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Washington — The Trump administration on Monday urged a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s actions expanding access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. Justice Department lawyers wrote in a filing with the U.S. district court in Amarillo, Texas, that the three states pursuing the lawsuit — Missouri, Idaho and Kansas — should not be able to do so in that court. The administration is pursuing a request initially made by the Biden administration last year in the closely watched challenge to mifepristone, a drug used to terminate an early pregnancy, that has…

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The Department of Education says federal student loan borrowers who do not pay on time could damage their credit scores and even have their wages garnished beginning today, May 5 — causing challenges for some of the more than 5 million borrowers who are in default and struggling to get answers about their loans.”I don’t think anyone takes out a loan with the intention of not paying it back. It’s how easily you can pay it back, that’s the problem,” said Jana Heartwood, who owes more than $40,000 in student loans from her nursing degree.”We’re kind of drowning as it is,” she said.Two…

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Bering Straits Professional Services has won a potential five-year, $149 million contract for broad cybersecurity infrastructure and network operations support services to the federal government’s main human resources agency.The Office of Personnel Management is looking to further modernize its overall IT environment by leaning more heavily on cloud-based technologies and a zero trust approach to security.OPM awarded the so-called ECIOSS contract on New Year’s Eve and received 13 proposals in total, according to Federal Procurement Data System records. ECIOSS is the shorthand for Enterprise Cyber, Infrastructure, and Network Operations Support Services.ECIOSS is structured to be the agency’s focal point for cyber…

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Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services agency, saying the Trump administration’s massive restructuring has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health crises. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Rhode Island on Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James said. The attorneys general from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia signed onto the complaint.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. restructured…

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Patrick Everson FOX Sports Betting Analyst A week into April, the March Madness odds market finally settled up. Unfortunately, it was a rather unfulfilling finish, with the basketball literally bouncing on the floor as the clock ran out.It would’ve been nice to see Houston at least get off a shot. A game-winning 3-pointer. A 2-pointer that tied it, sending the game to overtime. A miss that cements the outcome.But alas, nothing, giving Florida a 65-63 victory and the national title.Let’s spin through a quick championship game recap, including oddsmakers’ reactions, how the bettors did, and a look at 2025-26 March…

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Palantir Technologies raised its annual sales forecast on Monday, although its inline profit and a modest revenue beat disappointed investors who were expecting more from the AI-focused data and analytics firm, driving its shares down 8 per cent in extended trading.The stock has been one of the biggest gainers of a rally in AI-linked shares, rising more than 60 per cent this year, as investors placed huge bets on its ability to benefit from widescale AI deployments and increased government spending on defense-related tech. “The only thing that’s higher than the results reported were expectations, and that’s why the stock…

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The National Institutes of Health has laid off hundreds more staff, multiple current and laid-off employees of the health agency told CBS News, including at its cancer research institute.Around 200 employees began receiving layoff notices Friday evening, said three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The move surprised NIH officials, since the department previously claimed no further cuts were planned at the agency. “We thought the worst was behind us, and we were transitioning into this new phase, and the rug was just pulled out from underneath us,” one laid-off employee said.A spokesperson for the NIH did not comment…

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National Security Advisor Michael Waltz looks at his phone as he prepares for a TV interview at the White House on May 01, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesAn encrypted messaging app that President Donald Trump’s then-national security advisor Mike Waltz used during a Cabinet meeting last week has temporarily suspended service after it was reportedly hacked.The hacker of TeleMessage, an Israel-founded app that acts as a modified version of Signal, has not obtained the messages of Waltz or the people he spoke to, according to 404 Media, which first reported the cyberattack Sunday. But the reported…

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