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Former President Donald Trump is reportedly eying Elon Musk for a government job if he wins in November.

The Washington Post reported Monday that Trump has secretly been working with advisers to implement a piece of the "Project 2025" plan that he has been trying to distance himself from in recent weeks.

According to the Post, Trump wants prominent business leaders to review decades of government documents and budget items to create a list of what should be cut....

Donald Trump responded to the news of the grand jury passing down a superseding indictment in the past 24 hours with a flood of memes that MSNBC reporters called "vengeful" and "explicit."

Speaking to MSNBC Wednesday, Vaughn Hillyard showed a handful of posts Trump shared on Truth Social. One image showed a number of Democrats and Bill Gates behind bars and in orange prison uniforms. The caption reads: "How to actually 'fix the system.'"

"Bill Gates!" host Katy Tur questioned. ...

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Fox Iran hacked Donald Trump's campaign because they hate him — and got immediate pushback from the network's host.

Speaking on Tuesday, Hawley said he can understand why Iran might oppose Trump because he put them "in a box" after he killed a denuclearization deal with them — and he should get credit with American voters for that.

The end of the Iran deal in 2018 has actually been condemned by several national security experts who called it "one of Trump's biggest failures" as president....

A judge who owns stock in Tesla has recused himself from a lawsuit involving Elon Musk's social media site X, court documents show.

As an NPR report recently revealed, U.S. Federal Court Judge Reed O’Connor has been overseeing a number of lawsuits involving Musk and ruling in his favor.

The lawsuit in question revolves around Musk's efforts to sue liberal media watchdog Media Matters for allegedly damaging X's reputation with advertisers....

Donald Trump's company, Trump Media — owner of the social media app Truth Social — reported losing $16 million as revenue plummeted 30% from the same period last year, CNBC reported Friday.

The stock price for the social media company, whose namesake, Trump, is the majority shareholder, fell from more than $71 per share in March to a meager $26 on Friday afternoon, according to the report.

Trump Media's reported loss comes after it reported a $22.8 million loss for the same period last year. About half of the loss for the most recent quarter was due to legal fees stemming from Trump Media’s merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp., the company said....

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is the second to announce a probe into a website set up by billionaire Elon Musk's political action committee, America PAC, CNBC reported Monday.

The site has been running an online voter registration site that invites Americans to update their details. Complaints state if the voter lives in a swing-state a form gathers personal information, but does not register them.

“Our office is aware of this issue and is looking into it,” said a spokeswoman for Stein on Monday about the website. ...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) suggested over the weekend that a Trump administration official may have quietly contacted a federal appeals judge to stall a contempt inquiry, and the legal analyst interviewing him declared that if so, “people are going to jail.”

In a clip flagged by political video aggregator Acyn Torabi from the Legal AF podcast, Whitehouse laid out a hypothetical involving D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee.

“If some MAGA official communicated to Judge Rao or her chambers and that resulted in the administrative stay that held the door open and kept the facts from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation and stalled investigation into misconduct by the DOJ,” Whitehouse began, “ask any judge how big a deal that is.”...

President Donald Trump cut off reporters and walked away after they repeatedly demanded evidence for his claim of widespread mail-in voting fraud in California.

Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House on Monday as he prepared to board Marine One for campaign events.

The midterm elections are less than a month away, on Nov. 3....

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) bragged about a road salt win at a Maine Senate debate, and her challenger's comeback had observers cheering.

On Tuesday, Collins faced Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in a debate weeks before the midterms. Asked what she would do about President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, Collins pointed to a specific victory.

"I was successful at getting road salt removed from the tariff list," Collins said. Jackson responded by pouncing on the answer....