WASHINGTON — While flying back to Washington aboard Air Force One on Wednesday night, a reporter asked President Donald Trump whether Elon Musk would pursue budget cuts at the Pentagon. His response might be confusing to anyone who hasn’t spent the last several days monitoring Musk’s account on X. Trump said Musk would be looking … Read more
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend. He said at an investment conference in Miami that the administration is considering a concept in which 20% of the savings … Read more
LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said President Donald Trump is in a “disinformation space” as public recriminations between the two leaders deepened on Wednesday amid nascent talks to end Russia’s three-year-old full-scale invasion of its neighbor. The series of attacks, Zelenskyy suggested, were informed in part by “disinformation,” which the Ukrainian president said “comes … Read more
The future looked bright for Luis Eduardo Perez Parra, Leonel Rivas Gonzalez and Abrahan Josue Barrios last week. After being held in immigration custody for over a year and facing the possibility of transfer to Guantánamo Bay, the three men asked a federal court to intervene, warning they might have “disappeared into the legal black … Read more
Hamas handed over four bodies to the Red Cross in Gaza on Thursday, in the latest return of deceased hostages as part of the group’s ceasefire deal with Israel. Red Cross officials took custody of four black coffins during a ceremony in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. A Red Cross official and a … Read more
In a major ruling, the judge overseeing the case of the man charged with killing four Idaho college students in 2022 has denied a request to exclude potentially key DNA and other evidence from his upcoming capital murder trial. Lawyers for Bryan Kohberger had sought to suppress DNA evidence that was seen as a linchpin … Read more
An Alabama grand jury has recommended that a city’s police department be “immediately abolished,” finding there is a “rampant culture of corruption,” officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency’s officers, including its police chief. Five Hanceville police officers were arrested and charged amid a probe into the department, Cullman County … Read more
A law firm representing Elon Musk and Tesla helped draft legislation to overhaul Delaware’s corporate law amid an ongoing court battle over Musk’s multibillion-dollar compensation package from his electric car company, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News. The proposed state legislation would amend the Delaware General Corporation Law to ease the rules … Read more
A Chihuahua was rescued and later reunited with its owner after running “for miles” down a busy stretch of Interstate 5 in San Diego earlier this month. Source link
In an attempt to defend the Department of Government Efficiency’s controversial moves, Elon Musk is likening the aggressive government overhaul to a Clinton-era task force that oversaw a shrinking of the federal workforce. “Sounds familiar,” Musk wrote in one X post over the weekend in response to a 40-minute compilation video of President Bill Clinton … Read more