Musk’s DOGE. (more…)
In Facebook, the Dallas Police Department announced it will not take part in federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation raids. (more…)
Probationary federal employees (in their jobs less than a year) at the Small Business Administration were fired via mass email notification, with a termination date of 21 February. Click here…
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Non-government organizations that work on contracts with the federal government began to receive letters promising to cut off their contracts unless they certify that they have no diversity, equity and…
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The National Institutes of Health announced it will immediately cut support by at least half for indirect costs in research grants. NIH is the main funder of USA biomedical research.…
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Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth issued an order terminating gender affirming hormone therapy and further medical procedures for transgender members of military services. (more…)
Local residents in a Cincinnati-area community confronted and drove away a group of neo-Nazis who were waving swastika flags and putting up Nazi banners on a highway overpass. (more…)
UK’s Home Office used the Investigatory Powers Act to demand that Apple create “back door” access for it into the company’s encrypted cloud services. Apple refused. (more…)
An airplane carrying 10 crashed near Nome, Alaska, killing all aboard. This was the third fatal aircraft accident since Donald Trump took office, forced out the head of the FAA…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order to sanction against people and their families who aid the International Criminal Court (ICC). (more…)
Donald Trump sent a letter to Ellen L. Weintraub, Commissioner and Chair of the Federal Election Commission, attempting to fire her. She refused to leave. (more…)
The American Federation of Government Employees and American Foreign Service Association jointly sued Donald Trump et al. to halt and ideally reverse abrupt dismantling of USAID, the main foreign aid…
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The federal Department of Justice sued Illinois, Cook County and the City of Chicago, seeking to overturn “sanctuary laws” limiting cooperation with immigration authorities. DOJ complains that the sanctuary laws…
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The Anti-Defamation League filed a civil lawsuit in federal District Court against the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe and associates on behalf of the city of Springfield, Ohio. (more…)
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency put on administrative leave 17 staffers whose work defends elections at all levels against foreign influence, attacks, disinformation and misinformation. (more…)
Marko Elez, who had access to modify Treasury Department software after DOGE took over the agency, quit after his racist posts surfaced. (more…)
Despite Donald Trump’s claim to have unfrozen PEPFAR for HIV treatment, it is among several USAID foreign aid programs still unable to access funds and resume operations. (more…)
Labor unions sued Donald Trump’s Administration to halt his efforts to freeze foreign aid and dismantle the agency. The lawsuit asserts only Congress has the authority to take such actions.…
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On orders from Donald Trump, the Department of Homeland Security evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan from base housing on three hours of notice in the midst of…
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Donald Trump halted funding for the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, despite two existing judicial orders to lift freezes on federal funding. The Federal Highway Administration took down…
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Federal District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. ordered a pause until Monday for the deadline of midnight tonight that was dictated in an email purporting to offer “deferred resignation” to…
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A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 clipped the tail of a parked Delta Airlines Boeing 737 while taxiing at Seattle’s airport. Click here for more details.
Federal District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotellyon barred the Treasury Department from allowing access “to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Bureau of the…
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In the midst of Elon Musk’s DOGE takeover of the US Agency for International Development, rapid dismantling of the agency and court cases seeking to protect it, news broke that…
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Having taken over NOAA earlier in the week, Elon Musk’s DOGE team gained access to NOAA’s IT systems and began searching for everything and everyone associated with diversity, equity and…
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In response to a lawsuit filed by a group of organizations at federal District Court for the District of Columbia,Elon Musk’s DOGE, a subset of a White House IT group,…
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To satisfy an order from the Office of Personnel Management, the Central Intelligence Agency sent through unclassified email a list of employees hired in the last two years. Some reports…
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