85 m. ago U.S. threatened to cut off Musk’s Starlink to Ukraine in mineral negotiations, says report

Billionaire’s Starlink system has proved a crucial internet communications service for the war-torn country

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4 h. ago Fired rangers warn of chaos at national parks as Musk’s sweeping cuts remove vital services

The Trump administration laid off 1,000 National Park Employees last week, a move rangers say will cause chaos across the country.

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24 h. ago Donald Trump source warns Zelenskyy must flee with Putin declaring victory on set date

A source close to Donald Trump has said that Volodymyr Zelenskyy needs to get out of Ukraine immediately as Russia is about to win the war. This comes as tensions between Ukraine and the US grow

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41 h. ago Elon Musk praises Doge efforts to cut federal workforce after judge ruling – live

Musk claims Trump administration is ‘finding savings’ amid mass terminations; federal judge won’t block administration from laying off federal workersJudge rules Trump administration can continue mass firings of federal workersDonald Trump signed another round of executive orders onboard Air Force One last night, among them one aimed at ending federal benefits for people in the country illegally.The order seeks to end “all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens”, according to the White House, although it was not clear which benefits will be targeted. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Trump appears to agree to cut checks to Americans to share portion of savings from Doge cost

‘Department of government efficiency’ head Elon Musk suggested $5,000 checks to US households if targets metDonald Trump has appeared to embrace a proposal to share a portion of the cuts in US government spending made by Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) with all US households in the form of checks, intensifying concerns about inflation potentially rising again.Trump addressed the idea in a speech at an investment conference in Miami on Wednesday, telling attendees: “There’s even under consideration a new concept, where we give 20% of the Doge savings to American citizens, and 20% goes to paying down debt.” Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Donald Trump 'spends nearly 1/3 of time' on expensive hobby – not related to presidency

According to a campaign group, recently-inaugurated US President Donald Trump has spent close to 30% of his days on a rather expensive pastime that is not linked to his job

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50 h. ago Nigel Farage finally admits Donald Trump was wrong to call president Zelensky a dictator

Mr Farage was the last leader of a major Westminster party to weigh in on the astonishing tirade by Trump, his close friend and ally, after the others did so last night.

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3 d. ago DOGE claimed they had saved $8 billion by slashing one contract. The actual number was $8 million

DOGE, upon further inspection, appears to have overstated the value of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency contract

Economics

3 d. ago Trump and Musk lavish praise on each other while defending DOGE cuts in Hannity interview: Live updates

President and billionaire ally tell Fox News’s Sean Hannity that Congress should codify ‘a lot of’ the former’s executive orders pertaining to the Department of Government Efficiency

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3 d. ago Trump and Musk awkwardly called ‘two brothers’ as they seek to justify DOGE cuts in joint Fox News interview

The president has previously been trolled with claims that he is only a co-president – or that Musk himself is the one really in charge

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3 d. ago JFK Library in Boston forced to close after Trump and Musk cuts mean staff are forced out

Library officials received a phone call on Tuesday morning informing them that all employees still in their probationary period were being laid off effective immediately

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4 d. ago Ashley St. Clair’s decision to go public with Elon Musk baby drama ‘wasn’t a plea for attention,’ friend says

Describing how the 26-year-old was dropped by Musk, her friend said: ‘He basically cut bait, and so the message was understood that she was on her own’

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4 d. ago GOP lawmakers are ‘grumbling’ about Musk’s ‘poorly executed’ mass government cuts

‘It’s not efficiency, it’s not output,’ one Republican senator griped

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