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Marco Rubio blasts USAID, says he is agency's acting administrator
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is speaking out on USAID, the federal agency that provides humanitarian aid and funding for programs abroad. USAID will be merged into the State Department and Rubio ...CBS News - 1h -
Rubio says he is the acting head of USAID
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporter traveling in El Salvador with him that he is the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and voiced his concerns about the ...NBC News - 2h -
Marco Rubio says he's acting head of USAID
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Rubio says he is the acting head of USAID
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'We are terrified': Musk puts USAID through 'wood chipper'
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What to know about Trump, Musk and USAID
Staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development, also known as USAID, were told to stay home Monday and billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk says the agency is on the verge of being shut ...CBS News - 4h -
Musk says administration is on verge of shutting down USAID
Elon Musk, the administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO, says the administration is on the verge of shutting the U.S. Agency for International Development.CBS News - 4h -
US aid agency HQ closed after Musk reveals plan to ‘shut it down’
Future of USAID in doubt as Donald Trump accuses it of being run by ‘radical lunatics’Financial Times - 5h -
Elon Musk says Trump agreed to "shut down" USAID, government's primary humanitarian aid agency
CBS News has learned at least two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, have been placed on administrative leave after the two officials refused to allow ...CBS News - 7h -
Musk: Trump 'agreed' USAID should be shut down
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said early Monday that President Trump has “agreed” to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which administers billions of dollars of ...The Hill - 7h -
Musk takes aim at USAID and top moments from the Grammys: Morning Rundown
Musk says he and Trump have agreed to shut down USAID down.NBC News - 7h -
Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that he and President Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the USAID, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy.NBC News - 12h -
Elon Musk says USAid is ‘beyond repair’ and he is working to shut it down
Billionaire says in social media discussion that Donald Trump agrees the world’s largest single donor should be shut down. Elon Musk, who is heading Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal ...The Guardian - 13h -
Musk calls USAID a 'criminal organization' that should 'die'
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he believes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a “criminal organization” that should “die.” “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to ...The Hill - 18h -
Trump’s aid freeze shuts down ‘gold standard’ famine-monitoring system
Without Fews Net, recognised as ‘a vital life-saving tool’ for preventing food crises, people will die, experts warn. The system for monitoring global food crises appears to have been suspended ...The Guardian - 3d -
DOJ's LGBTQ employee group shuts down after three decades
The board of DOJ Pride, founded in 1994, told members that the decision was made “in the interest and for the protection of all members.”NBC News - 4d -
Lakers shut down AD for week due to ab strain
Lakers big man Anthony Davis will be out for at least a week after being diagnosed with an abdominal muscle strain. He is set to miss the remaining three games of the Lakers' road trip.ESPN - 5d -
Trump needs to transform FEMA, not shut it down
Rather than dismantling FEMA, we need to reimagine it as an elite federal agency capable of managing the increasingly complex and severe disasters of a polycrisis age.The Hill - 6d -
More than 50 career civil servants at USAID are placed on administrative leave
The action targeted senior leadership across the agency, including top lawyers, three sources told NBC News.NBC News - 6d -
Trump’s latest border actions are ‘shutting down the asylum system as we know it’
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s move to end birthright citizenship. NBC News Homeland Security Correspondent Julia Ainsley, NBC News Senior White House Correspondent ...NBC News - Jan. 23 -
NASA Shuts Down DEI Programs, Though Diversity Is Low at Agency
NASA’s acting administrator issued an email announcing the end of DEI at the storied space agency, in response to Trump’s anti-diversity agenda.Inc. - Jan. 23 -
U.S. Orders Federal D.E.I. Efforts to Shut Down by Wednesday Night
Staff members overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts were to be placed on paid administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday.The New York Times - Jan. 22 -
Trump Administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page, social media
Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White House websiteABC News - Jan. 22 -
Did TikTok legally have to shut down, or did its leadership choose to?
President Trump signed an executive order delaying a nationwide ban on TikTok for 75 days. The move comes after the app was unavailable in the U.S. for around 12 hours over the weekend. CBS News ...CBS News - Jan. 21 -
Rare snowstorm forces airports across the Gulf Coast to shut down
Several states have declared emergencies, with temperatures expected to be 20 to 30 degrees below the January average in most places.NBC News - Jan. 21 -
Canucks GM won't shut down Miller trade talk
Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin on Monday declined to address reports that forward J.T. Miller was nearly traded to the Rangers over the weekend.ESPN - Jan. 20 -
Trump officials shut down CBP One app
Trump administration officials minutes after the new president took office on Monday shut down a mobile app for migrants to make appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border. By shutting down the CBP One ...The Hill - Jan. 20 -
TikTok voluntarily shuts down in the U.S. as divest-or-ban law takes effect
Users in the U.S. who opened the app were greeted with a message that read, "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now."CBS News - Jan. 19 -
TikTok shuts down in the U.S. (updated)
TikTok just ran out of tiktoks as the countdown ended for the app’s time in the U.S. In the early hours of January 19, the wildly popular short-form video app went dark. The shutdown left me (and ...VentureBeat - Jan. 19 -
Sony's Live-Service Game Status Report -- Canceled, Released, Shut Down
A mixed bag of results Like many other companies, PlayStation pushed into the very popular, potentially lucrative, and very competitive, live-service market by making a number of bets, and ...GameSpot - Jan. 17 -
Influential activist short-seller firm Hindenburg Research says it is shutting down
Founder Nathan Anderson says he and his team are ready to move on to the next chapter in their lives after just eight years.MarketWatch - Jan. 16 -
Short seller Nathan Anderson to shut down Hindenburg Research
Firm behind high-profile bets against groups from India’s Adani to US’s Super Micro to disbandFinancial Times - Jan. 15 -
Major Russian missile strike forces Ukraine to shut down power grid
Russia missiles have pounded energy infrastructure across Ukraine, forcing power cuts in the dead of winter.CBS News - Jan. 15 -
Steve Bannon says he will 'take down' the 'truly evil' Elon Musk
President-elect Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon has vowed to “take down” tech billionaire Elon Musk, calling him “truly evil.” In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, as ...The Hill - Jan. 12 -
Trump administration will close down the Darien Gap, incoming border czar Tom Homan says
In an interview with NBC News, incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan said that people without criminal records may also get arrested in mass deportation raids.NBC News - Jan. 10 -
Amazon to shut down 'Try Before You Buy' rival to Stitch Fix
Amazon is discontinuing a service that let Prime members try on clothes, shoes and accessories, and only pay for the items they want to keep.CNBC - Jan. 10
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Musk says administration is on verge of shutting down USAID
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Two top security officials at USAID placed on leave, sources say
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