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Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) plans a bill modelled on Australia's faster early-phase clinical trial regime, he said at the STAT Summit. He wants the US to answer China's biotech rise by speeding domestic research.
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NIH put $3.2 billion into basic cystic fibrosis research from 1985 to 2012, an essay in The Conversation reports. Its author warns that grant policies from the Office of Management and Budget could limit similar work.
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NCUA has proposed 26 stablecoin fields for the credit union Call Report, 17 of them on custody, with a first reporting date of March 31, 2027. Any credit union planning digital-dollar custody would have to report its reserve safekeeping and key control from that first quarter-end, as data examiners review offsite.
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SEC estimates its proposed crypto self-custody fallback will cost each adviser that uses it $433,833 a year, and assumes about 823 firms will. After the CLARITY Act's Senate failure, that price helps decide which advisers can hold newly launched tokens for clients.
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The order was never published, so the record is a sequence: Vought pushed it at a Friday meeting, the Senate Appropriations chair wrote against it on Tuesday, and by Wednesday one person familiar with the decision called it dead.
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OT Cybersecurity Coalition urges CISA to issue a binding directive requiring each federal agency to name an OT security owner and meet minimum practices. The push follows GAO's finding that most civilian agencies have not enacted OMB's 2023 IoT and OT requirements.
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White House order routes federal services with over 100,000 yearly users through America.gov, using Login.gov as the one sign-in. Agencies keep custody of their records, so what gets concentrated is one credential that reaches every connected service.
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President Trump's executive order requires online federal services with more than 100,000 users a year to integrate with the America.gov chatbot. It asks for that "as soon as possible", so the only dates on the table are the targets announced at Tuesday's launch.
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IRS has drafted a first-ever tax-return question on citizenship or work authorization, and about 5 million active ITIN users would have to answer it. A separate 'qualified alien' test would govern child and earned-income credit claims if OMB approves the draft form.
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President Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion Congress approved, including $28 million in HHS research grants, with five days left in the fiscal year. Congress's auditor calls the tactic illegal, and the Supreme Court's one ruling on it rested on foreign-affairs powers absent from domestic grants.
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The CFTC sent a crypto rulemaking to the White House the same day, both agencies working from authority they already hold. A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is arguing the states should keep theirs.
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STAT reports that John Gaitanis, newly installed as chair of the federal committee that helps steer roughly $2 billion in autism research, has financial ties to leucovorin. STAT does not say what form that interest takes.
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Mark Paoletta's June 2025 opinion, reviewed by Semafor, called the deal necessary to avoid an imminent threat to human life and government property. The Pentagon has since taken equity or warrants in at least 10 companies.
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The White House's two revised memos fold AI approvals into the IT accountability agencies already run and tell them to buy American AI, without saying in the fact sheet what makes AI American or high-impact.
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Trump signed the order at Johnson Space Center on Aug. 28, and what it actually creates is a study group with four months to work out who a NASA-run academy's graduates would serve and who would pay for them.
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The American Diabetes Association's chief executive says its independent reviewers found conduct, not content, behind the June 5 removals in New Orleans, and no call to city police. The report itself has not been published.
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Jose Linares held that agencies which inform executive branch policy count as the United States itself, so Apple can pull the security and purchasing records behind the government's own phone choices without a third-party burden test.
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The August 2026 Logging Reference Architecture is written for federal agencies, but two of its appendices test what most SOCs never verify: whether collected logs can reconstruct an incident.
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