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A Black Lives Matter leader called out Democrats’ anti-DOGE protests, calling the far-left demonstrators “sore losers” as they took to the streets to protest the Trump administration on President’s Day. BLM Inc. executive director Mark Fisher, who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, joined “FOX & Friends” to discuss the movement and why he considers it a play from “George Soros’ playbook.”ELON MUSK SAYS MILLIONS IN SOCIAL SECURITY DATABASE ARE BETWEEN AGES OF 100 AND 159″These protests, they’re all performative,” Fisher told Lawrence Jones on Tuesday. “In my state, in Rhode Island, it was maybe a dozen, a couple dozen people…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
The Tesla Cybertruck has earned the highest overall safety rating possible from the top automotive regulator in the U.S., following the agency’s crash testing procedure with the pickup. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has awarded the Tesla Cybertruck with a five-star safety rating following its crash tests of the electric vehicle (EV), as detailed in a report from the agency released this week. The NHTSA’s crash testing combines results from frontal and side crashes, along with measuring the vehicle’s risk of rolling over. The Cybertruck earned five stars in both the frontal and side crash categories and a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is falsely claiming that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security payments. Over the past few days, President Donald Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk have said on social media and in press briefings that people who are 100, 200 and even 300 years old are improperly getting benefits — a “HUGE problem,” Musk wrote, as his Department of Government Efficiency digs into federal agencies to root out waste, fraud and abuse.It is true that improper payments have been made, including some to dead people. But the…
A federal judge on Tuesday declined to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data or firing federal employees. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan declined to grant the plaintiffs’ request to issue a temporary restraining order, citing what she said was their failure to demonstrate evidence of “irreparable harm” caused by DOGE’s access. “Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight,” Chutkan, an Obama appointee, said Tuesday. “In these circumstances, it must be indisputable that this…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, Geoffrey Kendrick, has reaffirmed his standout price forecast for Bitcoin. Kendrick, who envisions BTC hitting $500,000 by 2028, bases his conviction on evidence of increasing institutional involvement — specifically pointing to sovereign wealth funds, state pension funds, and other large-scale investors. Sovereign Wealth Funds Enter The Bitcoin Fray According to a new report from Standard Chartered cited by The Block, Kendrick sees growing signs that government-backed investment vehicles are ramping up their interest in Bitcoin. This view is reinforced by Abu Dhabi’s recent disclosure of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Department of Government Efficiency staffers were at the Pentagon on Tuesday and receiving lists of the military’s probationary employees, U.S. officials said.However, it was not clear that all probationary personnel would be let go — instead, some might be exempted due to the critical nature of their work. The military services each had until end of business Tuesday to identify their probationary employees.The affected personnel would include defense civilians who are still new to their jobs, not uniformed military personnel, who are exempt, according to the four officials who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition…
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., and CNN host Pamela Brown clashed on Tuesday over President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to limit government waste as the GOP lawmaker took a shot at CNN’s ratings. Brown pressed Burchett repeatedly about the Trump administration’s efforts in cutting government waste, and specifically asked if it was fair to say the way it was being done was “clumsy rather than methodical,” and argued that the administration was making “high-stakes mistakes.””Humans will make mistakes, ma‘am. But currently, these are bloated programs. You have no-show employees that are angry that they‘re having to go back to work,…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…