Exclusive: Trump official bypassed ethics rules in criminal referrals of Fed governor and other foes, sources say w/ @chrisprentice.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

US housing agency blames 'Radical Left' for looming shutdown. Democrats panned the messaging as government misinformation. via
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Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.

My latest exclusive w/ @chrisprentice.bsky.social & Mike Colias: Bill Pulte, President Trump’s appointee as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His close relatives filed housing claims similar to hers www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show The issue has caused a rare fracture within Trump's base of support.

UPDATE: Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG

Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp , Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federal libel law, court records show.

Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show
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Exclusive: After Trump feud, role of Musk's SpaceX in Golden Dome missile shield in question The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new U.S. missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project.

Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX in Golden Dome missile shield in question www.reuters.com/business/aer... w/ @nanditab1.bsky.social

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @hannahallam.bsky.social

Trump to make Golden Dome announcement on Tuesday, US official says President Donald Trump is expected to announce he has selected the path forward for his ambitious Golden Dome missile defense shield, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.

Trump to make Golden Dome announcement on Tuesday, US officials say. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Exclusive: Democratic lawmakers call for review of Musk's role in Golden Dome A group of 42 Democratic lawmakers has called for a review of Elon Musk's role in the bidding process for the "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, a project championed by President Donald Trump.

Exclusive: Democratic lawmakers call for review of Musk's role in Golden Dome www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...

Re: MTA v. Duffy, No. 25 Civ. 1413 (S.D.N.Y.) Dear Erin: We write with respect to the above-referenced litigation brought by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("MTA") against the U.S. Department of Transportation ("DOT"), U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, the Federal Highway Administration ("FHWA"), and Executive Director of the FHWA, Gloria Shepherd, to provide you with information concerning (1) the litigation risk that DOT faces in defending the Secretary's February 19, 2025 decision to terminate the New York City Central Business District Tolling Program ("CBDTP") agreement, and (2) a process for terminating the CBDTP agreement outside of the current litigation for DOT to consider. As discussed below, there is considerable litigation risk in defending the Secretary's February 19, 2025 decision against plaintiffs' claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, that the decision was contrary to law, pretextual rocedurally arbitrary and capricious, and violated due process. For the reasons outlined below, it is unlikely that Judge Liman or further courts of review will accept the argument that the CBDTP was not a statutorily authorized "value pricing" pilot under the Value Prising Pilot Program (" ar FHWA may, however, be able to properly terminate the CBDTP value pricing pilot pursuant to established Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") regulations concerning the termination of cooperative agreements. Termination of the CBDTP agreement pursuant to these OMB regulations would still allow FHWA to end the CBDTP for the Secretary's stated reasons, but would do so as a matter of changed agency priorities rather than arguing the CBDTP was not statutorily authorized in the first instance. Importantly, DOT can seek termination of the agreement pursuant to the OMB regulations in addition to, and not in place of, defending the rationale laid out in the Secretary's letter. Case 1:25-cv-01413-LJL Document 65 Filed 04/23/25 Page 2 of 11 Page 2

So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead

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100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency At the Social Security Administration, lawyers, statisticians and other high-ranking agency officials are being sent from the Baltimore headquarters to regional offices to replace veteran claims processors who have been fired or taken buyouts from the Trump administration.

100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency www.reuters.com/world/us/100...

Wire services including Reuters and Bloomberg News will no longer hold a permanent slot in the small pool of reporters who cover President Trump, the White House said, as it moves to exert greater control over who gets to ask him questions and report on his statements in real time reut.rs/42A1BSD

In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

Judge finds Trump administration disregarded order on Venezuelan deportations A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday found "probable cause" to hold President Donald Trump's administration in contempt of court for violating his order last month halting deportations of Venezuelan migrants under a wartime law.

Judge says Trump administration officials could face criminal contempt charges over Venezuelan deportations www.reuters.com/legal/judge-...

California sues Trump administration to block tariffs reut.rs/42fMtL5

DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2025 In-Town Pool TV Corr & Crew: NBC Photos: AFP, NYT, Reuters, Getty Print: Washington Times Radio: iHeartMedia Secondary TV Corr & Crew: EWTN Secondary Print: The Daily Signal New Media: Christian Broadcasting Network

White House announces press pool for tomorrow, after booting newswires

Out: Reuters, Bloomberg

Still out: AP

In: The Daily Signal (as secondary print), the Christian Broadcasting Network (as new media), EWTN (as secondary TV)

Exclusive: Top Hegseth advisor Dan Caldwell put on leave in Pentagon leak probe One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top advisors, Dan Caldwell, was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters.

(Reuters) - One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters.

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Exclusive: Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north As the Trump administration intensifies efforts to acquire Greenland from Denmark — or take it by force — some Silicon Valley tech investors are promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a libertarian utopia with minimal corporate regulation, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Exclusive: Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north via Rachael Levy and
@alexandraulmer.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

Exclusive: Trump administration officials have told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda reut.rs/4i5ORZq

Much of Elon Musk's DOGE remains shrouded in secrecy, but two sources said it's using AI to surveil workers, marking an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings reut.rs/443eKWL

Elon Musk's DOGE team is using the Signal app to communicate, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, potentially violating federal record-keeping rules because messages can be set to disappear after a period of time reut.rs/443eKWL

JUST IN: US Supreme Court backs Trump on teacher training grant cuts reut.rs/4leNcUa

As dusk falls in Washington on Fridays, the firings begin Mary Glantz was in her room at a Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina, last Friday night during a trip visiting friends when her phone began pinging furiously with messages at 9:30 p.m.

As dusk falls in Washington on Fridays, the firings begin www.reuters.com/world/us/dus...

DOGE staffers arrive at US antitrust and consumer protection agency reut.rs/3REIwJC

Exclusive: SpaceX, ULA expected to clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive satellites into space over the next several years, according to two people familiar with the procurement decision.

Exclusive: SpaceX, ULA expected to clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program with @joroulette.bsky.social‬ www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Space Force is expected to announce major launch program contracts today (Phase 3 Lane 2), with SpaceX and ULA among the winners, sources tell me and @marisataylor.bsky.social. Story on @reuters.com

Brightline Brought High-Speed Rail to Florida. Can the Public Sector Follow? In Florida, Brightline has proved that it can operate reliable, well-designed passenger trains that people want to ride. Can the public sector do the same?

What’s So Hard About Building Trains? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/t...

Exclusive: DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is now working in the U.S. Justice Department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters.

Exclusive: DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software www.reuters.com/technology/c... via @raphae.li and Sarah Lynch