US embassies around the world brace for staff reductions after memo from State Dept.
The State Department has begun instructing U.S. embassies around the world to start planning for staff reductions, sources told ABC News.
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State Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups
The move against a half-dozen organizations followed an executive order from President Trump that said the United States would ensure their “total elimination.”The New York Times - 3h -
Sony PlayStation Network outage enrages gamers around the world
Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) is experiencing a major outage across the world, leaving tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia appsABC News - 4d -
India’s online brokers brace for profits hit after regulatory clampdown
Intervention to calm frenzied derivatives trading has brought down volumes by 70%Financial Times - 1d -
How the USAID freeze impacts American farmers and hungry people around the world
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell reports on the global consequences and domestic economic effects of the recent push to dismantle USAID.NBC News - 2d -
Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting research funding after 22 states sue
A federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration's radical changes to how the National Institutes of Health pays for biomedical research, putting on hold a plan to slash research funding ...NBC News - 2d -
US business schools brace for the second Trump term
Academics are awaiting the presidential stance on topics from visas to ESG and diversityFinancial Times - 3d -
Sony PlayStation Network outage enrages gamers around the world
Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) is experiencing a major outage across the world, leaving tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia appsABC News - 4d -
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”Wired - 5d -
Racial gap widened in deaths among US moms around the time of childbirth
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How Trump's immigration crackdown is affecting people across America
ABC News correspondents deployed across the U.S. to see the varying impacts of the Trump administration's crackdown.ABC News - 3h -
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Judge allows Trump to proceed with federal buyout
A federal judge says he will continue to pause the Trump administration's federal employee buyout offer until he issues a ruling on a preliminary injunction.ABC News - 8h -
Lawyers for inmates ask judge to take over health care services in Arizona prisons
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Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run themABC News - 5h
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Hundreds of foreigners freed from Myanmar's scam centres
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