(Reuters) – U.S President Donald Trump is nominating former Republican National Committee executive Sean Cairncross as his national cyber director, Axios reported on Wednesday. (Reporting by Janaki Venugopalan in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue)
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump plans to pick Brian Quintenz, the head of policy at Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto arm, to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday citing a document. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
By Tom Hals (Reuters) – Elon Musk and other allies of Donald Trump lashed out at federal judges on Tuesday who have blocked the president’s biggest initiatives, including ending birthright citizenship, in some cases challenging the independence of the judiciary. Musk took to his X social media platform to attack the judge who ordered U.S. …
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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a USAID official said, a day after his office published a report critical of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate the agency. Paul Martin had served as the agency’s inspector general, a position requiring U.S. Senate …
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Collin Morikawa is unfortunately familiar with wildfires devastating a place he knows and loves. Morikawa, a native of La Canada in Los Angeles County, has roots on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where his grandfather once owned a restaurant in the town of Lahaina. When Lahaina was hit by massive wildfires in 2023, Morikawa decided …
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By AJ Vicens (Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security, as part of an evaluation of its election security mission, said on Tuesday that personnel focused on misinformation, disinformation and foreign influence operations aimed at U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is “undertaking an evaluation of how it has …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Basic controls are needed at the U.S. Treasury, Elon Musk said on Tuesday, after a U.S. district judge on Saturday blocked Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury’s payment systems. Musk, speaking alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, told reporters that members of the federal bureaucracy were getting wealthier …
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By Nate Raymond and Jack Queen BOSTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday lost the latest round in a court battle over his administration’s bid to freeze federal spending after an appeals court declined to pause a court order requiring the government to continue delivering funds. The U.S. Department of Justice had asked the …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA on Tuesday swapped out the astronaut capsule it plans to use for an upcoming routine flight to the International Space Station, a scheduling move that will allow a slightly earlier return for two Starliner astronauts who have been on the station far longer than expected. The U.S. space …
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By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON XX – President Donald Trump has pursued a radical overhaul of the U.S. government since taking office on January 20, aiming to slash spending and dramatically downsize the 2.3 million strong civil service. He has deputized billionaire Elon Musk to head a “Department of Government Efficiency” that is combing through payment …
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