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

Now that Elon Musk has been classified as a "special government employee," he will get greater access to U.S. government ...

But this morning, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., released a letter he wrote to Musk declaring ...

Trump views Musk as doing the task he assigned him with, and benefits from letting someone else take the heat for drastic and ...

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

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

In its first two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. Agency for ...

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