Law & Politics
The boss of Tesla and the social media site X, Elon Musk, suggested last month at Donald Trump’s rally in New York City that it would be possible to cut “at least $2 trillion” from US government spending by eradicating “waste”.
Musk has now been appointed to co-head a new Department of Government Efficiency by the incoming US president, giving him an opportunity to try to put his plans into action.
In the most recent fiscal year (from October 2023 to September 2024) the US federal government spent $6.75 trillion (£5.3 trillion) according to the US Treasury.
This means Musk’s proposed cuts of $2 trillion would represent around a cut of
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Read MoreElon Musk to Lead New Department of Government Efficiency Dubbed “the Manhattan Project of Our Time”
Elon Musk has been appointed to lead Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency alongside fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in what has been dubbed “the Manhattan Project of our time”. The Telegraph has more.
The billionaire Tesla boss will co-run DOGE – which coincides with the name of his cryptocurrency Dogecoin – alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, a Trump ally and fellow entrepreneur.
Mr. Musk said his appointment to the role “will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people”.
Mr. Trump hailed the new department as “potentially t
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Read MoreA federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Google, ruling that the tech giant is not required to refund victims of Google Play gift card scams.
The lawsuit, filed by lead plaintiff Judy May on behalf of herself and others, alleged that Google failed to protect consumers from scams involving Google Play gift cards and did not assist victims in recovering lost funds.
In an order dated Nov. 4, Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Google’s motion to dismiss the case.
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Read MoreThe U.S. military test launched an unarmed yet nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile on the night of the election.
At 11:01 p.m. Pacific Time on Nov. 5, the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), equipped with multiple targetable re-entry vehicles, was fired from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to the U.S. military’s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands, southeast of Japan.
The U.S. Space Force said in a statement the launch was
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Read MoreIt was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in Fannin County, Georgia. She was then fingerprinted, photographed, and dressed in an orange jumpsuit.
Hours earlier, around noon, Patterson had driven her eldest son to a medical appointment. Her youngest son, 11-year-old Soren, intended to come along but wasn’t around when it was time to leave.
“I figured he was in the woods, or at grandma’s house,” says Patterson, who lives on 16 acres with her kids and her father. (Her husband works out of state). There is no shortage of family in the vicinity. Patterson’s mother and sisters live just two minutes away.
Soren, however, was not playing in the woods. He had decided to walk to downtown Mineral Bluff, a town of just 370 people. It’s not quite a mile from his house. A woman who saw him walking alongside the road—speed limit: 25 in some places, 35 in others—asked him if he was OK. He said yes.
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Read MoreA UFO hunter who worked in the Pentagon testified under oath to Congress on Wednesday that he signed documents limiting what he could say about crash retrievals of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly described as unidentified flying objects (UFO).
Luis Elizondo, an author and former Department of Defense (DoD) official, appeared for a hearing on Capitol Hill, titled “Unidentified An
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Read MoreCanada’s ballooning public service has been bracing for spending and job cuts, and now unions are sounding the alarm that they are coming. With the federal deficit larger than anticipated, budget cuts and layoffs increasingly appear to be unavoidable.
Departments are scrambling to meet their latest spending targets set by Treasury Board, with a deadline later this month. Projections suggest the government could miss its fiscal target for this year and is facing financial pressures on all fronts.
For the first time, layoffs are on the table
At the meeting, Treasury Board informed the unions for the first time that staffing cuts, including layoffs, are on the table, said Sharon DeSousa, president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. PSAC immediately issued a press release raising the alarm.
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Read MoreA rare interview with the fascinating Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who hopes to play a role in the new Trump administration to Make America Healthy Again.
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Read MoreOn November 8, 2024, the Federal Court of Appeal has granted a partial victory in my case, sending a crucial issue back to the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) for redetermination. This decision challenges previous rulings and recognizes that my perceived disability argument deserves a fair review.
“The appeal is allowed in part. The decision of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (File Number 20220355) dated October 18, 2022 is remitted to the Commission for redetermination solely with regards to whether the appellant’s complaint of discrimination on the ground of perceived disability is frivolous under section 41(1)(d) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, R.S.C. 1985, c H-6. Without costs.”
After years of setbacks, this ruling marks a positive shift, allowing me to keep pushing forward for justice. Previous decisions from the CHRC and Federal Court dismissed my claims entirely, but the Federal Court of Appeal’s acknowledgment of my perceived disability argument is a hopeful step toward a fair assessment of my case.
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Read MoreA lot more illegal migrants are coming through the U.S. southern border, but there’s a smaller ratio of border officers at the northern border, Homan said, leading to fewer patrols on roads and waterways. He said this poses a “huge national security issue.”
Homan also said that during his 34-year career he’d seen “a lot” of “special interest aliens” from countries sponsoring terrorism trying to reach the U.S. from Canada. He said these types of migrants choose to cross from Canada because they can afford the higher costs, being backed financially, and they know there’s less border surveillance.
“So it’s an extreme national security vulnerability in the northern border and it’s one of the things I’ll tackle as soon as I’m in the White House,” said Homan, who hails from a town in upstate New York and owns a residence on the border.
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