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2. Each year, the SSA automatically issues millions of Social Security numbers and cards to non-citizens granted work authorizations as part of an agreement between the SSA and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 
2. Trump claimed during the campaign that the "Supreme Court just approved the abortion pill." While SCOTUS dismissed a case challenging the abortion pill's legality, it did so only for technical reasons. 
2. The memo, authored by Acting Deputy SSA Commissioner Doris Diaz, purports to be motivated by a desire to mitigate "fraud risks." 
2. The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker, which is currently updated to reflect the latest data posted by DOGE, finds that the actual verifiable savings is 8.6 billion — 92% less than the claimed savings of $105 billion. 
2. The Monday email instructs members of the CFPB supervision staff that they are not authorized to resume "supervision/examination activity, even though the Bureau is required by law to carry out these activities."
2. Coinbase tried to convince a federal judge to dismiss the suit, but the judge ruled against Coinbase in March 2024. Since then, the parties have been conducting discovery -- a process that was scheduled to be completed in August 2025. This has been a major ongoing legal problem for Coinbase.
2. A February 12 memo by two top NIH officials acknowledged that the TRO prohibited the agency from freezing funding over DEI. 
2. The ads, however, did not seem to violate that rule which prohibit advertisers from misleading "people into purchasing or sharing sensitive information," exaggerating "health-related benefits," and touting deceptive financial benefits.
2. Popular Information has obtained archived versions of most deleted publications. Almost all are not associated with DEIA topics but appear to have been targeted because they include a DEIA-related keyword used in a completely different context.
2. The surcharge occurred because one of Trump's executive orders froze a grant that assists low-income residents with their energy bills. 
2. The new policy to comply with the temporary restraining orders (TROs) was issued today, February 12. The first TRO, however, was issued on January 31. The NIH memo reveals that the agency has been in violation of these orders for almost two weeks.
2. An analysis of URL traffic to tesla.sexy between April 2021 and September 2021 shows that numerous noxious URLs redirected to Coristine’s site, including, “child-porn.store,” “nigga.rentals,” and “raping-women.club"
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.