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One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping effort to fire government employees and curtail ...

The political and policy waves crashing across the nation’s capital seem more likely in the near term to flood the “D.C.

Elon Musk has sidelined career officials, gained access to sensitive databases and even shut down the U.S. Agency for ...

The president said Musk won’t have the unfettered ability to dismantle the government, but for now their relationship is ...

Elon Musk and his allies have spent the last two weeks barreling full speed into multiple government agencies, causing ...

As of early February, the snow storage for our water system in the Southwest is at 76% of the 30 year average. Meanwhile, ...

The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of ...

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, known for the heroic landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, weighed in on the ...

Elon Musk is working for President Donald Trump as a “special government employee,” according to a White House official, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's second week in office seemed to deliver a daily dose of shock therapy for the country.

Solid results from Apple are buoying spirits, as investors brace for PCE inflation and weigh Trump's renewed tariff threat.