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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has instituted what it described as a temporary media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants. Emails sent to EPA staff since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday and reviewed by The Associated Press detailed specific prohibitions banning press releases,…
Company also agrees to implement anti-fraud program and enhanced compliance obligations in agreements with federal authorities The Western Union Company (Western Union), a global money services business headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, has agreed to forfeit $586 million and enter into agreements with the Federal Trade Commission, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices…
Market Intern BuzzFeed’s shopping vertical needs an editorial intern for a full-time paid position in the New York office, available to start immediately. You’ll be tasked with writing posts about current and upcoming online sales and deals in a variety of categories. The ideal candidate has a strong social media presence, especially on Pinterest, Instagram,…
You Are Not Equal. I’m Sorry. A post is making rounds on social media, in response to the Women’s March on Saturday, January 21, 2017. It starts with “I am not a “disgrace to women” because I don’t support the women’s march. I do not feel I am a “second class citizen” because I am a…
This morning I got a notification from my Politico news app that told me what I quietly prayed wouldn’t happen: President Trump froze federal hiring. My blood boiled and I went silent to the people around me. My career plan, my humble job that I wanted for years, my job that I’d sent in several…
Getty Images A journalism professor raises some excellent points. It’s damn near impossible to turn on a cable-news show and not see Kellyanne Conway sitting there, doing verbal parkour to try to explain how whatever awful thing Donald Trump (or his press secretary) just did was actually neither offensive nor terrifying, and really, it’s all…
YouTube Richard Spencer told followers on Friday that he and fellow white supremacists might need their own protection force, after the ‘alt-right’ founder got punched in the face during an anti-Trump protest. If law enforcement can’t protect us from antifa assaults we will begin protecting ourselves.— Richard 🐸 Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) January 21, 2017 Spencer did…
On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with “Mirai,” a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices like wireless routers and security cameras into a botnet for use in large cyberattacks. Roughly a week after that assault, the individual(s) who launched…
On Jan. 20, 2017, President Trump took the oath of office, pledging in his inaugural address to embark on a strategy of “America first.” Here are key moments from that speech. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) President Trump has officially declared the day of his inauguration a national day of patriotism. Trump’s inaugural address on Friday frequently…
President Donald Trump gestures after getting out of his car in front of the White House on Friday.Mark Wilson/Getty Images Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a day after it was posted online, the petition calling on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns has garnered more than 158,700 signatures—more than enough…