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Elon Musk's Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks after parts fall off: reports

Tesla announced that it is recalling every Cybertruck sold between Nov. 13, 2023, and the end of February because parts of the vehicles fell off.

Over the past several weeks, Tesla has suffered a stock drop thought to be due to the political fallout surrounding its CEO, tech billionaire Elon Musk. He has been working in President Donald Trump's administration to eliminate jobs and departments in government agencies.

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'Stone age thinking': Dem lawmaker says Trump admin's new policies 'will kill Americans'

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s suggestion that farmers allow bird flu to spread among their flocks was met with disbelief by Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL), who appeared on CNN Thursday.

The New York Times reported Kennedy's comments on Fox News that farmers "should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it."

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Trump ruled to have flouted the law more than a dozen times since taking office: report

Federal judges have ruled that the current administration has defied the law in more than a dozen cases, including three major rulings this week, in the short time since Trump has taken office, according to reporting in The Washington Post.

Senior political reporter Aaron Blake wrote, "The total works out to one such finding about every four days," that the administration was found to have "either has violated the law or has probably done so."

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Philippine officials deny coordinating Duterte arrest with ICC

Philippine senators on Thursday grilled government officials over their decision to hand former president Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court last week, with the country's justice minister denying coordinating the arrest ahead of time.

Duterte was detained March 11 and put on plane to the ICC in the Netherlands the same day to face a crimes against humanity charge tied to his drug war in which thousands were killed.

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Top researchers ousted by Trump poised to be poached by Europe: report

President Donald Trump's purge of U.S. government staff could soon pay dividends — for other countries.

According to Politico, a group of countries in the European Union have hatched a plan to poach ousted researchers from the United States.

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'Gnat nibbling': Columnist belittles Musk theatrics while Congress looks on 'pathetically'

The Washington Post's George Will claims that the "theatrics" of Elon Musk's DOGE cuts that have caused fury over database access and mass firings is a brilliant distraction from the country's biggest problem: the massive debt that continues to spiral out of control.

In a Wednesday opinion piece, Will wrote that the administration has had little "substantial achievement" so far toward DOGE's mandate to eliminate government "waste, fraud, and abuse." This dearth of accomplishments, "will exacerbate the fiscal incontinence that is the nation’s foremost domestic crisis," he wrote.

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'Don't regret the vote': Trump fan doubles down on MAGA even after ICE arrests wife

A man who voted for Donald Trump claims he doesn't regret his decision, even though the president's mass deportation order has threatened to tear his family apart, Newsweek reported.

Bradley Bartell's Peruvian-born wife Camila Muñoz was detained by ICE in February when the two returned from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico.

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'Significant moment': Report claims Columbia Uni close to giving in to Trump $400M threat

Columbia University could be close to giving in to President Donald Trump's demand that it enact certain measures aimed to combat anti-semitism on campus or lose $400 million in federal funding, according to reporting in The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration canceled funding earlier this month, but granted the university a "review period" and a deadline of Thursday to agree to a list of nine demands.

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'Sinister': Rape crisis center says White House guest trying to 'launder' his reputation

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre wrote to the U.S. embassy in Ireland to discuss concerns about a meeting President Donald Trump had with mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor on Monday's St. Patrick's Day.

The Guardian reported Wednesday that the group's chief executive Rachel Morrogh pointed out McGregor was found liable for rape in an Irish civil court four months ago.

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'They will be completely annihilated!' Trump lashes out against foreign actors in new post

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday that Iran must stop supporting the war with "Houthi barbarians."

"Reports are coming in that while Iran has lessened its intensity on Military Equipment and General Support to the Houthis, they are still sending large levels of Supplies," Trump wrote with random capitalizations.

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'You're doing it again!' GOP lawmaker dismisses CNN anchor's question on Medicare cuts

Republican Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) took issue Wednesday with the way CNN anchor Pamela Brown repeatedly asked about possible cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

"I'm just telling you what Americans are concerned about," Brown said. "We're hearing that in town halls, as well, across the country. And it is a fact that that is what the [Congressional Budget Office] said, that there would have to be substantial cuts to Medicaid to reach that $880 billion in cuts that Republicans would need."

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'Naïve and gullible' Trump just got   outfoxed by Putin again: conservative outlet

Add longtime National Review columnist Jim Geraghty to the list of observers who watched Donald Trump boast about how well his negotiations with Vladimir Putin are going only to see the Russian strongman hours later prove otherwise with his actions.

On Tuesday, the U.S. president took to his truth Social platform to announce to the world, "... we agreed to an immediate Ceasefire on all Energy and Infrastructure, with an understanding that we will be working quickly to have a Complete Ceasefire and, ultimately, an END to this very horrible War between Russia and Ukraine.”

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'Bleeding to death in the dust': Reporter says maternity hospital Musk closed saved lives

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is being schooled about the impacts of his foreign aid cuts that one reporter says have already killed people.

When he came into office, President Donald Trump created the "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)" by executive order and tasked Musk with the responsibility. That initiative has been behind the upheaval and dismantling of government agencies. Websites, grants, programs, and employees have been cut or frozen under the promise that Trump will save taxpayers trillions.

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