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Trump’s Executive Order on Gender Includes an Attack on Abortion Rights

Ilyse Hogue explains the connection between Trump’s executive order on gender and Republican’s anti-abortion agenda.
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Trump: Two million federal workers can get a payout if they resign over email

Offer comes as Republican president aims to shrink, purge and remould US federal government in his image
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Trump’s grant gambit threatens to wreck the goldilocks economy he inherited

Trump’s grant gambit threatens to wreck the goldilocks economy he inherited
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Trump signs order restricting gender-affirming care for minors

President Trump signed an executive order seeking to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under the age of 19.
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Nearly 5 years after schools closed, the nation gets a new report card

There’s some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.
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Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.

Takeaways from new federal data on student math and reading achievement detail the long and damaging road back from the pandemic.
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Trump Buyouts, Spending Freezes Wreak Havoc Across Government

President Donald Trump is overwhelming the political system in his drive to bend the US government to his will, plunging broad swaths of the federal bureaucracy into chaos while leaving the opposition snowed under by the sheer scope of his efforts.
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Defense secretary pulls Trump critic Gen. Milley’s security clearance and protective detail

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security protections and clearance of retired Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley, and has ordered the Pentagon’s inspector general to review Milley’s actions while serving as the nation’s top uniformed officer to determine if a demotion is warranted, two defense officials confirmed late Tuesday. The inspector general review will include “an inquiry into the facts and circumstances surrounding Gen Milley’s conduct so that the Secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination,” said Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot. “The Secretary informed General Milley today that he is revoking the authorization for his security detail and suspending his security clearance as well,” he said.
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Defense secretary pulls Trump critic Gen. Milley’s security clearance and protective detail

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security protections and clearance of retired Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley, and has ordered the Pentagon’s inspector general to review Milley’s actions while serving as the nation’s top uniformed officer to determine if a demotion is warranted, two defense officials confirmed late Tuesday. The inspector general review will include “an inquiry into the facts and circumstances surrounding Gen Milley’s conduct so that the Secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination,” said Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot. “The Secretary informed General Milley today that he is revoking the authorization for his security detail and suspending his security clearance as well,” he said.
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Ruben Amorim and Marcus Rashford no longer on speaking terms at Manchester United – Paper Talk