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‘Goldmine of data’: Wyden on Musk, DOGE gaining access to Treasury system

A group of Democrats — including Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Washington Sen. Patty Murray — held a press conference on Monday, warning about Elong Musk and his unofficial Department of Go…
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Trade tiffs, bureaucracy battles and Musk’s mandate: Trump’s third week kicks off: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Trump is signing executive orders at a historic rate.
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Trump Suspends Trade War with Canada & Mexico; China Hits U.S. with Retaliatory Tariffs

China has announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods after President Trump initiated a trade war by imposing an additional 10% tariff on all Chinese products. China’s Finance Ministry said it would levy 15% tariffs on U.S. coal and liquefied natural gas and 10% on crude oil, farm equipment and some U.S.-made vehicles. China is also imposing new export controls on certain minerals, including rare earth elements critical to the electronics industry. This comes after Trump said he would delay plans by at least a month to impose tariffs of 25% on Canada and Mexico. Trump’s reversal came after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to take steps to crack down on fentanyl smuggling at the U.S. border — even though Canada contributes less than 1% of fentanyl consumed illegally in the U.S. And Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Trump called off the tariffs after she agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border.

President Claudia Sheinbaum: “He asked me how long I wanted to pause tariffs. I said, ‘Forever.’ He told me, ‘How much time?’ I told him, ‘A month.’ I’m sure that during this month we’ll be able to deliver good results for his people and the people of Mexico.”

President Sheinbaum said that under the deal, the U.S. pledged to slow the illegal trafficking of weapons to Mexico, though Trump’s account of the agreement on Truth Social made no mention of that commitment.

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Trump takes steps to shutter USAID and gives Musk unprecedented access to federal systems

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Eli Manning’s Super Bowl Plans Include This ‘Can’t Skip’ New Orleans Restaurant

If you’ve ever been to this storied po’boy joint, you know what he means.
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Trump says sovereign wealth fund could buy TikTok

The president has kickstarted the set-up of a national fund which he says could end up buying the social media platform.
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Senate confirms Chris Wright as Trump’s energy secretary

The oil executive will play a key role in President Donald Trump’s ‘energy dominance’ agenda.
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Trevor Noah’s Anti-Trump Jokes At Grammys Didn’t Land — And He’s Getting Backlash

Doechii was seen on camera rolling her eyes at one of Noah’s jokes about undocumented immigrants.
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2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump’s order to open dams

There are two major problems with Trump’s order, water experts said: The water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.