63 m. ago The Latest: Trump is expected to sign executive orders to boost coal

President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline

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2 h. ago Elon Musk tears into Trump's 'moron' trade adviser as MAGA civil war intensifies over tariffs

Billionaire CEO of Tesla Elon Musk on Tuesday savaged President Donald Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro after he criticized his car company.

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3 h. ago Spare a thought for the poor billionaires who backed Trump — and hate tariffs | Marina Hyde

As the great American self-own rages on, the super-rich are beginning to break rank. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s gone suspiciously quietTrade Wars, Episode V: The Empire Shoots Itself in the Foot. As the world financial markets fail to appreciate his genius, tariff-excreting president Donald Trump has explained it all away by stating that “sometimes you have to take medicine”. Why am I reminded of the bit in Covid where he appeared to suggest that disinfectant could helpfully be injected into the lungs? I guess that was just science, same as this tariffs plan is just economics.Even so, can it really still be less than a week since a Wall Street Journal poll found 77% of US Republicans thought tariffs would have a positive impact? Ah well. Famously, the American people have a great tolerance for pain. If only one of their kindly gazillionare firms could come up with some sort of financial opioid epidemic to take the edge off the coming agonies.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue ...

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4 h. ago Child protection authority to be set up after child sex abuse inquiry

There has been pressure to implement 20 recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in its final report in 2022.

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5 h. ago Elon Musk 'rattled' as he's brutally trolled during livestream from his private jet

Elon Musk has repeatedly made claims about being in the top subsection of players of a number of online games, but many gamers accuse him of paying someone to increase his score

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5 h. ago Elon Musk 'rattled' as he's trolled during livestream gaming session on private jet

Elon Musk was trolled by other players as he live streamed himself playing Path of Exile 2 from his private jet, with one gamer telling him his daughter was "right" about his poor gaming skills

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6 h. ago ‘No guidance and no leadership’: chaos in US health agencies after mass firings

On 1 April, thousands of workers at HHS and agencies like the CDC were let go, leaving those left to piece together the cuts and mourn the research that can’t go forwardFor the past two months, members of the Elon Musk-led “department of government efficiency” (Doge) have stalked the halls of the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Atlanta headquarters.Several employees told the Guardian that if a Doge staffer walked through their offices and saw a badge at an untended workstation, its owner would be fired promptly. Firing someone for a security violation gave Doge an excuse to circumvent the defenses of civil service protection, or performance reviews, or seniority. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago ‘No guidance and no leadership’: chaos and confusion at CDC after mass firings

On 1 April, thousands of workers at HHS and agencies like the CDC were let go, leaving those left to piece together the cuts and mourn the research that can’t go forwardFor the past two months, members of the Elon Musk-led “department of government efficiency” (Doge) have stalked the halls of the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Atlanta headquarters.Several employees told the Guardian that if a Doge staffer walked through their offices and saw a badge at an untended workstation, its owner would be fired promptly. Firing someone for a security violation gave Doge an excuse to circumvent the defenses of civil service protection, or performance reviews, or seniority. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy

Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plagueJust over an hour into Elon Musk’s last appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the billionaire brought up the latest existential threat to trouble him.“We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said. “And it’s like, I believe in empathy. Like, I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy for civilization as a whole and not commit to a civilizational suicide.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Elon Musk’s X launches crackdown on ‘parody’ accounts after he axed tools that stopped them

Impersonation accounts have been a long-running problem for site since it was bought

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8 h. ago Elon Musk 'spent the weekend begging Donald Trump to cancel his tariffs', bombshell report claims

The world's richest man launched a desperate plea with Donald Trump to scale back his tariff plans just days before the following market fallout ate away at Tesla's stocks

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8 h. ago Musk made direct appeal to Trump to reverse sweeping tariffs, report claims

Billionaire Elon Musk made personal appeals to the Donald Trump to reverse his aggressive plan to make sweeping tariff increases, a new report has claimed.

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14 h. ago DOGE policies, massive fumbles causing tech crashes across agencies

Agencies like Social Security considering further cuts to IT staff

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17 h. ago Elon Musk suffers abysmal approval rating... as DOGE nerds trigger Social Security cyber crash

Washington was rocked last week amid reports that President Donald Trump's 'first buddy' Elon Musk was heading out the door.

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18 h. ago Federal grants to fight child labor worldwide are axed in DOGE cuts

The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world

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18 h. ago The chart that shows how clever Warren Buffett is as rival billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos reel from Trump's tariffs

Warren Buffett made some smart moves in the stock market over the last year, as he became the only billionaire among the world's richest whose net worth increased in recent days.

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23 h. ago Elon Musk’s X launches crackdown against misleading ‘parody’ accounts

Impersonation accounts have been a long-running problem for site since it was bought

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24 h. ago Informal ties with US philanthropists like Howard Buffett firm despite shaky US–Ukraine relations

Uncertainty in U.S.–Ukraine relations is growing, but informal ties with some U.S. philanthropists built over three years of war with Russia are holding firm

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25 h. ago 'Musk is a bully who uses his wealth as a weapon to enforce an authoritarian agenda'

Elon Musk is set to step away from his political role in the coming weeks, White House insiders have told as his company, Tesla, faces plummeting sales and tanking share prices

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28 h. ago Trial begins in Germany for US woman over fatal stabbing of man who allegedly groped her

The trial of the unnamed American woman will be heard in Kaiserslautern, with Elon Musk having tweeted about the case

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