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Signal gets closer look amid uproar over Trump officials’ group chat

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Signal thrown into spotlight amid group chat breach Top Trump national security officials' use of messaging app Signal is raising new questions about the platform and how the administration is transmitting sensitive government info. © Kiichiro Sato, Associated Press Cybersecurity experts said they were surprised to learn conversations containing...

Supreme Court weighs which courts can hear Clean Air Act disputes

The Supreme Court appears poised to keep at least some Clean Air Act disputes in federal courts outside of DC — preventing what at least one justice described as “home court advantage” for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The justices heard a pair of cases on Tuesday about whether certain Clean Air Act disputes should...

Meeting with House panel, OPM officials cut short after clash between top lawmakers

A closed-door meeting between members of a House subcommittee and officials from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was cut short on Tuesday after the top two lawmakers on the panel clashed over the terms of the gathering. The disagreement was confirmed to The Hill by the two lawmakers involved, Reps. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and...

Social Security chief: DOGE access to systems revoked after court order

Leland Dudek, acting commissioner for the Social Security Administration (SSA), said as of Monday the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) no longer has access to the agency’s systems in an effort to comply with court orders. Dudek submitted a declaration confirming that DOGE employees' access to systems containing personally identifiable information (PII) or systems of...

White House digs in as furor grows over war plans chat

Presented by National Council on Aging — Plus: Putin gifts Trump portrait {beacon} White House digs in as furor grows over breach PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SIGNALING the White House will stand by its national security team as the furor grows in Washington over a journalist being added to a group chat discussion about a Yemen...

Boebert suggests GOP could rename DC ‘District of America’

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) urged lawmakers to stop making fun of President Trump's decision to rename the Gulf of America, suggesting the nation’s capital could undergo the same change. “I would caution my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to refrain from making jokes about the Gulf of America because next up may be the District...

DC reports measles case

A person with measles traveled through the District of Columbia while contagious, city health officials said Tuesday, marking the city’s first recorded infection this year. The individual traveled on Amtrak’s Northeast Regional route heading southbound on March 19 and walked through the concourse at Union Station between 11:00 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. The person sought...

Oz moves closer to confirmation as Medicare, Medicaid chief

Mehmet Oz is a step closer to being confirmed as the next head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, after the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday advanced his nomination. The vote was 14-13 along party lines. Democrats slammed Oz for not committing to stop potential GOP cuts to Medicaid, as well as his...

Judge temporarily bars effort to defund Radio Free Europe  

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Kari Lake and the Trump administration from moving to defund Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth found that the administration and Lake, who oversees U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which funds the radio station and Voice of America (VOA), likely violated the law...

Trump on war plans group chat: ‘It’s just something that can happen’

President Trump on Tuesday acknowledged a mistake occurred when a journalist was swept up in a text message chain with top administration officials on plans for an attack on Houthi rebels, saying issues can happen with modern technology. The president was asked if anyone could be fired after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic,...

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