News outlets sue Trump over White House press ban
A trio of news outlets is suing the Trump administration following their ban from the White House, citing First Amendment violations. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...Pulte’s FHFA slashes mortgage fraud watchdog’s budget
Under a last-minute budget cut, the FHFA inspector general’s office will have to cut up to 80% of its staff and cease investigations into mortgage fraud. Congress – Federal News Network
Read More...A Reckoning in Springfield
Photographs by Carol Guzy This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. He kept going over the details. “I run this route every day, like clockwork,” the trucker was saying, heading west to where he had first seen the man on the side of the highway. Now it was a Sunday morning, his day off, and Jack Buhring was driving his mother’s minivan, retracing the route, trying to make sense of what had happened less than a week before. His girlfriend, Renee…
Read More...Vance defends White House press ban, says outlets can still report
Vice President J.D. Vance said Monday that President Trump is not banning media outlets, saying the three outlets barred from the White House campus can still report but will no longer have special access to deliver propaganda. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...OMB violated Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act with $1 billion rescission
GAO says OMB’s actions subvert both the constitutional process and Congress’s power of the purse. Congress – Federal News Network
Read More...The Great Data-Center Rebellion
Clinton, Iowa, is topographically flat and economically declining. The sawmills that made the city rich in the late 19th century have been repurposed as a museum. One of the Victorian mansions long since abandoned by the old lumber barons is open for tours, but tourists are scarce. Clinton has shrunk to about 24,000 people, and the town center, along the Mississippi River, feels nearly empty. On the west side, miles of deep-green corn and soy fields are crisscrossed with transmission wires and zoned for heavy industrial use. The city’s economic…
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