20 m. ago Scientists reviewing Musk’s Neuralink are fired – then rehired – from FDA following flurry of DOGE cuts

Around 300 FDA staffers have been asked to return to work after Musk’s DOGE axed thousands of jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services

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24 m. 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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28 m. 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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40 m. ago Elon Musk walks off leaving son to wander off stage alone in viral clip

In the footage, billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk is seen walking off stage from a rally apparently completely unaware that he has left his four-year-old son, X, lagging behind him

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83 m. ago Elon Musk issues grim warning for federal workers STILL refusing to return to the office

Thousands of federal workers are still not complying with President Donald Trump's orders to return full time to working in-person.

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1 hour ago Elon Musk’s demand that federal workers document what they do provokes chaos

FBI head Kash Patel tells agents to ‘pause’ responses to order as unnamed Pentagon official calls it ‘silliest thing in 40 years’US politics live – latest updatesElon Musk has poured fuel on to the fire raging across the US government over his ultimatum that federal workers document what they do at their jobs or face dismissal – by attacking a Pentagon official who had criticized the scheme as “the silliest thing I’ve seen in 40 years”.The billionaire businessman, who has been authorised by Donald Trump to slash the federal bureaucracy as head of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), stoked the flames in a post on his social media platform X late on Sunday night. He slammed the unnamed Department of Defense (DoD) official quoted by CNN, saying that “anyone with the attitude of that Pentagon official needs to look for a new job”. Continue reading...

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2 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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2 h. ago MAGA influencers at war after Ashley St. Clair’s ‘rocket babies’ Musk texts are leaked

‘Ashley St. Clair is USING her 5-month-old BABY as leverage and emotional blackmail to try and control Elon Musk. I hope he doesn’t give her an INCH’, the MAGA star wrote Saturday

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2 h. ago Elimination of federal climate tools, some used to inquire in to Musk’s firms, sparks alarm

Environment justice advocates say tools to study pollution in vulnerable communities by companies, including xAI and SpaceX, have disappearedAs Donald Trump’s administration continues its purge of federal agencies, environmental justice campaigners are alarmed by the disappearance of federal environmental and climate data tools – some of which have been used to identify pollution concerns about Elon Musk’s companies.Several federal agencies, including the EPA and CDC, previously published data regarding pollution levels across the country, as well as data about the vulnerability of each census tract, such as poverty rates and life expectancy. Several of the websites containing that data have gone dark in the weeks following Trump’s inauguration. Continue reading...

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2 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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3 h. ago Elon Musk makes an admission about the productivity email his group sent to federal workers

Department of Government Efficiency head says he wants to test whether federal employees are ‘capable of replying to an email’

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3 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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3 h. ago Elon Musk’s Grok AI was specifically instructed not to say he spread misinformation

Senior engineer says change was wrongly made to ‘help’

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4 h. ago Elon Musk is criticized for 'abandoning' his son, 4, in viral footage days after dad Errol delivered brutal opinion on his parenting skills

Musk was accused of 'abandoning his son' by social media users after a video of X walking off a stage without supervision went viral. The clip is thought to have been captured last month.

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4 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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4 h. ago German election results 2025 – live: Elon Musk congratulates far

Friedrich Merz set to become new chancellor after provisional results show his conservatives won

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5 h. ago Germany elections live: AfD’s Weidel says she received congratulations from Elon Musk after significant far

Conservative opposition wins most votes in Germany election amid dramatic surge by far-right Alternative für Deutschland German election 2025: results in fullGuten Morgen aus Berlin,In November 2019, Freidrich Merz joined a conference of German students at Harvard.From our point of view it can get going very, very quickly. We should hold the first talks this week already, in the coming days.My impression is that there are many people in the SPD who also see that we can and should do something together, and then we will find compromises. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Dem Senator lays in to Elon Musk as the 'ultimate bad boss' with expletive ridden post as deadline for federal workers to respond to his email looms

Hundreds of thousands of workers began their week in chaos after Musk's team gave staff roughly 48 hours to report five specific things they had accomplished last week

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6 h. ago Trump reveals what he really thinks about outraged reaction to Elon Musk's email asking federal workers to account for their time

Trump called for Musk to be more aggressive in his cost-cutting crusade and posted a meme on social media mocking federal employees who "cried about Trump and Elon."

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7 h. ago John Oliver compares Elon Musk’s DOGE department to viral Willy Wonka experience

The comedian said that DOGE has been a ‘stark disconnect between marketing and reality’

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