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Senate Republicans defended the Trump administration’s sweeping revamp of the U.S. Agency for International Development led ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk on the subject of misinformation about South Africa, the ...

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates discussed his recent meeting with President Trump and Elon ...

The purge at the U.S. Agency for International Development is a blow to American interests and a boon to our adversaries.

President Trump made Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, a 'special government employee' at the White ...

Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International Development needs to be “shut down,” following ...

The president backs the tech billionaire after Hillary Clinton called him an "unelected oligarch" on Monday The post Trump ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according to the Trump ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a massive human rights violation ...

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, spent more than $290 million supporting Donald Trump and his MAGA allies on the campaign ...

Newsweek contacted Elon Musk via Tesla for comment on how his companies have been affected via email. Trump and Musk have been close allies for the last year, and the billionaire businessman plays an ...