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How Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency May Try to Slash Federal Spending
President-elect Donald J. Trump has tasked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with identifying ways to cut the budget. The hard part comes next.Top stories - The New York Times - November 16 -
How Trump's plan to expand drilling, logging on federal land could be thwarted
President-elect Donald Trump has ambitious goals for utilizing U.S. federal lands for extraction of oil and other resources.Top stories - ABC News - November 16 -
Trump picks Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he selected Project 2025 chapter author Brendan Carr to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.Top stories - NBC News - 6 days ago -
Federal workers brace for Trump with morale ‘as low as it’s ever been’
President-elect has expressed desire for mass firings of civil service workers to be replaced with political appointees. Donald Trump’s return to office sets the stage for harassment, intimidation ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
Vivek Ramaswamy's plan to force federal workers back into the office
Vivek Ramaswamy's effort to cut costs could target the nearly two-thirds of federal workers who are still approved to work from home 18 months after the pandemic ended.Politics - NBC News - 5 days ago -
As Rafael Nadal Prepares to Retire, Roger Federer Pays Tribute to His Rival
“You challenged me in ways no one else could,” Federer wrote in a letter to his longtime opponent.Sports - The New York Times - 5 days ago -
‘This is not his first rodeo’: will federal courts be able to rein in Trump?
Hope that federal judiciary can provide guardrails as Trump plans for largest domestic deportation effort in US history. A week after Donald Trump entered the White House for the first time in ...World - The Guardian - 5 days ago -
Federal bribery investigation is another blow for Mississippi's embattled capital
Political observers say Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba's indictment could intensify a long-running battle between city Democrats and Mississippi Republicans.Top stories - NBC News - 5 days ago -
Can he do that? How Trump could try to break the federal government
A look at how Trump can upend the federal government, including "deleting" agencies and ousting workers he sees as unloyal.Top stories - ABC News - 4 days ago -
Mace eyes legislation banning trans women from restrooms in federal buildings
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) plans to file legislation that would prohibit trans women from using women’s restrooms and changing rooms in all federal buildings, going further than a resolution Monday ...Politics - The Hill - 4 days ago -
Mace bill would ban trans people from bathrooms in federal buildings
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has unveiled a bill that would ban transgender people from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity in federal buildings. In a post on the social platform X, Mace said ...Politics - The Hill - 3 days ago -
Federal Inquiry Traced Matt Gaetz’s Venmo Payments to Women
A document prepared by federal investigators bolsters claims by women who say they were hired for sex by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, who denies ...Top stories - The New York Times - 2 days ago -
Musk and Ramaswamy call for ending work-from-home for federal employees
Pair suggest Trump could require government workers to be in-office five days a week as part of effort to trim workforce. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy suggested Donald Trump could require ...World - The Guardian - 3 days ago -
Automakers Want Trump to Keep Federal E.V. Regulations in Place
Donald J. Trump promised to erase Biden tailpipe rules that are designed to get carmakers to produce E.V.s. But Detroit wants to keep them.Business - The New York Times - 2 days ago -
Chicago Federal Reserve President Encourages Cautious Rate Cuts
Some policymakers want to ensure the labor market doesn’t cool more, suggesting additional rate cuts.Business - Inc. - 2 days ago -
Supreme Court to hear a new challenge to the scope of federal agency power
The Supreme Court could further weaken the power of federal agencies by agreeing to hear a dispute over a Federal Communications Commission program that requires companies to subsidize ...Top stories - NBC News - Yesterday -
Supreme Court takes up another federal agency power challenge
The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear a case that could deliver another blow to federal agencies’ powers. The justices agreed to take up the government’s appeal of a decision invalidating ...Politics - The Hill - Yesterday -
Federal officials approve New York congestion pricing plan
Federal officials have approved a plan that would allow New York City to implement a $9 toll on cars driving into Manhattan as part of an effort to reduce traffic congestion and improve air ...Politics - The Hill - Yesterday -
‘DOGE’ might be a punchline, but wasteful federal spending is the real joke
The DOGE is finally going to turn the bureaucracy into something Americans can be proud of, and we should all unite in supporting that effort.Politics - The Hill - 7 hours ago -
Automakers Want Trump to Keep Federal E.V. Regulations in Place
Donald J. Trump promised to erase Biden tailpipe rules that are designed to get carmakers to produce E.V.s. But Detroit wants to keep them.Business - The New York Times - 2 days ago -
Brazil reaches a $23 billion settlement with mining firms over a 2015 environmental disaster
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement worth tens of billions of dollars with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that was one of the country’s ...World - ABC News - October 25 -
Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle
Brazil's environmental agency levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking and their suppliers companies for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested land in the AmazonWorld - ABC News - October 28 -
‘We built Brazil’: how descendants of enslaved Africans have helped shape the country
A new book explores the way Black people are playing a transformative role in the fight for equality despite centuries of enslavement and continued neglect. “A cook for a small family is needed. ...World - The Guardian - October 31 -
Marielle Franco murder: ex-police jailed for decades over crime that shook Brazil
Ronnie Lessa and Élcio de Queiroz sentenced to 78 and 59 years over 2018 murder of prominent Rio city councillor. Two former police officers who confessed to the murder of the Rio city councillor ...World - The Guardian - October 31 -
Brazil judge gives 2 former cops long sentences for the 2018 murder of leftist icon Marielle Franco
A judge has handed down long sentences to two former police officers for the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco, an icon of Brazil’s political left whose killing ...World - ABC News - October 31 -
