Social media users, including a Republican lawmaker, have encouraged Elon Muskand his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to audit Fort Knox, the military installation that houses about half of the country’s gold reserves. Newsweek has contacted the Treasury Department—which operates the United States Bullion Depository, known as Fort Knox—for comment. Why It Matters As the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday questioned the authority of billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency but was skeptical of a request to block DOGE from accessing sensitive data and firing employees at half a dozen federal agencies. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan held a hearing on a request from…
Greetings from Tyler, It’s hard not to watch, almost impossible. Elon Musk is “auditing” agencies, and we’re finding out some things we didn’t know were going on. Hidden in the massive budget were things that you wouldn’t tell your children. The Panama Canal is serious. I remember my Dad lamenting that the United States had…
Greetings from Tyler, By next week’s Update, Trump will be President. He’s already introduced subjects we’d given up on, and is putting everybody on notice. The Panama Canal? They’re probably running around like chickens with their heads cut off. He’s going to take it back? Says the rules have been broken and now… We’ll have…
Greetings from Tyler, I don’t think we can even envision what lies just ahead in our immediate American future. Having listened to most of the Trump rallies, it’s going to be a joyride. How long have we been quiet about this woke nonsense? (We haven’t been quiet.) They’ve been introducing stuff we don’t even want…
British newspaper group the Guardian has announced it will no longer post on X, formerly Twitter, saying it has become a “a toxic media platform”. In a message to readers, it said the US presidential election “underlined” its concerns that its owner, Elon Musk, had been able to use X to “shape political discourse.” Mr…
Greetings from Tyler, Here we are on the eve of the Day of Atonement, and worrying about our situation. I can’t remember a time when we were in more trouble. The Middle East? Nobody knows what will happen, but it looks like Israel is going deep inside Lebanon, in essence pushing the terrorists back if…
Tesla, SpaceX and X Corp. leader Elon Musk ramped up his online attacks on Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes on Thursday, amid an intensifying political and legal battle between the tech billionaire and his companies, and Brazil’s highest court. De Moraes’ court announced on Wednesday that it was ordering Musk and X Corp….
Greetings from Tyler, So many things are happening all at once, we can hardly keep up. Israel took out a couple of terrorist commanders, and now it’s on. Iran is signaling that they’re going to respond in a big way, but anybody knows they’re braggarts. They better hope they don’t do anything rash, or … Not…
June 6 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starship rocket survived a fiery, hypersonic return from space and achieved a breakthrough landing demonstration in the Indian Ocean on Thursday, completing a full test mission around the globe on the rocket’s fourth try. Starship’s controlled fall into the Indian Ocean just 65 minutes after launching from Texas capped the…