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Fox News host Sandra Smith pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about whether or not billionaire Elon Musk was an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency, despite President Donald Trump repeatedly claiming his ally heads up the agency.

In a court filing on Monday, the White House said that Musk was not legally connected to DOGE in any way. Instead, he was described as a "Senior Advisor to the President."

A group of doctors and medical school professors sounded the alarm Tuesday after revelations of a reported list of "woke" words that will cause the Trump administration's National Science Foundation to flag research grants for further review.

The list applies to a huge number of words and phrases, many of which are associated with activist social justice speak but which also have important meanings in science, mathematics, and medicine — words like "female," "women," "systemic," "trauma," "bias," "barrier," "victim," and "history."

Workers at the Federal Aviation Administration sounded the alarm this week after President Donald Trump and Elon Musk oversaw the firing of around 400 employees.

The Associated Press reported that the FAA began notifying employees last Friday that they were being fired. One air traffic controller said the move included FAA radar, landing, and navigational aid maintenance staff.

Judge Dale Ho has ordered New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Justice Department to meet in his court Wednesday to discuss the motion to dismiss the government's case against the Democrat. Legal analysts are shocked as the case moves forward.

Adams was charged with bribery and campaign finance offenses last year after allegedly accepting improper benefits from foreign nationals while serving as Brooklyn's borough president.

by Burcin Gercek'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday criticized U.S.-Russia talks for excluding Kyiv, saying efforts to end the war must be "fair" and involve European countries including Turkey.

With near-daily plane crashes, rising grocery bills, and massive infectious disease outbreaks erupting throughout the United States, CNN's John Berman on Tuesday questioned the wisdom of Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) proposing to make President Donald Trump's birthday a federal holiday.

While interviewing Republican strategist Joseph Pinion, Berman asked if crafting such proposals was really the best use of the congresswoman's time.

Former special counsel Jack Smith joined more than 900 federal prosecutors in signing a letter that warned President Donald Trump could eliminate a Watergate-era office that fights corruption at the Department of Justice.

"Like you, each of us devoted years of our professional lives to pursuing justice on behalf of the American people," the letter said. "As prosecutors, we were rightly prohibited from making criminal charging decisions based on someone's political association, activities or beliefs, or because of our personal feelings about them. We knew it was impermissible to treat a defendant more leniently just because they were powerful or well-connected, or more harshly because they were not."

Pro-MAGA television host Trish Regan criticized the White House after it claimed that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) allegedly discovered that "tens of millions" of dead people were receiving Social Security checks.

"I've been fighting fake news reporters all day long here in the Washington, D.C. swamp who are trying to fear-monger the American people into believing that this administration is going after their hard-earned tax dollars and their hard-earned Social Security checks," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday.

by Beiyi SEOW

The U.S. Senate is expected to confirm Wall Street billionaire Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary Tuesday, a key step towards the rollout of President Donald Trump's "America First" trade policy with tariffs used as a broad negotiation tool.

Russia and the United States will name teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine, the powers decided on Tuesday in discussions that drew a rebuke from Kyiv over its exclusion.

Washington noted European nations would have to have a seat at the negotiating table "at some point", after the first high-level official Washington-Moscow talks since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has adamantly insisted he never made any quid pro quo arrangement with Justice Department officials in the Donald Trump administration on immigration policy in exchange for the public corruption case against him being dismissed. But a newly revealed letter from Adams' lawyers to the DOJ sharply undercuts this assertion.

The letter, flagged by Politico's Kyle Cheney, was sent out on February 3, but was only today filed on the federal court docket — and it appears to directly argue to the DOJ that Adams' indictment is an obstacle to arresting and deporting unauthorized immigrants in New York City.