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'You're Not Going to Intimidate Me': House Dem Refuses to Back Down From Elon Musk's Threat of Prison

Elon Musk and Representative Ro Khanna are embroiled in a dispute over USAID cuts, with Khanna accusing Musk's reforms of risking millions of lives, while Musk threatens legal action.

International Business Times UK

Musk vs Khanna Feud Escalates: Musk Calls for Arrest Over Insider Trading as Khanna Seeks TV Debate on DOGE Cuts

The controversy between Elon Musk and Representative Ro Khanna focuses on allegations of insider trading and the impact of USAID cuts.

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk promises to sue lawmaker who suggested DOGE cuts led to the deaths of 4.5 million kids

Democrat Ro Khanna cited a 2025 study that estimated more than 14 million people could die without USAID resources by 2030

The Independent UK

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The Pentagon claims a 1,775% boost in AI use is paying off the DOGE promise a year later—but adoption is still under 50%

From 80,000 Defense personnel using AI tools in December 2025, it was 1.5 million in June.

Fortune

The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back

There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

The Guardian - US

IRS gets green light to swiftly hire 8,000 employees after agency struggled following Elon Musk’s ‘severe’ DOGE cuts, memo reveals

Public officials stated the IRS had its ‘most successful filing season’ - though an internal memo indicates the agency knew it needed more staff after DOGE cuts

The Independent UK

FBI Reveals China's Exploitation of Trump's Federal Layoffs to Recruit Newly Unemployed Government Workers as Spies

The FBI has dismantled 13 fake consulting websites allegedly run by Chinese intelligence to recruit US government workers as spies, exploiting mass layoffs under the Trump administration.

International Business Times UK

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Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire

Becoming the world’s first trillionaire is only going to supercharge this sense of impunity and bring us one step closer to full-blown oligarchy

The Guardian - US

Ex-DOGE Staffer, Ex-Pete-Hegseth Advisor Justin Fulcher Sues the Guardian for Libel

From today's Complaint in Fulcher v. Guardian News & Media LLC (D.D.C.); of course, these are just plaintiff's allegations: On… The post Ex-DOGE Staffer, Ex-Pete-Hegseth Advisor Justin Fulcher Sues the Guardian for Libel appeared first on Reason.com.

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Elon Musk Faces Backlash as a Horrific Texas Screwworm Outbreak Follows Brutal DOGE Budget Cuts

A flesh-eating parasite, unseen in the US for 60 years, has resurfaced in Texas, sparking political debate over budget cuts that dismantled key prevention programmes.

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk's DOGE Allegedly Planned to Mark 2.7 Million Living People — Including US Citizens — as Dead

A whistleblower says Elon Musk's branded government unit DOGE backed a Trump‑era plan to mark 2.7 million living people as dead in US Social Security records as an immigration tactic.

International Business Times UK

Report: Trump Admin Considered Declaring 2.7 Million Living People Dead as Part of Immigration Crackdown

The executive said the proposal was never implemented and ultimately abandoned. Had it been carried out, it could have effectively cut affected individuals off from the financial system.

Latin Times

Trump’s DOGE team wanted to declare nearly 3 million living people dead to help drive out migrants, whistleblower claims

‘I was shocked. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,’ the former Social Security Administration employee said

The Independent UK

The (AI) doctor will see you now: Inside the Trump-led push to get robots into diagnosing health problems

AI supporters see the move as the answer to America’s medical woes, but critics warn the technology is not advanced enough yet

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New World Screwworm Had Been Moving North From Panama, Critics Point To Illegal Cattle Smuggling and Migration Routes

The New World screwworm's resurgence in the Americas raises alarms among livestock producers and health officials, sparking political debates over funding cuts and containment strategies.

Reason

The Feds Wasted $186 Billion on 'Improper Payments' Last Year

That total is a low-ball estimate because some federal agencies didn't report their totals to the Government Accountability Office.

Fortune

'We lost a lot of talent': The man who overhauled the CDC before the DOGE cuts is still concerned about damage

Robin Bailey Jr. spent years rebuilding the CDC from the inside. Months after he left, the cuts began — and he told Fortune he's not sure what survived.

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk Labeled 'Evil' After Exposé Claims His USAID 'Wood Chipper' Killed Hundreds of Thousands

A former USAID health chief alleges Elon Musk helped dismantle the aid agency while serving in Trump's administration, harming 'hundreds of thousands' of people.

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Elon Did DOGE. Now Mamdani Is Trying COGE.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s COGE sounds like DOGE, but New Yorkers should not expect the mayor to shrink the city’s bureaucracy.

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Ex-CIA officer caught with $40M in gold bars in his house. His official reason – ‘work-related expenses’

This wasn't all the agents found in his house.

The Independent UK

The $687 million irony of Peter Thiel’s reported plan to ditch the US for Argentina

ANALYSIS: With a stream of government contacts and his protégé in the White House, the billionaire is at the height of his influence in the US, writes Josh Marcus. So why head off for other shores?

The Independent UK

Mayor Mamdani takes a page out of Trump and Musk’s DOGE playbook to evaluate NYC’s finances

‘New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are,’ Mamdani said when announcing his new COGE initiative

France 24

USAID was shut down 'to soothe ego' of Musk, whistleblower says

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Nicolas Enrich, a former senior USAID official-turned-whistleblower, said the US agency was dismantled not to cut waste but "to soothe the ego of the world's richest man", then DOGE head Elon Musk. Enrich warned that up to 14 million people could die in the…

The Independent UK

IRS wants to store your biometric data for longer to help in its investigations

New proposals would allow third-party contractor to hold onto U.S. taxpayers’ identifying information for up to three years after their accounts are closed, inviting privacy concerns

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Elon Musk says fictional ‘woke mind virus’ killed his daughter, bragged about canceling Ebola virus prevention funding

Maybe focus on viruses that actually exist next time?

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