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DOGE is hiring workers in development, operations, software, and product for two-year terms with a pay range between $120,000 and $195,000 per year.

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is urging Trump to seize SpaceX and deport Elon Musk.

The Congressional Budget Office says the Trump tax cuts would drain the government’s coffers faster than its spending cuts would save money.

Walmart plans to roll out drone deliveries soon in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

The FDA has green-lit a blood test that can help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia. Other dementias include vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and frontotemporal dementia. 

The Supreme Court gave DOGE access to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the US from El Salvador and will now face criminal charges related to what the Trump administration said was a large human smuggling operation that brought immigrants into the country illegally. The chief of the criminal division at the US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee resigned in protest, calling the criminal charges a political stunt.

Colleges can now directly pay players through licensing deals.

Rod Stewart has canceled his first few concerts due to the flu.

The Base, an international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event. The FBI does not deem the group a threat.

Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal didn't spend $800K on hotels during their visit to Kyiv.

Residents are gathering today in Minneapolis for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil

A pin with three downward-facing arrows was first conceived as a symbol of the social democratic resistance against Hitler in 1932.