The Trump administration gutted federal health agencies on Tuesday morning, as thousands of employees received layoff notices, following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement last week he was planning to lay off nearly 10,000 workers. More than 7,000 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and …
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A New York Judge has dismissed the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with prejudice — meaning the government will not be able to resubmit charges against the embattled mayor who allied himself with the Trump administration following his indictment last year. On Wednesday, Manhattan Federal District …
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Donald Trump is set to impose a sweeping tariffs package today that everyone from economists to Republican lawmakers to even Trump himself has acknowledged will make life harder for working Americans. The president doesn’t seem too bothered. “I couldn’t care less,” he said over the weekend, when asked about his …
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Elon Musk is posting through it. Since polls closed in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, he’s posted about genetically-engineered cat girls, humanoid robots, and Tesla sales, along with multiple AI-generated images of himself and CIA Director John Ratliff. He has not posted at all about the person he spent the last …
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Donald Trump has dropped a tariff hammer on America’s trading partners, announcing a sprawling set of import taxes that are expected to significantly raise prices for U.S. consumers. The president and his allies heralded April 2 as a historic “Liberation Day” for the United States. “I will sign a historic …
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They have been virtually inseparable since the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign, but their closeness has precipitated a question that looms over the relationship: when will Donald Trump and Elon Musk part ways? Two men famed for their egos, temperamental attitudes, spotlight-hogging, and lust for unlimited power surely can’t …
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I remember returning from serving in support of the Iraq War, while my ship was undergoing a maintenance period, and seeing news of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal breaking on CNN. The scandal was the worst thing to happen to the U.S. Army since the Vietnam War. Sitting on my …
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The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege. Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for …
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Following weeks of mass purges of employees across federal agencies led by Trump officials and Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is next on the chopping block, with some 10,000 workers set for dismissal. The cuts will see medical researchers, …
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If Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has its way, a 28-year-old college dropout guided by the right-wing libertarian ideologies of figures including Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel and Argentine president Javier Milei will oversee the dismantling of a Washington nonprofit that promotes peace worldwide. Following a February …
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