26 h. ago Trump’s cabinet meetings show just how powerful Elon Musk has become

Analysis: The cabinet meetings show that Musk’s influence stretches beyond the White House and into every department of the US government, Richard Hall writes

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31 h. ago Trump live updates: Elon Musk attends another Cabinet meeting despite reported tensions over DOGE

President’s third Cabinet meeting taking place as tensions rise over Usha Vance’s upcoming visit to Greenland

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32 h. ago Trump live updates: Elon Musk to attend another Cabinet meeting despite reported tensions over DOGE

President’s third Cabinet meeting taking place as tensions rise over Usha Vance’s upcoming visit to Greenland

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3 d. ago Traitorous timeline of Tesla – Elon Musk's rise to power and fall from grace

As Tesla sales stall across Europe and the company's net income drops, many have been left to wonder how Musk found himself at the helm of the EV car company despite not actually founding it

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6 d. ago Biggest JFK file revelations as we asked Elon Musk's AI – here's what it told us

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star turned to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence-powered large language model called Grok to find out what the seven biggest JFK files revelations are

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1 week ago ‘Now with white power steering’: Fake Tesla and Elon Musk ads pop up around London

‘Now with white power steering’: Fake Tesla and Elon Musk ads pop up around London  The Independent

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2 w. ago The making of Elon Musk: how did his childhood in apartheid South Africa shape him?

The billionaire and now Trump adviser grew up amid the collapse of white rule, attending an all-white school and then a more liberal oneWith an imposing double-winged redbrick main building, and school songs lifted directly from Harrow’s songbook, Pretoria boys high school is every inch the South African mirror of the English private schools it was founded in 1901 to imitate.Elon Musk, who has rapidly become one of the most powerful people in US politics, spent his final school years in the 1980s as a day pupil on the lush, tree-filled campus in South Africa’s capital, close to his father’s large detached home in Waterkloof, a wealthy Pretoria suburb shaded by purple jacaranda blossoms in spring. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago SNL mocks peacemaker Trump after Elon Musk and Marco Rubio clash in cabinet meeting

The billionaire is ‘doing incredible things in terms of explosions and with regard to rocket debris’

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2 w. ago Donald Trump responds to 'clash' between Elon Musk and senior cabinet officials

Elon Musk is said to have thrown insults at top members of Donald Trump's cabinet during a fiery meeting in the White House - the US president has now responded to the reports

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2 w. ago Marco Rubio unleashes his fury on Elon Musk in heated cabinet meeting, report says

Trump silently watched much of the exchange between his Secretary of State and DOGE leader, the report says

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2 w. ago Inside Trump's explosive Cabinet meeting where he spectacularly snubbed Elon Musk

Elon Musk clashed with multiple senior Trump administration officials at the the hastily called Cabinet meeting on Thursday, according to a new bombshell report.

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2 w. ago Trump is concentrating power. A key faction of judges supports the idea | Jan

The ‘unitary executive’ theory – backed by some conservative lawyers – is largely bogus. But it could wreak havoc on democracyWhile Democrats are dithering and debating with consultants about which anti-Trumpian strategy to adopt, courts are confronted with an unprecedented power grab by the president. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are simply not spending money appropriated by Congress, which in turn is unwilling to play its constitutional role and assert the power of the purse. Entire agencies are de facto dismantled – which is also unconstitutional – and civil servants protected from removal by a president keep getting pink slips.The illegality of it all seems so obvious that one would think defenders of democracy could relax and trust judges to do the right thing. But it’s not just that some judges seem to be in the president’s pocket – as evidenced by Trump, after his address to Congress, patting the supreme court’s chief justice on the back and thanking him for a favor he won’t fo...

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2 w. ago Trump picks sides in MAGA power struggle as Elon Musk drops his chainsaw and leaves federal cuts to Cabinet

Donald Trump appears to have settled a power struggle and told his Cabinet they have power to make cuts to government waste ahead of 'First Buddy' Elon Musk and DOGE.

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2 w. ago Trump administration briefing: Trump changes tack on tariffs – again – as US plans to close consulates

Trump shelves Canada-Mexico tariffs; Musk says he is not to blame for mass firings of federal workers – key US politics stories from Thursday at a glanceDonald Trump has performed another reversal on tariffs, delaying duties on many goods from Canada and Mexico again. Trump said the reversal has “nothing to do” with turbulence in the stock market in recent days, as investors weighed his economic plans. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell 1.8% on Thursday. “I’m not even looking at the market,” he claimed.It was also a day where the focus fell on the power wielded by Elon Musk and the president’s plans for US consulates in Europe. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump warns his Cabinet that Musk can’t actually fire workers

Trump gathered his department heads to tell them they can be ‘very precise’ with the billionaire ‘as to who will remain and who will go’

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3 w. ago AI predicts FA cup results as Manchester United's 'relegation form' strikes again

EXCLUSIVE: We turned to Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence powered large language model called Grok for predictions for the FA Fifth Round after its Premier League predictions fared well

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3 w. ago Supercomputer predicts FA cup results as Ruben Amorim's Man Utd have chance to bounce back

EXCLUSIVE: We turned to Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence powered large language model called Grok for predictions for the FA Fifth Round after its Premier League predictions fared well

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3 w. ago Hot mic catches Trump urging Fox News reporter to say Cabinet meeting was ‘unbelievable’

‘Lawrence, say we did a great job, please. Okay? Say it was unbelievable,’ the president asked Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones at the end of the meeting.

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3 w. ago Three billionaires: America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed | Robert Reich

As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sightOne of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.Oligarchs are fully exposed and they are defiant. It’s like hitting the “reveal codes” key on older computers that let you see everything. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: ‘Somehow, he’s managed to make everything disgusting’

Late-night hosts discuss Trump’s proposal for ‘gold card’ visas, allowing rich foreigners to enter the US for $5m eachLate-night hosts talk Donald Trump’s proposed “gold card” visas, Trump’s first cabinet meeting and confusion over who leads the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge). Continue reading...

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