At Paul Weiss, Panic, Poachers and a Fight for the Bottom Line
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At Paul Weiss, Panic, Poachers and a Fight for the Bottom Line

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s executive order attacking Paul Weiss and severely restricting that law firm’s ability to represent its clients was widely seen by lawyers as a dangerous affront to the nation’s legal system. To rivals of Paul Weiss, it was an opportunity. Within days…

How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
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How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When President Trump announced on Friday that the United States would move ahead with a long-debated project to build a stealthy next-generation fighter jet, the message to China was clear: The United States plans to spend tens of billions of dollars over the…

Paul Weiss Chair Says Deal With Trump Adheres to Firm’s Principles
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Paul Weiss Chair Says Deal With Trump Adheres to Firm’s Principles

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The chairman of Paul Weiss sought to reassure employees at the giant law firm that the deal it reached with President Trump was consistent with principles that the 150-year-old firm has long stood by. On Thursday evening, Brad Karp sent a firm-wide email,…

DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
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DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has repeatedly posted error-filled data that inflated its success at saving taxpayer money. But after a series of news reports called out those mistakes, the group changed its tactics. It began making its new mistakes harder to…

Plans for a Chinese Port in the Black Sea Roil Georgia Politics
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Plans for a Chinese Port in the Black Sea Roil Georgia Politics

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For more than a year, pro-Western marchers in Georgia, a former Soviet republic that borders Russia, have been accusing their government of allowing Moscow to increasingly reassert its sway over their country. But driving around this nation of 3.6 million people in the…

Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency
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Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At the Veterans Affairs hospital in Pittsburgh, researchers spent months preparing for a clinical trial of a new drug to treat advanced cancers of the mouth, throat and voice box. They were ready last month to start enrolling patients — veterans whose cancer…

Private Prisons Are Ramping Up Detention of Immigrants and Cashing In
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Private Prisons Are Ramping Up Detention of Immigrants and Cashing In

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Damon Hininger, the chief executive of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and immigrant detention centers, opened an investor call last month on a buoyant note. “I’ve worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in…

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” The projects terminated include H.I.V. treatment programs that had served millions…

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
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DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Last week, Elon Musk’s government cost-slashing initiative, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now the organization, which is also known as the U.S. DOGE Service, has deleted…