A young ally of Elon Musk and former Treasury Department appointee was accidentally given the ability to make changes to a sensitive payment database, an error that a civil servant said in a court filing was quickly corrected. Career civil servants at the Treasury Department, including Joseph Gioeli, the deputy commissioner at the Bureau of … Read more
The Associated Press said on Tuesday that one of its reporters was barred from an Oval Office event because the outlet has continued to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its original name. In a statement, The A.P.’s executive editor, Julie Pace, said that they were informed by the White House that the news … Read more
The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has recently embarked on the “new Manhattan Project” — a hiring spree and multibillion dollar expansion to build plutonium bomb cores for nuclear weapons. The Times is writing about this new mission and how the lab is keeping workers safe, reporting accidents and environmental contamination and making needed upgrades … Read more
The F.B.I. has gathered a list of about 1,000 agents and 2,600 other probationary employees as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to pare down the federal work force. The investigative agency has been in a tense dispute with the administration for weeks over the possibility of mass firings. The acting deputy attorney general, Emil … Read more
A Manhattan judge on Tuesday ruled that restrictions on access by Elon Musk’s government efficiency program to the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems were not meant to include Senate-confirmed agency officials. The restrictions were put in place on Saturday by another judge after a suit by New York’s Letitia James and 18 other Democratic … Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he agreed “wholeheartedly” that the Trump administration could make sweeping cuts to federal spending without the approval of Congress, taking a position at odds with the Constitution’s separation of powers that undercuts his own branch of government. “I’ve been asked so many times, ‘Aren’t you uncomfortable with this?’ … Read more
A group of nongovernmental organizations, contractors and small businesses that rely on American foreign aid to carry out humanitarian and development programs abroad filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against the Trump administration and its efforts to phase out the U.S. Agency for International Development. The plaintiffscharge that the Trump administration “violated the … Read more
An 18-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for making nearly 400 false bomb threats and threats of violence to religious institutions, schools, universities and homes across the country, federal prosecutors said. The man, Alan W. Filion, of Lancaster, Calif., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Fla., in November … Read more
Florida lawmakers will vote this week on a revised set of immigration enforcement bills supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis, ending a tense, two-week standoff and allowing both sides to save face in front of voters who consider illegal immigration a top issue. The rift had exposed an unusual power struggle among the state’s top Republicans … Read more
A federal judge has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to temporarily restore the pages it has taken down from its website to comply with President Trump’s executive order barring any references to race, gender identity or sexual orientation. Judge John D. Bates of the D.C. Federal District Court issued the temporary restraining … Read more