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FILE PHOTO: Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Russell Vought testifies before House Budget Committee on 2020 Budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2019. Yuri Gripas | ReutersA federal judge on Friday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s leadership, appointed by President Donald Trump, to halt its campaign to dismantle the agency.In a filing, Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with the CFPB employee union that sued acting director Russell Vought last month to prevent him from laying off nearly all the regulator’s staff. Operatives from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have also been involved in…

One of the world’s most important art museums has selected a new leader from within.The Museum of Modern Art announced to its staff on Friday morning that its next director will be Christophe Cherix, 55, a quiet curatorial strategist behind some of the institution’s most critically praised exhibitions. In September, he will take over the leadership position from Glenn Lowry, who has guided the New York museum for almost 30 years.It will be Cherix’s first time leading an institution. The museum — which has a sister institution, MoMA PS1, in Queens — is one of the biggest in the art…

Pablo Alboran, ‘Clickbait’The Spanish pop songwriter Pablo Alboran usually deals in romance. But “Clickbait” confronts a different class of relationships: the parasocial ones online. “Many say they know me, but they have no idea who I am,” he complains in Spanish, with an Auto-Tuned edge. In Spanglish, he continues, “Flash flash, mucho clickbait, mucho fake.” It’s a choppy track that jump-cuts between a minor-chorded ballad and pounding drums, then unites them. Alboran sings about people with “poison in their hearts,” and he’s willing to break character to fight back.Since its formation in 1990, the Chicago instrumental band Tortoise has been…

CBS Reports – City Under Surveillance – CBS News Watch CBS News The Detroit Police Department is using facial recognition technology and a network of surveillance cameras to combat the city’s high crime rates. But critics say the technology has racial bias built into it and has even landed innocent people behind bars. In this documentary, CBS Reports explores the debate over high-tech policing that promises to make our communities safer yet at the same time threatens our civil liberties. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Fetal duck eggs, or Hot Vit Lon, are a common street food in Vietnam. Josh Geracitano and Pham Thi Quynh Nhu are content creators living in Ho Chi Minh City, and the couple shared their favorite stall in the southern metropolis with CNBC Travel’s Downtime.Many people may squirm at the sight of fetal duck eggs, but in Vietnam, it is a common street food known as “hot vit lon.”It is also a favorite of content creator Josh Geracitano, who goes by the name “Dũng Gee” online. Josh and his wife, Pham Thi Quynh Nhu, also known as Vy Pham, have accrued…

Washington — President Trump announced Friday that the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom agreed to provide more than $100 million in pro bono work for initiatives backed by his administration.The agreement makes Skadden Arps the second major firm to reach a deal with Mr. Trump amid a recent blitz of executive orders targeting law firms that have employed his purported political opponents. The orders issued by the president have focused on the firms Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, known as WilmerHale.All three of those firms have filed federal lawsuits challenging…

A federal appeals court on Friday allowed Elon Musk and his team of analysts to resume their work in helping to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, clearing the way for them to continue while the government appeals the earlier ruling.The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit came as the Trump administration was taking its final steps to effectively eliminate the agency after steadily chipping away at its staff and grant programs for weeks.The appeals court panel said that whatever influence Mr. Musk and his team in the so-called Department…

Search and rescue groups are warning motorists about the 201 Forest Service Road between Penticton, B.C., and Kelowna after crews responded to a high number of calls this year. The 201 FSR connects Penticton to Kelowna over 100 km of dirt road, offering adventure but leaving some stranded.“We’ve had at least six calls out to the 201 alone this year, along with other forest service roads,” says Jesse MacDonalds, Penticton Search and Rescue (PENSAR) team leader.The surge in rescues is attributed to a combination of factors, including unexpected conditions along the route.In fact, Penticton Search and Rescue received its highest…

Cameron Percy has put the disappointment of back-to-back bogeys behind him to jointly lead the Galleri Classic with German great Bernhard Langer.The Australian shot a five-under 67 to tie Langer and lead by one in a crowded leaderboard at Rancho Mirage in California.Percy was going along merrily at six-under with birdies on the second, fourth, ninth, 10th, 11th and 14th holes when he came unstuck.He made bogey on the par-four 16th to drop back to five under before slipping up again on the next hole, where he gave up another stroke.But the Victorian regrouped, and with a slice of luck,…

ANDONG, South Korea: Kim Dal-geun has lived in Andong for the past decade with his wife, enjoying the rich culture and folk traditions that the city has to offer. But on Tuesday (Mar 25), the couple was forced to flee with just the clothes on their backs. They had been ordered to evacuate when South Korea’s worst wildfires on record – which have ravaged much of North Geyeongsang province in the southeast since last week – tore through their city, which is now one of the hardest-hit areas. The fires began in central Uiseong county and have killed at least…