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Matt Mullenweg to deactivate WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans

Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg said he would be deactivating the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, two of whom he says planned to spearhead a new fork of the open source WordPress project. Things soon escalated (read all about it here), with WP Engine filing a lawsuit after it was banned from accessing key WordPress resources, and then a court ordered WordPress to restore access.
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EV startup Canoo files for bankruptcy and ceases operations

Seven-year-old electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and will "cease operations immediately." The company is liquidating its assets in a Chapter 7 proceeding in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court. Canoo said in its bankruptcy filing (and the filings for its subsidiaries) that it owes money to hundreds of creditors and that it has more than $164 million in total liabilities.
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Duke makes do without Maliq Brown

Freshman Patrick Ngongba II played 18 and 14 minutes against Miami and Boston College last week, respectively, and transfer Mason Gillis slid into some reserve minutes at the 5-position — a means of keeping Cooper Flagg playing the 4-spot, at which he’s become the frontrunner for national player of the year. Of course, that’s all behind the continued development of Khaman Maluach; in the last three games, he has a combined 39 points on 16-for-20 shooting, 29 rebounds and three blocks.
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DOJ confirms arrested US Army soldier is linked to AT&T and Verizon hacks

U.S. prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of a serving U.S. Army soldier in December to a massive theft of U.S. phone records from AT&T and Verizon last year. Authorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius, a U.S. Army communications specialist, in Texas on December 20 following a brief two-page grand jury indictment accusing the U.S. serviceperson of two counts of unlawfully transferring confidential phone records. Wagenius was later extradited to Washington state.
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GOP member wants bishop ‘added to deportation list’ after Trump prayer service

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) heavily criticized statements made by the Right Rev. Mariann Budde on Tuesday at the inaugural prayer service held for President Trump. “The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list,” Collins wrote in a post on X with a clip of Budde’s comments. Collins’s statement comes after Trump’s…
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Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee

President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group. Trump's immigration policy changes drew the most attention at DHS, but he is also making changes at the rest of the massive agency. Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the dep
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Trump attends prayer service, gets an earful on immigrants and LGBT youth

President Donald Trump began his first full day in office attending a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday and got a sermon he may not have been expecting: an appeal to protect immigrants and respect gay rights. A day after declaring in his inauguration speech that there were only two genders in America and signing executive orders to crack down on immigrants, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde pleaded with Trump, from the pulpit, to show mercy on people who were "sc
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Trump says he would sanction Russia if Putin does not negotiate on Ukraine

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would likely impose sanctions on Russia if its president, Vladimir Putin, refuses to negotiate about ending the war in Ukraine. Trump gave no details on possible additional sanctions. The United States has already sanctioned Russia heavily for its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Bolton says Trump ended his Secret Service protection

President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said the president ended his Secret Service protection shortly after his return to the White House this week. “I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has decided to terminate the protection previously provided by the United States Secret Service,” Bolton said in an emailed statement…
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Russia warns Trump against seizing Panama Canal

Russia warned President Trump on Tuesday against seizing the Panama Canal, after he reiterated his intent to take control of the strategic waterway in his second inaugural address Monday. “We expect that during the expected discussions between the leadership of Panama and US President Donald Trump on issues of control over the Panama Canal, which…
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Trump targets opponents, faces criticism from cathedral pulpit

Donald Trump targeted opponents and touted a huge AI project Tuesday in a shock-and-awe start to his second presidency -- but faced defiance including a rare public dressing down from a bishop.Trump also faced fresh criticism from an unexpected and powerful voice Tuesday when a Washington bishop told him from the pulpit that he was sowing fear among America's immigrants and LGBTQ people.
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'You're fired!' Trump tells Biden appointees, who say they already quit

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he plans to remove over 1,000 of former President Joe Biden's appointees from their government positions, and that he had "fired" four individuals immediately, including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former top general Mark Milley. "YOU'RE FIRED!", Trump wrote in an early morning post on his Truth Social platform that named Milley, Andres, his former Iran envoy Brian Hook and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who Biden appointed to an export
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Trump Finds Crazy Excuse for Pardoning Violent Rioters

President Donald Trump on Tuesday found a way to defend pardoning thousands of convicted Jan. 6 rioters–some of whom violently attacked police officers–by arguing that they had already spent enough time behind bars. Trump took questions from reporters at the White House during a press conference, beginning with NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander, who first asked, “You would agree that it’s never acceptable to assault a police officer?“ That prompt elicited a ”sure" from Tru
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