Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

If the wrong person gained access to personal financial information held by the U.S. Treasury, it would constitute the ...

From USAID to the U.S. federal payment system, Musk is spearheading plans to audit and cut multiple government agencies ...

Ore., said on Thursday that she is leaving the Congressional Department of Government Efficiency Caucus because Elon Musk’s ...

Nobody elected Musk”; “This is illegal”; “Stop the coup.” It was one of multiple DC protests targeting billionaire Elon ...

Musk shared a misleading video Tuesday, falsely claiming that it showed the Minnesota Democrat "breaking the law." ...

The evisceration of U.S.A.I.D. isn’t a policy fight—it’s an execution designed to strike fear in our own government.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, publicly at least, are on good terms.

Musk is offering an unprecedented—and uncertain—financial incentive for federal workers to resign, as part of Trump's plan to ...

The party has struggled with how to respond to President Trump’s aggressive efforts to remake the federal bureaucracy and ...

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Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government has inspired adoration from far-right communities online that used to be ...