Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump

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Additional News​​

• The Trump administration bans U.S. scientists and officials from attending the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference that started this week in Hangzhou, China, which are focused on the seventh IPCC Assessment Report on climate change. (Nature)

• Senior officials expect Trump and UK prime minister Starmer to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine. Read More

• Trump, Starmer at odds over security guarantees for Ukraine ahead of critical talks. Read More

• Zelensky-Trump talks set for Friday, Ukraine's foreign minister confirms. Read More

• US-Ukraine minerals deal has no "specific guarantee" for continued American support to Kyiv, official says. Read More

• The Supreme Court order puts Friday focus on foreign aid case. Read More

• Pentagon plans to remove transgender service members under new policy. Read More

• Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced plan to expedite hiring of air traffic controllers. Read More

• Senate committee advances Lori Chavez-DeRemer's nomination to be secretary of Labor Department. Read More

• Congress adopts resolution rescinding Biden-era methane fee rule, clearing measure for Trump's signature. Read More

• Jeffries says he has not spoken to Johnson about government funding bill. Read More

• Top GOP and Democrat House appropriators skeptical about Johnson's idea to include DOGE cuts in funding bill.Read More

• Lindsey Graham planning bipartisan meeting with Zelensky. Read More

• Democratic lawmaker brought her newborn son to vote against GOP proposal. Read More

• USAID workers collect belongings at headquarters as supporters gather to applaud their service. Read More

• USAID staff told to bring their own boxes to collect belongings from office. Read More

• US Forest Service Chief pens letter to staff announcing retirement and lamenting mass layoffs Read More

• FDA meeting to choose flu vaccine composition canceled without explanation. Read More

• CDC investigating hospitalizations of five people who recently received chikungunya vaccine. Read More

• The far right just made huge gains in a country once seen as a climate champion. It’s a pattern happening across the world. Read More

• META’s Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence. (Al Arabiya) Read More

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• Elon Musk says upgrade of FAA’s air traffic control system is failing and SpaceX needs to take over Verizon’s contract.
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• Kash Patel Suggests Bringing UFC Physical Fitness Programs To FBI. Read More

• With First Weekly Call, Patel Begins Serious Business of Running F.B.I. Read More

• US attorney general accuses FBI of withholding pages and demands Friday release of

• all files on Epstein. BBC Independent

• Gabbard decries Britain’s reported demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to users’ cloud data. Read More

• GAO (Government Accountability Office) warns about FEMA staffing as Trump fires hundreds. Read More

• Government Watchdog Issues Unprecedented Warning on State of U.S. Disaster Response. Read More

• Scientists scorn EPA push to say climate change isn’t a danger, say just look around at the world. Read More

• In a reversal, plans for U.S. natural gas power grow, complicating progress on climate. Read More

• Iowa gives final approval to a bill removing gender identity protections despite massive protests. Read More

• The Vermont-Quebec border runs right through this library. Trump officials used it to stoke tensions. Read More

• The causes of Alzheimer’s disease are in doubt. The first Black psychiatrist challenged consensus over 100 years ago.
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• Early research suggests why exercise is so protective against brain disease. Read More

• Washington Post staffers are in open rebellion against Jeff Bezos. Read More

• Andrew Tate and brother arrive in Florida after leaving Romania, spokesperson says. Read More

• Crucial Ocean-Current System Is Safe from Climate Collapse―for Now. Read More

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World News

• The Social Democratic Party, the Austrian People's Party, and the NEOS party in Austria agree to form a coalition government, leaving out the far-right Freedom Party, who won the most seats in the National Council in the 2024 legislative election. The coalition agreement ends Austria's longest period without a government since World War II. (DW) (Euractiv)

• Danish retailer group Salling Group, which operates around 34% of the retail market share in the country, announces it will start differentiating European-made products from American ones, in retaliation to U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed acquisition of Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm. (DW)

• Somalia's capital remains under strict lockdown for heightened security after Several mortars were fired toward Mogadishu airport as part of the visit from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (Anadolu Agency)

• Somali forces regained control of Balad after Al-Shabaab launched a coordinated attack, detonating roadside bombs and briefly seizing the town. Reinforcements helped push the militants back. (Hiiraan Online)

• Villa Somalia security guards open fire on civilians at Lido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia while attempting to clear the beach ahead of a visit from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, killing a teenage boy and wounding several others. 
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• A grenade attack at an M23 rally in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, celebrating their recent victory over government forces in the city, kills at least eleven people and wounds 65 others. (Reuters)

• As part of the first stage of the ceasefire deal, Hamas releases the bodies of four Israeli hostages in return for the Israeli government releasing 617 Palestinian prisoners. The second phase of the ceasefire has not been negotiated. (DW)

• Jailed Kurdish leader and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan calls for an end to the conflict with Turkey and asks the group to disarm and disband, amid peace efforts between the Turkish government and the PKK led by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party. (Rudaw) (Reuters) (DW)

• 13 people are injured in a car ramming attack in Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel. (Times Of Israel)

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• Mexico sends drug lord Caro Quintero and 28 others to the US as officials meet with Trump team. Read More