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Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it. DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to purportedly root out waste in the federal government, launched its website on Wednesday night with a feature allowing users to “trace your tax dollars t ...

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Vance Tells Europeans to Stop Shunning Parties Deemed Extreme

Vance Tells Europeans to Stop Shunning Parties Deemed Extreme His comments, a week before Germany's elections, seemed to specifically target efforts to sideline the hard-right Alternative for Germany. By Jim Tankersley, Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger Reporting from Munich Feb. 14, 2025 Updated 4:04 p.m. ET Vice President JD Vance told European leaders on Friday that their biggest security threat was not military aggression from Russia or China, or election meddling from Moscow. Rather, h ...

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Trump, Elon Musk Invited to SNL 50 Anniversary Special: Report

Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special on Sunday is already considered one of the hardest tickets to get, given tiny capacity of Studio 8H (which typically holds about 250 guests) and the sheer volume of former cast members, celebrities, executives, and other VIPs vying for a seat. In preparation of Sunday’s festivities, SNL installed 200 extra seats inside of its studio, but even still, many prospective guests have reportedly been warned to expect to sit in Studio 8G, an overflow room s ...

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JD Vance Says U.S. Troops Fighting Russia In Ukraine Is 'On The Table' In Stunning Reversal

Feb 14th, 2025, 11:11 am Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that the U.S. sending troops to fight Russia in Ukraine remained on “the table” – the latest stunning statement from inside the Trump administration on their strategy to end the war this week. The Journal reported, “Vance said the option of sending U.S. troops to Ukraine if Moscow failed to negotiate in good faith remained ‘on the table,’ striking a far tougher tone than did Defense Secretary Pete Hegse ...

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The White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of 'Gulf of Mexico'

The Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely. -snip- President Donald Trump said last month that the US government would rename the body of water the “Gulf of America.” The change has taken effect at government agencies. But other countries do not recognize the new name, and the AP has customers around the world, so it still refers to the Gulf of Mexico while also acknowledging Trump’s decree. Other global ne ...

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Trump executive order leads to $100 energy bill hike for hundreds in Alabama

(Popular Info) Donald Trump promised that, as president, he would drastically lower Americans' energy bills. But hundreds of Alabama residents are receiving a $100 surcharge on their energy bills as a direct result of Trump's actions in the White House. The surcharge occurred because one of Trump's executive orders froze a grant that assists low-income residents with their energy bills. In an email, an Alabama official confirmed that the letter from Huntsville Utilities was genuine and the $100 increase was the direct result of Trump's EO.

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What Musk and Trump are doing is worse than Project 2025

(Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump’s early actions in office have in many cases expanded upon proposals from Project 2025's conservative policy blueprint that the Republican tried to distance himself from on the campaign trail, a Reuters review found. From actions halting U.S. aid abroad to fortifying the southern border and restrictions on transgender athletes, Reuters identified more than a dozen Trump executive orders or other policy moves that exceed in ambition or scope what Project 2025’s 900-page “Mandate for Leadership” book advocated in a series of detailed policy proposals.

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Bannon Warns Trump and Musk: There's 'A Lot of MAGAs on Medicaid' and They 'Can't Take a Meat Axe To It'

(Mediaite) Steve Bannon offered a warning to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Thursday, saying Medicaid is a “complicated” program to cut. Trump tapped Musk to lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” a roving group that has gone from department to department ostensibly to cut costs by laying off personnel and freezing money already been appropriated by Congress. The moves have prompted a wave of lawsuits and a series of rebukes from judges.

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Eric Adams just became the poster child for Pam Bondi's new corruption stance

(MSNBC) It has rarely hurt a politician’s fortunes to insist that they will clean up their opponent’s rampant abuse of power. Claims of waste, fraud and corruption are part and parcel with American politics, dating back to the earliest days of the republic. But while the second Trump administration is saying many of the right words, its first month makes clear that far from combating bribery and other forms of corruption, it has moved to ignore, underplay, or even embrace a blossoming culture of kickbacks.

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National Archives Head Resigns as Trump Takes Control of Records

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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country's weapons stockpile, sources say

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Three suspected DOGE impersonators storm S.F. City Hall, demand documents

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'Pretty drastic': GOP lawmakers urge Trump to scale back cuts hurting their states

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JD Vance Says U.S. Troops Fighting Russia In Ukraine Is 'On The Table' In Stunning Reversal

8 hrs ago - Feb 14th, 2025, 11:11 am Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that the U.S. sending troops to fight Russia in Ukraine remained on “the table” – the latest stunning statement from inside the Trump administra ... (MEDIAite)

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