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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S. on March 5, 2025. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Wall Street’s top regulator is facing a staff exodus across key departments as hundreds have agreed to take resignation offers amid President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to remake the U.S. government, five people…
Michael Grimes, head of global technology investment banking at Morgan Stanley, smiles while speaking to freshman students enrolled in the Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (M.E.T.) program during an orientation at the University of California-Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Star technology investment…
The PM was holding talks with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Downing Street on Sunday morning, before being joined at the summit in central London by the leaders of, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Czechia and Romania, as well as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Turkey’s foreign…
Some newspapers have labelled Ukraine’s president a ‘global hero’, while others say Russian President Vladimir Putin must be ‘laughing his head off’.
By ROB CRILLY, CHIEF U.S. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. Published: 08:11 EST, 28 February 2025 | Updated: 13:01 EST, 28 February 2025 Advertisement Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky’s Oval Office meeting erupted into an unprecedented and blistering row. During the spectacular and extended bust up, Trump accused Zelensky of ‘gambling with World War III.’ Tempers flared…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Feb. 20, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images The acting administrator of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is Amy Gleason, a White House official told…
Washington: Sweet and loving, it wasn’t. The Valentine’s Day message sent by the White House on Friday was instead a threat to potential migrants thinking of heading to the United States without the required visas and paperwork. “Roses are red, violets are blue. Come here illegally, and we’ll deport you,” read the pink card released…
The flag of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) outside its headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2025. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The largest U.S. government workers’ union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The lawsuit, filed…
WASHINGTON: When Elon Musk debuted the Department of Government Efficiency recently at the Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson enthusiastically predicted the coming Trump administration would bring “a lot of change around here.” Three weeks in, the change the Trump administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented scale, dismantling longstanding…
Washington: Elon Musk, who has moved swiftly to shrink the size of the U.S. government at President Donald Trump’s behest, is now considered a “special government employee,” the White House said on Monday. The designation allows Musk, the world’s richest man, to work for the federal government but potentially avoid disclosure rules about conflicts of…
