Elon Musk
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among federal contractors and grant recipients. Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois halted the Labor Department from requiring federal…
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False claims about ballot manipulation spread across social media during the 2025 German elections, raising concerns about the fast impact of misinformation online and how internet users can better protect themselves. Recent global and geopolitical events have prompted an increasingly large avalanche of false narratives and fake news both in Europe and beyond. While the…
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A US senator who Elon Musk called a “traitor” for visiting Ukraine says he is ditching his Tesla. Democrat Mark Kelly, who has been a staunch supporter of Kyiv, said any peace deal “can’t be a giveaway to Putin” after his visit earlier this month. Musk, an unelected adviser to President Donald Trump, replied to…
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The U.S. Social Security Administration is considering dramatically curtailing the phone services that 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The agency, under pressure from the U.S. DOGE Service team, is considering a proposal to end telephone service for claims…
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Billionaire Elon Musk, who is advising President Donald Trump on plans to radically shrink the U.S. government, said on Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service and passenger railroad Amtrak should be privatized. “I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” Musk said at a Morgan Stanley conference. “I think we should…
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Billionaire Elon Musk arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday and learned about something new — budget rescission, an obscure legislative tool that could bring legal heft to his federal budget slashing effort and enshrine the cuts into law. Musk joined a lunch meeting with Republican senators just hours after the Supreme Court issued a setback to…
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The State Department told employees not to answer it. Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were told: Definitely reply. And in some parts of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, staffers received instructions to draft a response but not send it yet. After Elon Musk led a move to email all 2.3 million…
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Specific companies are already feeling the effects of cost cutting by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with the first wave of publicly available data showing a number of government consultants facing hundreds of millions of dollars in canceled or renegotiated contracts. They include some prominent names, such as Deloitte. The ended contracts for that multinational…
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President Donald Trump’s administration carried out mass firings Thursday and Friday across the federal government, affecting thousands of workers who had been on the job for less than two years. The terminations affected some of the most widely respected federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Homeland Security, as well as lower-profile offices…
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President Donald Trump’s top adviser, Elon Musk, on Wednesday called for “an immediate wave of judicial impeachments” after multiple judges blocked some of the administration’s recent moves. A judge this week issued a temporary order requiring the government to restore online data removed from the websites of U.S. health agencies in response to a lawsuit…
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Joined by Elon Musk in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that seeks to significantly reduce the size of the government by instructing heads of federal departments and agencies to undertake plans for “large-scale reductions in force.” Trump’s newest order directs the federal government to implement a “workforce optimization initiative” created by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency,…
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US President Donald Trump says he expects Elon Musk to find billions of dollars of fraud and abuse at the Pentagon during an audit that the billionaire will lead. “I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. … Then I’m going to go, go to the…
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The U.S. is in “deep trouble” fiscally but finally has someone to audit the government to “have accountability for the American people” and a president who is “actually doing what he said he’s going to do,” Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., said Friday. “We’re in deep trouble. I was kind of talking to my colleague and compare…
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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives, the latest tumult for government employees already wrestling with upheaval from the new administration. The ruling came hours before the midnight deadline to apply for the deferred resignation program, which was orchestrated by Trump adviser Elon Musk.…
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