BY ELLA LEE AND JULIA SHAPERO |
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are leaning on the conservative Supreme Court to support their ambitious plans to slash federal regulations and increase government efficiency. Tapped by President-elect Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy will head the newly minted "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE, a nongovernmental commission to dismantle government bureaucracy and cut costs. |
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BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO AND MIRANDA NAZZARO |
A social media spat between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos this week underscored a sharpening rivalry between two of the world's richest men at a time when both are trying to grow their sprawling businesses empires in President-elect Trump's second term.
"Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock," Musk wrote Thursday of his fellow Tech mogul on X, the social platform he owns.
"Nope. 100% not true," Bezos, who posts on social media less frequently, replied. |
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has expressed opposition to gender-affirming health care for transgender minors and questioned evidence linking HIV to AIDS, two issues that critics say should give senators second thoughts about confirming him as Health and Human Services secretary.
While Kennedy's vaccine skepticism has received more attention, his remarks on LGBTQ issues, including comments during a podcast last year that chemicals in drinking water could be making children gay or transgender, have also raised serious alarms.
"RFK Jr.'s history of denying basic scientific truth, from the cause of AIDS to the legitimacy of transgender health care, they represent a grave threat to the health and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community, and he is poised now for one of the most powerful and consequential positions in shaping the nation's health care and public health policies. In this context, disinformation isn't just harmful, it is deadly," said Alex Sheldon, executive director of GLMA, an association of LGBTQ health care professionals. |
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Texas has joined the states mixing the Bible with public school classrooms, setting up another potential legal showdown. The Texas State Board of Education voted 8-7 on Friday to allow lessons about stories in the Bible in K-5 classes, encouraging those who want more Christianity in public schools. Texas's neighbors to the North and East, Oklahoma and Louisiana, are already facing court challenges over their own biblical mandates, and the Lone Star State is likely to join them there, too. |
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President-elect Trump's ill-fated nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to run the Justice Department marked an early sign of his potential limits in moving his nominees and dealing with Senate Republicans, giving him less wiggle room to get his Cabinet in place. Riding high off his electoral win earlier this month, Trump tapped Gaetz to become attorney general in what emerged as a quick test for Senate Republicans, with Trump expecting them to capitulate to him as they have numerous times over the years. |
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BY JULIA SHAPERO AND ALEX GANGITANO | President-elect Trump on Friday named billionaire investor Scott Bessent to be his Treasury secretary. Bessent would be the key leader of the president-elect's economic team, which will be tasked with imposing an aggressive tariff regime meant to shake up global trade while keeping financial markets calm amid the disruption. |
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President-elect Trump has tapped Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), to serve as Labor secretary in his new administration. Chavez-DeRemer had the backing of the Teamsters before she was officially picked by Trump. She served for one term in the House and lost her reelection bid to Democrat Janelle Bynum in November. |
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President-elect Donald Trump tapped Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought to serve as the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during his second administration. Vought served as Trump's OMB deputy director during his first term in the Oval Office. |
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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Friday announced a recommendation against community water fluoridation. The recommendation comes as a Florida city voted last week to remove fluoride from its drinking water, with one city commissioner citing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s past comments on the matter as one of the reasons. |
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OPINION | The 2024 presidential election marks the historic return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office. With this news, scientists and policy experts alike find themselves contemplating the implications his second term will have for the future of science. At a time when the challenges facing society and the world at large are increasingly complex, from the current changes in the global economy to the effects of resurgent ethnonationalism at home and abroad, the fragility of democratic political institutions to the rampant role of misinformation and polarized news, the direction and role of science are perhaps more important than ever before. |
OPINION | While the stakes in the recent election campaign were as high as they have ever been for our country's future, the Democratic Party failed to earn the public's trust — that foundation of our democracy's survival. We are now obliged to swallow the bitter pill of defeat with humility and honesty. Sulking, pointing fingers, engaging in public blame games will only make things worse. But what to do? |
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In 2008, pollster Nate Silver's election forecast model was so novel — and accurate — that it landed him on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people the next year.
These days, election forecasts — which use data including polling, historical results and economic factors to predict the likelihood of an election outcome — are much more commonplace. There were at least 10 major forecasters this election cycle, though you could also find forecasts produced by high school statistics classes and Reddit users. (The New York Times has not published a pre-election forecast since 2016.) |
Tech titans have a new way to measure who is winning in the race for AI supremacy: who can put the most Nvidia NVDA -3.22 percent decrease; red down pointing triangle chips in one place.
Companies that run big data centers have been vying for the past two years to buy up the artificial-intelligence processors that are Nvidia's specialty. Now some of the most ambitious players are escalating those efforts by building so-called super clusters of computer servers that cost billions of dollars and contain unprecedented numbers of Nvidia's most advanced chips. |
BY JILL COLVIN AND STEPHEN GROVES |
After several weeks working mostly behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill this week in a new, more visible role: Helping President-elect Trump try to get his most contentious Cabinet picks to confirmation in the Senate, where Vance has served for the last two years.
Vance arrived at the Capitol on Wednesday with former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and spent the morning sitting in on meetings between Trump's choice for attorney general and key Republicans, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The effort was for naught: Gaetz announced a day later that he was withdrawing his name amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations and the reality that he was unlikely to be confirmed.
Thursday morning, Vance was back, this time accompanying Pete Hegseth. |
BY ASHLEY PARKER, JOSH DAWSEY AND MICHAEL SCHERER |
President-elect Trump's attorney and adviser Boris Epshteyn showed up recently for a meeting about Cabinet picks in the Tea Room at Mar-a-Lago only to find his way blocked. Transition co-chair Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, told Epshteyn in front of others that this was not a meeting for him. "We're not talking legal nominees today," Lutnick said, according to one person familiar with the exchange. Epshteyn refused to budge. Using his forearm, he pushed Lutnick out of the way, according to two people familiar with the incident, which Lutnick later recounted to others. "I'm coming in," Epshteyn retorted, according to one of the people. |
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