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1. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ordered to Cease Activity  The New York Times
2. Trump fires Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau  CBS News
3. Bessent Gives Musk a Present, Stalling CFPB Oversight of Big Tech  The American Prospect
4. Vought Expands CFPB Work Freeze, Cancels Next Fed Funding Draw  Bloomberg Law

1. Baltic states unplug from Russia and join EU power grid  BBC.com
2. Baltics Unplug From Russian Grid to Gain Energy Independence  Bloomberg
3. End of Russian ‘blackmail’ as three Baltic nations cut power links  ABC News
4. Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties  Reuters
5. Baltic states leave Russian power grid in closer EU integration  The Guardian

1. 85% of Americans Willing to Raise Taxes to Save Social Security, Survey Shows  AOL
2. These Are the 6 Social Security Changes Americans Want to See  AOL
3. Three Ways to Plan Now for a Social Security Shortfall Later  Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
4. Social Security funding crisis looms as baby boomers retire  USA TODAY
5. Prediction: President Donald Trump Is Going to Break His Social Security Promise — and It’s Absolutely the Right Decision  Nasdaq

1. Trump says he’s talked with Putin about ending Ukraine war  Axios
2. Trump says US is making progress with Russia, declines to discuss talks with Putin  Reuters
3. US officials are bound for Europe for top-level talks on Ukraine  The Associated Press
4. US updates: Trump says he’s spoken with Putin about Ukraine  DW (English)

1. Trump Opens Door for New Nippon Steel Deal to Move Forward  The Wall Street Journal
2. Trump Says Nippon Steel Will Make Major Investment in U.S. Steel  The New York Times
3. Trump says Nippon Steel will ‘invest heavily’ in US Steel, drop takeover bid  BBC.com
4. U.S. Steel Stock Drops. Trump Is Altering the Deal With Nippon.  Barron’s
5. Trump says Japan’s Nippon Steel will invest in US Steel, not buy it  Reuters

1. Searchers in Alaska scour frozen tundra and icy seas for missing plane with 10 aboard  The Associated Press
2. Search intensifies for Alaska flight that disappeared carrying 10 people near Nome. Here’s what we know.  Yahoo! Voices
3. Aviation expert on what should give searchers hope amid missing Alaska flight  CNN
4. Large search underway for missing plane with 10 onboard near Nome  Alaska’s News Source
5. Search underway for overdue passenger flight bound for Nome with 10 aboard  Knom

1. Bessent Misled Congress About DOGE Access, Senate Democrat Says  Bloomberg
2. Why privacy laws are the tip of the legal spear against Musk and Trump  CNN
3. 13 states to sue over DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data  The Associated Press
4. Sen. Jon Ossoff says Elon Musk’s access to personal data is national security risk  FOX 5 Atlanta

One UI 7 Game Booster has extra frame rate options for mobile gamers  SamMobile – Samsung news

1. Member of Musk’s Doge resigns after reports of racist posts  BBC.com
2. Vance tells Musk that DOGE staffer who resigned after posting racist tweets should be rehired  CNBC
3. Musk Says He’ll Rehire DOGE’s Marko Elez After Racist Posts: Here’s What To Know About Agency  Forbes
4. Exclusive | DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts  The Wall Street Journal
5. Staffer with Elon Musk’s DOGE amplified white supremacists online  Reuters

1. Hamas names next hostages to be released  BBC.com
2. Hamas Names 3 Hostages to Be Released in Next Cease-Fire Exchange  The New York Times
3. Hamas names more captives to be freed but says Israel violating truce  Al Jazeera English
4. Hamas, After a Delay, Names the Next Israeli Hostages to Be Freed  The Wall Street Journal
5. Israel confirms list of hostages for release on Saturday, Trump admin. gives Lebanon redline  The Jerusalem Post