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Wednesday, April 02, 2025

European officials publicly and privately agree that Europe must do more to ensure its own defense, with wavering confidence in how reliable an ally the U.S., which has historically provided much of the continent's most expensive military capabilities, now is. read more


Xiaofeng Wang, a prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity, has gone incommunicado. read more


Today, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander urged the New York City Law Department to pursue securities litigation against Tesla on behalf of the the New York City pension systems. The basis of the potential litigation are the material misstatements from Tesla claiming that CEO Elon Musk spends significant time on the company and is highly active in its management, despite his helming the Trump Administration's DOGE initiative, spending little of his time actually managing Tesla, and promoting policies that are actively harmful to Tesla's business. read more


Report: IT officials who fought DOGE access put on leave and under investigation. read more


President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on a list of dozens of countries today. read more


Tom Rogers: Like Trump, Clinton and Gore used presidential directives and executive orders to implement many of their downsizing efforts. But unlike the current effort, the cutting didn't start until they had gone through a six-month study process and developed a blueprint of how to best reinvent the federal government. read more


China, Japan and South Korea agreed to jointly respond to U.S. tariffs, a social media account affiliated with Chinese state media said on Monday, an assertion Seoul called "somewhat exaggerated", while Tokyo said there was no such discussion. read more


Mike Masnick: The program that promised efficiency through targeted destruction is instead delivering chaotic and costly destruction through incompetence. read more


President Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man. read more


After weeks of "Tesla Takedown" protests, extremist groups are showing up to back Elon Musk's beleaguered car company. read more


The House of Representatives canceled all votes for the rest of the week after a group of Republicans rebelled on the floor, throwing a wrench in GOP plans. read more


They see the election results, and they know women are a threat to their majority. The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week--as early as Tuesday--on the bogusly named SAVE Act. The so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would make it really, really hard to register to vote, especially for women. read more


President Donald Trump and his administration have been promoting April 2 as a kind of tariffs Super Bowl, during which all of his many promised import taxes will go into effect. read more


Two top Wall Street analysts are calling on the White House to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, saying he is "undermining public health." read more


Val Kilmer, a movie star in the 1980s and 90s who played everything from Batman to Doc Holliday, died on Tuesday, according to his daughter Mercedes Kilmer, who released a statement to the New York Times and the Associated Press. read more


The Republican candidates have prevailed in a pair of special congressional elections in Florida Tuesday ... read more


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