Start your week smart: DOGE’s chaotic cuts, emergency summit, slowing the measles spread, Oscars preview, tariffs
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CNN’s 5 Things Sunday brings you all the news you need to start your week smart.
Do you remember Skype? The internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid-2000s is logging off for good in May. Microsoft bought the service 14 years ago for a whopping $8.5 billion in cash, but the ascendency of apps like FaceTime, WebEx and Zoom led to its eventual demise. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have been dominating the headlines in the first few weeks of President Donald Trump’s new administration — at times overshadowing the president himself. Just about every government agency is in the crosshairs for cutbacks, and the latest targets include the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Energy, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Supporters say the changes are long overdue, while critics say they’re being done recklessly and point out that Musk was neither elected by voters nor confirmed by the Senate. 1️⃣ Tracking the cuts: Thousands of federal workers have been placed on administrative leave, laid off or issued immediate termination notifications. CNN is keeping tabs on the chaotic and rapidly evolving situation.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday he is running for mayor of New York City.
A federal judge ruled Saturday that the head of a government watchdog agency whom President Donald Trump is attempting to fire is entitled to remain in the post, setting up a dispute that will almost certainly be decided by the Supreme Court.
Haiti’s then-Foreign Minister Dominique Dupuy condemned “brutal scenes of raids and deportations” amid the large-scale expulsion in October.
A Tennessee gynecologist was arrested Friday and accused of performing unnecessary procedures on patients with re-used medical devices held under unsanitary conditions.
President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a federal judge’s ruling in Seattle late Friday.
After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the opportunity to win his freedom after the US Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial, finding prosecutors failed to correct false testimony that may have influenced his jury.
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue.
With a new attorney and a series of arguments in court, Bryan Kohberger’s defense team has signaled its plan to challenge the prosecution’s DNA evidence at his coming death penalty trial.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward with his execution.
White House chefs were at work in the West Wing on Friday laying out plates of rosemary chicken, celery root puree and collard greens when the sound of raised voices began floating over from the Oval Office.
Federal employees at multiple government agencies are once again being told to report their work accomplishments over the past week to the Office of Personnel Management, according to a union source and several employees who received the Friday evening missives.
Here’s a timeline of some of the notable pre-trial hearings and decisions in the quadruple murder trial against Bryan Kohberger.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize after his meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office devolved into what Rubio described as a “fiasco,” while questioning whether the Ukrainian leader really wants peace in the country’s war with Russia.