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Economists expect the war to have more of an impact on future jobs reports if the conflict continues.

A federal judge has halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren't considering race and admissions.

The ruling from U.S.

District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Boston on Friday

Granting the preliminary injunction follows a lawsuit filed last month by a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general.

It will only apply to public universities and plaintiffs.

The federal judge said the federal government likely has the authority to collect the data, but the demand was rolled out to universities in a rushed and chaotic manner.

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President Trump Friday issued a memo ordering that the remaining Department of Homeland Security employees be paid during a record-long partial government shutdown impacting the agency.

Trump's move comes with lawmakers deadlocked on how to end the shutdown.

Democrats are seeking changes to Trump's immigration enforcement policies, but congressional Republicans and the White House have balked at those demands.

The president's directive, which he announced earlier this week that he intended to sign, led House Republicans to abandon talk of cutting short a two-week Easter recess to try to end the impasse.

Ed Kalegi, Bloomberg Radio.

OpenAI has agreed to deploy its own artificial intelligence models within the Defense Department's classified network after rival Anthropic saw its relationship with the Pentagon implode over surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said late Friday that he'd reached an agreement with the department that reflects the firm's principles that prohibit domestic mass surveillance and require human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems.

Ed Kalegi, Bloomberg Radio.

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