BY MIRANDA NAZZARO AND JULIA SHAPERO |
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, may have made himself an enemy of the world's most powerful leader.
The public blowout between Musk and President Trump is threatening the tech billionaire's businesses, some of which have billions of dollars' worth of federal contracts. Musk's aerospace company SpaceX alone reportedly has at least $22 billion in federal contracts — which Trump had threatened to revoke at the peak of his feud with his former adviser. |
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President Trump and Elon Musk let an uneasy truce mostly take hold Friday, a day after their previous alliance imploded in spectacular fashion.
On Thursday, Musk cast innuendo on Trump's decades-old association with deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, implying that the "Epstein files" had not been released because they contained incriminating information about the president. Musk also contended the president would not have won last year's election against then-Vice President Kamala Harris without his help. |
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The vicious blowup between President Trump and Elon Musk has shaken up the power dynamics in Washington, D.C.
As Musk burns his bridges to the White House and MAGA World, several of his political and business rivals stand to benefit. And while Musk's enemies may relish his ouster, some of Trump's biggest rivals could also gain from the president's feud with the world's richest man. |
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Elon Musk has been feuding with President Trump over a bill the president is championing that, among other things, cuts incentives for electric vehicles and solar energy that benefit Musk's company Tesla.
Trump said Musk's vocal opposition to Republicans' "big, beautiful bill" is based on its elimination of incentives for electric vehicles (EVs). |
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Some Republicans are holding out hope that President Trump and Elon Musk will mend fences after Thursday's blistering breakup of the bromance, which captivated Washington and left the party's "big, beautiful bill" hanging in the balance.
The longing for harmony comes amid a Republican sprint on Capitol Hill to finalize the Trump megabill — which Musk trashed — and as the party looks ahead to the 2026 midterm elections, which the billionaire is threatening to shake up by suggesting he may go after lawmakers who support the package. |
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Religious rights are sparking both unanimity and deep divisions on the Supreme Court this term, with one major decision still to come.
On Thursday, all nine justices sided with Catholic Charities Bureau in its tax fight with Wisconsin. But weeks earlier, the court's 4-4 deadlock handed those same religious interests a loss by refusing to greenlight the nation's first religious charter school. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
The Supreme Court on Friday handed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) two major victories in its expanding legal battle over drastic efforts to reshape the federal bureaucracy.
In two separate emergency rulings issued simultaneously, the court lifted a block on DOGE personnel accessing sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) systems and wiped a ruling forcing DOGE to turn over discovery in a records lawsuit. |
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The Supreme Court on Friday turned away the Republican National Committee's (RNC) bid to block Pennsylvania voters' in-person, do-over option when they return a defective mail ballot.
The announcement was intended for Monday morning, but the court mistakenly released it early due to what a court spokesperson called an "apparent software malfunction." |
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) faces a test of her political influence after endorsing a progressive candidate in the New York City mayoral race.
Ocasio-Cortez backed New York state Assembly member Zohran Mamdani on Thursday, pitching him as the best chance to upset former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the front-runner since before he entered the race. |
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BY REP. MARK GREEN (R-TENN.) |
OPINION | For decades, Hollywood has presented audiences with futuristic disguises that were once thought only possible in science fiction. Silicone masks, fake contact lenses, and 3D printed biometrics are staples of popular spy movies like the "Mission: Impossible" franchise. But these forms of "spyware," once found only on the silver screen, are, in fact, a reality. The advent of the internet and facial recognition technology has turned disguise work into a matter of national security. |
BY PATRICK DOHERTY, RICH PELLETIER AND PETER BROWN |
OPINION | The Democratic Party is in need of a thorough overhaul. Democrats clearly lost trust on the key issues voters care most about, yet instead of getting back to basics and earning back voters' confidence, the Democratic party leadership in D.C. has been riddled for six months with infighting and knotted into a blame game around the party's failure in 2024. |
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BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE, CORAL DAVENPORT, NICHOLAS NEHAMAS AND ZACH MONTAGUE |
Elon Musk's blowup with President Trump may have doomed Washington's most potent partnership, but the billionaire's signature cost-cutting project has become deeply embedded in Mr. Trump's administration and could be there to stay.
At the Department of Energy, for example, a former member of the Department of Government Efficiency is now serving as the chief of staff.
At the Interior Department, DOGE members have been converted into federal employees and embedded into the agency, said a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. |
BY MEREDITH MCGRAW, JOSH DAWSEY AND REBECCA BALLHAUS |
Caught in the middle of President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's spectacular fallout is a Republican operative with close ties to both men.
Katie Miller, 33 years old, is a former Trump White House staffer married to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Over the past year, she became a top adviser to Musk and worked at his side as he slashed and reshaped the federal government from his position as the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. |
BY BYRON TAU, SEUNG MIN KIM AND CHRIS MEGERIAN |
Call it the 911 presidency.
Despite insisting that the United States is rebounding from calamity under his watch, President Donald Trump is harnessing emergency powers unlike any of his predecessors.
Whether it's leveling punishing tariffs, deploying troops to the border or sidelining environmental regulations, Trump has relied on rules and laws intended only for use in extraordinary circumstances like war and invasion. |
Multiple ICE raids in Los Angeles on Friday set off a wave of protests that were met with a show of force by officers in tactical gear, as the Trump administration's sweeping crackdown on immigration escalates.
Aerial video footage from local media showed officers outside clothing wholesaler Ambiance Apparel, one of the reported locations of the raids, putting handcuffed individuals into white vans, with protesters trying to stop them from leaving. Later footage shows officers in tactical gear riding armored vehicles as stun grenades go off throughout the crowd. |
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