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Trump administration seeks to block independent review when federal workers are laid off
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5730400-trump-admin-strips-mspb-power/

How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…

Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

Bring it on!
Trump administration signals it is mulling NATO withdrawal after Iran war | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/8/trump-administration-says-it-is-mulling-nato-…

Trump administration signals it is mulling NATO withdrawal after Iran war
The US president has lashed out at European partners for declining to contribute military forces to the war on Iran.

VW-Tochter Moia und Uber testen autonome ID. Buzz in Los Angeles
VW-Tochter Moia und Uber testen autonome ID. Buzz in Los Angeles. Erste Fahrten sollen Ende 2026 angeboten werden.
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SIDN fonds en Digital Holland zoeken projecten die in de praktijk onderzoeken wat nodig is om digitale autonomie te versterken. We zijn daarbij op zoek naar aanvragen van consortia, die bestaan uit tenminste een kennisinstelling en een bedrijf. De voorkeur hebben projecten waarbij daarnaast een organisatie is betrokken waar de pilot wordt uitgevoerd.
De deadline om een projectvoorstel in te dienen is 23 februari 2026 om 13:00 uur.

Themacall: de transitie naar digitale autonomie | SIDN fonds
SIDN fonds en Digital Holland zoeken projecten die in de praktijk onderzoeken wat nodig is om digitale autonomie te versterken.

One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.
And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

Paris-based Qevlar AI, an agentic AI developer for security operations centers, raised $30M led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/09/qevlar-…

Exclusive: Qevlar AI raises $30M to help security operations
Its autonomous platform can investigate security alerts.

After Trump administration officials gave a closed-door briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday,
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on social media that the administration had “NO PLAN” for the Strait of Hormuz
and did “not know how to get it safely back open.”
Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war.
But they have been careful not to express that directly to the presiden…

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

More Immigrants Than Ever Are Challenging Detention
An analysis of habeas cases since 2009 shows that
immigrants have filed more challenges to their detention in the first 13 months of Trump’s second term
than in the last three administrations combined
— and the number keeps rising.
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court
from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal,
mor…

Immigrants Who Say Their Detention Is Illegal Have Filed More Than 18,000 Cases. It’s a Historic High.
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Trump’s first term.

An F.B.I. search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that
a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga.,
was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration
and relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.
The unsealing of the affidavit in Fulton County is likely to raise more questions
about the Trump administration’s use of the F.B.I. and Justice Department to revive old, largely di…

"Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated From Election Denier in Trump White House" #ELB
NYT: An F.B.I. search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga., was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration and relied heavily on claims about … Continue reading “Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated From Election Denier in Trump White House” →