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Billionaire Musk gave more than $144,000 to more than two dozen Congress members who support impeaching judges or restricting their power.
⚠️ Donald Trump has signed an executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Civilians."
This effectively transforms the American military into domestic watchdogs.
“The United States will never be a normal country,” writes Ben Rhodes. “Like China and Russia, it is too big, too shaped by a revolutionary and imperial past, too rived by traumas that it has inflicted and absorbed.”
"Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps.… Imagine if I had said to law firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration had initiated, that you will not be allowed into government buildings."
On Wednesday, Eli Lilly sued four telehealth companies that offer more affordable versions of its GLP-1 medications, marking the latest escalation in an ongoing war over the drugs.
⚡️Europe rejects US push to recognize Russian occupation of Crimea, FT reports.
An unnamed senior European official told the FT that the Trump administration had already been informed that European capitals would not recognize Crimea as Russian.
Big Tech companies including X, Meta, Apple and TikTok should be aware the bloc is ready to enforce its full digital rulebook no matter who is in charge of these firms, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told POLITICO.
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the rationale for President Donald Trump’s tariff policies are “unclear and not at all sensible"
Most of the damage caused by Trump's tariff plan will not be undone by its pause, Rogé Karma writes. "The world has seen things it cannot unsee":
小川普支持取消所有中国留学生的签证将这些“中国特务”都赶回中国。2028年如果小川普出来竞选总统,华人川粉还是会支持他的,梦想着建立“川普王朝”。
耶伦下台后回伯克利当经济学教授,被要求给川普处理经济打分:“恐怕我不能给它打及格分,很抱歉。这是我见过的政府对一个运转良好的经济造成的最严重的自我伤害。我们的经济运转良好,而川普总统却用破坏球砸它。”
我就说川普是对习主席自作多情嘛,还等着习主席给他打电话。中国宣布也给美国产品对等加125%关税,其实和加84%关税没啥区别了,说是最后一次加了,不再陪川普玩数字游戏。
After being found guilty of embezzling EU funds, far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s bid to lead France has been dealt a major blow.
But, why is it that some people in France see Le Pen as a martyr? aje.io/9j08dh
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
Jenner and Block and WilmerHale are suing President Trump over executive orders targeting the firms for their clients and work, saying they undermine the overall legal system.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that his department has revoked the student visas of hundreds of students so far, with plans to cancel more.
⚡️Russia rejects calls to return Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on March 25 that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is a Russian facility and cannot be transferred to Ukraine or any other country.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would require voters to prove they are US citizens. The sweeping order attempts to prevent states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day and seeks to take away federal funding from states that do not comply reut.rs/4j3b9fd
Members of the European Parliament urged the European Commission to launch a new support program for the region's semiconductor industry targeting investment in AI chips and other technological gaps reut.rs/41STrnU
The “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” rallies headlined by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become something much bigger — if Bernie and AOC direct their rally attendees into sustained organizing efforts against Donald Trump and Elon Musk: jacobin.com/2025/03/bern...
Members of Congress exploded in anger after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he was inadvertently included in a Trump administration Signal chat on airstrikes in Yemen.
"This is an outrageous national security breach and heads should roll."
Countries that warrant that paranoid approach to travel might include not just Russia and China but also America under the increasingly draconian and unpredictable scrutiny of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), security experts say.
A guide on entering the US with your digital privacy intact:
⚡️ Russian negotiator says he expects talks with Musk on space, tech.
Kirill Dmitriev, one of Russia's negotiators during talks with the U.S. in Saudi Arabia, said that the possible meeting with Elon Musk would concern technological development and the "future of humanity."
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.
Nearly all Voice of America (VOA) staff members have been placed on leave after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting the gov't-run news agency aje.io/tsjhzs