Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ran a failed 2024 presidential campaign built on crank beliefs about medical science before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, was confirmed today by Senate Republicans as the president’s secretary of Health and Human Services. The position will allow him to inflict untold damage on …
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Donald Trump’s new executive order, titled “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Workforce Optimization Initiative,” outlines exactly how Trump and Elon Musk plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and strip transitioning military veterans and their families overseas of the generous federal hiring incentives they …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have spent the past three weeks systematically dismantling the federal government. They’ve done so under the guise of cutting waste and rooting out fraud, but the exercise has played out more like a mind-blowingly reckless publicity stunt rather than anything concerned with actually making the …
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In an Oval Office press conference today, President Trump touted the supposed cost-cutting efforts of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by his oligarch megadonor Elon Musk. He also ominously warned that specific judges who rule against efforts by DOGE to gut federal agencies and freeze their funds …
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As part of his second administration, Donald Trump is quickly ramping up to a potential firing spree at the FBI, as vengeance for the multiple federal criminal investigations into him, his associates, and violent supporters. But even before he and his incoming FBI chief get a chance to cull those …
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Tulsi Gabbard — the one-time Democratic representative turned Fox News pundit and Trump loyalist — is the latest of the president’s Cabinet picks to clear the confirmation process despite a lack of qualifications and uniquely troubling views. Gabbard will serve as his Director of National Intelligence, a position in which …
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The Trump and Musk administration is continuing its vandalism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the federal agency that has returned more than $20 billion to Americans who have been scammed and cheated by financial firms, ranging from payday lenders to big banks. On Tuesday night, the administration began …
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As Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues its punitive onslaught against government agencies in what he claims is an effort to reduce wasteful spending, his own companies continue to enjoy lucrative federal contracts. Tesla and SpaceX have been awarded some $230 million worth in contracts so far …
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Give Eric Adams some credit: He put his back into this one. Once the mayor of New York was indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges, the man and his legal team worked overtime to get President Donald Trump to somehow overturn the case. Adams was indicted in late September for …
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The circling drones buzz overhead as explosions echo. Bursts of gunfire between Israeli soldiers and fighters from the Palestinian refugee camp ring out. Israeli military jeeps patrol bulldozed roads outside the government hospital. Displaced camp resident, 29 year-old Noureddine Jarbou, sits in the courtyard watching the unending Israeli assault, his …
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