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Warren to Treasury Chief: You Blew It on Elon Musk

Senator criticizes decision to grant him access to federal payments system

(Newser) - Days after the new Treasury secretary gave Elon Musk access to a sensitive federal payments system , Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a question: What you were thinking, Scott Bessent?
  • "I am alarmed that as one of your first acts as secretary, you appear to have handed over a highly sensitive
...

Ontario Leader: See Ya, Starlink Contract

Doug Ford says he's 'ripping up' $69M deal with Musk company amid Trump tariffs against Canada

(Newser) - In November, the Progressive Conservative leader of Canada's most populous province announced a $69 million contract with Elon Musk's Starlink, in an effort to bring high-speed internet to thousands of homes and businesses in some of the more far-flung parts of Ontario. That contract is no more, according...

New Target of Trump Anger: South Africa
New Target of Trump
Anger: South Africa
the rundown
Feb 3, 2025 9:51 AM CST

New Target of Trump Anger: South Africa

President says land is being confiscated from farmers, which the government denies

(Newser) - Add South Africa to the list of nations in President Trump's dog house. On Sunday, Trump threatened to cut off all aid to the nation after claiming it was confiscating land from farmers, which the South African government says is a distortion of the truth. Another wrinkle in the...

One of Musk's Key DC Lieutenants Is a Teenager

Wired : Young engineers with little government experience are dismantling agencies

(Newser) - Elon Musk continues to take what Axios describes as a "wrecking ball" to the federal bureaucracy, with the US Agency for International Development now on the chopping block . In recent days, Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency also gained access to a sensitive system that...

USAID Security Chiefs Who Refused Musk Are on Leave
Elon Musk:
Time for
USAID 'to Die'
UPDATED
Feb 3, 2025 12:30 AM CST

Elon Musk: Time for USAID 'to Die'

He says Trump has agreed to 'shut it down'

(Newser) - Elon Musk says it's time for USAID, the federal agency that oversees foreign aid to civilians, "to die." Musk's post on X came soon after reports that two of the agency's top security chiefs are on leave after allegedly refusing access to classified material to...

Bessent Gives Musk Access to Payroll System

Top Treasury official, since ousted, had blocked the move

(Newser) - After the ouster of a top Treasury Department official who had resisted the move, Elon Musk and his team have received full access to a sensitive government system that handles trillions of dollars in federal payments. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted the unprecedented access late Friday, the New York Times...

Musk Talks to Boeing About Hurrying Air Force One Models

Trump 'wants the airplane sooner,' CEO says

(Newser) - President Trump ordered the next generation of presidential planes during his first term, spent four years out of office, and returned to find the two modified 747s not yet delivered by Boeing. In addition to being years behind schedule, the project is more than $2 billion over budget, CNBC reports....

Elon Musk's Astronaut Post Is a Little 'Perplexing'

He says SpaceX will bring pair home—which NASA announced in August

(Newser) - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chided the Biden administration for leaving two astronauts "stranded" on the International Space Station in a Tuesday X post —and said President Trump had requested that SpaceX bring Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore home as soon as possible. "We will do so,"...

Thousands Protest AfD as Musk Addresses Its Rally

Organizers call Berlin demonstration a 'sea of light against the right turn'

(Newser) - Thousands of Germans on Saturday protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party ahead of a Feb. 23 general election. At Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, participants lighted up their phones, blew whistles, and sang anti-fascist songs, and in Cologne, protesters...

Musk's Latest Move Appears to Have Angered Trump Team

He publicly slams AI initiative pushed by the president

(Newser) - On Tuesday, President Trump announced "the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history"—Stargate, a $500 billion joint venture with Oracle, SoftBank, and ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Trump further called it a "tremendous" and "monumental" initiative. Elon Musk soon weighed in, and his remarks appear to...

Subreddits Are Starting to Ban Links to X

Some users say Musk gesture was the last straw

(Newser) - While the debate rages on over whether Elon Musk performed a Nazi salute at an inaugural event, many Reddit communities have decided to go ahead and ban links to X, including some with millions of members. Some of largest subreddits involved are sports communities, including r/NBA, which has 15 million...

Meteorologist Fired for Calling Musk's Gesture a 'Nazi Salute'

Sam Kuffel is out at WDJT, though some suggest she should sue

(Newser) - A Milwaukee TV station has fired a meteorologist who accused Elon Musk of making a Nazi salute at the inauguration . "Dude Nazi saluted twice. TWICE," WDJT-TV weather forecaster Sam Kuffel wrote on her Instagram account Tuesday alongside a picture of Musk, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . "You...

Musk Has Doubts About Huge Project Trump Announced

Stargate backer OpenAI doesn't 'actually have the money,' Musk says

(Newser) - President Trump was joined by top execs from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank Tuesday night when he announced Stargate , a project to invest up to $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure—but a tech titan closer to Trump's inner circle soon poured cold water on the idea. "They don'...

Elon Musk&#39;s Salute Is a Dicey Inauguration Topic
Elon Musk's Salute
Is a Dicey Inauguration Topic
the rundown
Jan 21, 2025 6:18 AM CST

Elon Musk's Salute Is a Dicey Inauguration Topic

Critics accuse him of making a Nazi salute, which he calls a 'tired' comparison

(Newser) - All the chatter about Elon Musk's speech Monday at Capitol One Arena in DC isn't about what he said but about a gesture he made, twice. To critics, it looked for all the world to be a Nazi salute, reports Politico . Others, though, say people are reading way...

Elon Musk&#39;s DOGE Is About to Get Sued
Elon Musk's DOGE
Is About to Get Sued
Jan 20, 2025 10:59 AM CST

Elon Musk's DOGE Is About to Get Sued

Advocacy group says the new non-government panel violates transparency laws

(Newser) - The Trump administration plans to start day one on an aggressive footing . But it also might be playing some defense, too: The new Department of Government Efficiency run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy is getting sued on Monday, reports the Washington Post . The advocacy group National Security Counselors says...

Turks and Caicos Reports Damage From SpaceX Debris

FAA grounds Starship during investigation of breakup

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration has joined officials in Turks and Caicos in investigating damage apparently caused by debris from the breakup of SpaceX's rocket during a test flight on Thursday. The FAA has grounded the Starship rocket in the meantime, NBC News reports. No injuries have been reported, the...

Spacecraft Breaks Up Minutes After SpaceX Launch

Giant robotic arms successfully catch first-stage booster at pad

(Newser) - SpaceX lost the upper stage of its Starship rocket on a test flight Thursday when the unmanned spacecraft apparently broke up just as it was reaching space—after a thrilling booster catch back at its Texas pad. Elon Musk's company said the spacecraft's six engines appeared to shut...

Podcaster on Becoming 'Enemy of the World's Richest Man'

In new essay, Sam Harris says text exchange over COVID killed his friendship with Elon Musk

(Newser) - "I didn't set out to become an enemy of the world's richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same." That's the start of a new Substack essay by noted atheist and podcaster Sam Harris, who details his falling-out with billionaire, SpaceX/Tesla/X...

As Ban Approaches, Here Are TikTok&#39;s Options
Trump Aims to
Save TikTok: Report
UPDATED
Jan 16, 2025 2:00 AM CST

Trump Aims to Save TikTok: Report

Social media platform in danger of going dark this weekend

(Newser) - President-elect Trump is considering ways he could "preserve" TikTok once he takes office, according to a GOP congressman. If the Supreme Court upholds the US ban on the Chinese-owned social media platform, Trump "has been very clear" about what he'd do, Rep. Mike Waltz, Trump's pick...

SEC Sues Elon Musk
SEC Sues Elon Musk
Jan 14, 2025 8:58 PM CST

SEC Sues Elon Musk

Agency says he bought Twitter stock at 'artificially low prices' after failing to disclose stake

(Newser) - The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk Tuesday, though the suit may not have a future after the agency—and the country—gets new leadership next week. The lawsuit filed in Washington, DC, accuses Musk of ignoring a deadline in early 2022 to disclose that he...

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