Corny NFTs and scammy meme coins apparently aren’t enough to scratch the Trump family’s crypto itch. According to a Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal, World Liberty Financial (WLF), the Trump family’s fledgling crypto venture, has explored taking a financial stake in the disgraced cryptocurrency exchange Binance. If it …
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A federal judge has ruled that tens of thousands of employees summarily fired by the Trump administration must be rehired — that is if they even want to return to their jobs. On Thursday, District Court for the Northern District of California Judge William Alsup ruled that the federal government …
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Republicans are playing a game of chicken with Democrats over funding the government. And you’ll never believe who looks like they’re ready to capitulate. Government funding is due to run out Friday at midnight, which will spark a partial government shutdown absent the passage of a new stop-gap spending bill, …
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Soulja Boy, the Grammy-nominated rapper, appeared in a California courtroom Thursday for the first day of his civil trial involving allegations he beat and raped a woman while she was working as his personal assistant for nearly two years, ending in late 2020. The “Crank That” artist, whose real name …
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Rosie O’Donnell is no longer living in the U.S. The actor and comedian posted a nine-minute video on TikTok sharing that she relocated to Ireland shortly before Donald Trump took office for the second time. “I moved here on Jan. 15 and it’s been pretty wonderful,” the comedian revealed in …
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As oligarch Elon Musk continues to bulldoze entire sectors of the federal government via his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the backlash has taken a toll on automaker Tesla, which counts him as both CEO and de facto head of marketing. Protesters have targeted the business while denouncing Musk’s …
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Last month, a federal judge issued an injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing multiple executive orders designed to purge the government of anything related to diversity — including an order to prohibit contractors and grant recipients from doing literally anything to promote the concepts of diversity, equity, and …
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Tesla stock took a beating on Monday, plummeting more than 15 percent in its worst single-day performance in years, a sell-off precipitated by both a market downturn and a rising tide of resentment over CEO Elon Musk‘s gleeful destruction of federal government agencies. But Donald Trump is looking out for …
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The Trump administration is scrambling to find a legal justification for what legal experts and advocates say is a clear cut violation of arrested pro-Palestine protester Mahmoud Khalil’s First Amendment rights. On Saturday, Department of Homeland Security agents followed Khalil — a graduate of Columbia University who helped organize pro-Gaza …
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the head of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wants massive cuts to America’s core safety-net programs. “Reports don’t mean anything, you’ve got to actually take action,” Musk said in an interview today on Fox Business Network, explaining that his goal …
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