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Citigroup erroneously credited $81 trillion, instead of $280, to a customer's account and took hours to reverse the transaction, a "near miss" that shows up the bank's operational issues it has sought to fix, the Financial Times first reported. cnn.it/4hZfVud

India and the European Union agreed to conclude a free trade deal by the end of the year, their first commitment to a deadline on talks that have been going for years, as they look to soften the effect of tariff increases from the United States reut.rs/41iHlEj

‘Back injuries’ and ‘a tripping hazard’: New Orleans officials still resisting anti-ramming barriers after deadly vehicle attack

A judge forced a Mississippi newspaper to delete an editorial critical of the city government. The city later dropped the lawsuit, but the damage is done.

Sir Keir Starmer will be urged to block China’s plan to build a new “super embassy” in London when he meets President Trump on Thursday ⬇️

Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

Less than half of Americans polled approve of the president, with Elon Musk's ratings are even lower, amid a week of angry town halls.

Featured story: “The good private schools we’d all like to send our kids to already have waiting lists a mile long. No public school kid is going to St. John’s in Houston or St. Mark’s in Dallas with a voucher clutched in his or her little hand.”

More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship

⚡️Australia, New Zealand impose new sanctions against Russia. Australia has introduced the most extensive package of sanctions since the beginning of the all-out war, while New Zealand imposed restrictions on over 50 individuals and entities.

Exclusive: Almost nine out of 10 Japanese companies expect US President Donald Trump's policies to negatively affect business, a Reuters survey showed, the clearest sign yet of mounting worry in the United States' top foreign direct investor reut.rs/4b8NPtW

A US appeals court let stand an order blocking President Donald Trump from curtailing automatic birthright citizenship nationwide as part of the Republican's hardline crackdown on immigration and illegal border crossings reut.rs/3QqfJYM

South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order came from USAID to stop work reut.rs/41l2Qpe

Companies are demanding workers return to the office. Nobody knows what to do with their pets who only know the work-from-home era.

A Utah House committee gave the thumbs up to a bill that would criminalize attaching objects to political signs in yards or public spaces.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority responded Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks.

Donald Trump is apparently so comfortable letting Elon Musk run the country that he's taken a second job as a theatre impresario.

At the rally, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin took the bullhorn and called Trump’s decision “ to slam the door shut on refugees” a “ betrayal of America and our values," adding that "nobody slammed the door shut in the face of" the Trump family, Melania Trump or Elon Musk.

The Senate’s phones were receiving 1,600 calls each minute, compared with the usual 40 calls per minute.

An aircraft carrying ten people has crashed into sea ice off the coast of Alaska, killing everyone on board. The Bering Air Cessna Caravan plane was twelve miles off shore when it lost contact with air traffic control as it flew from Unalakleet to Nome on Thursday

A federal judge has restricted the Elon Musk-led government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system. The order, issued early Saturday, halts access temporarily and demands the destruction of any downloaded information, saying there is risk of “irreparable harm.”

Trump just fired the National Archives Director Colleen Shogan “This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited." 🔗 www.404media.co/trump-fires-...

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation on Friday that authorized $50 million in state funds intended to counter President Trump's agenda.

Letitia James of New York, joined by 18 other Democratic state attorneys general, said in a lawsuit that when President Trump gave Elon Musk the run of government computer systems, he breached protections enshrined in the Constitution and “failed to faithfully execute the laws enacted by Congress.”

A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.

Letitia James of New York and 11 other state attorneys general said that they would sue over a cost-cutting initiative that had given young aides to Elon Musk broad access to the federal government’s most fundamental computer systems.

NEW: President Donald Trump has given Elon Musk sweeping authority to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy and its operations around the globe. ProPublica confirmed the identities and roles of more than 20 key people affiliated with Musk.

NEW: Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

Trump tells the head of the Federal Election Commission that she's been fired, but she's refusing to leave office.

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

"You may be unfamiliar with that part of our history since you weren’t yet an American citizen."

NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.

Breaking News: Cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu, indicating that the virus may pose a more persistent risk to people than thought.

Our latest scoop: An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all work with 'foreign nationals.'

More than 30 artists, including Olivia Rodrigo, Rod Stewart, Dr. Dre and Joni Mitchell, performed at the benefit concert on Jan. 30.

President Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident.

The offer to federal workers to resign and keep pay and benefits is a "scam," says Randy Erwin of the National Federation of Federal Employees.

UPDATE: Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the “Riviera of the Middle East” under U.S. ownership.

Protesters gather to stop infamous video game cheater from gutting US Treasury aftermath.site/elon-musk-tr...

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

Just six words set the top Trump aide off.