Trump fires hundreds of FAA workers weeks after DC crash as Rubio continues Ukraine-Russia peace talks: Live

Musk, 53, is yet to directly respond to St. Clair’s claims and instead went on a social media tirade in the early hours of Monday morning, seemingly touching on every other issue in his crosshairs except her post suggesting he has become a father once again.

The Tesla CEO attacked wokeness in video games, touted his Department of Government Efficiency, shared a post by the satirical right-wing news outlet where St. Clair used to write, The Babylon Bee, and responded to a photo of his ex-partner Shivon Zilis, with whom he shares twins.

But nothing on St. Clair.

Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada has pushed back on Trump’s agenda for the United States’s northern neighbor, saying Canada will “never be the 51st state” and warning that tariffs will begin a resentful trade war.

Speaking on Saturday at a Flag Day rally in Ottawa, Poilievre, a favorite among conservative Americans, reiterated opposition to the president’s suggestion that Canada could be annexed.

“Let me be clear, we will never be the 51st state,” he said.

“We will bear any burden and pay any price to protect the sovereignty and independence of our country,” Poilievre added, to roaring applause.

A U.S. judge has scheduled a rare holiday court hearing on Monday in a case brought by Democratic state attorneys general seeking to protect major federal agencies from Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting team DOGE.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., has called the hearing for Presidents Day when federal courts are typically closed.

She did not say why she ordered the hearing but on Friday she heard arguments by 13 Democratic state attorneys general for a temporary restraining order that would bar Musk’s DOGE team from accessing information systems at several government agencies including the departments of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Energy, Transportation, Commerce, and the Office of Personnel Management.

DOGE has swept through federal agencies since Trump became president last month and put Musk in charge of rooting out wasteful spending as part of Trump’s dramatic overhaul of government, which included thousands of job cuts on Friday.

The attorneys general also asked the judge to prevent Musk and DOGE team members from firing government employees or putting them on leave.

They have requested the order to last for 14 days, giving them time to file legal briefs in pursuit of a more permanent order.

Chutkan did not issue a ruling at Friday’s hearing.

The states argue that Musk wields the kind of power that can only be exercised by an officer of the government who has been nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate under the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The states also allege DOGE has not been authorized by Congress.

Around 20 lawsuits have been filed in various federal courts challenging Musk’s authority, which have led to differing results in two initial rulings.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in New York extended a temporary block on DOGE on Friday that prevented Musk’s team from accessing Treasury systems responsible for trillions of dollars of payments.

But also on Friday, U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington declined a request by unions and nonprofits to temporarily block Musk’s team from accessing records at the departments of Labor, and Health and Human Services, as well as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

An interesting little intervention from the president here on Truth Social, backing the Sunshine State Representative – a regular talking head in his defense – to be the next occupant of the governor’s mansion.

He did announce a short while ago that Ed Martin is his pick to be the United States Attorney for D.C. on a permanent basis, which may not actually be allowed under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.

In the latest mass firing news, the Trump administration has slashed hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – including dozens of workers crucial to public health safety – as the country grapples with a potential “quad-demic,” according to reports.

As part of an effort led by the Department of Government Efficiency, which billionaire Elon Musk heads, thousands of probationary workers within the Department of Health and Human Services were told they were being terminated over the weekend, including 1,300 at the CDC.

According to NBC, those departures included around two dozen workers at the Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS), a two-year fellowship program that trains scientists to address public health threats.

Nothing on the commander-in-chief’s schedule (or much on his Truth Social feed so far) on this federal holiday but here he is waving like a British Royal to supporters at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach this morning.

Donald Trump’s administration has been pressuring the authorities in Romania to lift travel restrictions on the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate, who is facing criminal charges in Bucharest, according to The Financial Times.

Tate and his brother Tristan, who have dual American and British citizenship, were arrested in 2022 and charged with human trafficking, sexual misconduct, money laundering and running an organized crime group but have since become a pet cause of the online right. The siblings have denied wrongdoing.

Their case was first raised by U.S. officials in a phone call with the Romanian government last week and then followed up by Richard Grenell, Trump’s special envoy and now interim Kennedy Center boss, when he met the Romanian foreign minister at the Munich Security Conference.

The president’s obsessions with tariffs have been a constant for his entire time in public life, dating back to his emergence as a real estate tycoon in the 1980s and 1990s, writes Andrew Feinberg.

Here’s John Bowden with a look at who the president might see as his natural heir if not the current vice president.

Might it be Don Jr, Vivek Ramaswamy, Glenn Youngkin, Ron DeSantis or Marco Rubio?

The amiable Scottish actor hosted some of Hollywood’s brightest stars at London’s Royal Festival Hall last night for an evening celebrating the year’s best films but some of his gags at the American president’s expense were cut from the BBC’s broadcast.

Here’s Annabel Nugent on what Tennant had to say.