67 m. ago FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier

The Food and Drug Administration is reinstating some of the hundreds of staffers it fired last week

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2 h. ago Federal workers sue over Elon Musk’s threat to fire them if they don’t explain their accomplishments – live

Attorneys for federal workers say Elon Musk violated the law with his weekend demand that employees explain their accomplishments or risk being firedMusk demand for federal workers document what they do brings chaosMusk’s ‘Doge’ claim about USAid funds for India sets off political firestormHere’s a little more on Dan Bongino, the Maga podcaster Donald Trump has named as deputy director of the FBI and who will oversee the bureau alongside newly appointed director Kash Patel.The president announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”.Kash Patel should have been a redline. Bongino is what you get when R Senators fail to do their jobs and say no to Patel. The Trump Admin is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled, partisan henchmen. It’s unacceptable and conservatives nee...

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2 h. ago The fight at the heart of the German election is simmering everywhere | Zoe Williams

In all similar democracies, left and right are having versions of the same argument: does ‘electable’ mean centrist or radical?As the German election results land, a lot of people are looking on the bright side: nearly 80% of Germans won’t entertain voting for Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). A nanosecond ago, however – as recently as Saturday – the idea that voters might go this far-right, in these kinds of numbers, for the first time since the second world war was terrifying. Some are calling this a victory over Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who vocally supported the AfD; others are calling it a victory for them.Nobody is puzzling much over the decline in support for Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic party – down 9%, almost equal to the AfD’s gains, although the numbers on switchers have yet to be crunched – because it was so long expected. The CDU/CSU alliance has won, with 28.5%, pretty much as the polls predicted. It’s an incredibly German story in its labyrinthine and laborious ...

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3 h. ago Elon Musk claims US government workers to be put on leave if they fail to return to office – live

Billionaire claims workers will face administrative leave if they ‘ignored President Trump’s executive order’Musk demand for federal workers document what they do brings chaosMusk’s ‘Doge’ claim about USAid funds for India sets off political firestormHere’s a little more on Dan Bongino, the Maga podcaster Donald Trump has named as deputy director of the FBI and who will oversee the bureau alongside newly appointed director Kash Patel.The president announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”.Kash Patel should have been a redline. Bongino is what you get when R Senators fail to do their jobs and say no to Patel. The Trump Admin is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled, partisan henchmen. It’s unacceptable and conservatives need to say so. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Donald Trump wants Elon Musk to be 'more aggressive' as they have 'country to save'

President Trump has taken so social media to publicly berate his friend, calling on him to do more and be more aggressive so they can save the USA together

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5 h. ago US politics live: confusion at agencies over whether to comply with Elon Musk email demanding workers justify jobs

Government agencies give conflicting orders after Musk demands employees list accomplishments from past week by Monday deadlineDonald Trump’s sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations programme in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country’s drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation, Reuters reports.It is one of several US counternarcotics efforts in Mexico derailed in recent weeks by the stop-work order. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Donald Trump questions 'First Buddy' Elon Musk – 'what the f*** is wrong with this guy?'

Despite the two men's closeness, President Donald Trump found Tesla billionaire Elon Musk's behaviour bizarre and asked 'what the f*** is wrong with this guy?', according to renowned author Michael Wolff,

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6 h. ago Confusion at US agencies over whether to comply with Elon Musk email demanding workers justify their jobs – US politics live

Government agencies give conflicting advice after email from Elon Musk demanding employees list accomplishments from past weekThe Trump administration has blocked a crucial step in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) process for funding medical research, likely in violation of a federal judge’s temporary restraining order on federal funding freezes.The NIH has stopped submitting study sections – meetings in which scientists peer review NIH grant funding proposals – to the Federal Register after the Trump administration paused health agency communications. By law, study sections must appear on the register 15 days in advance of meetings.Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning.Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Fired federal workers hunt for new jobs but struggle to replace their old ones

Job searches can be tough for anyone, but some of the federal workers flooding the market after widespread layoffs are finding it particularly tough

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27 h. ago ‘We are pissed’: opposition to Trump, slow to energize, now shakes off its slumber

The slash-and-burn approach of Trump and his ‘Doge’ head Elon Musk has reinvigorated resistance to the Republican administrationOn a bright winter’s day this week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn effort to reshape the American government. “You work for us, not Musk!” read one sign. “Remember your oath,” another warned, as a mobile billboard circled nearby, featuring the president and the billionaire tech mogul, with the message: “When he’s snooping through your bank accounts, you dump him.”The group, dozens strong, cheered wildly when the driver of a white Tesla turned the corner and laid on his horn. A smaller contingent of constituents had attempted to secure a meeting with the congressman, Ken Calvert, but found the door of his regional office locked and the blinds drawn. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago ‘Heinous actions’: opposition to Trump, slow to energize, shakes off its slumber

The slash-and-burn approach of Trump and his ‘Doge’ head Musk has reinvigorated resistance to the administrationOn a bright winter’s day this week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn effort to reshape the American government. “You work for us, not Musk!” read one sign. “Remember your oath,” another warned, as a mobile billboard circled nearby, featuring the president and the billionaire tech mogul, with the message: “When he’s snooping through your bank accounts, you dump him.”The group, dozens strong, cheered wildly when the driver of a white Tesla turned the corner and laid on his horn. A smaller contingent of constituents had attempted to secure a meeting with the congressman, Ken Calvert, but found the door of his regional office locked and the blinds drawn. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week

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3 d. ago Experienced workers, not just rookies, get cut as Trump slashes probationary employees

President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce

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3 d. ago Ooops...We've sacked our nuclear weapons workers! Donald Trump team forced into emergency rehire of key staff

‘This shows a level of absolute incompetence in the firing process,” says Professor Don Moynihan

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3 d. ago Anas Sarwar echoes Donald Trump and Elon Musk by announcing Scottish Labour DOGE plan

The Scottish Labour leader said that he would create the department because of "the SNP's wasteful incompetence".

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3 d. ago Ooops...We've sacked our nuclear arsenal workers! Donald Trump team forced into emergency rehire of key staff

‘This shows a level of absolute incompetence in the firing process,” says Professor Don Moynihan

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3 d. ago President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to check if there is still gold in Fort Knox

‘It would be cool to do a live video walkthrough of Fort Knox!’ the Tesla billionaire, father of alleged 13, said on X

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3 d. ago 8 deeply weird things Donald Trump and Elon Musk did while you were sleeping

The Mirror has been reporting from CPAC, the biggest gathering of the MAGA faithful, in Washington DC. Yesterday saw speeches from Liz Truss and Nigel Farage - but the oddest appearances came from Vice President JD Vance and a chainsaw wielding Elon Musk

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3 d. ago Elon Musk attacks 'despised' Zelensky and claims Kyiv 'feeding off dead soldiers' as US

Musk accused Kyiv of being a ‘massive graft machine feeding off the dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers’

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3 d. ago ‘Donald Trump won’t drive us out of lawless Slab City – there’s too many of us out here’

EXCLUSIVE: Angie Harrell Bragg told the Daily Star she thinks there will be other issues that drive her out of her home in Slab City before Donald Trump and Elon Musk can

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