Trump Administration Offers Federal Workers Payouts, and Kennedy’s Senate Test Plus, Mona Lisa makes moves.

Schools Rattled as Trump Administration Demands Scrutiny of Education Programs The Trump administration sought to pause federal dollars to some grantees as it tries to uproot policies like diversity, equity and inclusion. Schools and universities worried important programs could be halted.

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Trump Administration Fires Prosecutors Who Aided Jack Smith Investigations The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.

Trump Administration Puts Dozens of U.S.A.I.D. Officials on Paid Leave An email to the aid agency’s employees cited actions “that appear to be designed to circumvent” an executive order by President Trump.

Fired Inspectors General Raise Alarms as Trump Administration Moves to Finalize Purge The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a never-ending cycle of politicization.”

Trump Administration Begins Immigration Arrests in Chicago Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, went to Chicago to observe as a host of agencies launched the operation as part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up deportation efforts.

Prosecution Seeks Pause in 9/11 Case Until Trump Administration Is in Place The new administration does not yet have a confirmed defense secretary, attorney general or solicitor general in place.

Trump Administration Temporarily Mutes Federal Health Officials Scientific meetings were canceled, and research data on the bird flu outbreak was delayed, amid confusion over the directive.

Trump Administration Escalates D.E.I. Crackdown in Latest Threat to Federal Workers The warning came one day after the administration ordered that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the government be shut down by 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Trump Administration Cancels Flights for Refugees Already Approved for Travel The decision leaves refugees who have completed a lengthy process stranded abroad and facing extended separation from loved ones already in the U.S.

In Shake-Up, Trump Administration Jolts F.B.I. by Installing Acting Leader Christopher A. Wray, the former director, stepped down Sunday. Brian Driscoll, who recently took charge of the F.B.I.’s Newark field office, will be acting director, according to a White House statement.

Biden Administration Creates Final Limits for Oil Drillers in Alaska Republicans said they were seeking ways to quickly reverse the restrictions in the state’s North Slope region.

Biden Administration Withdraws Protections for Endangered Whales The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with rare North Atlantic right whales.

Biden administration launches cybersecurity executive order With this executive order, the Biden White House is looking to boost digital security in the U.S. for the government and the private sector.

Biden Administration Bans Chinese Cars, Hardware, Software American automakers have long feared Chinese competition, worrying that cheaper cars built just as well would knock the floor out of a profitable industry. Now, regulators have found a way to protect American brands by outright banning Chinese cars — or automotive hardware or software — used for communications or… Read more…

EU Not Reassessing Apple and Google Antitrust Investigations, But New Administration Could Shift Priorities The European Union is “reassessing” its investigations into big U.S. tech companies like Apple, Meta, and Google, claims Financial Times, though a spokesperson from the European Commission has denied that such a review is taking place. Tech CEOs like Apple’s Tim Cook and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have been cozying up to president-elect Donald Trum…

Biden Administration Adopts Rules to Guide A.I.’s Global Spread New rules aim to keep advanced technology out of China and to ensure that cutting-edge artificial intelligence is developed by the United States and its allies.

Zuckerberg says Biden administration pushed Meta ‘super hard’ to take down vaccine content Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that the Biden White House sought to censor critical claims about Covid vaccines.

Biden Administration Moves to Halt Sept. 11 Plea Deal Justice Department lawyers are defending the defense secretary’s decision to back out of the agreement that avoided a death penalty trial, moving the question from military to civilian courts.