Government

Elon Musk’s 28-year-old DOGE lieutenant dismantled USAID. Now it’s taking place at the State Department
The Trump administration has expanded the power of adviser Elon Musk’s government-cutting team over the State Department, making a Musk lieutenant acting ...

A New Mexico Man Faces Federal Charges for Allegedly Setting Fire to a Tesla Showroom
A New Mexico man is facing federal charges for two separate incidents of alleged arson—one at an Albuquerque Tesla showroom ...

A Cybersecurity Professor Disappeared Amid an FBI Search. His Family Is ‘Determined to Fight’
The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) ...

Health and Human Services Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
One team that was purged from HHS managed over a hundred contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including crucial ...

Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to ‘Immediately’ Self-Deport
The Trump administration has sought to revoke the parole of some 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who entered the ...

Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government ...

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The Social Security Administration will no longer be communicating with the media and the public through press releases and “dear ...

Trump’s Trade War Is Strengthening China’s Soft Power
Trump administration officials have promoted the tariffs as a way to boost US manufacturing and create more high-paying jobs. But ...