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DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff
Elon Musk’s team gains visibility into sensitive information about hundreds of thousands of government workers despite ...
Getting Digital: Updating The Highway Performance Monitoring System
Imagine a system enabling transportation agencies to access and present roadway data more comprehensively and visually.
The Musk Associates Running the Government
Elon Musk’s time leading the Department of Government Efficiency is expected to wind down soon, but his stamp on the federal ...
German government: not aware of plans to readmit Russia to SWIFT banking system
The German government is not aware of any planned changes to European Union sanctions against Russia, a spokesperson said on ...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely ...
Syria’s Leader Announces New Government After Ousting Dictator
The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...
Trump privatizing student loan system would spur higher-ed reform, lower costs: expert
The expansion of the DOE since 1979 has led to ballooning student-loan costs, while a private-lender system could bring those ...
Cathie Wood raises fears there are ‘serious liquidity issues in the U.S. banking system’ as Trump tariffs hit
As President Trump's tariffs took effect, the fund manager famous for her aggressive bets on Tesla is calling for a ...
She was set to retire in August, but Milei’s government has dashed her hopes
For months now, senior citizens have gathered to protest Argentina’s government policies and particularly its pension reform.
DOGE’s access to the payroll system of 276,000 federal employees puts government on path to have ‘unprecedented power and control’ over Americans’ information, ex…
The Elon Musk–led advisory’s continued retrieval of sensitive information raises questions about the group’s long-term goals ...
Taibbi: The Government Has No Role In Protecting Americans From Speech, We Do Not Need A Truth Squad
At Tuesday's House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing, Matt Taibbi explained how an Obama executive order led to the ...
Cuts to health agencies creating unclear structure of government support system
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to testify about how government cuts made to HHS staffing and the creation of a new agency will reshape the country’s health services. NBC News’ ...