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Madison’s ABC affiliate reports: Attorney General Josh Kaul (D-WI) filed a lawsuit on Friday against Elon Musk and his political action committee America PAC, claiming the billionaire tried to buy votes in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election. The lawsuit states a million dollar cash prize Musk announced he would be giving to two voters who attend a Sunday rally he is …

Deadline reports: The Walt Disney Co. is the latest media conglomerate to be targeted by Donald Trump‘s FCC chairman over its DEI practices. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said today that he sent a letter to Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger announcing that the agency had opened an investigation into whether Disney and ABC “have not been violating FCC equal …

“There was a lot of criticism from Denmark, a lot of attacks at the Trump administration, at the president, at me, at others in our administration for saying the obvious, which is that Denmark hasn’t done a good job at keeping Greenland safe. Recognizing that there are important security partnerships in the past does not mean that we can’t have …

Newsweek reports: Elon Musk privately contacted Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to request the removal of content critical of employees at the Department of Government Efficiency, according to media reports on Thursday. Musk takes the reputation of the agency and its employees, many of whom he handpicked, very seriously. He has repeatedly defended them online and accused critics of “doxxing” (revealing …

The Associated Press reports: Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday clarified his reasons for visiting Wisconsin two days ahead of its hotly contested Supreme Court election after deleting a social media post saying he planned to “personally hand over” $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the race. Musk later posted a clarification, saying …

“The president’s made it clear. We’re gonna go after them. The ones providing the money, the ones pushing the lies and propaganda, we’re going after them. It’s really unfortunate. “The real problem is not the people — it’s not like the crazy guy that firebombs a Tesla dealership. It’s the people pushing the propaganda that cause that guy to do …

NBC News reports: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the Alien Enemies Act case and vacate a judge’s ruling barring deportations under the rarely-used wartime power. “This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security-related operations in this country—the President, through Article II, or the Judiciary, through TROs. The Constitution supplies …

The Washington Post reports: The Trump administration has plans to immediately end U.S.-backed programs that combat child labor, forced labor and other abuses in dozens of countries around the world. John Clark, a Trump-appointed Labor Department official, directed the agency’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) on Wednesday to end all of its grants due to a “lack of alignment …

Wired reports: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk. The project is being …

The Daily Beast reports: The official White House X account on Thursday posted its most bizarre meme to date: a Studio Ghibli-style AI cartoon of an ICE officer handcuffing a crying woman. The stout animated agent stands in front of an American flag while placing the restraints, and the woman is making a distressed expression. The caricature aims to mock …

Hillary Clinton writes for the New York Times: It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity. We’re all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and his team don’t actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws. But we knew that already. What’s much worse is that top Trump administration officials put our troops in …

CNN reports: Only days after second lady Usha Vance’s trip to Greenland was announced, a visit to see the dogs and mushers is out. Instead, she will visit a US military installation miles away from any civilian population center – with her husband, Vice President JD Vance, tagging along and expected to take aim at the island’s Danish government, according …

The Associated Press reports: A U.S. judge in Washington state has blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from serving in the military, the second nationwide injunction against the policy in as many weeks. The order Thursday from U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma came in a case brought by several long-serving transgender military members …

“Many judges need to be removed, Judge Howell included. Judge Reyes, Judge Boasberg — these judges obviously cannot be impartial. They cannot be objective. They are district judges trying to control our entire country — our entire country, and they’re trying to obstruct Donald Trump’s agenda. “I guess it’s a wild coincidence against Donald Trump and our administration, and now …

The Guardian reports: The US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth has a tattoo that appears to read “infidel” or “non-believer” in Arabic, according to recently posted photos on his social media account. In photos posted on Tuesday on X, the Fox News host turned US defense secretary had what appears to be a tattoo that says “kafir”, an Arabic term …

The Independent reports: Senator Mark Kelly has responded again to Elon Musk after the tech billionaire doubled down on an insult branding the Arizona senator – a decorated war hero – a “traitor” because he traveled to Ukraine to support wounded soldiers. Kelly, who is also a former astronaut, told CNN that Musk was aligning himself with “a bunch of …

The Hill reports: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said Thursday that President Trump signed an executive order limiting numerous agency employees from unionizing and instructing the government to stop engaging in any collective bargaining. The OPM memo references an order from Trump, but it is an accompanying fact sheet from the White House that lays out the rationale for …

Wired reports: A number of top Trump administration officials—including four who were on a now-infamous Signal group chat—appear to have Venmo accounts that have been leaking data, including contacts and in some cases transactions, to the public. Experts say this is a potentially serious counterintelligence problem that could allow foreign intelligence services to gain insight into a target’s social network …

Deadline reports: The composer and lyricist of Fellow Travelers, an opera based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel about the anti-gay lavender scare of the 1950s, have withdrawn the work from the 2025-26 season of the Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., citing concern over Donald Trump’s takeover of the institution’s leadership. In a letter to the …

Nature reports: The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers. More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll — three-quarters of the total respondents — are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. …