Nation and World Politics
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Trump dismisses archivist to the United States
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...
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Trump administration cuts teams that fight foreign election interference
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...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
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...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE has swept into 14 federal agencies. Here’s what to know.
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...
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Illinois, 18 other states sue to stop DOGE from accessing Americans’ personal data
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...
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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for US farms, businesses
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...
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Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’
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 ...
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A federal judge weighing whether to block DOGE access to the US Labor Department
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...
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Judge says he will temporarily block Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on paid leave
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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Senate GOP unveils $340B budget plan with Trump’s deportation and defense funds, as House stalls
Feb 07, 2025 4:06 pm - WASHINGTON — As House Republicans missed another deadline Friday to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending, Senate Republicans jumped ahead, un...