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Feb 5, 2025 - Business

Musk sets sights on aviation reform

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. watch a Space X rocket launch.

Scoop: Alex Bruesewitz, Trump's podcast guru, takes new MAGA role

Alex Bruesewitz congratulates President Trump in West Palm Beach on election night. Photo via @alexbruesewitz on X

IRS workers can't take Trump's "buyout" until after tax season

The words "Internal Revenue Service" on a building
Feb 5, 2025 - Technology

Google scraps minority recruitment goals, will review DEI programs

Illustration of a hand erasing the letters DEI from a whiteboard shaped like a speech bubble.

DOGE targets government media subscriptions after MAGA attacks

Illustration of a crumbling newspaper

House Democrat plans articles of impeachment against Trump

Rep. Al Green, wearing a dark gray suit and holding up a cane in front of brown leather chairs.
Updated Feb 5, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump's birthright citizenship order frozen by judge

Trump speaks from the Oval Office.

House GOP eyes new Plan B on extending Trump tax cuts

This is Chip Roy
Updated Feb 5, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Former NLRB board member sues Trump over firing

NLRB logo

DOGE searches for DEI information at U.S. climate, oceans agency

Photo of a curved building with letters spelling "NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction"

Teachers, administrators caught in crosshairs of immigration crackdown

Photo illustrated collage of an ICE agent with a school classroom in the background surrounded by various squares and rectangles

America's adversaries cheer Trump admin's USAID teardown

lawmakers and employees and supporters of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) speak at a press conference outside of USAID headquarters on February 03,

USPS resumes accepting packages from China, Hong Kong amid Trump trade war

A United States Postal Service (USPS) van in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. The Department of Labor is scheduled to release initial jobless claims figures on January 2. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Column / Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain: Trump's wild Middle East vision

resident Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Feb 5, 2025 - World

Trump's Gaza shock wave stuns Middle East and some in White House

Trump points

Which states have the biggest Black unemployment gaps

Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled

Musk team's access to Treasury records raises a row

Illustration of a cursor hand holding a red pen that is making proofreading marks over a computer folder.

Trump admin putting most USAID staff on leave, recalling overseas workers

People protest outside of the headquarters for United States Agency for International Development (USAID), before Congressional Democrats hold news conference in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2025.
Updated Feb 4, 2025 - World

Trump claims U.S. will "take over" Gaza and turn it into new "Riviera"

Trump on stage with Netanyahu

How Tulsi Gabbard's nomination came roaring back to life

This is Tulsi Gabbard

Pam Bondi wins Senate confirmation despite fierce Dem opposition

Pam Bondi
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