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Elon Musk Backs Plan To Privatise USPS And Amtrak As Trump's Cost-Cutting Crusade Escalates

DOGE chief Elon Musk recently signalled at a conference that the USPS and the passenger rail service Amtrak should be privatised to resolve their long-standing financial challenges.

International Business Times UK

Musk calls for Amtrak and the Postal Service to become private entities

Donald Trump has long been critical of Postal Service

The Independent UK

Trump to Cabinet: Musk can't fire staff

The president weighed in after weeks of confusion, telling Cabinet leaders that they, not Musk, held firing power

Salon

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Hispanic Democrat slams ‘xenophobic’ Republican tweet calling him an ‘illegal immigrant’

‘The Republican Party has been invaded by xenophobic feelings and xenophobes,’ Adriano Espaillat tells The Independent

The Independent UK

Trump Reins In Musk's Power: 'Only Cabinet Heads Have Authority to Fire Staff, Not You'

President Donald Trump has cut back Elon Musk's power, telling his Cabinet that they alone have the authority to fire staff members.

Latin Times

Trump warns his Cabinet that Musk can’t actually fire workers

Trump gathered his department heads to tell them they can be ‘very precise’ with the billionaire ‘as to who will remain and who will go’

The Independent UK

Trump Says Musk Should Use 'Scalpel' Not 'Hatchet' In Govt Cuts

President Donald Trump responded Thursday to growing criticism over unprecedented cuts to the US government overseen by his billionaire advisor Elon Musk, saying they should be carefully targeted.

International Business Times

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First private US robotic lunar rover lands successfully on the moon

Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform by Lunar Outpost landed near the moon’s south pole after eight days

The Guardian - US

Tesla Is Doubling Down on its Dojo Supercomputer. Does that Make TSLA Stock a Buy in 2025?

Analysts at Morgan Stanley believe that Dojo could add $500 billion in market value to Tesla.

Barchart

Elon Musk and Texas governor celebrate firing of worker over pronouns in email signature

Billionaire Trump ally and Greg Abbott tweet about Frank Zamora, who was let go after refusing to remove pronouns

The Guardian - US

Reform’s surge in polls grinds to a halt as Farage faces party rift over ‘messianic’ leadership style

The latest Techne UK weekly tracker poll suggests that Reform UK has hit a ceiling in support as Nigel Farage’s leadership is questioned by fellow Reform MP Rupert Lowe - the man Elon Musk endorsed to be leader

The Independent UK

Farage hits back at fellow Reform MP who said he has ‘messianic qualities’

Rupert Lowe said Nigel Farage needed to ‘learn to delegate’.

Evening Standard

Musk should not be allowed to funnel money into UK politics, Labour MP warns

MPs have called on the Government to ‘deal with’ the businesses and organisations foreign individuals can use to donate to UK political parties.

The Independent UK

Senators ask DOJ to investigate whether Elon Musk is using his insider status in the Trump administration to pressure advertisers back to X

Five Democratic senators said they’re concerned X is using Musk’s influential role to “extract revenue from advertisers,” the Wall Street Journal reported after viewing the letter sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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The Guardian - US

Staff at Social Security Administration banned from reading news sites at work

All-staff email is latest Trump-led assault on agency that runs safety-net program for 73 million Americans

Fortune

Universities that anticipate funding losses from Elon Musk's DOGE cuts are yanking back admissions offers to Gen Z grads

Universities like the University of Pennsylvania are cutting back on graduate admissions programs in preparation of federal funding decreases.

The Independent UK

Oregon man tried to destroy Teslas with a molotov cocktail, says DOJ

Adam Lansky, 41, is believed to have launched ‘Molotov cocktails that struck a dealership building and several vehicles’ sparking several fires

International Business Times

SpaceX Gearing Up For Starship Launch Amid Musk Controversy

SpaceX is preparing for the next test flight of its massive Starship prototype rocket, as debate swirls over founder Elon Musk's influence on the US government's space program.

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Elon Musk's dream to make Twitter/X a financial site could be closer to reality after Senate hobbles CFPB powers

Social media site hopes to get into the payments business.

The Independent UK

Pushing back: African aid workers block DOGE staffers from entering their small office to fire employees

The tiny agency is pushing back against DOGE’s sweeping workforce cuts

Latin Times

Fired CDC Employees Begged to Come Back to Work in Email Apologizing For the 'Disruption': Report

The Trump administration sent an email earlier this week imploring nearly 200 terminated CDC employees to return to the office in the latest DOGE snafu.

Tom’s Hardware

Ontario cancels Starlink deal over US tariffs — Italy may follow due to US pullback from Europe

Ontario, Canada, is canceling its contract with Starlink due to the tariffs the U.S. placed on Canadian goods, while Italy is having second thoughts about the White House's pullback on its European security commitments.

Fortune

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak lays into Elon Musk’s ‘mass firings’: ‘I don’t know what got into his head’

The tech founder described Musk’s management style as “bullying.”

Latin Times

Canadian Province Risks Lawsuit by Canceling Musk Contract Amid Tariff War: 'If They Come to Sue Us, So Be It'

Ontario is asserting its opposition to Trump by scrapping a $100 million contract with Elon Musk's Starlink in response to Trump's 25% tariff on Canadian goods.

The Guardian - UK

Reform faces split as Farage hits back over ‘messianic’ criticism

Nigel Farage calls Rupert Lowe ‘utterly completely wrong’ after Reform MP criticised his leadership style

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