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Judge Blocks DOGE's Access to Treasury Payment System

A preliminary injunction was issued early Saturday

(Newser) - Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency's ability to access a sensitive system used by the Treasury Department to make federal payments has been put on ice by a federal judge. US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction early Saturday in response to a suit filed...

Trudeau: Trump's Threat to Annex Canada Is Real

The Canadian prime minister warned that Trump is serious about absorbing his country

(Newser) - President Trump has suggested that Canada and its abundance of resources should belong to the US , and outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he believes the talk is very real. The Guardian reports that during a closed-door summit of business and labor leaders working on a response to Trump'...

Trump Says He's Taking the Reins at the Kennedy Center

The president is gutting the board of the cultural institution and naming himself chairman

(Newser) - President Trump said Friday that he is firing members of the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and naming himself chairman. The AP reports he also indicated that he would be dictating programming at one of the nation's premier cultural institutions, specifically...

Trump Revokes Biden's Security Clearance

It's a tit-for-tat move

(Newser) - President Trump said Friday that he's revoking former President Biden's access to government secrets and ending the daily intelligence briefings he's receiving as payback for Biden doing the same to him in 2021. Trump has the right to end the briefings for Biden because it is a...

Judge Puts Limited Freeze on Trump's USAID Job Cuts

Hearing was held on lawsuit by federal workers unions

(Newser) - A federal judge announced after a hearing Friday that he'll enter a "very limited" temporary restraining order before midnight to keep the Trump administration from implementing parts of its plan to dismantle the US Agency for International Development. US District Judge Carl Nichols said his order "will...

Opinion: For Guantanamo Migrants, Abuse Is &#39;Guaranteed&#39;
'Abuse at
Guantanamo
Is Guaranteed'
OPINION
Feb 7, 2025 11:48 AM CST

'Abuse at Guantanamo Is Guaranteed'

Children will be among the victims in this 'nightmare,' writes Spencer Ackerman

(Newser) - As President Trump signed an executive order to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay to "full capacity" on Wednesday, it was "like seeing a nightmare I've had for years manifest before my eyes," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Spencer Ackerman. Ackerman, who's attended...

Netanyahu's Gift to Trump: a Golden Pager

Gift celebrates 'exploding pager' attack on Hezbollah members

(Newser) - President Trump has a very unusual souvenir of his Tuesday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli leader gave Trump a golden pager, a reference to the exploding pagers that targeted Hezbollah members in Lebanon in September. The blasts killed at least 37 people and injured thousands, including...

Trump Forms Task Force Against 'Anti-Christian Bias'

President says DOJ will root out so-called 'targeting' of Christians

(Newser) - President Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out "anti-Christian bias" in the US, announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the "targeting" of Christians, the AP reports. Speaking at a pair of events in Washington surrounding the...

Senate Confirms Vought After Democrats Have Their Say

OMB choice has 'an unusual view' of the job, say opponents, who talked all night on Senate floor

(Newser) - Russell Vought won Senate confirmation on Thursday night to become White House budget director, after Democrats—lacking the votes to block him—had held the floor overnight to rail against President Trump's choice. The 53-47 vote was along party lines, the AP reports. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had said...

White House Readies Order Firing Health Agency Workers

Plan calls for action to be taken after buyouts are final

(Newser) - The next section of the federal workforce to face mass firings by the Trump administration could be health workers. White House aides are preparing an executive order to fire thousands of employees in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Wall Street Journal reports. Other agencies involved in health,...

NCAA Welcomes Trump Order, Changes Transgender Policy

Only athletes assigned female at birth may compete in women's sports

(Newser) - The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competition in women's sports to athletes assigned female at birth only. The move came one day after President Trump signed an executive order intended to bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports. The NCAA policy...

Want an Easy Way Cut $2T? Think Nuclear
Want an
Easy Way
to Cut $2T?
Think Nuclear
OPINION
Feb 6, 2025 2:36 PM CST

Want an Easy Way to Cut $2T? Think Nuclear

Dan Vergano calls for ending nuclear weapons modernization

(Newser) - Elon Musk has an easy task in cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget in the view of Scientific American opinion editor Dan Vergano. But rather than going after the NOAA or the Labor Department , his Department of Government Efficiency should "recommend ending one of the most misguided, wasteful...

Judge to Trump: Stop 'Playing Games' With Constitution

Seattle judge deals another blow to president's plan to end birthright citizenship

(Newser) - President Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship —the idea that any baby born on American soil is entitled to citizenship—continues to run into friction in the federal courts:
  • On Thursday, US District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle blocked the plan from taking effect with what the Seattle
...

Judge Pauses Trump Plan to Cull Federal Workforce

Deadline to accept a buyout is postponed until after hearing on Monday

(Newser) - A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Trump's plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives, per the AP . The ruling came hours before the midnight deadline for workers to apply for the deferred resignation program, which has been commonly described as a buyout. US District...

Rubio Snubs G20, Piles on South Africa

Top diplomat echoes Trump attacks, says he won't attend meeting over 'anti-Americanism'

(Newser) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio is refusing to attend this month's G20 meeting in South Africa, days after President Trump accused the country of "confiscating land" from white farmers. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa disputed the allegations, noting no private property has been expropriated (we have an explainer...

Trump Reiterates 'Spectacular' Plan to Take Over Gaza

He says US would work with developers to build the region into a glam destination

(Newser) - On Wednesday, some in the Trump administration seemed to walk back the president's audacious proposal of a US takeover of Gaza . But on Thursday, Trump himself doubled down on aspects of the plan, reports the BBC . "The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by...

Musk's DOGE Gains Access to Medicare System

'This is where the big money fraud is happening,' he says of work at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

(Newser) - Elon Musk's access to the operations of the federal government appears to be only accelerating. On the heels of his Department of Government Efficiency gaining access —though it may be only "read-only" access —to a sensitive Treasury Department payment system:
  • Medicare/Medicaid: Representatives from DOGE have gotten
...

FCC Releases Full Interview at Heart of Trump's CBS Lawsuit

CBS says full transcript shows 60 Minutes sit-down was not edited deceptively

(Newser) - President Trump is suing CBS over Kamala Harris' campaign-cycle interview with 60 Minutes, and on Wednesday the Federal Communications Commission released a transcript of the entire sit-down. The commission's chair, Brendan Carr, requested the transcript after a news distortion complaint was filed with the FCC, the New York Times...

White House Is Canceling Politico Subscriptions

It all comes back to a conspiracy theory

(Newser) - A right-wing conspiracy theory that started spreading Wednesday claims that USAID, the federal agency in the crosshairs of Elon Musk and his DOGE staffers , has for years funneled millions of dollars to Politico and the AP. At a press conference that day, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned the...

Arab Americans for Trump Has a New Name

Group becomes 'Arab Americans for Peace' after president's Gaza remarks

(Newser) - A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the US would "take over" the Gaza Strip. Bishara Bahbah, chairman of the group formerly known as Arab Americans for...

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