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The FBI's new deputy director is a popular podcaster — who has had plenty to say about the agency

By ALI SWENSON
Feb 25, 2025 10:12 am - NEW YORK — The popular right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino has built a career of unleashing sometimes inflammatory rants against the media, Democrats and the federal governm...
Acting IRS commissioner to step down amid DOGE blitz on agency

Jeff Stein, Lisa Rein, Jacob Bogage
Feb 25, 2025 10:00 am - The acting commissioner of the IRS will announce he is stepping down as early as Tuesday, according to four people familiar with the matter who said the departure is driv...
Hegseth rejects scrutiny of Trump’s Joint Chiefs pick

Dan Lamothe
Feb 25, 2025 9:46 am - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday refused to address whether the Trump administration’s choice to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is “underqualified” ...
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings

By RYAN J. FOLEY
Feb 25, 2025 7:52 am - Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump's administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration's own data shows.
Fabric and craft retailer Joann to go out of business and close all of its stores

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Feb 24, 2025 2:55 pm - Fabric and crafts retailer Joann Inc., which has been a destination for generations of quilters, knitters and lovers of crafts projects for 80 years, is going out of business and shuttering all its stores.
Pope Francis shows slight improvement and resumes some work, while still critical, Vatican says

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS
Feb 24, 2025 12:24 pm - Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work activities, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in touch with since the war there began, the Vatican said.
Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 24, 2025 9:54 am - Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long after, died Monday. She was 88.
Federal workers sue over Elon Musk's threat to fire them if they don't explain their accomplishments

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Feb 24, 2025 8:56 am - Attorneys for federal workers said Monday in a lawsuit that billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk had violated the law with his weekend demand that employees explain their accomplishments or risk being fired.
Trump meets with French President Macron as uncertainty grows about U.S. ties to Europe and Ukraine

By MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI
Feb 24, 2025 8:47 am - President Donald Trump welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House for talks on Monday at a moment of deep uncertainty about the future of transatlantic relations, with Trump transforming American foreign policy and effectively tuning out European leadership as he looks to quickly end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
New FBI Director Kash Patel will also be named acting head of the ATF, official says

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Feb 22, 2025 9:22 pm - WASHINGTON — New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official...

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