News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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BREAKING: Trump announced he'll order the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to house up to 30,000 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally.
— Axios (@axios.com) January 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The White House has rescinded the federal aid freeze that sparked nationwide confusion, according to a memo from a Trump administration official obtained by CNN. cnn.it/3PXp2PU
— CNN (@cnn.com) January 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The Trump administration is offering severance pay to federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6. That's according to an email obtained by the News Hour, which says the offer would be worth nearly eight months of their salary.
— PBS News (@pbsnews.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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RFK Jr. is grilled about his views on vaccines during his confirmation hearing. The HHS nominee says he agrees with President Trump that "states should control abortion." Follow live updates.
— CNN (@cnn.com) January 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A nuclear power plant was among the targets of a massive Ukrainian drone attack against Russian oil and power facilities, Russian officials and media outlets reported reut.rs/4jCWqbY
— Reuters (@reuters.com) January 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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JUST IN: Federal Reserve officials held interest rates steady, the first to take place during the second Trump administration. That decision comes despite President Trump’s pressure on policymakers to drive rates lower.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) January 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Some Native American tribes say tribal members are being harassed by federal immigration agents, while others fear they could be wrongly caught up in immigration raids.
— Axios (@axios.com) January 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem canceled the latest Temporary Protected Status issued by former President Biden, which allowed eligible Venezuelans to stay legally and work through Oct. 2, 2026. They now will have TPS until September 10.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) January 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Breaking News: Federal prosecutors moved to drop their last efforts to prosecute President Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) January 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Ahead of an expected enforcement action in Aurora, Colorado, Buckley Space Force Base in that city is being readied to house people detained on immigration violation charges. via @coloradopublic.bsky.social
— NPR (@npr.org) January 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Defense secretary revokes Mark Milley's security detail and orders IG review www.nbcnews.com/politics/don…
— MSNBC (@msnbc.com) January 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Exclusive: Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters reut.rs/3WFljtY
— Reuters (@reuters.com) January 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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OpenAI said that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's open-source models may have "inappropriately" based its work on the output of OpenAI's models.
— Axios (@axios.com) January 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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