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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 ...

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

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.

AI-powered chatbot, DeepSeek’s app quickly topped Apple’s App Store charts, a notable achievement given U.S. restrictions on ...

Giving in depth look at what tariffs are and how they work. Plane Crash: Army Helicopter Was Warned Ahead of Deadly Crash, ...

The wealthy businessman would have liked his office to be located in the center of the White House. Donald Trump decided ...