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Nearly 17,000 federal workers are expected to return to the office at Washington Navy Yard on Monday, according to base officials. The return comes after President Donald Trump's executive order to end remote work went into effect Monday. While there will be an influx of workers expected to work in person, there are only about 4,400 parking spaces available on base. Base officials said they are working with local government to handle the increase in traffic. The base is also increasing the number of workers at their entrances but says employees should expect delays. Attendance monitoring in the parking lots...

Democrats rallied against billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, who also heads up President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), outside the Social Security Administration’s headquarters in Baltimore. Democrats from both chambers gathered to sound alarm after a judge temporarily blocked Musk and DOGE personnel from gaining access to the Treasury Department’s sensitive payment system. “We have one simple message, which is: Elon Musk, keep your hands off of our Social Security,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said at the top of the press conference Monday. “They have accessed highly sensitive personal information on Americans at the Department of Treasury, including...

President Trump signs executive orders and takes questions from the press Feb 10, 2025

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF STATES' EX PARTE EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ANGEL KELLEY, D.J. Plaintiff States' Ex Parte Emergency Motion For Temporary Restraining Order (Dkt. 4) is GRANTED. Defendants and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors are hereby enjoined from taking any steps to implement, apply, or enforce the Rate Change Notice (NOT-OD-25- 068) within Plaintiff States until further order is issued by this Court. Counsel for Defendants shall file a status report with the Court within 24 hours of the entry of this Order, and at biweekly intervals thereafter, confirming the regular disbursement and obligation of...

Cocaine is no worse for your health than the common glass of whiskey, claimed the president of Colombia — the world’s biggest producer and exporter of the illegal drug. In a first-of-its-kind, six-hour live broadcast ministerial meeting in the South American country, Colombian President Gustavo Petro argued that cocaine is only illegal because of global politics — further claiming that it can be consumed as casually as alcohol, according to a report. “Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whiskey,” the 64-year-old president said, according to CBS News. It is not clear what analysis the president was referring...

I am trying to find the webpage that lists all of the email addresses for all sitting senators and congressmen. It would be a handy tool for all of us to have so we can email all the critters in Washington DC whenever legislation comes up that we would like to comment on. If anyone can locate that and provide it, I would be very grateful. I've tried and I can't find it. Google isn't cooperating.

President Trump warned the Hamas terror group Monday night to release all remaining hostages by noon Saturday, or he would allow Israel to cancel the ongoing cease-fire and “let hell break out” in the Middle East. “As far as I’m concerned, if all of the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 o’clock — I think it’s an appropriate time — I would say, cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office, without specifying what time zone the deadline would apply to. “I’d say they ought to be...

Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Canadian-American singer with a large and devoted following of fans and who won a Best Song Oscar for “Up Where We Belong,” has had her prestigious Order of Canada honor terminated following an investigation into her heritage that indicates she is not Indigenous as she has long claimed.

They don't do sport, they don't do football and they don't do common sense either.

‘Elon Musk and your muskrats, Elon Musk, I mean Donald Trump, same thing at this point, right? Who really is the president?’ Pressley asked. She brought up the skyrocketing price of eggs and expensive housing during her passionate speech. 'Tell me how letting Elon put his paws in the cookie jar is helping a single person who calls this country home?’ she demanded. Pressley credited the CFPB with taking on scammers, capping bank overdraft fees, stopping medical debt from hurting Americans’ credit reports and going after banks for lending discrimination. ‘This is what we’re going to dismantle? What in the...

The federal judge who suggested Trump administration officials could face criminal contempt over the spending freeze on Monday is a Democrat donor... McConnell donated hundreds of thousands to Democratic campaigns and political action committees, including 2008 presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, according to Federal Election Commission records. He also donated over $8,000 to Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s 2006 senate campaign. McConnell volunteered as director of the Rhode Island branch of Planned Parenthood for four years, according to Roll Call.

CNN — President Donald Trump is removing the head of the Office of Government Ethics from his post, the agency said Monday – the latest example of Trump acting against a government watchdog. The agency’s director, David Huitema, was confirmed to the post by the Senate in November and officially began the job in December. He had been nominated by President Joe Biden but had languished for more than a year in the Senate before lawmakers confirmed him by a 50-46 vote during a post-election lame-duck session.

Assisted dying cases would no longer have to be signed off by the High Court under changes suggested by the bill's supporters. The proposed law currently says a High Court judge must check each person is eligible and has not been coerced into making the decision to die. But BBC News has been told Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP behind the bill, will suggest replacing this with a panel of experts who would oversee applications. It comes after concerns were raised over the court's capacity to hear each individual case.

Maxine Waters has meltdown over CFBP, shouts "Elon Musk, where are you? Bring your *ss over here! "He's a thief! He's a gangster!"

TULSI GABBARD Wins Procedural vote in United States Senate 52-46

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) in a letter to colleagues Monday warned of the possibility of a “Trump shutdown” and reminded fellow senators that Democrats have the power to make or break any bill to fund the government past March 14.Democrats in the Senate and House are looking more seriously at the looming funding deadline as an important point of leverage to slow or stop President Trump’s and Elon Musk’s freezing of federal payments, lockout of federal workers and plans to slash government spending by trillions of dollars.Schumer wrote that Democrats want to avoid a shutdown and argued that...

Gov. Kathy Hochul put the brakes on Democrats’ plan to rewrite rules for an upstate special election to leave a House seat vacant and hobble Trump’s agenda, sources familiar with negotiations said Monday. Democrats’ move would have left a safely Republican House seat empty through November as the GOP clings to a razor-thin majority, but Hochul stepped in as she continues high-powered talks with Trump over congestion pricing in Manhattan. Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick to be US Ambassador to the United Nations, would vacate her congressional seat when she is confirmed – leaving the GOP with a two-seat...

It was a horrific murder case that seemed really cut and dry—it was also a true crime story that made the rounds on TV in the mid-2000s. But this one came with a really bizarre twist. Instead of ruling the brutal stabbing death of Ellen Greenberg—a teacher stabbed twenty grisly times—as a homicide, officials called it a suicide. ... And one of the top officials who signed off on this mind-boggling suicide decision was none other than Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s prosecutor at the time and the state’s current Dem governor. What was he thinking back then? Was he just another...

If you were going to question a candidate for public office what would you ask? I ask because I am aiming toward creating a standardized test for anyone who aspires to public office. I am also exploring how to make that test mandatory for anyone who applies, and to make the results public. So have at it. ------- You have presented yourself and may as a result swear a legally binding oath that you are willing to uphold and defend the Constitution of The United States of America. You must now give answer to the people among whom you wish...

Elon Musk is leading a group of investors offering to buy OpenAI for nearly $100 billion. The takeover bid was submitted to OpenAI's board of directors on Monday, Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff told the Wall Street Journal. Open AI is currently a non-profit run by Musk's nemesis Sam Altman. The tech entrepreneurs are currently locked in a legal battle about the future of the company, considered a leader in artificial intelligence research. The maker's of ChatGPT have not publicly responded to the unsolicited bid from Musk and his associates. Musk's audacious bid has thrown a spanner in Altman's plans to...