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U.S. District Judge Deborah L Boardman has issued a preliminary injunction to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing large swathes of personal data from those agencies, finding doing so to be in violation of the Privacy Act.

She concludes her ruling: “Enacted 50 years ago, the Privacy Act protects from unauthorized disclosure the massive amounts of personal information that the federal government collects from large swaths of the public.

“Congress’s concern back then was that ‘every detail of our personal lives can be assembled instantly for use by a single bureaucrat or institution’ and that ‘a bureaucrat in Washington or Chicago or Los Angeles can use his organization’s computer facilities to assemble a complete dossier of all known information about an individual.’

“Those concerns are just as salient today. No matter how important or urgent the President’s DOGE agenda may be, federal agencies must execute it in accordance with the law. That likely did not happen in this case. The plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction is granted. A separate order follows.”

In case you missed this one earlier, the president has once more launched into an unprovoked spat with a major American celebrity as though 2017 never ended, even reviving a trademark putdown.

James Liddell has the details.

The Canadian comedy legend has appeared in a bizarre skit with new Prime Minister Mark Carney, who yesterday called a snap election, to reassure his compatriots about the future of their country.

The 63-year-old comedian, who recently left the U.S. and moved to Ireland in response to Trump’s return to the White House, has said there should be an investigation after she questioned how the Republican comfortably won every swing state in the 2024 election, claiming that one of his “best friends owns and runs the internet” in reference to Elon Musk.

O’Donnell, who has a long-running feud with Trump, raised her suspicions about the president’s resounding victory in November during an appearance on RTE’s The Late Late Show with Patrick Kielty.

Here’s more from Greg Evans.

Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon defended the dismantling of the Department of Education yesterday but pledged to work with others to reshape federal oversight of education.

“President Trump has said he will move things in accordance with the law and in cooperation with Congress,” the secretary told CNN’s Dana Bash on State of the Union.

“We will work with Congress, we will partner with Congress,” said the secretary. “We will find out where the law’s…”

Bash then interjected, noting that the Trump administration would have to “change the law” to reorganize or end programs overseen by the Department of Education.

“Not necessarily,” responded McMahon.

“We are going to look to see how we are governed [as an agency]. If we need to change the law, if we have to work with Congress, if Congress doesn’t agree, we’ll find out. We’ll find out.”

John Bowden has more.

Having previously blustered that he doesn’t care what judges think, Tom Homan struck a much more conciliatory tone yesterday, telling Jonathan Karl on ABC: “I understand this case is in litigation through the Alien Enemies Act, and we’ll abide by the court order as litigated.”

Trump has just posted a segment from this same interview on Truth Social, suggesting he endorses Homan’s rhetorical climbdown.

Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on Fox yesterday, Pam Bondi appeared to issue a warning to Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett over her criticism of the administration’s super-wealthy ally, bizarrely claimed that vandals targeting Tesla dealerships are deploying “weapons of mass destruction” and defended the deportation flights to El Salvador amid mounting hostility to the policy.

As talks over a ceasefire in Ukraine get underway in Saudi Arabia, the president’s top diplomat on the job has been full of praise for the Russian leader.

Witkoff – like Trump, a former real estate mogul – met with Putin in Moscow for a second time on Thursday for talks on ending the war.

Speaking to far-right commentator Tucker Carlson, the envoy said he “liked” the Russian president, who he described as “gracious”.

“I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy,” he added. “He’s super smart.”

Andy Gregory reports.

You know this is going to be good.

Here’s Ariana Baio on who the 47th president thinks conspired to murder the 35th, following last week’s huge document dump.

The GOP representative’s family announced her death on Sunday via her X account, saying she died peacefully at her home in Saratoga Springs, Utah.

Love, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, had been undergoing treatment for brain cancer, including immunotherapy as part of a clinical trial at Duke University.

Here’s her story.