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Federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s access to US Treasury data
Order follows legal challenge by 19 Democratic state attorneys-general over risk to sensitive informationFinancial Times - 1h -
Schiff calls for firefighter exemption from federal hiring freeze
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday urged the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to exempt federal seasonal firefighters from President Trump’s federal ...The Hill - 2h -
Judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing Americans' sensitive data
Elon Musk and his team of cost-cutters at the Department of Government Efficiency have found their next target, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But security concerns about their actions - ...CBS News - 4h -
Judges block Musk's efforts to slash federal spending
Federal judges block President Trump and Elon Musk's attempts to slash spending and reshape the federal workforce. NBC News' Aaron Gilchrist reports.NBC News - 4h -
Unrivaled basketball league: Laces BC vs. Vinyl BC canceled in order to 'prioritize player health and safety'
No further details were given, but Laces are dealing with a number of injuriesCBS Sports - 6h -
Health minister Andrew Gwynne sacked over messages
Gwynne apologises for the "badly misjudged" messages and is suspended as a Labour party member.BBC News - 6h -
Starmer sacks health minister over offensive WhatsApp messages
Andrew Gwynne was accused of making racist, antisemitic and sexist commentsFinancial Times - 8h -
Scientists, researchers work to archive federal health data purged by Trump administration
Scientists, researchers and private health organizations scrambled to preserve as much federal public health data and guidelines as possible last week after news reached them that the Trump ...The Hill - 9h -
Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission
Meta accounts of those affected flooded with ads for casinos and betting sites We didn’t click ‘consent’ on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we’d been? . . Gambling companies ...The Guardian - 10h -
Judge blocks DOGE from accessing personal data at Treasury
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk and his new Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive treasury department records, including the personal data of millions of ...NBC News - 15h -
UK Secret Order Demands That Apple Give Access to Users’ Encrypted Data
Plus: Benjamin Netanyahu gives Donald Trump a golden pager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise blames Russian government hackers for a breach, and more.Wired - 16h -
Big Tech Keeps Its A.I. Data Center Spending Boom Alive
An apparent breakthrough in efficiency from the Chinese start-up did not make tech’s biggest companies question their extravagant spending on new data centers.The New York Times - 20h -
Federal judge pauses administrative leave for thousands of USAID employees
A federal judge said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000.NBC News - 1d -
ACLU Warns DOGE’s ‘Unchecked’ Access Could Violate Federal Law
The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGE’s access to sensitive personnel data.Wired - 1d -
Trump says Musk will review "just about" every federal agency
In a press conference with the Japanese prime minister, President Trump indicated Elon Musk has wide latitude to review nearly every federal agency.CBS News - 1d -
Flogging Molly calls off tour due to frontman Dave King's 'very serious health condition'
Flogging Molly cancels its 2025 shows so frontman Dave King and his wife can handle a 'very serious health condition.' The rest of the L.A. band plans to cruise.Los Angeles Times - 1d -
Small Businesses and Contractors Also Get Hit by Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts
Reports suggest several thousand private sector jobs have been lost in the last two weeks, as federal funding freezes start having knock-on effects.Inc. - 1d -
Harvard Law’s Innovation Lab Scrambles to Save Government Data
The unit is saving more than 300,000 data sets from Trump’s purges.Inc. - 1d -
Lawmakers question Musk’s ‘infiltration’ into Education Dept. and student loan borrower data
Senators expressed concern that Elon Musk's DOGE had "infiltrated" the U.S. Department of Education and possibly gained access to federal student loan data.CNBC - 1d -
From 220M data points to revenue: How AI is transforming sports entertainment ROI
A new AI-powered platform is already helping NFL and other sports teams better engage with fans and optimize revenue potential.VentureBeat - 1d -
Trump promotes misleading claims about federal government’s media subscriptions
Federal government payments for subscriptions to media outlets have become the latest target of President Donald Trump's spending hawksABC News - 1d -
Sen. Adam Schiff calls for federal firefighters to be exempt from hiring freeze
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Friday called on several U.S. agencies to exempt seasonal wildland firefighters from the ongoing federal hiring freeze, as concerns about federal readiness for future ...NBC News - 6h -
Musk Wields Scythe on Federal Work Force, With Trump’s Full Blessing
The president defended Elon Musk’s role in seeking to slash budgets and cut payrolls as the young aides burrowing into federal agencies came under scrutiny.The New York Times - 12h -
Federal judge temporarily blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury Department payment systems
A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, employees from accessing a sensitive Treasury Department system.NBC News - 12h -
Major cancer research group calls on Trump administration to restore data access
The American Cancer Society is calling on the Trump administration to restore access to comprehensive scientific data.ABC News - 1d -
New York leads multistate lawsuit to block DOGE from accessing Americans' personal data
New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other state attorneys general sued the Trump administration in an effort to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing ...NBC News - 1d -
Trump says Elon Musk and DOGE will review "just about" every federal agency
President Trump said nearly every federal agency in the U.S. government could fall under the scrutiny of Elon Musk and the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE. CBS News ...CBS News - 1d -
2-year Treasury yield ends at highest in 2 weeks after jobs-data revisions
Yields on U.S. government debt jumped on Friday, but finished mixed for the week, after January’s nonfarm-payrolls data included upward revisions for prior months that revealed the labor market was ...MarketWatch - 1d -
Chappell Roan was one of the 25 million uninsured Americans — here’s why health coverage is still out of reach for some artists
Chappell Roan used her Grammy acceptance speech to call out record labels for not providing better protections for artists struggling to afford health care.CNBC - 1d -
UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.BBC News - 1d -
Judge temporarily blocks Trump's federal employee buyout program
A federal judge in Boston has temporarily halted President Trump's federal employee buyout program proposal. NBC News' Aaron Gilchrist and Danny Cevallos reports on legal aspects surrounding the ...NBC News - 1d -
Judge temporarily blocks Trump's federal government employee buyout
Just hours before the deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration's deferred resignation offer, a judge has temporarily blocked the buyout offer.ABC News - 2d -
OpenAI Is Looking Across the U.S. for Sites to Build Its Trump-Backed Stargate AI Data Centers
OpenAI has begun visiting locations in Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin this week.Inc. - 2d -
Ernest Drucker, Public-Health Advocate for the Scorned, Dies at 84
He marshaled epidemiological research to press for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of AIDS.The New York Times - 2d -
Federal Employees Push Back on Trump’s Job Slashing Drive
Civil servants, officials, and outside groups are challenging Trump’s frenzied orders to slash federal agencies and headcounts, often denouncing them as illegal.Inc. - 2d -
Virginia Legislature Says It Will Study Trump’s Attack on Federal Jobs
The state has one of the highest numbers of residents employed by the federal government.Inc. - 2d -
Physician Group Sues Trump Health Agencies Over Scrubbed Sites, Data
This is a MedPage Today story. Physicians have launched a legal challenge against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and federal health agencies for removing webpages from health-related ...ABC News - 3d -
Public Health Journal Won't Be Complicit in Trump Admin's Censorship
This is a MedPage Today story. Studies censored by government employees will have a tough time getting published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), the journal's leadership said ...ABC News - 3d -
Argentina says it will withdraw from the World Health Organization
A spokesman for President Javier Milei says he has ordered Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization due to profound differences with the U.N. agencyABC News - 3d