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Elon Musk met with a small group of House Republicans on Wednesday evening where he discussed avenues for cost savings in a quest to find as much as $1 trillion in government waste, people familiar with the discussion told Fox News Digital.”The executive DOGE team is confident, they think they can get $1 trillion,” one lawmaker familiar with the meeting told Fox News Digital. “Now, we’ll see, right? And the thing is, he acknowledged that we’re going to make mistakes, but we’re going to correct them very quickly.”The GOP lawmaker said some concerns were raised about whether other government offices…

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…

TAMPA, Fla. — AST SpaceMobile’s newly announced plan to create a jointly owned European satellite operator for direct-to-smartphone services comes at a pivotal moment in the region’s push for greater space autonomy.The Texas-based low Earth orbit (LEO) operator’s partnership with European telecom giant Vodafone, which was already set to provide the cellular spectrum needed to launch its services in 10 countries, ultimately aims to extend coverage across the entire continent.Scott Wisniewski, AST SpaceMobile’s chief strategy officer, said the agreement lays the groundwork for a network of gateways essential to integrating satellites with more terrestrial mobile networks, paving the way to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk arrived on Capitol Hill Tuesday and learned about something new — budget rescissions, an obscure legislative tool that could bring legal heft to his federal budget slashing effort and enshrine the cuts into law.Musk joined a lunch meeting with Republican senators just hours after the Supreme Court issued a setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze some $2 billion in foreign aid funds as part of its sweeping shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development. As he opened the private session, Musk led with a message urging Congress to act.Over plates of…

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…

AUSTIN, Texas — NASA has yet to restore communications with a lunar science spacecraft launched last week, keeping the spacecraft from completing its mission as originally planned.NASA said late March 4 that spacecraft controllers were continuing efforts to reestablish communications with the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft. Those communications were lost less than 12 hours after its launch Feb. 26 as a secondary payload on a Falcon 9 carrying the IM-2 lunar lander for Intuitive Machines.The agency stated Feb. 27 that the spacecraft turned on its transmitter several hours after the loss of communications but did not have full telemetry from the…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. Chainlink (LINK) has faced massive volatility and uncertainty, with price action resembling a rollercoaster ride over the past few days. After trading around $17, LINK plunged to $13 before rebounding back to $16, all within less than three days. This extreme price movement reflects the broader market’s instability, as traders struggle to navigate between bullish excitement and looming risks. Related Reading The crypto market remains highly reactive, with investors balancing the hype from President Trump’s U.S. Strategic Crypto Reserve announcement against the macroeconomic uncertainty that continues to weigh on sentiment. While the potential…

FIRST ON FOX: Elon Musk gathered with dozens of GOP senators for lunch at the Capitol on Wednesday, where he shared updates on the progress of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been aggressively auditing the federal government and slashing waste. Musk told the roughly 40 senators in attendance that DOGE’s efforts were saving about $4 million per day, a source in the room told Fox News Digital. The discussion took place during a weekly lunch hosted by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., chairman of the Republican Senate Steering Committee.EXCLUSIVE: ELON MUSK PAC THANKS TRUMP FOR ‘SAVING THE AMERICAN DREAM’ IN…

Standing in nearly the exact same spot where Franklin Roosevelt had asked Congress to declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor and where Lyndon Johnson had said he would have given all he had to not be saddled with the burden of the presidency after the assassination of John F Kennedy, President Donald Trump used his fifth appearance before a joint session of Congress to offer a vision of America where compromise isn’t needed and the opposing political party exists to be an object of ridicule and not a source of alternative ideas of how to govern. Trump opened his…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. The Bitcoin price is struggling to recover from recent declines, as the market downtrend has kept it significantly below the $100,000 mark. Amidst this volatility, Bitcoin is experiencing a bearish deviation that is filling a new Chicago Mercantile (CME) Gap. This has triggered a fresh prediction from a crypto analyst who believes that the pioneer cryptocurrency is set for a higher high. Bitcoin Price To Form Higher Low As CME Gap Fills Crypto analyst Rekt Capital took to X (formerly Twitter) on Monday to share his projected outlook for the Bitcoin price. The…