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Elon Musk's handpicked young tech experts, known as the "Muskrats" or "nerd army," are targeting US bureaucracy, with a ...

A made-up story about Musk helping a Starbucks barista's daughter originated on YouTube, then took on new life thanks to ...

Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates ...

People are definitely going to die even if we turned everything back on today, which isn’t going to happen.” The only reason ...

Three weeks in, the change the Republican administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government.

Colbert got to that first by describing Musk, who holds no government position but has been illegally given access to dozens ...

Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving ...

Elon Musk has questioned the microchip claims made by DeepSeek AI, a fast-emerging player in the artificial intelligence pool ...

The dramatic power play began Friday, continued through the weekend -- and poses extraordinary and unprecedented threats to US security, lawmakers say ...

Trump on Sunday accused South Africa of confiscating land and badly treating "certain classes of people". Ramaphosa responded on Monday that the government had not confiscated any land and the policy ...

Jimmy addresses the latest news, like Google saying they will institute Donald Trump's Gulf of Mexico name change to Gulf of ...