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Elon Musk tightens grip on federal govt as Democrats raise alarms

Musk has been named as a special government employee, which subjects him to less stringent rules on ethics and financial disclosures than other workers

Trump, Musk demand termination of federal office leases through GSA

Regional managers for GSA received a message from the agency's Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide

FBI agents sue over justice dept's effort to ID those probing Trump cases

Donald Trump has made repeated public pronouncements of his intent to exact revenge upon persons he perceives to be disloyal to him

Families sue over Trump's order to halt funds for gender-affirming care

It comes one week after Trump signed an order calling for the federal government to stop funding the medical care through federal government-run health insurance programs

Recovery work resumes at site of plane collision near Washington DC

Sixty passengers and four crew were on the American Airlines flight, including figure skaters returning from the 2025 US Figure Skating Championships in Wichita

El Salvador's offer to jail violent US criminals faces 'legalities': Rubio

Marco Rubio reached an unusual agreement with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele a day earlier that the Central American country would accept US deportees of any nationality

Trump sees 'long-term' US ownership of Gaza, doesn't dismiss using military

Trump added the US would level destroyed buildings and create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area

Trump exits UNHRC, announces halt to funding for Palestinian refugees

Trump's announcement came on the day he met with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose country has long accused both the rights body and UNRWA of bias against Israel

About 11 persons killed in shooting at adult education centre in Sweden

Police said that there were no suspected connections to terrorism at this point. Authorities were working to identify the deceased

Hamas officials say they've started talks on second phase of ceasefire

The group also claimed in a statement Tuesday that Israel had delayed and obstructed the flow of aid into the enclave

Trump wants Ukraine's rare earth elements as condition of further support

Trump suggested that he's received word from the Ukrainian government that they'd be willing to make a deal to give the US access to the elements critical to the modern high-tech economy

Turkiye will host 15 Palestinian prisoners released as part of ceasefire

Turkiye's state-run news agency says the country will host 15 Palestinian prisoners who were released and deported as part of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel.

China launches antitrust probe into Google, labels 2 other firms unreliable

China and Google have had a long and entangled relationship going back to the early 2000s

US, Philippine jets jointly patrol disputed shoal region guarded by China

Two US Air Force B-1 bomber aircraft and three Philippine Air Force FA-50 fighter jets joined the brief patrol and training

Six injured in attack in Israel-occupied West Bank; assailant killed

Israeli hospitals said they had received a total of six people injured in the shooting attack. Israeli media reported the injured are soldiers and at least two of them were critically injured

Trump's foreign aid freeze may prove to be boon for authoritarian strongmen

Congress budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programmes this year to counter authoritarian rule in eight countries considered by experts among the world's least free

Russian attacks near Ukraine's nuke plants raise energy security concerns

Two years of punishing Russian strikes on its power grid have left Ukraine reliant on nuclear power for more than half of its electricity generation

Trump holds talks with Netanyahu, warns 'no guarantees' for peace in Gaza

Trump is guarded about the long-term prospects for the truce, even as he takes credit for pressuring Hamas and Israel into the hostage and ceasefire agreement

Salman Rushdie to testify against man charged for stabbing him in 2022

In the coming weeks, Rushdie is expected to return to the same New York county to recount the experience as one of the first witnesses in the trial of the man charged with wielding the knife that day

EU leaders scramble to avoid friction with US, avoid 'stupid tariff war'

Since taking office last month, US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on EU imports and refused to rule out military force to take control of Greenland