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Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘very serious consequences’ if he funds Democratic candidates — In an interview with NBC News, the president also said he assumes his relationship with the tech billionaire is over following their recent falling out. — President Donald Trump on Saturday …
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Inside the battles that shattered Trump and Musk's alliance — Trump called Musk “a big-time drug addict” in a phone call shortly after their public feud. — President Donald Trump was dejected, processing his very public split with the world's richest man.
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Musk Deletes Post Saying He'll Apologize to Trump if the President Does a ‘Full Dump’ of Epstein Files — Elon Musk said an apology from him to President Donald Trump hinges on a “full dump.” — Many conservatives have been disappointed that the Trump administration has yet to release …
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Trump advised Vance to take a diplomatic approach after Musk's blowup — Trump declined to go all-out in his attacks on Musk and counseled the vice president to show restraint in his comments about Musk, preserving a possible bridge. — While Elon Musk fired off social media posts excoriating …
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Musk's Major Allegation Against Trump Disappears From Social Media: ‘That Post Has Been Deleted’
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Trump Has Options to Punish Musk Even if His Federal Contracts Continue
Trump Has Options to Punish Musk Even if His Federal Contracts Continue
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Musk has money, but Trump has power
Musk has money, but Trump has power
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Johnson brushes off Musk campaign spending threats: 'It doesn't concern me'
Johnson brushes off Musk campaign spending threats: 'It doesn't concern me'
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Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other - united in their ability to trash their own brands
Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other - united in their ability to trash their own brands
Eric Garcia / The Independent:
AOC takes victory lap as Trump-Elon nuclear breakup confirms everything she and Bernie Sanders warned
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Musk floats ‘The American Party’ after Trump tiff
Musk floats ‘The American Party’ after Trump tiff
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources — Sources say he faces charges of illegally transporting migrants within the U.S. — Undated photo provided by Murray Osorio PLLC shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia. — Murray Osorio PLLC via AP
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The Great Un-Awokening — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Bethany Irvine — Happy Saturday. This is Adam Wren. Get in touch. — President Donald Trump attends UFC-316 featuring Merab Dvalishvili vs. Sean O'Malley at 9:30 p.m. — DRIVING THE DAY

Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources — The decision to pursue the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader's decision told ABC News.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, is back in the U.S. to face smuggling charges — Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man at the center of a bitter, months-long political and legal fight after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, has been returned …
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Return of Wrongly Deported Man Raises Questions About Trump's Views of Justice — For the nearly three months before the Justice Department secured an indictment against the man, it had repeatedly flouted a series of court orders to “facilitate” his release from El Salvador.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the United States to face criminal charges
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Los Angeles ICE raids spark protests, fear, outrage. ‘Our community is under attack’ — A series of surprise U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps in downtown Los Angeles on Friday prompted fierce pushback from elected officials and protesters, who decried the enforcement actions as …
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SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
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SEIU president injured and detained during ICE operations in downtown LA, mayor says
SEIU president injured and detained during ICE operations in downtown LA, mayor says
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Five Proud Boys leaders, including Philly resident Zach Rehl, want the government to pay them $100 million in restitution for Jan. 6 convictions — Zach Rehl, the former leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in helping incite the Jan. 6 …
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Proud Boys Freed by Trump Sue the Government for $100 Million — Once convicted of serious felonies, members of the extremist group now paint themselves as “patriotic” victims of political warfare — In a Bizarro World lawsuit against the federal government, Proud Boys who were pardoned …
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White House security staff warned Musk's Starlink is a security risk — Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking. — Elon Musk's team at the U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried …
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The great poaching: America's brain drain begins — The Trump administration's spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking. — Why it matters: U.S. researchers' fears are coming true.

Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event — The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right — An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US …

After His Trump Blowup, Musk May Be Out. But DOGE Is Just Getting Started. — With members embedded in multiple agencies, the team's approach to transforming government is becoming “institutionalized,” as one official put it. — With members embedded in multiple agencies …

Trump can bar The Associated Press from some White House events for now, appeals court rules — The AP sued after the White House restricted its access over continued references to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage despite Trump renaming the body of water the Gulf of America.
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Appeals court hands AP an incremental loss in its attempt to regain its access to Trump events
Appeals court hands AP an incremental loss in its attempt to regain its access to Trump events
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The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology — U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs — A tiny Pentagon office had spent months investigating conspiracy theories about secret Washington UFO programs …
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Breaking down 20 years of election data that shows how the two parties have evolved in the Trump era — The 2024 election was the first in two decades that saw a Republican popular vote victory. The trends since then illustrate extreme changes in the two parties.
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Ohio food banks strain as Trump slashes federal aid programs — On a warm spring morning, volunteers at the Mid-Ohio Food Collective plucked cucumbers from a greenhouse where a state psychiatric hospital once stood and the land lay fallow. Now the state's largest food bank is working that ground again …