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Former congressman Billy Long of Missouri has been confirmed to lead the Internal Revenue Service, an agency he once sought to abolish.
California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed after he interrupted a Los Angeles press conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
"No Kings Protest" events are planned Saturday in cities across Florida, including Northeast Florida, but this week, Gov. Ron DeSantis warned protesters that “the line is very clear” and that law enforcement would be ready to act.
The House has voted to cut about $9.4 billion in spending as President Donald Trump’s administration looks to follow through on work done by the Department of Government Efficiency when it was overseen by Elon Musk.
House Democrats are searching for a new leader on the powerful House Oversight Committee after the untimely passing of their previous ranking member.
The United States is reducing the number of people deemed nonessential to operations in the Middle East, the State Department has announced.
A government watchdog group in Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit seeking to prohibit billionaire Elon Musk from ever again offering cash payments to voters in the battleground state like he did in this spring’s hotly contested Supreme Court race.
The world’s most powerful politician and its richest businessman stepped back from their war of words Wednesday, but it’s unclear if the peace will hold.
New Jersey primary voters chose their nominees — and President Donald Trump notched a win in his endorsement belt — in one of two high-stakes governor's races being held this year.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to move ahead with a directive to fire all remaining staffers with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
U.S. stocks drifted just below their all-time high as the wait continues to hear what will come of trade talks underway between the United States and China.
Speaker Mike Johnson took clear sides Sunday in President Donald Trump’s breakup with mega-billionaire Elon Musk.
President Donald Trump walked out to a thunderous standing ovation just ahead of the start of the UFC pay-per-view card at the Prudential Center, putting his public feud with tech billionaire Elon Musk on hold to instead watch the fierce battles inside the cage.
The leader of al-Qaida’s Yemen branch has threatened both U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in his first video message since taking over the group last year.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says Biden-era fuel economy standards for gas-guzzling cars and trucks are illegal and moved to reverse the rules.
A little less than once a week, on average, since President Donald Trump began his second term, his administration’s lawyers have filed emergency appeals with the Supreme Court.
The blowup between the president of the United States and the world’s richest man has played out on social media in real time, the latest, perhaps ultimate example of how X has become Elon Musk’s personal platform, his own reality show where anyone can tune in to watch the mercurial twists and turns of his unpredictable personality.
The Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration two victories in cases involving the Department of Government Efficiency, including giving it access to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.
President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are showing no signs of reconciling on Friday, but Republicans are increasingly urging them to settle their dispute.
After long months when President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk appeared united in their chaotic mission to remake Washington, their relationship imploded this week.
Last Friday, President Donald Trump heaped praise on Elon Musk as the tech billionaire prepared to leave his unorthodox White House job.
U.S. employers slowed hiring last month, but still added a solid 139,000 jobs amid uncertainty over Trump’s trade wars.
Shares of Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker fell sharply Thursday as investors fear his dispute with President Donald Trump could end up hurting the company.
President Donald Trump is threatening to cut Elon Musk’s government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud.
Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency behind, but its playbook has impacted dozens of agencies, departments and organizations and left thousands of federal workers unemployed or in limbo.
The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance.
Elon Musk has blasted President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts as a “disgusting abomination."
U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in April, showing that the labor market remains resilient in the face of uncertainty arising from President Donald Trump’s trade wars.
President Donald Trump’s administration has renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds.
President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax-break package.
President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.
President Donald Trump says he's withdrawing the nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, an associate of Trump adviser Elon Musk, to lead NASA.
An appeals court is keeping in place a court block on the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce.
Billionaire Elon Musk is expected to fall far short of even his most modest goal of shaving $150 billion from the federal deficit, having publicly opined last year that he could identify $2 trillion, roughly the size of the federal deficit.
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency is a former right-wing podcast host who has praised criminally charged influencer Andrew Tate as an “extraordinary human being."
The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding an accident investigation into the out-of-control Starship flight by SpaceX.
Elon Musk is leaving Washington after a short but turbulent stint in government and getting back to his numerous businesses, each with their own set of issues for the billionaire to address.
The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm.
A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to continue collecting tariffs under an emergency powers law, for now, as his administration appeals an order striking down the bulk of his signature set of economic policies.
The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 10% in 2024 as the stock market enjoyed another banner year and corporate profits rose sharply.
South Carolina Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews says she’s running against Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2026.
A group of roughly 80 fired federal employees are appealing their terminations to an administrative body in charge of protecting the rights of federal employees from partisan political practices.
A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit that accuses billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency of illegally accessing government data systems, canceling government contracts and firing federal employees.
Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy.
A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
SpaceX has launched its Starship mega rocket again after back-to-back explosions.
South Africa has denied accusations that a draft policy watering down Black ownership requirements for tech firms was proposed to benefit the Starlink business of white South African-born billionaire Elon Musk.
National Public Radio and three local stations filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, arguing that an executive order aimed at cutting federal funding for the organization is illegal.
Tesla sales across Europe plunged by half last month even as growth in the electric car market picked up pace.
Calin Georgescu, the controversial populist whose bid for Romania’s presidency last year resulted in the annulment of an election in the European Union and NATO member country, has announced he is stepping away from political life.
A Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has been tasked with overhauling the federal agency that manages vast tracts of public lands.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered further restrictions on how the press operates at the Pentagon.
Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government over the Trump administration’s attempts to collect the personal information of millions of U.S. residents who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Chief Justice John Roberts is agreeing to temporarily pause orders that would require Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to publicly disclose information about its operations.
It may start as a casual aside, a wee-hours social media post or a much hyped announcement.
The group run by Elon Musk that aims to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting U_S_ Census Bureau surveys it claims are “wasteful."
Between a barrage of executive orders, foreign trips and norm-shattering proclamations, President Donald Trump has also been busy raking in cash.
House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval.
President Donald Trump has hosted top investors for one of his cryptocurrency projects at his luxury golf course in Northern Virginia.
The U.S. Institute of Peace has retaken control of its headquarters, two days after a federal judge said the firing of its board and employees by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was illegal.
President Donald Trump used a video shown in the Oval Office to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with claims that white farmers are being targeted and killed in the country.
President Donald Trump has used a White House meeting to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with baseless claims of the systematic killing of white farmers in that country.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to block court orders requiring Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents about its operations to a government watchdog group.
President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency.
Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a key financial supporter of President Donald Trump, says he’ll be spending less on political campaigns.
Elon Musk promised hundreds of thousands of self-driving Teslas will be on the road requiring no human intervention by the end of next year.
Elon Musk is in a legal fight with Microsoft but made a virtual appearance at the software giant’s annual developer conference to reveal that Microsoft's cloud computing platform will now host Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.
A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace.
A humanities federation and a state council have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to reverse local funding cuts made by Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of top officials at the Library of Congress and equally sudden attempt to appoint a slate of loyalists as replacements has morphed into an enormous fight over the separation of powers.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post unsolicited claims on social media about the persecution and “genocide” of white people in South Africa.
Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on social media this week, posting unsolicited claims about the persecution and “genocide” of white people.
The chair of Tesla sold more than $230 million in company stock since Elon Musk’s endorsement of Donald Trump alienated car buyers and dragged profits lower.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come under bipartisan criticism over his agency’s actions to cancel billions of dollars in congressionally approved spending to address chronic pollution in minority communities and jump-start clean energy programs.
