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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Judge blocks Trump administration's mass firings of federal workers  —  A federal judge ruled that the terminations at several agencies, including the Department of Defense, were likely illegal.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management …
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The Guardian:
Judge temporarily blocks Trump's mass firings at federal agencies
Discussion: Townhall
Janie Har / Associated Press:
US judge in San Francisco will hear request by unions to halt mass firings of probationary workers
Discussion: Scripps News and RedState
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge halts mass firings of federal workers at some agencies
Discussion: Fox News
Gary Grumbach / NBC News:
Judge orders Trump admin to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers
Discussion: Blaze Media
Katherine Li / Business Insider:   Judge says mass firings of probationary employees by the Trump administration were invalid
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:   OPM tells court it never ordered mass firings, contradicting prior claims
Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
Behind the scenes, GOP senators challenge legality of Trump's aid cuts  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally who lauded the USAID cuts, quietly joined Democrats in expressing alarm.  —  Just now  —  A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm …
Discussion: Wired, Reuters, Raw Story and Daily Kos
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / Puck:
Trump's Screaming Call & G.O.P. Moderate Misery  —  The House has cleared a budget hurdle... barely.  But the chamber's Republican lawmakers may yet be thwarted by their own internal dynamics—not to mention the Senate.  —  Representative Victoria Spartz, among the more chaotic …
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Trump and GOP leaders discuss using tariffs to pay for agenda
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump's Third-Term Talk Faces Pushback From a Democratic Congressman
Discussion: American Prospect and The Hill
Rebecca Crosby / Popular Information:
BREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions  —  In December, Popular Information reported that Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLF), a new venture backed by President Donald Trump and his family.
Discussion: Bloomberg and CoinDesk
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
NOAA begins firing hundreds of staffers  —  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began the process of firing hundreds of probationary workers Thursday, the latest mass job cuts within federal agencies, three sources with knowledge of internal operations told The Hill.
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Washington Post:
FBI investigating Trump EPA claims of fraud in $20B Biden grant fund  —  While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.  —  Just now  —  FBI agents this week questioned …
Discussion: Reason
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
MAGA Loses It as DOGE Staffer Identities Revealed  —  The New York Times identified several dozen employees working for the Department of Government Efficiency, but conservatives were surprisingly unhappy about the transparency.  —  “The so-called New York Times outs 45 people working for DOGE …
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Jake Lahut / Wired:
Elon Musk's Takeover Is Being Aided by a Trumpworld Power Couple
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog were dead for some time, warrant shows  —  Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were found dead in different rooms of their Santa Fe home, and they had apparently been dead for some time, according to investigators.
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Robert Berkvist / New York Times:
Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Consummate Everyman, Dies at 95
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments  —  Multiple vaccine projects have been paused by the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  —  Kennedy paused a multimillion-dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday …
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US Department of Justice:
Attorney General Pamela Bondi Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files  —  Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), declassified and publicly released files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his sexual exploitation …
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Here's what on the Jeffrey Epstein list that the Trump DOJ is set to release later today  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is preparing to release notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's personal address book Thursday, The Post has learned.  —  A source who has reviewed the files …
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Former defense chiefs denounce Trump's ‘reckless’ Pentagon firings  —  The five former leaders urged Congress to hold the president accountable for what they called his unjustified removal of the Joint Chiefs chairman and other top military officers.  —  Five former defense secretaries …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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Politico:
23 Dem AGs think they've cracked the code to fighting Trump  —  Democratic state attorneys general have been planning their lawsuits for a year.  —  The resistance meets daily on Microsoft Teams.  —  The country's 23 Democratic state attorneys general log on at 4pm ET …
Discussion: The Daily Wire, Raw Story and E&E News
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Marie J. French / Politico:
Dems are icing out Tesla lobbyists over Elon Musk's Trump ties
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Kash Patel's Whirlwind Start at the FBI  —  The new FBI director ordered officials to undertake a $100 million restructuring with no clear way to fund it—and took on a second job  —  WASHINGTON—FBI officials from regional field offices gathered on a video call this week to hear …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Education Department Opens Snitch Line Against Diversity  —  The snitch portal was launched in association with the extremist group Moms for Liberty … Tiffany Justice, of Moms for Liberty, touted the launch of the portal, highlighting it as an opportunity for parents to push back against …
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Emily Davies / Washington Post:
She hoped Trump's victory would change her life, but not like this  —  Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics.  Then came DOGE.  —  BALDWIN, Mich. — Ryleigh Cooper exhaled as she slid onto the couch after nine hours of work for the U.S. Forest Service …
Stephanie Nolen / New York Times:
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World  —  Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.  —  Starting Wednesday afternoon, a wave of emails went out from the State Department …
Discussion: Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Inside DOGE's Clash With the Federal Workforce  —  With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk's programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.-At 12:01 p.m. on Jan. 20, as Donald Trump …
Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:
CNN Fact-Checker Floored By Trump Cabinet Meeting: ‘There Was Just So Much’  —  Daniel Dale picked apart the president's statements during the first meeting of his new administration's department heads.  —  President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting Wednesday of his new administration …
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, Raw Story, USA Today and Grabien
Chris Isidore / CNN:
Elon Musk says upgrade of FAA's air traffic control system is failing and SpaceX needs to take over Verizon's contract  —  New York CNN —  Elon Musk said Thursday that Verizon's efforts to provide a critically needed upgrade to the FAA's air traffic control system is failing.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Trump's biggest power grab just reached the Supreme Court  —  On Wednesday night, Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted a lower court order, which would have required the Trump administration to make approximately $2 billion in foreign aid payments that it had stopped as part …
Washington Post:
Harsh findings on Trump's aid freeze kept secret by USAID watchdog  —  Two reports showing dire impacts on Africa and Gaza have not been released in fear of Trump's wrath, official says  —  The watchdog for the U.S. Agency for International Development has yet to release two critical reports …
Scott Neuman / NPR:
Pentagon directs removal of trans service members from military  —  The Pentagon has directed that service members and recruits with gender dysphoria be separated from the U.S. military in accordance with an executive order issued a month ago by President Trump.
Jay Willis / Balls and Strikes:
Elon Musk's Attacks On Judges Are Getting More Racist and More Dangerous  —  In recent weeks, federal judges across the country have blocked several of President Donald Trump's more ambitious attempts to treat following the law as optional.  Elon Musk, who is leading the administration's efforts …
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Des Moines Register:
Iowa lawmakers pass bill removing trans civil rights protections, sending it to governor  —  Stephen Gruber-Miller Marissa Payne Sabine MartinDes Moines Register  —  Over the protests of hundreds of Iowans chanting “no hate in our state,” Iowa's Republican-dominated Legislature voted Thursday …
 
 
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The states that could feel DOGE cuts the most
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Social Security Admin warns employees of “massive reorganizations”
Discussion: CBS News
Annie Nova / CNBC:
Trump administration removes student loan repayment applications from Education Dept. website
Discussion: Washington Post and The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
Connor Stringer / Telegraph:
White House official threatens to redraw Canadian border
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Discussion: NPR
Frank Andrews / CBS News:
Andrew Tate and brother Tristan, who face human trafficking charges in Romania, arrive in the U.S.
Marcia Brown / Politico:
Trump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employees
Discussion: New Republic and FOX 32 Chicago
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
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