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The Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA) is now accepting proposals for their 2026 National Conference in Alexandria, VA — “Capitalizing on Experience: Where Purpose Meets Practice.”

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🚨Applications are now open for @propublica.org's yearlong Investigative Editor Training Program, which aims to broaden the ranks of investigative editors.

Interested? Find more details here: grnh.se/0d8598626us

Apply by March 24, 9 a.m. ET.

My staff and I are closely tracking the potential measles exposure in San Antonio that originated with a visitor from West Texas.

If you visited any of the locations listed below, please watch out for symptoms (including fever or unexplained rash) and contact a doctor right away if they occur.

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.

Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ordered to Cease Activity In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”

Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations, in an email from the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, on Saturday.

Dairy herds in Nevada test positive for newer bird flu strain that’s been linked to severe human infections | CNN Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with severe infections in humans, according to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that's been associated with severe infections in humans.

Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu (Gift Article) A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows.

BREAKING: Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year

w/ @emilyanthes.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...

“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis.

Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...”

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump to withdraw U.S. from UN human rights council a second time Trump's orders will be signed on the same day he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

NEW: Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council and stopping funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency, which provides services to Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, a White House official said.

ICE Raids Are Underway — Here’s Where Immigrants Are Being Targeted And whether the Trump administration is actually only detaining criminals.

ICE Raids Are Underway — Here’s Where Immigrants Are Being Targeted

Musk Says He’s ‘Deleted’ Popular Free IRS Tax Filing Program The online tax filing option on the IRS website had a strong bipartisan 76% approval rating from registered voters.

"First Buddy" and “special government employee” Elon Musk has dissolved the IRS' free file program, effectively firing the staff who worked on the popular program.

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

Elon Musk Is President The world’s richest man has declared war on the federal government, and his influence appears unchecked.

“Elon Musk’s influence appears unchecked,” @jonlemire.bsky.social writes. “But the Republican-controlled Congress has shown no desire so far to rein Musk in. There has never been a private citizen like him.”

State Dept. Fires About 60 Contractors Working on Democracy and Human Rights

The State Department has fired about 60 contractors who work for its democracy, human rights and labor bureau, a division whose programs have often been criticized by authoritarian leaders, according to two U.S. officials and two former officials.

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

‘Cosplay Kristi’ Ridiculed Over Nonstop Parade of Costumes “She’s like Barbie,“ wrote one critic. ”Different action outfit for every day of the week.”

“She’s like Barbie,“ wrote one critic. ”Different action outfit for every day of the week.”

Kendrick Lamar has won the same number of Grammys for Not Like Us...5

...that Drake has ever won overall #Grammys

HIV, transgender care and other federal websites go dark https://www.axios.com/2025/01/31/health-cdc-websites-data-removed-trump
#axios #news #usnews

EEOC tells its workers to halt LGBTQ+ discrimination claim processing The news comes just days after the Trump administration’s controversial purge of Democratic officials at the commission.

The hits keep on coming www.hrdive.com/news/eeoc-te...

Live updates: Plane crash near Washington, DC; Reagan National Airport takeoffs and landings halted | CNN A passenger aircraft crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, according to the DC Fire and EMS Department. Follow for live updates.

A passenger aircraft has crashed in the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport.

Follow live updates.

Plane Crash Near Reagan National Airport Halts All Takeoffs And Landings: Live Updates Officials said the plane went down in the Potomac River near Reagan Airport. The airport said emergency crews were responding to an “aircraft incident.”

Breaking News: A regional passenger jet collided midair with a helicopter while approaching Reagan National Airport, the authorities said.

Follow live updates.

Trump hobbles US anti-discrimination agency by firing Democrats U.S. President Donald Trump has fired at least two Democratic members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces federal laws banning workplace discrimination, in an unprecedented move likely to spur legal challenges.

US President Donald Trump has fired at least two Democratic members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces federal laws banning workplace discrimination, in an unprecedented move likely to spur legal challenges reut.rs/40DIohA

White House Budget Office Orders Pause in All Federal Loans and Grants The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and jeopardizing spending that Congress has mandated by law.

Trump's Colombia tariffs will raise the price of a cup of coffee https://www.axios.com/2025/01/26/trump-colombia-tariffs-coffee
#axios #news #usnews

Today we inaugurate our courage as power hopes to inaugurate our cowardice. Courage is not the absence of danger but the strength to do what’s right in the face of it, as has been said. We can begin amassing the strength to be antiracist in dangerously racist times. 1/2

Like her mother, she departed far too soon.