House Dems physically denied entry to Education Department building

Trump 2nd term live updates: Judge denies effort to block DOGE from DOL data access

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

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9 Ways Highly Effective Leaders Build Trust Within Their Teams

As a recent Gallup survey pointed out, only 21 percent of U.S. employees strongly agree that they trust the leadership of their organization.

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Guardiola denies City spend due to embargo fear

Pep Guardiola has denied that Manchester City's January recruitment drive was motivated by concern within the club that they could be hit with a transfer embargo.

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Ministers desperately want more housing - but are their plans radical enough?

A blizzard of statistics show just how tough it is to buy a home if you can theoretically afford it, writes Laura Kuenssberg.

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Judge blocks Musk team access to Treasury Department records

Nineteen state attorneys general sued the Trump administration after the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) was given access.

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Inside DOGE's takeover of the Education Department

Members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team have obtained “administrator” email accounts at the Department of Education.

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My husband has millions in a trust fund, pays all our bills and gives me $4,000 a month. Will I get our house if I divorce him?

“He pays all of our bills, including all our taxes, from one of his investment accounts.”

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Neil Gaiman's ex-wife denies trafficking allegations

The former couple faces a lawsuit from a woman who worked for the couple in New Zealand.

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Judge declines to restrict DOGE's access to Labor Department systems

Six labor unions and the Economic Policy Institute had asked the court to restrict DOGE's access to Labor Department systems.

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Judge won’t block DOGE from accessing Labor Department systems

A federal judge Friday evening refused to block the Labor Department from giving Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to confidential systems or firing employees for ...

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Fire Destroys Ohio Farm Building Holding Thousands of Chickens

The facility in western Ohio was licensed to house about 280,000 young hens raised to lay eggs. The destruction came amid egg shortages linked to an avian influenza outbreak.

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From TikTok to messy Cabinet nomination fights, Vance builds his VP portfolio

Vice President JD Vance’s White House portfolio is coming into sharper focus.

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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.

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DOGE Builds ‘Firewall’ Between Musk’s Team and Legacy USDS Workers

“As far as I can tell, they’re hiding,” one USDS employee said about the DOGE team.

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Bill Ackman reveals he's been building a more than $2 billion stake in Uber

The hedge fund manager said his fund began buying Uber shares in early January and has amassed 30.3 million shares, worth $2.3 billion.

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House Democrats denied entry to the Department of Education

Democratic members of Congress were denied entry to the Department of Education for a meeting with acting Secretary Denise Carter when a security officer would not allow them inside.

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House GOP tees up hearing on Trump’s foreign aid overhaul

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Small Businesses Will Be Subjected to ‘the Fury of Debt Collectors’ for Covid Loans, According to Senate Dems

Proposed legislation could hurt struggling small businesses, Senator Ed Markey warns.

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Hugging Face brings ‘Pi-Zero’ to LeRobot, making AI-powered robots easier to build and deploy

Pi0 is a groundbreaking AI model that helps robots understand natural language commands, potentially revolutionizing industrial automation.

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Johnson urges Senate to wait for House to "do its work" on Trump agenda

House Republicans met for several hours with Trump Thursday, after GOP senators planned move forward with their own plan to enact Trump's priorities.

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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.

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House lawmakers push to ban AI app DeepSeek from US government devices

Lawmakers in the House are proposing to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from U.S. government devices

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John Irving's 'Queen Esther' returns readers to setting of 'The Cider House Rules'

In John Irving’s next book, the author is returning to St_ Cloud’s, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.”

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House Democrats try, and fail, to subpoena Musk

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WATCH: Screaming match erupts among house lawmakers over motion to subpoena Elon Musk

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee attempted to subpoena Elon Musk to testify but the procedural motion quickly turned into screaming and name-calling.

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The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede

A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd.

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Justice Department agrees not to reveal names of FBI agents who worked Jan. 6 cases

In a court filing Friday, the Justice Department agreed not to reveal the names of FBI personnel who took part in the Jan. 6 investigations. This comes as anonymous FBI agents sued to keep their ...

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Trump signs order to establish White House Faith Office

President Trump signed an executive order Friday to establish a White House Faith Office in an effort to empower faith-based entities. The office will be part of the Domestic Policy Council and ...

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White House calls mixed jobs numbers 'weak,' blames Biden

President Donald Trump's top economic aide, Kevin Hassett, said, "We're inheriting a very difficult jobs market because of Joe Biden's terrible policies."

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FBI gives in to justice department demand for list of January 6 investigators

Agency submitted list, excluding names, of up to 6,000 agents involved in investigating 2021 Capitol attack. US politics live – latest updates The FBI has complied with a US justice ...

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Russ Vought confirmed as White House budget chief

Democrats fought the OMB nominee's confirmation, elevating a little-known agency head to the national spotlight amid larger anxieties about the fate of congressional spending authority.

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House Dems physically denied entry to Education Department building

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