A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, marking the SpaceX CEO’s first return to government since he ran the chaotic, so -called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge. Musk will be joined by Palmer Luckey, CEO of the defense tech company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House. A defense department press release on the effort, called Project Meridian, described its goal as “identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield”. The project will run for 120 days and culminate in an unclassified public report of its recommendations. Continue reading...

Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...

Defense secretary ranted against diversity claiming ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in troops * Send us your questions about how the Iran war will affect US voters in the midterms US defense secretary Pete Hegseth has confirmed plans to cut 20% of generals and admirals and declared “no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps” would be tolerated inside the country’s military. Delivering his latest extraordinary attack on diversity, and dismissing reports of low morale within the US armed forces as “false claims”, Hegseth also suggested they were retaining service personnel at “record” rates. Continue reading...

Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe.

Payments will go to 1 million people in states that use the federal healthcare exchange.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told hundreds of junior military officers and enlisted leaders on Wednesday that the Trump administration has achieved a cultural shift in the military.

Taxpayer-funded ads denouncing the “deep state” and “globalists” aired locally on the two cable networks Trump has sought to ban from White House grounds.

Ye, the controversial U.S. rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had been scheduled to play two shows in St. Petersburg in October —  which would have made him the biggest Western artist to perform in ...

Pete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military.

Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.

Senator Jim Justice condemned the rampant ICE arrests.

Trump claims his “triumphal arch” will be used by snipers. His officials have no idea what he’s talking about.

Hegseth announced Project Meridian on Wednesday, explaining the initiative will identify weapons and technologies for soldiers and propose solutions to test and implement the weapons.

For MAGA politicians, there’s no such thing as a gaffe.

Cases in the state, home to the country’s largest ongoing measles outbreak, have climbed to 943 across 39 counties.

President Donald Trump said former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should resign from the central bank’s Board of Governors over findings the central bank mismanaged the renovation of its headquarters.

The Department of Justice filed a complaint Wednesday against federal judges in Minnesota over their remarks to the media about the pressure on their courthouse during Trump administration's immigrati...

Elon Musk is back advising the Trump administration.

The Israeli prime minister says one pilot stabbed another and attempted to crash a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel.

A woman who filed a lawsuit saying she was sexually assaulted by seven men at a Cornell University fraternity house told campus police that she could “say with 100% confidence I was raped.”

Arizona dark money law: The 9th Circuit upheld the voter-approved disclosure measure, rejecting a First Amendment challenge

To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…

About 14,000 Washington state residents will no longer be eligible for Medicaid, or Apple Health, starting Oct. 1.

The investment marks the second time this week that the Republican president has sought to highlight the promise of foreign investment made possible by his administration's trade policy in states wher...