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Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision …
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A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system — The visit comes after a union representing FAA workers says hundreds are being laid off. … A team from Elon Musk's SpaceX is visiting the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia Monday …
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Hundreds of FAA probationary workers fired by Trump administration, union says — The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union.
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4 Top Officials to Resign Over Adams's Cooperation With Trump — Four deputy mayors to Eric Adams are leaving “to stay faithful to the oaths we swore to New Yorkers and our families,” they said in a statement. — Four top New York City officials said they would resign after the Justice Department moved …
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Mass resignations from Eric Adams' administration spark chaos in NYC government
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N.Y.C. Council Speaker Calls on Mayor Eric Adams to Resign
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Four Adams Deputy Mayors Quit Following Trump Deal
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Judge seems unwilling to immediately bar Musk from meddling in federal agencies — Blue states have not provided enough initial evidence to justify a temporary restraining order, Judge Tanya Chutkan said at a court hearing. — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday appeared poised …
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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk's purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
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Vance's real warning to Europe — Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America — When JD Vance took the stage at the Munich Security Conference last week, he issued a stern warning. The US vice-president told the assembled politicians and diplomats …
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Rubio spars with Brennan over Vance's Munich speech
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Trump Voters Splinter Over His Rapid Shake-Up of Washington — Some core supporters love his no-holds-barred approach, but several swing voters are taken aback at his early moves
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Trump suggests no laws violated if he ‘saves’ country
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Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Tate brothers — Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime and money laundering — The Trump administration has pressured Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions …
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'It's gone': Elon Musk suggests without evidence that gold was ‘stolen’ from Fort Knox — Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Department of Government Efficiency Chair Elon Musk demanded access to the gold stored at Fort Knox. — Writing on Musk's social media platform X, Lee said he was repeatedly denied access …
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Bice: An Elon Musk-backed group buys at least $670,000 of TV time to support Brad Schimel — Conservative Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel said just recently he was hoping conservative third-party groups would start buying up TV time in the state “very soon.” — Ask and you shall receive.
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Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami — Victims reportedly posted ‘death to Arabs’ on social media after shooting while suspect held on attempted murder charges — A Jewish man in Miami Beach is facing charges of attempted murder following accusations …
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Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work. — Musk's unparalleled online reach on X has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE. — Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette works at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group focused on reducing bureaucratic waste.


Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash — Argentine President Javier Milei is facing impeachment calls - and legal action accusing him of fraud - over his promotion of cryptocurrency on social media. — Milei posted on X, formerly Twitter, about the $LIBRA coin on Friday …
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In botched DEI purge, OSHA trashes workplace safety guidelines — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an internal February 7 email obtained by Popular Information.
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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits — Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation. — Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
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Washington Examiner, New York Post and PolitiFact


Trump casts psychiatric and weight-loss drugs as threats to children — Trump directed a panel headed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to assess “the prevalence of and threat” posed by SSRIs, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs.
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Elon Musk's X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service — Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE. — Elon Musk's social media platform, X, is currently banning links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by the encrypted messaging service Signal.
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‘Five alarm warning’: Possible DOGE access to private taxpayer data sparks outcry — The Elon Musk-run effort wants to study a system that includes tax returns, Social Security numbers and other information. — Democrats and tax experts are sounding alarms about a plan by Elon Musk's DOGE team …
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‘Turned out the lights’: Fury hits Washington Post as it refuses to run $115K anti-Musk ad — The Washington Post canceled plans to run a front-and back-page advertisement that would have earned the paper $115,000 — and ran straight into fresh fury. — The ad, reportedly sponsored …
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Elon Musk Says Team Behind CBS's ‘60 Minutes’ Deserves ‘A Long Prison Sentence’ — “60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world!” the world's richest man wrote on his social media platform, X. — LOADING — Elon Musk, President Donald Trump's billionaire ally, on Sunday repeatedly attacked CBS's …
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With the dismantling of USAID, is the Trump administration defying the Constitution?
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The Death of Government Expertise — Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree — One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE, the self-styled Department of Government Efficiency, is about government efficiency.


Scoop: Why Trump targets AP … - “This isn't just about the Gulf of America,” White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich told Axios. … - The dispute with AP is part of Trump's broader effort to discredit legacy media outlets and the public's trust in the press — already at a record low.
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The Marco Rubio Guide to Survival is Not Working Well — The secretary of State is taking positions that were once anathema and sounding very Trumpy online. — It is becoming increasingly clear that Marco Rubio is secretary of State in name only. — Since taking over Foggy Bottom …
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