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Today — 16 July 2025Main stream

What’s Next for Trump’s Plans to Dismantle the Education Department

16 July 2025 at 05:45
Administration officials have already begun the process of transferring certain functions to other agencies.

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Within an hour of the Supreme Court ruling on Monday, workers fired from the Education Department received an email informing them that their official last day would be Aug. 1.

Jamie Dimon Backs Jerome Powell Over Trump in Fed Fight

16 July 2025 at 02:37
The C.E.O. of JPMorgan Chase, who has rarely taken on President Trump during his second term, wades into the argument over the Federal Reserve chair.

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“Playing around with the Fed can often have adverse consequences — the absolute opposite of what you might be hoping for,” Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan bank, said Tuesday.
Yesterday — 15 July 2025Main stream

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws

15 July 2025 at 22:27
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.

© Jason Andrew for The New York Times

Justice Department veterans see an overarching pattern in the dismissals — a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work.

Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes

By: Eli Tan
15 July 2025 at 02:28
Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.

© Jason Andrew for The New York Times

Meta has made a $14.3 billion investment in the A.I. start-up Scale AI, which was founded and led by Alexandr Wang, center.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Zelensky Announces Plan for Major Government Shake-Up in Ukraine

14 July 2025 at 22:23
An announcement by the Ukrainian president that he will seek to replace the prime minister with a loyalist came as the country faces battlefield setbacks and a souring mood.

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Mr. Zelensky said on Facebook that he would nominate for prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko, a loyalist now serving as a first deputy prime minister.

Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down a University President

14 July 2025 at 20:48
The Jefferson Council had called for eliminating D.E.I., without much success. But a new lawyer with ties to the group took on the cause for the Trump administration.

© Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

For years, the Jefferson Council had criticized the university’s president, James E. Ryan, for his support of D.E.I.

Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down the U.Va. President

14 July 2025 at 17:00
The Jefferson Council had called for eliminating D.E.I., without much success. But a new lawyer with ties to the group took on the cause for the Trump administration.

© Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

For years, the Jefferson Council had criticized the university’s president, James E. Ryan, for his support of D.E.I.
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