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Trump dismisses archivist to the United States

By Maegan Vazquez
Feb 08, 2025 7:53 pm - President Donald Trump has terminated the head of the National Archives and Records Administration, targeting an independent agency that was involved in trying to recover...
Trump administration cuts teams that fight foreign election interference

By Colby Itkowitz, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Sarah Ellison and Patrick Marley
Feb 08, 2025 5:16 pm - The Trump administration this week eliminated much of the federal government’s front line of defense against foreign interference in U.S. elections. The move, which follo...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately

By Dan Diamond, Carolyn Y. Johnson and Lena H. Sun
Feb 08, 2025 5:08 pm - The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical...
Elon Musk’s DOGE has swept into 14 federal agencies. Here’s what to know.

By Washington Post staff
Feb 08, 2025 4:54 pm - Staffers and allies of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fanned out across Washington in recent days, seeking access to sensitive data and disrupting operations in at le...
Hamas releases 3 frail-looking Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners under Gaza ceasefire

By WAFAA SHURAFA, MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and TIA GOLDENBERG
Feb 08, 2025 4:03 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Hamas-led militants released three gaunt, frail-looking Israeli hostages and Israel freed nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners Saturday in the lat...
Illinois, 18 other states sue to stop DOGE from accessing Americans’ personal data

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Feb 07, 2025 7:06 pm - Nineteen Democratic attorneys general sued President Donald Trump on Friday to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department rec...
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for US farms, businesses

By Daniel Wu
Feb 07, 2025 6:34 pm - The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, which officials have said is intended to rein in wasteful spending, has lef...
Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’

By Joseph Menn, Jeff Stein and Ellen Nakashima
Feb 07, 2025 6:29 pm - The Treasury Department was warned in a confidential assessment that U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive payment network represented an “unprecedented insider threat ...
A federal judge weighing whether to block DOGE access to the US Labor Department

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Feb 07, 2025 6:23 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge heard arguments Friday over whether to block Trump adviser Elon Musk's team from accessing systems at the Labor Department, which has investi...
Judge says he will temporarily block Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on paid leave

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Feb 07, 2025 6:20 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday dealt President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for Int...

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