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As DOGE hammers away at the US government, Republicans stir with quiet objections

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING
Updated 12:38 PM CST, February 12, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Katie Britt has been working to make sure the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency doesn’t hit what she called “life-saving, groundbreaking research at high-achieving institutions,” including her state’s beloved University of Alabama.

Kansas GOP Sen. Jerry Moran is worried that food from heartland farmers would spoil rather than be sent around the world as the U.S. Agency for International Development shutters.

And Idaho GOP Rep. Mike Simpson warns national parks could be impaired by cutbacks at the start of summer hiring in preparation for the onslaught of visitors.

“We need to have a conversation with DOGE and the administration about exactly what they’ve done here,” said Simpson, a seasoned lawmaker who sits on the powerful Appropriations Committee. “It’s a concern to all of us.” ...

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Moment SUV driver narrowly escapes train collision

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The driver managed to flee with seconds to spare after their vehicle was pushed on to a train track in Utah.
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Israel seeks another extension for Lebanon withdrawal, source says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israeli forces were due to pull out next Tuesday, but the source says they want to stay for another 10 days.
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'On a power trip' or 'obviously brilliant'? Americans weigh Musk's influence

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Department of Education in limbo amid Linda McMahon's confirmation hearing

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump's Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon will appear before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Thursday as the future of the agency that she could potentially lead hangs in the balance.

Mr. Trump has long teased the possibility of closing the Department of Education, but he could be closer to making good on his pledge. Since taking office, the president has signed several education-related executive orders and multiple sources confirm he is considering executive action that would dismantle the...
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White House says about 75K federal workers have accepted ‘deferred resignation' offer

  • News source: Garrett Haake and Megan Lebowitz | NBC News
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About 75,000 federal employees have accepted the White House's "deferred resignation" offer to resign but receive pay through September, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management.

The offer's deadline closed on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled to end a temporary pause to the program.

NBC News cannot independently verify the number of employees who took the White House's offer.

The number of federal employees who are reported to have taken the offer amounts to less than 5% of the federal workforce. The administration...
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X reaches $10 million settlement with Trump over prior Twitter suspension

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The social media platform X will pay President Trump $10 million to settle a lawsuit over the nearly two-year-long suspension of his account in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, a person familiar with the matter told CBS News Wednesday.

The White House declined to comment when reached by CBS News.

X, then known as Twitter, banned Mr. Trump from the platform in January 2021, two days after the Capitol riots. At the time, Twitter said the permanent suspension was "due to the risk of further incitement of violence."

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Lawyers for inmates ask judge to take over health care services in Arizona prisons

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them
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Aid groups tell judge that Trump's foreign aid pause has 'devastated' operations

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A coalition of aid groups said at an emergency hearing Wednesday that the Trump administration's 90-day pause on foreign aid had already "devastated" their operations.
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WATCH: Astronaut's view of Northern Lights from International Space Station

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Sicily's gangsters complain they can't get the staff

  • News source: BBC News - World
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An investigation reveals a crime group having to adapt to modernity and displaying a nostalgia for past ambitions.
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‘You're next': DOJ files lawsuit against New York, Hochul, Letitia James over immigration

  • News source: Tom Shea and Melissa Russo
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President Donald Trump's newly installed U.S. attorney general used her first official press conference to announce that she will sue New York, as well as the governor and top state figures, over policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday the Department of Justice had filed charges against the state of New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Attorney General Letitia James and Marc Schroeder, the commissioner of the state's Department of Motor Vehicles.

"This is a new DOJ, and we are...
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Trump's immigration crackdown ripples across the US

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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ABC News correspondents deployed across the U.S. to see the varying impacts of the Trump administration's crackdown.
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Man in US illegally wanted for allegedly groping 7-year-old Texas girl on her way home from school

  • News source: FOX News
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A man with a lengthy criminal history who was previously on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold is on the run after being accused of groping a 7-year-old Texas girl as she walked home from school.

Carlos Jose Ayala Morales, 43, has been charged with felony attempted indecency with a child, the Houston Police Department said. He is accused of grabbing the girl Jan. 27 while she was on her way home from her elementary school, Fox Houston reported.

The girl and her mother told the news outlet she was walking behind her older sister...
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Is it checkmate for South Africa after Trump aid freeze?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The US president is ratcheting up pressure on South Africa over its domestic and foreign policy.
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