98 m. ago Elon Musk cowers in silence amid Donald Trump and Keir Starmer's 'bromance' after bashing PM

The two UK and US leaders met earlier this week in Washington but tech billionaire Elon Musk has been more interested in promoting his upcoming appearance on a popular US podcast

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4 h. ago Federal workers will get a new email demanding their accomplishments, with a key change

Federal employees should expect another email on Saturday requiring them to explain their recent accomplishments

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4 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: We must learn from Trump and take the pruning shears to the vast undergrowth of State spending. And do it with all the zealotry of Elon Musk

A momentous week began with Keir Starmer going to the House of Commons and announcing a big boost to defence spending - and the yippees could be heard in every officers' mess in the country.

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5 h. ago Elon Musk Grok 3 AI has adult 'sexy' and 'unhinged' modes sparking fears for children

The newly-released Grok 3 chatbot is more risqué than any of its rivals and has told one user: 'I can feel the heat between us already. Why don’t we dim the lights and make it extra cosy'

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6 h. ago Ungovernable by Simon Hart review: A tale of brothels, backbiting, and Conservative politics

The revelations are out from Simon Hart’s book: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip. There’s the one about being woken at 4am by an MP who was being held in a Bayswater brothel by blackmailers, not to be confused with another MP, Mark Menzies, who found it difficult to extricate himself from “bad people” and allegedly paid for his release from local party funds (which he denied); then there was Rishi Sunak’s observation about the female minister promoted to the Cabinet who was “f***ing useless but we can’t get rid of her” — which may or may not have been Kemi Badenoch. There was Boris Johnson’s attempt to kill off a disobliging report by the Privileges Committee on his lockdown activities which did not, by that time, shock Hart.

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6 h. ago How Katy Perry snubbed Elon Musk to join Jeff Bezos' space mission

After years of lobbying Musk to try and take her to Mars, Katy Perry has switched sides to explore space with Jeff Bezos

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7 h. ago Elon Musk’s DOGE homes in on new target: Weather forecasters

The cuts will ‘endanger American lives,’ lawmaker says

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8 h. ago How Katy Perry snubbed Elon Musk to join Jeff Bezos's space mission

After years of lobbying Musk to try and take her to Mars, Katy Perry has switched sides to explore space with Jeff Bezos

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8 h. ago Manchester council tax to rise as opposition say £18m budget savings 'dodgier than Elon Musk's DOGE'

But ruling Labour councillors said the budget will ‘help fill people with civic pride’

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8 h. ago Government departures during first year of prime ministers’ time in office

Rishi Sunak lost eight members of his government during his first 12 months as prime minister.

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10 h. ago ‘They’ve lost my trust’: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump

As business leaders fall in line behind the president and his policies, Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters – bottom linesDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.In late January, Lauren Bedson did what many would likely find unthinkable: she cancelled her Amazon Prime membership. The catalyst was Donald Trump’s inauguration. Many more Americans are planning to make similar decisions this Friday.Bedson made her move after seeing photos of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, sitting with other tech moguls and billionaires, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai, just rows behind Trump at his inauguration. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Elon Musk’s DOGE homes in on new target, slashing hundreds of jobs

The cuts will ‘endanger American lives,’ lawmaker says

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18 h. ago Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status have been fired, lawmakers and weather experts say

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19 h. ago After slashing federal workers’ jobs, Elon Musk suggests pay hike for politicians

Members of Congress earn $174,000 per year, the same salary since 2009

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23 h. ago Social Security Administration could lay off up to 50% of its workforce, source says – live

Social Security Administration expected to lay off at least 7,000 people, but a source tells Associated Press reduction could be as high as 50%As Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk work zealously to slash tens of billions in federal spending by axing thousands of jobs and gutting some government agencies, Musk faces mounting claims he has conflicts of interest and no oversight, legal and ethics experts say.Trump’s largest campaign donor and the world’s wealthiest man, Musk was tapped by the president to lead the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) in a radical and opaque cost-cutting drive that allows him to keep control of SpaceX, Tesla and other huge companies with billions of dollars in federal contracts.We expect that today’s meeting will be the first in a series of such expert consultations that will bring us closer to overcoming the disagreements that have arisen with the American side, strengthening confidence-building measures. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce

The Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off at least 7,000 people from its workforce of 60,000 — and the final reduction in force number could be as high as 50%, according to two people familiar with the agency’s plans who are not authorized to speak publicly

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24 h. ago Where are federal jobs affected by DOGE cuts? A look at congressional districts across the US

Civilian federal jobs are being cut by the thousands, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency continues to shrink the government workforce at the behest of President Donald Trump

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25 h. ago The View’s Joy Behar walks back Elon Musk comments after saying he was ‘pro

‘Don’t be suing me, okay, Elon?’ the co-host quips

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25 h. ago Only two members of Trump’s top administration have a favorable view with the public. Here’s who

Respondents held least favorable views about vice president and Elon Musk

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25 h. ago Donald Trump fan says 'Heil Hitler' as Elon Musk is dubbed an 'illegal alien'

The shocking comments were made by a Trump fan watching an anti-Elon Musk rally in New York – as a protestor told the MAGA woman what was wrong with her comments

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