Elon Musk: “We’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction.” For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the Moon through the Artemis Program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans, has more ... 01/2/2025 - 11:27 pm | View Link
Elon Musk wants the FAA to let SpaceX conduct more Starship tests in 2025: What that means Elon Musk wants SpaceX to conduct 25 Starship test flights in 2025 after just five launches this year, but he'll need FAA approval. 01/1/2025 - 10:14 pm | View Link
Elon Musk Sees SpaceX Carrying About 99% Of Earth's Payload To Orbit In 2026 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk predicts the company will launch 99% of Earth's payload to orbit in 2026, surpassing competitors. 12/30/2024 - 10:43 pm | View Link
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Says Starship's 7th Test Flight Slated For Jan 10 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the company is now hoping to conduct the 7th flight test of its Starship launch vehicle on Jan 10. 12/30/2024 - 3:48 pm | View Link
What the visa feud says about the coming Trump administration Donald Trump’s siding with Elon Musk over visas for high-tech workers is the most significant example yet of the president-elect favoring powerful elements in his new MAGA coalition over his base’s ... 12/29/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
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President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to upend the federal government, and he has enlisted firebrands Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to help him do it. The two men are set to lead the Department of Government Efficiency and aim to trim $2 trillion from the US budget.
That’s about one-third of all federal spending, and the pair also believe they can cut the government workforce by 75 percent.
Scott Morgenstern, University of Pittsburgh
Donald Trump has made clear his intent to supercharge his “America First” approach to foreign policy in his second term – and Mexico looks set to be at the tip of the spear.
While many of Trump’s predecessors have also followed a “realist” strategy – that is, one where relative power is at the forefront of international relations, while diplomatic success is viewed through how it benefits one’s own nation – the incoming president has displayed an apparent unwillingness to consider the pain that his plans would inflict on targeted countries or the responses this will engender.read more
Ryan Walters has a career path.
He's already that Oklahoma School Superintendent who wants to put Trump Bibles in the state's classrooms. And it turns out he's hired the Libs of Tik Tok psycho Chaya Raichik "to advise the state on school library policies." We can now assume she's also training him on how to be an influencer to the MAGA nutjob contingent.
I assume she's the one who told him to make a video IN HIS CAR wearing an America First hat.
An investigation by House Republicans reportedly found "zero support" for MAGA conspiracy theories behind pipe bombs that were recovered by law enforcement near the U. S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The 79-page report released by the House Judiciary and House Administration committees cited information obtained from the FBI that determined two pipe bombs were planted at the headquarters for the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Jan.
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, JOSH BOAK and MARC LEVY
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has blocked the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U. S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow on the presidential campaign trail to prevent the acquisition of Steeltown USA’s most storied steel company.
The proposed deal kicked up an election year political maelstrom across America’s industrial heartland and blocking it drew a threat of litigation from Nippon Steel.
“We need major U.