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Federal judge blocks Trump from slashing NIH funding in 22 states that sued

By Susan Svrluga · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A federal district judge granted a temporary restraining order Monday, blocking the Trump administration from makingdrastic cuts to biomedical research funding in 22 states that banded together to sue. Judge Angel Kelley, in federal district court in Massachusetts, ordered the National Institutes of Health not to implement a funding […]

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To watch Musk, Senate Democrats start whistleblower platform for workers

By Mariana Alfaro · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Michigan), have set up a whistleblower complaint portal for federal workers to submit any reports of what they see as unlawful activities in their respective agencies in response to Elon Musk and his group’s […]

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To watch Musk, Senate Democrats start whistleblower platform for workers

By Mariana Alfaro · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Michigan), have set up a whistleblower complaint portal for federal workers to submit any reports of what they see as unlawful activities in their respective agencies in response to Elon Musk and his group’s […]

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Court grants request to block detained Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees “fit the profile of […]

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Court grants request to block detained Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees “fit the profile of […]

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Man dies of asthma attack after inhaler cost skyrockets to more than $500

By Jonathan Edwards · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Cole Schmidtknecht expected to pay $66.86 for a three-month supply of his preventative asthma inhalers in January 2024 when he went to his Walgreens pharmacy in Appleton, Wisconsin. The pharmacy allegedly told him his insurance no longer covered the medication, so he would have to pay the full cost. […]

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Man dies of asthma attack after inhaler cost skyrockets to more than $500

By Jonathan Edwards · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Cole Schmidtknecht expected to pay $66.86 for a three-month supply of his preventative asthma inhalers in January 2024 when he went to his Walgreens pharmacy in Appleton, Wisconsin. The pharmacy allegedly told him his insurance no longer covered the medication, so he would have to pay the full cost. […]

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Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds

By Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, Anumita Kaur · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered the […]

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Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds

By Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, Anumita Kaur · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered the […]

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Judge bars publicly naming FBI agents who investigated Jan. 6 cases

By Spencer S. Hsu, Jeremy Roebuck · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A federal judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from publicly naming FBI personnel in its review of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack prosecutions, after agents sued over concerns that the Justice Department or third-parties, such as Elon Musk, could put law enforcement officers at risk if […]