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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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Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanding answers about possible $400 million State Department purchase of Tesla Cybertrucks

1 min ago - Updated on: February 14, 2025 / 7:10 PM EST Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the ranking member on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Thursday night demanding answers and documents relating to ... (CBS News)

Hundreds march in Boston to support democracy and protest policies of Trump, Musk

36 min ago - Updated 6:03 PM EST, February 14, 2025 BOSTON (AP) — Chanting “Stop the coup” and carrying signs including “I Love Democracy” and “Resist,” hundreds of people rallied Friday in Boston against the policies of Preside ... (AP)

Senate Democrats try to regroup ahead of GOP budget barrage

1 hr ago - 11 hours ago Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is summoning his caucus for a rare Saturday conference call ahead of a potential reconciliation "vote-a-rama" next week. Why it matters: Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) budget p ... (Axios)

Daughters of Target's late cofounder "alarmed" over company's rollback of DEI efforts

1 hr ago - Updated on: February 14, 2025 / 5:24 PM EST The daughters of one of the cofounders of Target are expressing their alarm and shock at the discounter's recent moves to roll back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come under attac ... (CBS News/AP)

The Pentagon moves to take back troops discharged over COVID-19 vaccine refusals

1 hr ago - Friday 14 February 2025 22:46 GMT The Defense Department has told the military services to reach out once again to service members who were forced out or voluntarily left the military because they refused to get the COVID vaccine and see if they want ... (The Independent/AP)

Idle buses, empty Border Patrol boats: Arrests for illegal crossings fall in the Rio Grande Valley

2 hrs ago - Updated 5:31 PM EST, February 14, 2025 MISSION, Texas (AP) — An idled Border Patrol bus sat empty this week, on standby for any migrants surrendering near the southern tip of Texas. Agents in two speedboats zipped past pockets of sandy shores, ... (AP)

Trump administration rescinds NLRB memorandum viewing college athletes as employees

2 hrs ago - Published 4:33 p.m. ET Feb. 14, 2025 | Updated 5:10 p.m. ET Feb. 14, 2025 The National Labor Relations Board’s acting general counsel on Friday rescinded a memorandum issued by his Biden-administration predecessor that said she viewed college at ... (USA Today)

National Archives Head Resigns as Trump Takes Control of Records

8 hrs ago - The acting head of the National Archives announced his resignation on Friday, paving the way for Donald Trump to continue his takeover of the government’s records and the agency that serves as custodian of the nation’s history. Deputy Archi ... (Mother Jones)

I.R.S. Expected to Lay Off Thousands

8 hrs ago - The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to lay off thousands of employees as soon as next week, according to three people familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration pushes to dramatically shrink the size of the federal work force. The Of ... (New York Times)

Thousands of counterfeit stamps seized by border officials in Chicago

9 hrs ago - Posted 1:00 PM, Feb 14, 2025 More than 160,000 counterfeit U.S. Forever Stamps were seized in Chicago last weekend, officials said. U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP) officers assigned to the Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team at the ... (Scripps News)

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

9 hrs ago - Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, ... (CNN)

Mexico threatens to escalate US gunmakers lawsuit with terror charges

9 hrs ago - Fri 14 Feb 2025 13.06 EST Last modified on Fri 14 Feb 2025 13.11 EST Mexico’s president has warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action as accomplices of organized crime if Washington designates the country’s cartels as terrorist ... (The Guardian/AFP)

Trump administration eyes canceling leases for space used by US judiciary

10 hrs ago - February 14, 2025 2:43 PM EST Updated 5 hours ago Feb 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk's push to radically overhaul the federal government is now reaching the U.S. court system with a demand that the judiciary ... (Reuters)

OpenAI board unanimously rejects Elon Musk's $97.4 billion proposal

10 hrs ago - Updated 5:55 PM EST, February 14, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI says its board of directors has unanimously rejected a $97.4 billion takeover bid by Elon Musk. “OpenAI is not for sale, and the board has unanimously rejected Mr. Musk? ... (AP)

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

10 hrs ago - Three men wearing MAGA hats and Department of Government Efficiency T-Shirts stormed several offices inside San Francisco City Hall Friday demanding that workers hand over documents, the Sheriff’s Office said. Sheriff’s Office Director of ... (San Francisco Chronicle via MSN)

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

11 hrs ago - February 14, 2025 6:22PM ET Republican lawmakers are beginning to ramp up pressure on President Donald Trump to ease off the drastic cuts, spending freezes, and layoffs in the federal government that directly impact their own states, Politico reporte ... (Raw Story)

DOJ files motion to dismiss charges in Mayor Eric Adams' case

11 hrs ago - The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. An attorney in the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section signed the paperwork Friday evening required to move forward with seeking the ... (ABC)

Trump says auto tariffs coming around April 2

11 hrs ago - By Reuters February 14, 2025 2:50 PM EST WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to impose tariffs on imported cars around April 2. ... (Reuters)

Trump administration slashes funding for ObamaCare outreach program

11 hrs ago - 02/14/25 2:17 PM ET The Trump administration slashed funding for Affordable Care Act navigators, which help people sign up for ObamaCare coverage on the law’s exchanges, by 90 percent. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Fri ... (The Hill)

U.S.-Russia Talks are 'obsolete' after Chernobyl Drone Strike -- Kallas

12 hrs ago - MUNICH — The European Union’s top diplomat said that any talks between the United States and Russia were now “obsolete” following a drone strike at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant that Kyiv blamed on Moscow. “It ... (Moscow Times)

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