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Updated Feb 27, 2025 - Energy & Climate

Top weather, climate agency NOAA the latest layoff target

Illustration of the bird flying off the NOAA logo.
Updated Feb 27, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Musk wants retired air traffic controllers to resume work, but it's not so easy

Elon Musk holds a toy Air Force One plane.
Feb 27, 2025 - Technology

OpenAI debuts GPT-4.5, its biggest model yet

Illustration of eye emojis with the OpenAI logo in the pupil

White House briefs conservative influencers on Epstein files

The White House
Feb 27, 2025 - Economy

Tariff worries, Trump cuts signal emerging economic growth risks

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Investors question whether Musk's X and DOGE ties are hurting Tesla

Trump taps a Cabinet of multi-taskers to slash the federal government

Illustration of a long conference table featuring a Trump baseball cap, a MAGA hat, papers, folders with the Republican logo, an American flag, and a glass of milk

Global democracy score hits historic low: report

Updated Feb 27, 2025 - Business

Trump raising tariffs on China another 10%, citing flows of illegal drugs

President Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office.
Updated Feb 27, 2025 - Science

Gayle King, Lauren SƔnchez to lead Blue Origin all-women crewed mission

Gayle King morning show
Column / Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain: The hard truths about Trump tax cuts

Behind the Curtain: Hard truths on taxes
Feb 27, 2025 - Health

A new era of Made in America drug manufacturing

Illustration of a prescription pill bottle with the American flag as the label.
Feb 27, 2025 - Business

Where every Oscar winner for Best Actor and Actress was born

How the Bezos-Trump alliance began

From left, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai at the inauguration of Donald Trump

U.S. moves to remove transgender troops from military, Pentagon memo shows

President Donald Trump looks on as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2025.

Trump administration to cut 92% of USAID foreign aid contracts

Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens as President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Cabinet Meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is holding the first Cabinet meeting of his second term, joined by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, head of the Department of Gov
Updated Feb 26, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Supreme Court pauses order on Trump administration foreign aid payments

Demonstrators, some of them former PEPFAR and USAID employees, protest to demand that Congress stand up to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" and reinstate lifesaving programs in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on February 26, 2025

Scoop: Schumer's early guest list for Trump's speech to Congress

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference after the senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, February 25, 2025.

Mike Johnson eyes solo approach to avoid government shutdown

This is Mike Johnson

Hamas sends to Israel bodies of 4 hostages, completing 1st phase of Gaza deal

People line the street to watch the funeral procession carrying the caskets of Shiri Bibas, Kfir Bibas and Ariel Bibas, with family in minibuses, on Wednesday in Rishon LeZion, Israel.
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