Texas officials blamed the National Weather Service—hard-hit by Donald Trump’s cuts—for failing to warn of the catastrophic floods, but a review shows forecasters issued increasingly dire messages ahead of the disaster, CNN reports.

“The man President Donald Trump wants to put in charge of protecting whistleblowers – and rooting out government corruption – is a 30-year-old lawyer with barely a year of government experience and a history of racist invective, conspiratorial rants, and affinity for a well-known White nationalist

“A new presidential portrait sits in the Colorado Capitol, after one that had hung in the building for six years drew the ire of Donald Trump, who claimed that it ‘purposefully distorted’ his image,” the Washington Post reports. “The original portrait was swiftly removed, and this week a noticeably

“The House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas Tuesday to Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, demanding additional documents from the schools as part of an ongoing probe into alleged antitrust violations in Ivy League tuition and financial aid policies,” CNBC reports. “The two

“The Trump administration’s plan for mass layoffs at the State Department has left much of the workforce exasperated and embittered, tanking morale as extra demands were made to assist U.S. citizens seeking to flee the Middle East amid Israel’s war with Iran,” the Washington Post reports.