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The Wall Street Journal has published a lengthy report about the ways that Trump-backing billionaire Elon Musk manages the multiple children he has sired with several different women.

Although Musk is known to be the father of 14 different children, sources who spoke to the Journal believe that the number could be significantly higher given that he often pays the mothers of his children in exchange for their silence.

"Trump is spending billions on border security. Some residents living there lack basic resources." was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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President Donald Trump ratcheted up his attacks on Harvard University after the school defied his demands for control.

The Trump administration announced it was freezing $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard after the nation's oldest university refused to comply with the president's demanded changes to its hiring, admissions and curriculum, and he kept up his rhetorical attacks on the private educational institution.

President Zelensky’s 60 Minutes interview “hit a nerve” for [President Donald Trump] on Sunday night. However, instead of acting presidential, Trump's own family member Mary Trump believes, “[Trump] immediately took to his failing social media site and posted a tirade, characterizing this as fake news,” according to her new analysis.

She claimed this tirade is because “Donald does not live in reality because he cannot face reality. He and his enablers and the rest of the fascists in the Republican Party have created a fantasy world in which rules don’t apply to them anymore.”

Vice President J.D. Vance was raked over the coals on Wednesday morning for a series of social media posts on X on Tuesday where he continued to defend the Donald Trump administration for wrongfully shipping a Maryland man to El Salvador despite an admonition from the Supreme Court.

With the battle over the deportation and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at a notorious Salvadoran prison camp reaching the point where even the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board is stepping in and deploring the lack of due process, Vance has doubled down and blown off concerns.

A former Republican congressman speculated that president Donald Trump was fighting the courts to keep a Maryland man imprisoned in El Salvador as a distraction from an even more unpopular move.

U.S. District judge Paula Xinis ordered sworn testimony from Trump administration officials to determine whether they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a notorious high-security prison overseas, and former GOP congressman Charlie Dent told "CNN This Morning" why he thinks the president was picking that fight.

A blindsided Donald Trump angrily swore and demanded White House staffers intercede to keep Elon Musk from being given a briefing on China from top-ranking Pentagon officials reports Axios.

Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that the president was blindsided by the news that the billionaire was about to be welcomed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for a meeting on possible China war plans in March.

President Donald Trump lobbed a late-night attack against MSNBC and CNN.

Fox News again clobbered its competitors in the ratings for the first quarter of 2025, with the conservative network boasting it had posted the highest-rated quarter with weekday viewers in cable news history, and the president gloated as if he had something to do with that success.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow pulled back the curtain on what she said is really behind the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive government databases containing the personal information of millions of Americans.

The primetime host on her show Tuesday walked viewers through the various actions the Trump administration has taken at the request of DOGE – an agency which she called “bizarre” and “very mysterious.”

The Trump administration’s refusal to follow a court order and make any efforts to return the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador sent CNN legal analyst Elie Honig into a fiery rebuke of the MAGAfied government.

Honig, a former federal prosecutor, built the case Tuesday against the administration’s inaction in returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States during an appearance on CNN’s “NewsNight.”

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board went after President Donald Trump for what they framed as an unconstitutional attempt “to run Harvard” University after the Ivy League school rejected his demands for a MAGA-inspired policy overhaul.

Trump’s funding freeze of $2.2 billion in retaliation for the university’s snub drew the ire of the Journal’s board, which scorched the action in a Tuesday opinion piece that detailed the “good reasons to oppose this unprecedented attempt by government to micromanage a private university.”

One corporate CEO is now publicly expressing remorse for endorsing one of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks.

Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Mary Beth Laughton, who is the CEO of Recreational Equipment Inc., (REI) is now making amends for signing onto a letter in support of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum when the Senate was weighing his confirmation. That letter, which was circulated by the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR), lauded Burgum for his "support for outdoor recreation, economic growth, and the preservation of public lands and waters."

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, is out with a brief in President Donald Trump's lawsuit against Iowa-based pollster Ann Selzer, urging the court to dismiss the case as an attack on constitutional rights.

FIRE has previously attacked this case as a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or SLAPP, arguing that it has zero merit and is meant to chill negative coverage of Trump in the press.