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

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

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

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.

Welcome to 538's politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.

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

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

Trump's aides have signaled behind the scenes that Musk still reports to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

Senate Republicans defended the Trump administration’s sweeping revamp of the U.S. Agency for International Development led ...

A screenshot of an X post purportedly quoting Elon Musk saying, in part, “MAGA is the future, and will, in fact, succeed in ...

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

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