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FTC presses Zuckerberg to admit he bought Instagram to ‘neutralize’ it

By Naomi Nix · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court Tuesday to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago – one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive. FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg to […]

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Supreme Court says Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported man

By Justin Jouvenal, Ann E. Marimow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a lower-court order requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the release from custody of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador last month. A district court judge had ordered the administration to bring Kilmar Abrego […]

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Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan

By Joel Achenbach, Christian Davenport · The Washington Post (c) 2025 NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan. The budget […]

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Through emails and social media, colleges discover federal funds are frozen

By Susan Svrluga, Carolyn Y. Johnson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 In a scene that is becoming familiar, two powerful universities were rocked this week by rumors that the Trump administration would pull hundreds of millions in funding, with little to do but wait to learn the details. On Tuesday afternoon, an internal National Institutes of Healthemail reviewed […]

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Trump admin defies judge’s orders to detail steps for wrongly deported man’s return

By Victoria Bisset, Steve Thompson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration did not comply with a federal judge’s order setting a Friday morning deadline for officials to lay out steps for the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, calling it “impracticable” to adhere to a time limit set […]

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Supreme Court says Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported man

By Justin Jouvenal, Ann E. Marimow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a lower-court order requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the release from custody of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador last month. A district court judge had ordered the administration to bring Kilmar Abrego […]

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Supreme Court says Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported man

By Justin Jouvenal, Ann E. Marimow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a lower-court order requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the release from custody of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador last month. A district court judge had ordered the administration to bring Kilmar Abrego […]

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Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan

By Joel Achenbach, Christian Davenport · The Washington Post (c) 2025 NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan. The budget […]

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Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan

By Joel Achenbach, Christian Davenport · The Washington Post (c) 2025 NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan. The budget […]