66 m. ago Elon Musk says DOGE involvement is making it harder to run his businesses

In an interview with Fox’s Larry Kudlow on Monday, billionaire Elon Musk admitted that his involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Donald Trump’s initiative to reduce federal spending, is making it tougher to run his many businesses: X, Tesla, xAI, SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Starlink. “How are you running your other businesses?” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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94 m. ago Washington Post Columnist Quits After Article Criticizing Jeff Bezos Is Shelved

Ruth Marcus, a longtime columnist at The Post, said its publisher refused to run her critique of the new focus for the paper’s opinion section.

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1 hour ago Walz reveals the missteps he saw with Harris campaign amid postmortem media blitz

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the failed 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate, revealed the missteps he saw with the Harris presidential campaign.

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2 h. ago Washington AGO sues Adam County Sheriff over immigration enforcement

Washington AGO sues Adam County Sheriff over immigration enforcement  The Center Square

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2 h. ago Pressed by Republicans, D.C. Begins Removing Black Lives Matter Mural

The mural, which covers two city blocks, was painted in 2020. A jackhammer began chipping away at the bright yellow letters on Monday morning.

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2 h. ago Former Iraqi refugee living in Texas pleads guilty to conspiring to support ISIS

Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi, 28, pleaded guilty to creating and developing logos for ISIS’s media wing, known as the Kalachnikov team.

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2 h. ago Washington sues county for helping federal immigration agents

Washington sues county for helping federal immigration agents  Courthouse News Service

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2 h. ago ACLU sues Alaska Department of Corrections over death of inmate

ACLU sues Alaska Department of Corrections over death of inmate  Alaska Public Media News

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3 h. ago What's Really Happening With Elon Musk and Those ‘Stranded’ Astronauts?

Two NASA officials have weighed in on the public dispute over when and how to bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been on the International Space Station since June.

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3 h. ago Media Matters sues Elon Musk's X over 'libel tourism' legal assault

A new suit in an ongoing legal battle between the billionaire and the liberal advocacy group claims Musk's legal attacks are impeding the organization's work.

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3 h. ago Multiple outages at X caused by ‘massive cyberattack,’ Musk says

Scale of attack suggests role of a country or "coordinated group," Musk said.

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4 h. ago Dylan Mulvaney reacts to Gavin Newsom's remarks on trans athletes participating in women's sports

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney was pressed on transgender athletes participating in women's sports during an interview on ABC's "The View" on Monday.

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4 h. ago Elon Musk claims X being targeted in 'massive cyberattack' as service goes down

Hours after a series of outages Monday that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a "massive cyberattack."

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4 h. ago Democratic senator says party is lacking leadership, strategy following defeat to Trump

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., who delivered her party's response to President Donald Trump's address to Congress last week, said that Democrats are facing internal struggles.

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5 h. ago Workers begin dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington; Republicans cheer 'America is healing'

Workers begin dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington; Republicans cheer 'America is healing'  The Times of India

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5 h. ago A/B test tool shows Facebook constantly experimenting on consumers—and even its creators don't fully know how it works

Users of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok might think they're simply interacting with friends, family and followers, and seeing ads as they go. But according to research from the UBC Sauder School of Business, they're part of constant marketing experiments that are often impossible, even for the companies behind them, to fully comprehend. The findings are published in the International Journal of Research in Marketing.

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5 h. ago 'Hurting people to help themselves': Dem senator disses DOGE's CFPB cuts

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., met with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees on Friday who were fired as a result of Elon Musk’s DOGE federal workforce reductions.

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5 h. ago Washington state AG sues Adam County over immigration enforcement

Washington state AG sues Adam County over immigration enforcement  MyNorthwest

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5 h. ago Washington state AG sues Adams County over immigration enforcement

Washington state AG sues Adams County over immigration enforcement  MyNorthwest

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5 h. ago Clothes dryers and the bottom line: Switching to air drying can save hundreds

Researchers from the University of Michigan are hoping their new study will inspire some Americans to rethink their relationship with laundry. Because, no matter how you spin it, clothes dryers use a lot of comparatively costly energy when air works for free.

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