Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Treasury Systems
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Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Treasury Systems

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Lawyers for the Trump administration argued late Sunday that a court order blocking Elon Musk’s aides from entering the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems impinged on the president’s absolute powers over the executive branch, which they argued the courts could not usurp….

Live Updates: Trump to Impose Tariffs on All Steel and Aluminum Imports on Monday
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Live Updates: Trump to Impose Tariffs on All Steel and Aluminum Imports on Monday

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More than 40 lawsuits filed in recent days by state attorneys general, unions and nonprofits seek to erect a bulwark in the federal courts against President Trump’s blitzkrieg of executive actions that have upended much of the federal government and challenged the Constitution’s…

Federal Courts Are the Frontline for Those Opposing Trump Executive Orders
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Federal Courts Are the Frontline for Those Opposing Trump Executive Orders

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More than 40 lawsuits filed in recent days by state attorneys general, unions and nonprofits seek to erect a bulwark in the federal courts against President Trump’s blitzkrieg of executive actions that have upended much of the federal government and challenged the Constitution’s…

Opinion | This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected
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Opinion | This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In 1962, not long after President John Kennedy created U.S.A.I.D., the federal agency tasked with administering foreign assistance, he welcomed its first mission directors to the White House. He noted the difficult politics of sustaining foreign assistance but called it essential to America’s…

U.S.A.I.D. Workers Brace for the Worst
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U.S.A.I.D. Workers Brace for the Worst

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The thousands of people who work for the U.S. government’s main agency for humanitarian aid and disaster relief have been on the front lines of efforts to fight famine, contain virulent infectious diseases like H.I.V. and Ebola, and rebuild infrastructure in impoverished and…

Musk Team’s Treasury Access Raises Security Fears, Despite Judge’s Ordered Halt
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Musk Team’s Treasury Access Raises Security Fears, Despite Judge’s Ordered Halt

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge’s order that Elon Musk’s team temporarily cease boring into the Treasury Department’s payment systems raises a far larger question: whether what Elon Musk has labeled the Department of Government Efficiency is creating a major cyber and national security vulnerability. The…

Trump Administration Cuts Put Medical Progress at Risk, Researchers Say
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Trump Administration Cuts Put Medical Progress at Risk, Researchers Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The nation’s universities and academic medical centers were reeling on Saturday from a directive by the Trump administration to slash funding for medical research, a decision that doctors and scientists said would have a devastating effect on studies aimed at finding treatments for…

Opinion | Musk’s Lost Boys and Trump’s Mean Girls
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Opinion | Musk’s Lost Boys and Trump’s Mean Girls

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tom Stoppard wrote in “The Real Thing,” his enticing play about infidelity: “To marry one actress is unfortunate. To marry two is simply asking for it.” Here’s a political corollary: To elect one Emperor of Chaos is unfortunate. To let two run the…

How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump
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How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At President Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg took prime spots on the dais under the Capitol rotunda. But days earlier, before flying into…