Published on: 2025-04-21 11:52:39
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been reduced to a skeleton crew. The department, which was created to oversee banks and financial institutions, has cut about 1,500 jobs , leaving about 200 employees and reducing the agency by about 90 percent. In addition to cutting most of the staff, Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta sent a memo detailing the changed priorities for the CFPB. The bureau has been ordered to deprioritize subjects including consumer data, digital payments, medical deb
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“We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half,” said Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs. “Publishers have many options and they choose Google because our ad tech tools are simple, affordable and effective.” The Department of Justice did not immediately have comment. The cases against Google are part of a growing push by regulators to rein in the power of the biggest tech companies, which shape commerce, information and communication online. The Jus
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A federal judge ruled today that Google is a monopolist in some parts of the online advertising market, marking the second case in a year where the company was found to have violated US antitrust law. Last August, a federal judge ruled that Google was maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia determined that Google illegally monopolized parts of its advertising technology business to dominate the programmatic a
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The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns and became a MAGA boogeyman, has been shut down. Team Trump is promising that it’s just the start of an examination of alleged censorship during the Biden administration—and the first Trump administration too. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the move “a crucial step toward keeping the president’s promise to liberate American speech” in an op-ed for the right-wing site The Federal
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The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a larger off
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The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a larger off
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The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center, a larger office wi
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This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Donald Trump makes no secret of his loathing for regulations that limit water and energy use by home appliances. For years, he has regaled supporters at his campaign rallies with fanciful stories about their impact. He is so exercised by the issue that, even as global stock markets convulsed Wednes
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There's a stark disconnect between our era of internet connectivity and a looming sense of detachment, separation and seclusion for some students in K-12 schools. On March 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to close the US Department of Education and return education oversight to state and local communities. A signed executive order will not lead to an immediate shutdown unless Congress approves. However, with this executive order in motion, it's only a matter of time before i
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One of the largest federations of unions and several former officials of the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration have raised concerns about the possibility that Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency could potentially gain access to sensitive information shared with OSHA and the Department of Labor by whistleblowers at the centibillionaire’s companies. While Musk serves as a “special government employee” in the Trump administration, SpaceX, Tesla, and The B
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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is currently working to shut down the Department of Education at the behest of President Donald Trump, leaving her plenty of time to talk on panels about the future of schools—or lack of a future, as it were. McMahon’s appearance at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego this week included a rather amusing mix-up. McMahon repeatedly referred to AI by the name “A1.” Yes, just like the steak sauce. The video of the conference was livestreamed on YouTube, where you ca
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The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to limit their pursuit of certain cryptocurrency crimes, the latest example of the Trump administration pulling back on white-collar criminal enforcement. In a memo sent to staff members Monday night, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department will no longer pursue cases that he described as better left to financial regulatory agencies. Instead, prosecutors should focus on investigating people who commit crimes using cryptocurrency, s
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Crypto will have fewer eyes on some of its moving parts after today, particularly exchanges and offline, or cold, crypto wallets. President Donald Trump's administration announced Monday night in a memo that it's disbanding the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, which was established in 2022 to combat cryptocurrency fraud. In 2023, crypto scams cost victims more than $5.6 billion, according to an FBI report. "The prior Administration used the Justice Department to pursue a reckless stra
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The US Department of Justice has disbanded its unit focused on prosecuting cryptocurrency scams. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the end of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team in a memo sent on Monday, Reuters reported . When the NCET launched , its focus was prosecuting cryptocurrency used in money laundering, fraud and theft. In recent years, the Department of Justice secured several high-profile wins in cases involving Binance , Tornado Cash and Bitfinex . However, th
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. A Tesla Supercharger station was severely damaged in a possible explosion in Lacey, Washington. The local police department is investigating the incident, along with the FBI, which has been probing a number of acts of vandalism involving Tesla. The Lacey Police Department said it received multiple calls of a “loud noise” a
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The U.S. Justice Department abruptly shut down its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, signaling a major shift in how the federal government will handle crypto-related crimes going forward, according to a memo obtained by NBC News Tuesday. The memo, sent Monday night by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, outlines a decentralized approach in which U.S. Attorneys' Offices will now take the lead on digital asset cases, focusing primarily on crimes involving terrorism. The memo said effor
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Although the Trump administration has reopened income-driven repayment plans for student loan borrowers, the future of federal financial aid remains very much uncertain. In lieu of President Donald Trump's executive order to begin shutting down the federal Department of Education, you may be unsure about filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. On March 20, the White House announced that the Small Business Administration would "immediately" begin handling the entire f
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Got any suggestions for improving the federal student loan program and its forgiveness options? The Department of Education wants to hear them. The department announced in a press release today that it will invite public feedback on ways to streamline higher education regulations and federal aid programs. It specifically asked for ideas for improving the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Repayment plan and the Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) plan. "Th
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Democrats are calling on Treasury Department and General Services Administration watchdogs to investigate a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee’s access to sensitive data. In a letter to Deputy Inspectors General Loren Sciurba and Robert Erickson, Reps. Lori Trahan (D-MA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), and Shontel Brown (D-OH) say the probe
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Although the Trump administration has reopened income-driven repayment plans for student loan borrowers, the future of federal financial aid remains very much uncertain. On March 20, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin shutting down the federal Department of Education and turning over management of student loans to the Small Business Administration. Trump announced that the SBA would "immediately" begin handling the entire federal student loan portfolio, one day after p
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Student loan borrowers have been left in limbo -- again -- after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to begin dismantling the federal Department of Education. And options may be dwindling for those not already on the path to forgiveness. Millions of borrowers on the SAVE plans have had their payments on pause amid legal challenges but are expected to resume by the end of this year. Applications for income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, which have been touted as an alternat
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It looks like federal student loans, including the FAFSA, could end up being managed by the Small Business Administration after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to begin shutting down the federal Department of Education. Trump announced that the SBA would "immediately" begin handling the entire federal student loan portfolio, one day after press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that student loans and Pell Grants would still be run out of the Department of E
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The Department of Energy has told employees that documents used by DOGE to assess the agency’s grants and contracts should be marked with “legal privilege” to prevent them from being disclosed under Freedom of Information Act requests. DOGE has supplied the agency with spreadsheets, which are to be completed by agency officials, to identify grants and contracts that could be flagged for termination or renegotiation. The department’s acting general counsel, David R. Taggart, outlined the DOE’s D
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According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to rename the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as US International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA), and to bring it directly under the secretary of state. The document, on which Politico first reported, states that as part of its reorganization, the agency will “leverage blockchain technology” as part of its procurement process. “All distributions would also
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On Thursday, March 20, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the intent to eliminate the federal Department of Education and "return authority over education" to states and local government. One critical function of the department is the administration of federal student financial aid like grants and student loans. If the Department of Education is closed, what does that mean for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA? In comments to reporters Thursday, press
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Elon Musk, the billionaire oligarch currently destroying the U.S. federal government, celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order on Thursday that is seeking to destroy the Department of Education in an appropriately stupid and immature fashion. Musk shared a meme with X about the move that misspelled the word “department” in the Department of Education. Musk, who’s worth $327 billion according to Forbes, spent about a quarter of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected and was rewar
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On Thursday, March 20, President Donald Trump followed through on his threat to "begin eliminating" the Department of Education via executive order, although most legal experts agree congressional approval will be required to actually end the agency. One critical function of the department is the administration of federal student financial aid like grants and student loans. If the Department of Education is closed, what does that mean for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA?
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AirTags aren’t designed to prevent theft, but they’ve proven to be a really useful tool. Now, the Denver Police Department has announced it will give out hundreds of AirTags as part of its ongoing efforts to prevent car thefts. The Denver Police Department is teaming up with the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority (CATPA) to distribute 450 AirTag and Samsung SmartTag item trackers to residents, as spotted by Gizmodo. In an announcement this week, the Denver Police Department said: With t
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The Denver Police Department is giving out hundreds of Apple AirTags and Samsung SmartTags as part of a program called DenverTrack to monitor car thefts, according to a press release Tuesday. The department will give out 450 trackers over three days, from March 19-21. Signing up for the program “preauthorizes” the Denver Police Department to “work with GPS information, provided by a vehicle owner, when a vehicle is reported stolen.” But police say they’re not gaining any kind of direct access t
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If the Department of Education no longer exists, does the FAFSA disappear, too? The Department of Education processes the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and administers federal financial aid programs. However, the department may not be around for much longer, with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about ways to close it. The department staff was slashed by nearly half this month and the studentaid.gov website went down for hours. "These workforce reductions raise serious q
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