Police in Massachusetts are investigating fires that appear to have been "intentionally set" that destroyed seven Tesla charging stations. read more
Traders are starting to price in the possibility that the U.S. economy might fall into a recession - and one Wall Street veteran says that might actually be the Trump administration's plan. read more
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's request to block an order that set a deadline for the administration to pay foreign aid organizations for work already performed for the government. read more
Private sector job creation slowed to a crawl in February, fueling concerns of an economic slowdown, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday. read more
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has cancelled a $100-million deal with Elon Musk's Starlink internet service in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariffs on Canadian goods. read more
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a task force established by President Donald Trump with the goal of slashing unnecessary government spending, has terminated leases of more than 700 offices across the country so far. read more
Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a group setting. read more
The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm billionaire GOP donor and former wrestling industry executive Linda McMahon as the next secretary of the federal Department of Education. read more
One of the most contagious viruses in the world is spreading around the United States. read more
About 15 boxes were put onto Air Force One and sent to Palm Beach where the president is spending the weekend at his estate. read more
Elon Musk has called Social Security a "Ponzi Scheme", unwittingly admitting he doesn't know the definition of "Ponzi Scheme" read more
Techdirt is a news site that has written about the tech revolution for 27 years. Lately, it's writing government stories. Mike Masnick, the site's founder, explains that's because Trump's DOGE is the tech story they've been covering for years. "We've seen how technology can be wielded to consolidate power, how institutional guardrails can be circumvented through technical and legal workarounds, and how smoke and mirrors claims about "innovation" can mask old-fashioned power grabs. It's a playbook we watched Musk perfect at Twitter, and now we're seeing it deployed on a national scale," Masnick writes. "When the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it's not a "political" story anymore. It's a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist." read more
"People are sort of looking around thinking, Wow, well maybe I can get a chicken in my backyard,' and it's awesome," [Agriculture Secretary Brooke] Rollins told Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy. "We also want to make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens," read more
Dave Nershi was finalizing a report he'd worked on for months when an ominous email appeared in his inbox. Nershi had worked as a general engineer for the Internal Revenue Service for about nine months. He was one of hundreds of specialists inside the IRS who used their technical expertise -- Nershi's background is in chemical and nuclear engineering -- to audit byzantine tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. Until recently, the IRS had a shortage of these experts, and many complex tax returns went unscrutinized. With the help of people like Nershi, the IRS could recoup millions and sometimes more than a billion dollars on a single tax return. But on Feb. 20, three months shy of finishing his probationary period and becoming a full-time employee, the IRS fired him. read more
In the past decade, Americans have become increasingly aware that climate change is harming the health of people in the US, according to a new survey. read more
The General Services Administration announced Tuesday that it will begin selling off some of the federal government's most recognizable office buildings, including the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which serves as the FBI headquarters in Washington, and the Robert F. Kennedy Building, home to the Department of Justice -- a landmark shift in how the government manages its real estate portfolio. read more
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