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Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments — A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
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Michigan's Arab American community offers muted response to Trump's Gaza takeover plan — Residents of the largest Arab American community in the U.S. had plenty to say during the 2024 presidential campaign about the roiling politics in the Middle East. But after President Donald Trump's …
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The Madness of Donald Trump
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Inside Trump's Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza
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The House speaker defends Trump's Gaza plan, while other Republicans express doubts.
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White House tries to soften Trump's mass displacement proposal for Gaza
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Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice — Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
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Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems — The agreement came in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of committing an “unlawful action” by giving private info to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
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Judge weighs short-term block on Musk allies' ability to share Treasury records outside the department — A lawsuit alleges that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is compromising Treasury's payment system. — A federal judge on Wednesday declined to immediately block …
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Musk's DOGE granted access to US Medicare and Medicaid systems
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DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud
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Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI — On Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span, laying out the agency's new policies …


White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest — The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump's government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies.
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Elon Musk Is a ‘Special Government Employee.’ What Does That Mean?
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Trump White House Moves to Allow for a Musk Takeover of Government IT
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How Trump's Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos — Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime — WASHINGTON—A half-dozen of the most senior officials …
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Pam Bondi issued a flurry of orders on Day 1 as Trump's attorney general — Trump's newly sworn in AG released a series of directives. — Pam Bondi is officially in control of the Justice Department — and she's gone right to work. — President Donald Trump's attorney general issued …
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Bondi, as new AG, launches ‘Weaponization Working Group’ to review officials who investigated Trump
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NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’ — An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.” — A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
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‘Blow this place up’: Frustrated Democrats want the Senate to fight harder — It has in many ways been business as usual in the Senate during Trump's second term. — Senate Democrats are struggling to deal with a rising tide of anger inside their party as President Donald …
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Republicans Lose Their Minds After Democrats Try to Subpoena Elon Musk
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Tesla's sales plummet across Europe — Registrations in Germany fall 59% amid consumer backlash against Elon Musk's political activism — Sales of Tesla's electric vehicles have fallen sharply across many of its key European markets amid a consumer backlash against Elon Musk's interventions in the region's politics.
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Tesla's European Sales Drop in January After Musk Disrupts Politics There — The U.S. electric car company's sales are sliding across Europe, amid what many see as interference in local affairs by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk. — Tesla's sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January …
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The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us — ELON MUSK, OUR NEW UNELECTED OVERLORD, is mad at Bill Kristol. Very, very mad. And because this is the world we live in now, his hordes of online minions are mad, too. — Let me explain. This week, Elon has been amplifying several tweets alleging …


Democrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee — “He's the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought. — LOADING
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Senate Democrats vow rare overnight session to protest Trump's ‘most dangerous nominee’
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White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees — The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force. — The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing …
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Elon Musk Says His Efficiency Team Will Tackle F.A.A. Technology — His announcement comes after an outage last week to the primary system that provides pilots safety alerts in real time. — Elon Musk's team will now dig into the nation's aviation system, the Trump administration announced on Wednesday.
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Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump's D.E.I. Orders — The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective. — Google tried for years to diversify its work force …
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What to know about the court cases over President Trump's birthright citizenship order — A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order is set to hear arguments Thursday over a longer-term pause of the directive …
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The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children — The world's richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world's poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.”
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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers — Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.


List: Examples of Trump's Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits — Other presidents have occasionally claimed a constitutional right to bypass particular laws. But in the opening weeks of his second term, President Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through …


Nancy Pelosi faces primary challenge from former AOC aide — Saikat Chakrabarti, a former tech worker, is calling for generational change in Democratic Party. — Another chapter in a generational battle over the future of the Democratic Party appears to be taking shape in San Francisco …
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The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany's Merz — Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump's second presidency. — The German chancellor candidate told …


Republican ire at USAID finds an unusual target: Politico — Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government. Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.


Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker's office in backlash against Musk — Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson's office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department.
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More Than 40,000 Federal Workers Have Resigned So Far, Short of Target — Uncertainty about whether they will get paid not to work through September is deterring employees who face a Thursday deadline for taking a buyout — More than 40,000 federal workers have raised their hands to resign …
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