Not sure why MS NOW is covering the Mamdani inauguration live and talking over it. And now showing us barriers and a CVS while a man is speaking. They could talk about people coming from other states after the event.

X seems to be almost completely unusable for me atm. Can’t post anything new, user lookup and share not functioning. Anyone else?

Reuters Live Page on #TrumpTariffs: *How to spot a recession *Trump extends TikTok deadline and a hand to China *Hank Aaron, Hank Hill & Tom Hanks *This is Wall Street's largest evaporation of shareholder value, ever @reuters.com Noel Randewich finds: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The US Food and Drug Administration is suspending efforts to improve its bird flu testing of milk, cheese and pet food due to massive staff cuts at the agency, according to an email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation reut.rs/3FRDy9P

Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources - www.reuters.com/business/us-...

White House is slashing the tax police IRS fires 6,000 employees as Trump slashes government - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Civil rights, housing and AIDS prevention groups sued US President Donald Trump, saying their federal funding is in jeopardy because of his executive orders concerning diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility reut.rs/4b5Ykye

Today on Reuters LIVE: FACT CHECK: Does Zelensky have a 4% approval rating? Latest video of Zelensky on Trump Trump polling EU sanctions Some GOP angst www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...?

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have mounted a sweeping campaign to slash the size of the 2.3 million-strong federal workforce, firing at least 9,500 employees in an unprecedented effort that shows no sign of slowing. Here are details on some of the layoffs reut.rs/4gKe6Qj

A US federal prosecutor agreed to file a motion to dismiss the criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, to spare other career staff from potentially being fired for refusing to do so, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters reut.rs/3CSKiTM

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine critic who endorsed Donald Trump after abandoning his own presidential bid, is inching closer to becoming US secretary of Health and Human Services with the Senate due to vote on his confirmation. Read the full story reut.rs/3CKngi1 1/4

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

Semafor is doing a “Restoring trust in news” event w Brendan Carr, who is single handedly trying to dismantle free speech and censor news organizations, and who is currently threatening a news radio station for reporting the news too specifically www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/n...

US President Donald Trump has promised a swift end to the Ukraine war but with talks about to begin the author of 'The Art of the Deal' may have already complicated his task by sacrificing leverage reut.rs/4aU8WQJ 1/7

BREAKING: A car has driven into a group of people in the German city of Munich, leaving several people injured, police said. Officers are working to verify what has happened, a spokesperson said reut.rs/3CKgcC1

X seems to be blocking this full thread by @muellershewrote.bsky.social x.com/muellershewr...

President Donald Trump said he will introduce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States, on top of existing metals duties. Here's a summary of the major trade partners it will affect reut.rs/40UeXYK

The Kremlin said it could neither confirm nor deny whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin had spoken to US President Donald Trump by phone about finding a way to stop the war in Ukraine reut.rs/3QfEc2M

The UN World Food Programme was ordered by Washington to stop work on dozens of US-funded grants, according to an email seen by Reuters, that was sent five days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver for emergency food assistance reut.rs/4aWKpdF

"I thought we voted for America first" Trump Gaza plan divides his party www.reuters.com/world/us/i-t...

NEW: State Dept. under Rubio has fired about 60 contractors who work on democracy and human rights programs. The contractors are mainly tech and area experts who are critical for programs on China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Also notable @stephanienolen.bsky.social is doing the work in the comment section; engaging with readers who don’t understand or are misinformed, patiently explaining and sharing other info, even as many journos have tuned out comments b/c they’re so riddled with insults and opinions seem fixed.

This is a searing look at the on the ground impacts of the abrupt US AID shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Governor Tim Walz made Black History Month a state proclamation to protect it.

"All CEOs are bewildered by these non-strategic tariff tantrums being directed at our closest allies instead of adversaries," said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor at Yale School of Management in New Haven, Conn. ✍️ @sidcavale.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/nor...

NEW - Ottawa Senators fans booed the American national anthem at the beginning of tonight’s hockey game.

Health programs shutter around the world after Trump pauses foreign aid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

This is a hostile takeover of the U.S. Government.

As Musk appears to take greater control of US federal government, it’s worth taking a look back at grave management issues in his own businesses. Here’s our 2023 series www.reuters.com/investigates...

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus... @heathertimmons.bsky.social @reuters.com

ok but how am i supposed to fall asleep without watching one or two hundred 20 second videos

See Pacific Palisades before and after the devastating Los Angeles fires - www.reuters.com/world/us/see...

President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, chef Jose Andres, actor Michael J. Fox, conservationist Jane Goodall and investor and philanthropist George Soros reut.rs/4gFzOWv

The Biden administration notified Congress of a proposed $8 billion arms sale to Israel, with Washington maintaining support for its ally whose war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands reut.rs/4h5qlI5

Biden administration has set a new US target under the Paris climate agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 61%-66% below 2005 levels by 2035, a goal officials called achievable even if Trump follows through on vows to reverse federal policies reut.rs/3P1idfJ

Trump transition team calls car crash reporting requirement "excessive" data collection, recommends scrapping it www.reuters.com/business/aut...

President-elect Donald Trump is planning a blizzard of more than 25 executive orders and directives on his first day in office, as he seeks to dramatically reshape US policy on issues from immigration to energy reut.rs/4gbE93y

No, the Obama magic isn't gone - but it is time for the Democratic Party to find new leaders, Democrats & poltical strategist tell @jeffmason1.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/oba...

Scared to stay in Mexico, afraid of Trump's policies, some migrants look to return home - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Planned obsolescence: 🎄 lights edition - every strand of Christmas lights I bought over the past three years has to be thrown out because of wiring problems. (My father-in-law has been replacing bulbs on the same strand of Christmas lights for 50 years )

Some scathing critique of the Harris campaign after their @podsaveamerica.bsky.social explainer on what went wrong www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYULR2qX/

By naming his daughter's father-in-law Boulos as a Middle East adviser, Trump has tapped a man who has achieved a rare feat, Lebanon sources tell @reuters.com - he has maintained relations with both pro- and anti- Hezbollah factions www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The Trump team’s ethics pledge has two notable holes -no curbs on stock individual stock buying and selling for the transition team -no pledge by Trump personally around ethics and assets

Trump’s transition team has posted an ethics pledge, which is great news, watchdogs say. But there’s a few omissions

How the Trump transition ethics pledge differs from recent norms - www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

Nearly half of the US’s 2 million farm workers don’t have legal status

US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...