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Judge orders release of $14 billion that EPA chief called ‘gold bars’ being thrown off the Titanic

By Maxine Joselow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A federal judgehas temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency from terminating at least $14 billion in climate grants approved under President Joe Biden. U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction late Tuesday that prohibits the EPA from “unlawfully […]

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Judge orders release of $14 billion that EPA chief called ‘gold bars’ being thrown off the Titanic

By Maxine Joselow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A federal judgehas temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency from terminating at least $14 billion in climate grants approved under President Joe Biden. U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction late Tuesday that prohibits the EPA from “unlawfully […]

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Breaking his silence, Biden to speak out on Social Security

By Meryl Kornfield, Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Former president Joe Biden is scheduled Tuesday evening to deliver his first public comments since leaving the White House, speaking on the importance of Social Security after 12 weeks in which President Donald Trump has regularly excoriated his predecessor while Biden has kept quiet. […]

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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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Breaking his silence, Biden to speak out on Social Security

By Meryl Kornfield, Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Former president Joe Biden is scheduled Tuesday evening to deliver his first public comments since leaving the White House, speaking on the importance of Social Security after 12 weeks in which President Donald Trump has regularly excoriated his predecessor while Biden has kept quiet. […]

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Breaking his silence, Biden to speak out on Social Security

By Meryl Kornfield, Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Former president Joe Biden is scheduled Tuesday evening to deliver his first public comments since leaving the White House, speaking on the importance of Social Security after 12 weeks in which President Donald Trump has regularly excoriated his predecessor while Biden has kept quiet. […]

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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 […]

Posted inNational News, Syndicated

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 […]