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Trump’s Declaration Allows Musk’s Efficiency Team to Skirt Open Records Laws (Gift Article) Government watchdog groups say they will challenge the Trump administration’s decision to put the initiative under the Presidential Records Act, which shields its work from public disclosure.

The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

Sparkle Rai’s killer moved off death row, resentenced to life plus 25 Cleveland Clark, convicted in the 2009 Union City contract killing of Sparkle Rai, has had his death sentence commuted to life in prison in Georgia.

The hitman convicted of killing Sparkle Reid Rai while she was home with her baby 25 years ago has been resentenced to life in prison and moved off Georgia's death row. Story by my @ajc.com colleague Jozsef Papp and me www.ajc.com/news/crime/s...

How Georgia left intellectually challenged men forgotten on death row for decades Two men on Georgia's death row saw their appeals — started in the 1990s — languish for decades.

New story by my @ajc.com colleague Jozsef Papp-Chang and me:
Georgia left intellectually challenged men forgotten on death row for decades

www.ajc.com/news/investi...

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Less than 220K Holocaust survivors remain on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation Rising antisemitism and misinformation around the world threatens to erase their stories.

The number of Holocaust survivors globally has shrunk to 220,000 on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, according to a new estimate www.axios.com/2025/01/27/h...

Holocaust survivor Stanislaw Zalewski wearing a striped hat and scarf carrying a candle during commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army. Photo credit: Wojtek Radwanski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Dozens of world leaders joined a dwindling group of Nazi death camp survivors on Monday in Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered. nyti.ms/42wHSom

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