As Elon Musk departs the Trump White House — at least officially — a new Senate report examines how the world’s richest man leveraged his access to the levers of federal power to boost his myriad personal businesses, including his electric vehicle company Tesla, aerospace contractor SpaceX, social media platform …
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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has sued acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba, alleging that his arrest during a May visit to an ICE detention center in his city was politically motivated. Baraka was arrested on May 9 outside of the Delaney Hall ICE facility in …
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Every year, scores of aspiring government employees have their applications for security clearances denied because they smoke weed recreationally. Every D.C. resident has a government or government-adjacent friend who won’t touch a poppy seed bagel lest they be subject to a randomized drug test. It’s a sacrifice plenty of federal …
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President Donald Trump’s assault on the LGBTQ+ community will continue through Pride month. According to a Tuesday report from Military.com, the U.S. Navy is preparing to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy support ship christened in honor of the assassinated gay rights icon. The report was confirmed by CBS …
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Elon Musk is no longer an official member of Donald Trump’s administration, and he’s making his true feelings known about the president’s “big, beautiful” bil. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” he wrote Tuesday on X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. …
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It was like a scene from one of the futuristic techno-thrillers that fill the shelves of airport bookstores. On Sunday, swarms of nimble quadcopter drones carrying explosives took flight from concealed launchpads built into the roofs of cargo containers being transported by commercial trucks deep inside Russia. Their target was …
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As President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” heads to the Senate, Republicans are trying their hardest to sell voters on the prospect of deep cuts to Medicaid and other social safety net programs in order to fund tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. The process has involved plenty of bold-faced lying …
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Following a horrific attack against Boulder, Colorado, protesters calling for the release of Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas, President Donald Trump is blaming the alleged act of terrorism on the immigration policies of the Biden administration. “Yesterday’s horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the United …
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If his posts on his social media site, X, are any indication, Elon Musk is letting a New York Times report that he’s taken so much ketamine he can’t pee right get to him. “To be clear, I am NOT taking drugs!” Musk wrote on Saturday. “The New York Times …
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Donald Trump reposted a baseless conspiracy theory claiming Joe Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced with a robot clone. The president shared a post from a user on Truth Social late Saturday that alleged: “There is no #JoeBiden – executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless …
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