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Federal Personnel 1 of 15

Agriculture Department sends new relocation notices to conservation employees despite a federal judge’s order barring “any other notice” of reassignment, Government Executive reports.

Rollins: “full-bore ahead” on reorganization

Source: Government Executive

October 29, 2026Details

Culture 2 of 15

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool reopens after months closed for the administration’s repaint, whose peeling Trump still blames on vandals though the vandalism charge was dropped.

Investigation blamed the restoration process

Source: WUSA Washington

October 29, 2026Details

Foreign Relations 3 of 15

Rubio signs memo diverting nearly $49 million Congress set aside for contraception in low-income countries to energy costs for unnamed partners.

Republican chair Collins opposes the shift

Source: The New York Times [gift link]

October 29, 2026Details

Grift 4 of 15

Health research agency director Jackson officially endorsed dropping hormone therapy’s black box warning while holding at least $115,000 in a menopause-care company she founded, ProPublica finds.

HHS puts her on administrative leave

Source: ProPublica

October 29, 2026Details

Foreign Relations 5 of 15

UN Ambassador Waltz says Rubio expelled a Cuban diplomat accused of shoving a US diplomat, after Cuban delegates confronted him onstage during his embargo speech.

Source: Newsweek

October 29, 2026Details

Grift 6 of 15

Trump tells allies his former lawyer Habba should give part of her $50 million deal with a pardon seeker’s family to his presidential library.

Trump pardoned him weeks into her contract

Source: The New York Times [gift link]

October 29, 2026Details

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