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Musk’s Racist Grok AI Chatbot Is Now Part of the Defense Department
The Department of Defense will start using Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot to “develop agentic AI workflows.” Trump’s DoD awarded ...
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 ...
Federal government posts June surplus, helped by rising tariff collections
The U.S. surplus amounted to a little more than $27 billion, a stark contrast to the $316 billion deficit in May. This ...
Banking Panics In The Past—That Was The Government
Banking panics that apparently were so regular that they necessitated creating the Federal Reserve in 1913 all stemmed from ...
States sue Trump administration over withholding education funds
Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s decision to withhold about $6.8 billion in funding for K-12 schools.
Federal Budget: Government Has Its Best Quarter Since 2022
The government fiscal year closes at the end of September, but this analysis will look at the calendar year budget.
Federal employees bracing after Supreme Court greenlights widespread layoffs
A Supreme Court decision giving the Trump administration the greenlight to lay off tens of thousands of employees threatens ...
Red states follow federal footsteps to ‘unleash American energy’
Republican-led states are passing legislative reform to develop energy infrastructure, which is aligned with President Donald Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda, which lawmakers argue boosts economic ...
Elon Musk’s Nazi Robot Just Landed a Contract With the Department of Defense
The Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth has been fixated on buzzwords like “warfighting” and “warfighters,” ...
Why questions about the reliability of federal economic data have become unavoidable
Can Americans trust economic data from the Trump administration? Broadly speaking, there are two angles to this that are ...
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Why the federal government is making climate data disappear
A lot of information about the changing climate has disappeared under President Donald Trump’s second term, but the erasure of the National Climate Assessments is “by far the biggest loss we’ve seen,” ...