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

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#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

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#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

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#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

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#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

ByNews Polite

#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

ByNews Polite

#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…

DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes
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DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency say they have saved the federal government $55 billion through staff reductions, lease cancellations and a long list of terminated contracts published online this week as a “wall of receipts.” President Trump has been celebrating…

Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling
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Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Funds for vital health programs around the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite a federal judge’s order that temporarily halted the Trump administration’s dismantling of the government’s main foreign aid agency. Interviews with people working on…

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Resume Foreign Aid Spending
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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Resume Foreign Aid Spending

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday night to unfreeze foreign aid spending President Trump halted during his first week in office, the latest of several legal roadblocks to Mr. Trump’s aggressive first-month agenda. The ruling by Judge Amir H. Ali…