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Hundreds of US government websites were offline on Monday, an AFP review showed, including that of the humanitarian agency USAID which President Donald Trump's administration is shutting down.

From a list of nearly 1,400 federal sites provided by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), more than 350 were unavailable on Monday afternoon.

Salvage crews on Monday recovered part of the fuselage of a passenger plane that plunged into the Potomac River last week after colliding with a US Army helicopter, killing 67 people.

A large crane assisted by a smaller one gingerly pulled the twisted wreckage of the Bombardier CRJ-700 operated by American Eagle airlines out of the water and placed it on a barge.

by Anne-Marie PROVOST

"What Donald Trump is doing to Canada, I find it completely disgusting," says Huguette Beaudoin.

by Issam AHMED

Here are the leading arguments that fuel both sides of this debate, as AFP reflects on the virus's impact five years after it reshaped the world.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has his sights on cutting off yet another federal program since seizing control of the Treasury Department's payment system: aid to faith-based organizations that engage in refugee resettlement.

But in going after these groups, he could ultimately blow up the U.S. health care system, Creighton University Law Professor Victoria Haneman wrote on Threads Monday.

A financial expert sounded the alarm over Elon Musk's scheme to control the flow of federal dollars.

The unelected tech billionaire shoved his allies into the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service and forced out its most senior non-political official, David Lebryk, in a dispute over the payment system, and economy writer Nathan Tankus published a column for Rolling Stone expressing abject terror of Musk's plans for his takeover.

Three employee unions that represent federal workers are suing to stop Elon Musk and his collection of non-government aides from accessing the personal information in the Treasury Department payment systems.

Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of Government Employees, and Service Employees International Union filed their lawsuit on Monday, said Politico legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace sounded the alarm about the legality — or lack thereof — of the staff of USAID being blocked from entering their offices on Monday.

Wallace announced the segment as "The Elon Musk Show."

One of Elon Musk's biggest cuts was to the team that helps run the easy filing system for the Internal Revenue Service. Although the "Direct File" program isn't mandatory, conservatives have criticized it as a program for the left.

The Treasury Department said on its website, "Direct File is a historic new IRS service that allows eligible taxpayers to prepare and file their tax return online, for free, including access to help from dedicated IRS Direct File customer support representatives."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is threatening that Democrats could leverage the government funding deadline of March 14 to stop Trump's Office of Management and Budget order that blocks funding from being released for key government programs.

In a new "Dear Colleague" letter revealed on Monday, Jeffries outlined the House Democratic strategy, which also targets tech billionaire Elon Musk's reported seizure of the Treasury Department's payment system, and with it the spending mechanism of the entire federal government.

Critics on social media laughed as news broke that President Donald Trump paused plans to levy severe tariffs on Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday afternoon that Trump agreed not to impose tariffs on his country for at least a month. In a statement, Trudeau said the proposed tariffs would "be paused for at least 30 days while we work together."

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's spending freeze, in what advocates cheered was a "big victory" for democracy and the rule of law.

A slate of judges issued pauses to Trump's executive order stopping all government funding. A federal judge on Monday denied an attempt to dismiss the restraining order and issued demands for information that must be released to the public.

Former CNN host Don Lemon upped his yearslong beef with Donald Trump with an insult-laced rant against the president throwing blame – without evidence – on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives for last week’s deadly air disaster over Washington D.C.

“Donald Trump by his definition of what DEI is – which he thinks is unqualified people – that’s not what it is right but by his definition he is a DEI hire,” Lemon said in a short video interview captured by TMZ. “Donald Trump is the most unqualified person to be President of the United States ever. He’s a nepo baby among other things that I could say but I’d rather not use those words.”