Top Security Officials at Aid Agency Put on Leave After Denying Access to Musk Team
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Top Security Officials at Aid Agency Put on Leave After Denying Access to Musk Team

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave on Saturday night after refusing to give representatives of Elon Musk access to internal systems, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. And…

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to five people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to…

Tesla and Chinese Carmakers Could Reap Billions From EU Emissions Rules
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Tesla and Chinese Carmakers Could Reap Billions From EU Emissions Rules

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As European automakers brace for a possible trade war waged by President Trump, they are working to ward off another threat on their home turf: the prospect of paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Tesla and Chinese competitors muscling in on their…

Elon Musk and His Friends Help Trump Shake Up the Government
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Elon Musk and His Friends Help Trump Shake Up the Government

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines On Friday afternoon, the world’s richest person showed up at what sounds like one of the world’s most boring agencies to demand a list. Elon Musk had arrived at the Office of Personnel Management, a mundane-sounding agency with vast power overseeing the federal…

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Bizarre, Frightening Obsession With Britain
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Bizarre, Frightening Obsession With Britain

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Keir Starmer, the newly elected prime minister, appeared to call Mr. Musk out. “To large social media companies and those who run them,” Mr. Starmer said at the time, “violent disorder, clearly whipped up online, that is also a crime.” Mr. Musk took…

Opinion | Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It
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Opinion | Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There’s nothing new about the problem of money in politics. We’ve been warned for decades that America is or is becoming an oligarchy. But something has felt different about the early days of President Trump’s second term, and I think it’s this: Attention,…

Opinion | ‘Puerility, Provocation and a Strain of Nihilism’: 3 Writers on What Binds Trump and Musk
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Opinion | ‘Puerility, Provocation and a Strain of Nihilism’: 3 Writers on What Binds Trump and Musk

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Bethany McLean, an author of “The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and Nate Silver, the author of “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything” and the newsletter Silver Bulletin, to…

F.A.A. Temporarily Halts Launches of Musk’s Starship After Explosion
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F.A.A. Temporarily Halts Launches of Musk’s Starship After Explosion

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The urgent radio calls by the air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration office in Puerto Rico started to go out on Thursday evening as a SpaceX test flight exploded and debris began to rain toward the Caribbean. Flights near Puerto Rico…