The Headlines: New Information On Cracks Within Trump Administration & Elon Musk
Today The New York Times is out with a fascinating piece with inside information from Thursday’s cabinet meeting at the White House. Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman report on some tense moments between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk:
Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: the United States Agency for International Development. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting on Thursday in front of President Trump and around 20 others — details of which have not been reported before — Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest.
AP: Trump administration cancels $400M in grants and contracts with Columbia University
Columbia has become the first target in President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut federal money to colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023.
MSNBC: Jasmine Crockett mocks Musk’s DEI attacks after his latest SpaceX launch failure
Things don’t seem to be going well at Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Another one of the company’s Starship rockets exploded, causing flight delays at Miami International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Orlando International Airport. A lot of people jumped on this news, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who always has some of the best comebacks when it comes to the Trump White House and the chaos on Capitol Hill.
The circumstances surrounding Gene Hackman’s death is even more heartbreaking then first thought.
Hackman died of heart disease, with Alzheimer's disease as a contributing factor, and Arakawa died several days before him of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Chief Medical Investigator Dr. Heather Jarrell said Friday.
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