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During an Oval Office send-off Friday marking the end of his formal role with the Trump administration, Elon Musk lashed out when asked about a New York Times report alleging he was a frequent user of the drug ketamine during the 2024 campaign.”The New York Times. Is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russiagate?” Musk asked while standing alongside President Trump, cutting off a question from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy about the Times. “Let’s move on.”Musk’s remarks came on the same day that the Times reported he used ketamine — which…

Companies could face repercussions over DEI Companies could face Trump repercussions over DEI 03:06 President Trump is terminating the head of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, continuing his aggressive moves to reshape the federal government’s cultural institutions.Mr. Trump announced Friday on his Truth Social platform that he was ousting Director Kim Sajet, calling her a “highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position.”Sajet, a Dutch citizen raised in Australia, was appointed to the post in 2013 by former President Barack Obama. She had previously served as president of the Historical Society…

Paul Ingrassia, who is currently serving as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, has been nominated to the lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Tia Dufour/U.S. Department of Homeland Security hide caption toggle caption Tia Dufour/U.S. Department of Homeland Security President Trump has nominated 30-year-old conservative lawyer Paul Ingrassia, to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, a government ethics office, despite Ingrassia’s ties to multiple antisemitic extremists. If confirmed by the Senate, Ingrassia would oversee the agency that enforces the Hatch Act, which limits government employees from engaging in certain partisan political activities, and…

An appeals court on Friday refused to freeze a California judge’s order halting the Trump administration from downsizing the federal workforce, which means that Department of Government Efficiency-led cuts remain on pause for now.In the 2-1 ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the White House’s request to freeze the injunction.   “The Executive Order at issue here far exceeds the President’s supervisory powers under the Constitution,” the appeals court wrote. “The President enjoys significant removal power with respect to the appointed officers of federal agencies.”The administration had sought an emergency stay of an injunction issued by U.S. Judge Susan Illston…

Court rulings this week suggest Trump’s lawless actions will not go unnoticed. Ad Policy US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on May 28, 2025.(Chris Kleponis / CNP / Bloomberg) There are weeks when, it seems, everything comes to a head. This week could well be viewed, in hindsight, as one of those—as the moment the wheels started to come off the Trump train. On Wednesday, a panel of federal judges for the US Court of International Trade ruled that the vast majority of Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs were illegal. The two lawsuits against…

Approximately 250 million bees escaped after a tractor-trailer carrying more than 70,000 pounds of pollinator hives rolled over Friday in northern Washington state, authorities said.The commercial truck hauling the honeybees overturned at about 4 a.m. in Whatcom County, Washington, which borders Canada’s British Columbia, the sheriff’s office said in a social media post. It’s unclear what caused the truck to roll over.   The commercial truck hauling the 250 million bees overturned at about 4 a.m. in Whatcom County, Washington. Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office The hives came off the truck shortly after 9 a.m., which freed the bees. The incident…

President Trump announced that he would be doubling tariffs on steel to 50% as he visited a U.S. Steel mill in the Pittsburgh suburbs Friday, a week after teasing a “planned partnership” between the company and its Japanese competitor Nippon Steel. “We are going to be imposing a 25% increase. We’re going to bring it from 25% to 50% the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States,” he said.The Nippon deal will allow U.S. Steel’s headquarters to remain in Pennsylvania, according to Mr. Trump, who characterized the…

President Trump issued an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television stations to withhold funds from PBS. On Friday, PBS — led by Paula Kerger (right) — and Lakeland PBS of Minnesota sued. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images, Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images, Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images PBS and a public television station in rural Minnesota filed suit on Friday against President Trump over his executive order demanding that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting kill all funding for the network. The suit alleges Trump’s order is unlawful, exceeding his authority…

The investigation into the bitcoin torture case in New York City has revealed gruesome details about the alleged kidnapping and beating of an Italian man for his fortune in the cryptocurrency.What we know about the bitcoin torture caseThe unidentified 28-year-old man managed to escape from his alleged captors on May 23 in the affluent SoHo neighborhood in Manhattan, according to the New York Police Department. Bloodied and not wearing shoes, the man then found an NYPD traffic agent, who alerted police, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.Two cryptocurrency investors, 37-year-old John Woeltz and 33-year-old William Duplessie, have been charged…

From Iran-contra to Iraq war WMD lies to Trumpism, this right-wing pundit kept subverting democracy.  Ad Policy Michael Ledeen, a key figure in launching the sale of US-made weapons to Iran, is pictured in his Chevy Chase, Maryland, home, August 13, 1987.(Scott Stewart / AP Photo) I learned what a liar Michael Ledeen was in 2004 when I cowrote a profile of him for The Boston Globe. In an e-mail interview with Ledeen, I found him to be remarkably modest in his claims for himself, which would have been charming if it weren’t one of his many manipulative lies. Asked…