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Senate Republicans are growing increasingly unnerved over President Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising decision to revoke government-funded security details for top former administration officials but reportedly haven’t agreed on how to transmit that message to the president.

That’s according to a new report in Politico, which highlighted the difficult task Republicans face in attempting to change Trump’s mind, especially with the lingering Iranian-backed threat still a reality for Trump critics Gen. Mark Milley and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.

by Harumi OZAWA

Hopes faded for a 74-year-old man in Japan whose truck was swallowed by a sinkhole as a difficult rescue operation entered its third night Thursday, with the chasm widening and locals urged to limit water use to aid efforts.

President Ferdinand Marcos said Thursday his government will remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if Beijing ends its "aggressive and coercive behavior" in the contested South China Sea and ceases claiming Filipino territory.

The US military deployed the Typhon missile system in the northern Philippines last year as part of an annual joint exercise, and Filipino troops have been training with it, with plans to acquire the system as a means to protect Manila's maritime interests.

A passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into Washington's Potomac River Wednesday after colliding midair with a military helicopter, with US media reporting multiple bodies pulled from the dark, near-freezing water.

A massive search and rescue operation was in progress, with divers visible in the glare of powerful lights as they plunged into the snow-lined Potomac to scour the wreckage of both aircraft.

An Iowa-licensed nurse accused of sexually assaulting multiple patients in Texas has agreed to surrender his license.

On Jan. 16, 2025, the Iowa Board of Nursing agreed to accept Caleb Greer’s voluntary surrender of his nursing license. Board documents indicate Greer was issued a warning and advised that he will not be able to apply for reinstatement for one year.

The confusion and chaos triggered earlier this week by the Trump administration's federal funding freeze were compounded Wednesday when the Office of Management and Budget issued a new memo rescinding the previous announcement.

Shortly after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that the OMB had rescinded only the memo—not the funding freeze—in an effort to "end any confusion created by" a federal court's injunction blocking the directive, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said one thing was clear.

The unglamorous but key federal office that sent out a mass "deferred resignation" offer to federal employees on Tuesday has reportedly been taken over by people with ties to Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a close confidant of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Citing unnamed sources, Wired reported Tuesday that "the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government—are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry." Musk reportedly visited OPM headquarters late last week.

The American Airlines regional jet that collided mid-air with a Blackhawk helicopter Wednesday night was at least partially submerged beneath the Potomac River, according to media reports.

A Washington D.C. law enforcement source “painted a really grim picture” of what they saw on the ground to CNN Wednesday night, telling a correspondent that “at least part of the plane is underwater."

Officials expressed condolences and asked for prayers late Wednesday after an American Airlines regional jet carrying about 60 passengers collided mid-air with a Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac River on Wednesday night.

“Please say a prayer for everyone involved in the mid-air collision near Reagan airport this evening,” Vice President J.D. Vance wrote on Truth Social. “We're monitoring the situation, but for now let's hope for the best.”

Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" task force has identified what it claims to be another source of government waste: "$45 million in DEI scholarships," referring to diversity, equity and inclusion, a loose constellation of diversity-training policies the GOP has sought to demonize.

Posting to social media, the official DOGE account boasted that this program had been canceled. However, it did not specify the actual program they just canceled, wrote former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) in a scathing thread posted to X on Wednesday evening.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green came out swinging against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with a string of attacks Wednesday night on CNN before erupting at one of the Health and Human Services nominee’s claims during his confirmation hearing earlier in the day.

Green, a physician, spent the beginning of his appearance on CNN blasting Kennedy’s “unbelievable” performance before the Senate Finance Committee, where he struggled to answer questions about Medicare and Medicaid.

A former White House lawyer unloaded on Donald Trump's pick for the FBI after joining about two dozen other GOP officials in urging Republican senators to oppose the controversial nominee.

Ty Cobb joined CNN's "OutFront" with Erin Burnett on Wednesday night to discuss Kash Patel, after he and other GOP officials blasted the nominee for "poor judgment" and "motivated by revenge."

Officials at the California Department of Education are standing defiant in response to the threat President Donald Trump may try to strongarm states into changing school curricula.

The order in question seeks to punish schools for lessons that involve race, gender, or politics. It requires the Secretary of Education to "provide a strategy to the President" to cut federal funding to schools that, in his words, use "indoctrination." It's part of a broader package of policies Trump directed on education, that also includes instructing the federal government to find ways to support school voucher programs and divert money to private or faith-based institutions.