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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 employees let go as Trump's mass layoffs continue
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Hundreds of FAA probationary workers fired by Trump administration, union says
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Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk's DOGE over data — Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk's team for sensitive government information.


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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Four Adams Deputy Mayors Quit Following Trump Deal
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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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PolitiFact, New York Post and Washington Examiner


Thousands Gather on Presidents' Day to Call Trump a Tyrant — Thousands of protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump's agenda took to the streets across the country, including outside the U.S. Capitol. — Thousands of protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump's agenda took …
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‘No Kings Day’: Protesters Denounce Trump and Musk
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Judge appears inclined to deny request to block DOGE's mass firings, access to data — At least 73 lawsuits have been filed challenging Trump's executive actions. — FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 11, 2025.
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Department of Homeland Security preparing to fire hundreds of senior leaders this week — The firings are a move not to reduce the size of the workforce but to get rid of people the administration sees as not on board with its goals. — The Trump administration is preparing to fire hundreds …
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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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'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 …


Washington Post Cancels Ad From Groups Calling for Trump to Fire Musk — The newspaper told Common Cause, an advocacy group, that it was pulling its special ad, which would have covered the front and back pages of some Tuesday editions. — An advertisement that was set to run in some editions …
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‘Turned out the lights’: Fury hits Washington Post as it refuses to run $115K anti-Musk ad
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Hegseth claims Biden administration targeted him with IRS audit — The Defense secretary posted a photo of a letter showing the IRS seeking more than $33,000. — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday accused the Biden administration of orchestrating a last-minute audit of him and his wife …
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We confronted Speaker Johnson over DOGE. His response is cause for concern.
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The Hill, Raw Story, The Daily Wire and Washington Examiner

‘Five alarm warning’: Possible DOGE access to private taxpayer data sparks outcry
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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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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk's purge is cutting more than costs, say experts — In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy — Donald Trump and Elon Musk's radical drive to slash billions of dollars in annual federal spending …
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The Hill, TechCrunch and The Independent
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Trump suggests no laws violated if he ‘saves’ country
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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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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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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk — Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It's the path to pushing Musk out of politics. — WITH THE BACKING of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk has embarked on an unconstitutional rampage against the federal government.
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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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WSJ asks Kennedy to cast aside ‘antivax hooey’ amid Texas measles outbreak — The Wall Street Journal's editorial board published on op-ed on Monday calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to set aside his anti-vaccine activist positions in light …
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Measles outbreak in Texas rises to at least 48 cases — the state's worst in nearly 30 years
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Daily Kos, Raw Story, New York Post and USA Today


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.


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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Mondoweiss, New York Post, Reuters, CBS News and Jewish Telegraphic Agency


Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk's Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say — U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
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