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Approximately 14% of U.S. personnel accountable for safeguarding nuclear weapons have been let go simply earlier than the Russian navy flew an explosive drone into the Chernobyl sarcophagus, CBS News experiences.

Sources knowledgeable reporters that notifications to some probationary staff started late yesterday afternoon on the National Nuclear Security Administration throughout the Department of Energy.

A White House official has confirmed that right this moment’s govt order will give attention to halting federal funds for colleges and universities that impose Covid-19 vaccine mandates, as first reported by Breitbart News.

As a candidate, Donald Trump vowed to limit funding for colleges with vaccination mandates.

Sometimes On the marketing campaign path, Trump particularly referenced guidelines relating to the coronavirus, however he additionally spoke extra broadly, suggesting the defunding of colleges with different vaccine mandates.

A March 14 authorities funding deadline is bearing down on Congress. Democrats, within the minority in each chambers, nonetheless retain the potential for exacting concessions from Republicans.

The query is, will they use their leverage or play “adults in the room” as soon as extra?

Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of workers and cupboard secretary, has doubled down on the banning of Associated Press reporters from extra restricted areas, together with the Oval Office and Air Force One, however stated the company will retain credentials to the White House complicated.

The Associated Press continues to disregard the lawful geographic identify change of the Gulf of America. This determination is not only divisive, nevertheless it additionally exposes the Associated Press’ dedication to misinformation. While their proper to irresponsible and dishonest reporting is protected by the First Amendment, it doesn’t guarantee their privilege of unfettered entry to restricted areas, just like the Oval Office and Air Force One. Going ahead, that area will now be opened as much as the various 1000’s of reporters who’ve been barred from masking these intimate areas of the administration. Associate[d] Press journalists and photographers will retain their credentials to the White House complicated.

Volodymyr Zelensky and US Vice President JD Vance have now spoken publicly following their assembly on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

The Ukrainian president stated he had a superb dialog with Vance and that extra work wanted to be accomplished on a plan for ending the conflict in Ukraine.

“We need to speak more, to work more and to prepare the plan (for) how to stop Putin,” Zelensky stated.

Asked how issues will transfer ahead if Ukraine will not be prepared to return to the desk with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vance replied: “It’s important for us to get together and start to have the conversations that are going to be necessary to bring this thing to a close.”

“My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk’s henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America,” the Democrat tweeted Thursday. “And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.”

A lawyer for New York City Mayor Eric Adams allegedly provided up the mayor’s energy to help President Donald Trump in finishing up his agenda provided that the felony indictment in opposition to him can be dismissed, the previous appearing head of Manhattan federal court docket stated.

Ariana Baio has the main points.

In an unbelievable mic-drop second, Hagan Scotten, a (now former) Assistant U.S. Attorney within the Southern District of New York, criticized the Justice Department for doing Donald Trump’s bidding in axing attorneys who refused to drop felony prices in opposition to Eric Adams.

In a letter addressed to Emil Bove, the Justice Department’s second-in-command, Scotten asserted that any lawyer understands that it’s unlawful to wield prosecutorial energy to affect residents or elected officers.

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me,” Scotten wrote in his resignation letter.

Scotten was the lead lawyer on Eric Adams’s felony case. Attorney General Pam Bondi made it clear to Danielle Sassoon, the previous appearing US Attorney in SDNY, that she and anybody else who pursued Adams’s case after which refused to drop the fees can be investigated.

It’s value noting that Scotten, a veteran of the Iraq War, was a clerk for Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts.

Here’s what you have to know in regards to the wave of resignations the Adams case has triggered: