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On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him. The swift resignation was, at least at first, a breath of fresh air. President Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly […]
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PlayStation Network is still offline after unexpectedly going down around midnight last night, UK time (1am CET / 7pm ET / 4pm PT). Read more Read more ›
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An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” Read more ›
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Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on. Read more ›
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President Trump's defending women executive order prompted all agencies and departments to remove references to gender and other content. Read more ›
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Before Paul Graham defined "founder mode," Bill Gates embodied a similar approach when cofounding Microsoft in the 1970s. Read more ›
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Race to bring satellite-connected phones to wider market heats up as some question bullish promises from operators Read more ›
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The agency was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world—until Elon Musk showed up. Read more ›
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Over 385,000 people voted in Elon Musk's poll, with 78% supporting rehiring the former DOGE staffer. Read more ›
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Federal judges have already limited some of Trump and DOGE's most sweeping ambitions. Read more ›
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Estonia, a NATO member near Russia, spends more of its GDP on defense than the US. It's happy Trump is asking allies to boost spending to 5% of GDP. Read more ›
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The ReMarkable Paper Pro is fantastic for writing and taking notes, but its high price might make it a hard sell for anyone looking for just an e-reader or a digital scratch pad. Read more ›
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Unlike Formula 1 and NASCAR, rally racing is a type of racing where drivers are on unpredictable tracks, so the average speeds are much slower. Read more ›
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Ben Solo's new Marvel series, Legacy of Vader, highlights what divides the man that became Kylo Ren from the man that became Darth Vader—and what will ultimately unite them. Read more ›
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Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form says were received in exchange for consulting services. Read more ›
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With its arsenal depleted and its reputation battered in Ukraine, Russia must make hard choices to rebuild its military power. Read more ›
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According to Downdetector, PlayStation Network (PSN) has been down since 6 PM ET, with Sony assuring users that they're working to fix the problem "as soon as possible." For gaming specifically, Sony says that "you might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features." "We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN," Sony said in an 8:46PM ET post on X. No further details were made... Read more ›
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Skip the traditional roses and dinner and hop on the Millennium Falcon for a sci-fi smooch. Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a halt on most of the CFPB's work. It could impact rules on overdraft fees, medical bills, and more. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is moving fast and breaking the law — lots of laws. The scope of Trump and Musk’s sweeping effort to purge the federal workforce and slash government spending has shocked the political world — in part for its ambition, but also in part because of its disregard for the […] Read more ›
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A leader who voters rejected several years ago returns to power, largely thanks to discontent with the incumbent party’s economic performance. Almost immediately upon taking office, the leader launches a blitzkrieg designed to strengthen his personal grip on power. He claims unprecedented power over the budget, fires the leaders of government oversight agencies, and places […] Read more ›
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Things that, just a few years ago, would have been thought impossible in the American system of government are now happening. Trump is asserting the president’s power to remake the executive branch as he sees fit — empowering Elon Musk to push aside civil servants, wind down entire agencies, and generally strike terror into the […] Read more ›
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In his frenetic efforts to increase government “efficiency,” Elon Musk has usurped Congress’s rightful authority over spending while almost certainly breaking a wide variety of federal laws. Donald Trump’s top donor — who has not been elected to any office, or confirmed to any Cabinet position — has shuttered the US Agency for International Development […] Read more ›
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If there is ever going to be a Resistance movement 2.0, it might have gotten a much-needed jolt of energy this week. Gathered on the eastern steps of the US Treasury Department’s DC headquarters Tuesday evening, some two dozen Democratic members of Congress rallied a few hundred protesters against Elon Musk. Specifically, they were protesting […] Read more ›
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Billionaire Elon Musk and his band of young Silicon Valley engineers have gained access to IT systems controlling critical functions of the federal government, from the Treasury Department to the Small Business Administration. The problem is no one outside of the Trump administration really knows what Musk and his team at the newly created Department […] Read more ›
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A brief spat between Elon Musk and the news organization Politico is making something quite obvious: The nation’s governance is increasingly at the whim of online conspiracy theorists. This incident began with two unrelated events: On Tuesday, staffers at Politico reported that the company had missed payroll. Those issues were resolved later that day. Separately, […] Read more ›
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Just over two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has already thrown American democracy into crisis. On his first day in office, the president pardoned those who had violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to obstruct his removal from power. He then fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors […] Read more ›
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This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Three weeks in, the second Trump administration has already flooded the zone with an absolutely overwhelming volume of executive orders, tariff threats, and whatever Elon Musk is doing. So I’m going to focus this week on two actions […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump recently attempted to fire Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its former chair. This attempted termination is just one of many similar actions Trump has taken, but it is also a singularly important move by Trump because it could trigger a legal fight that could significantly […] Read more ›
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