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Musk’s latest DOGE savings goal seems to be short a few zeros

Elon Musk initially promised to cut $US2 trillion from the federal budget. He now appears to have set the goal lower for a second time.

  • David A. Fahrenthold and Maggie Haberman

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Peter Dutton took some leads from the Donald Trump playbook, but it appears to have backfired.

Trump-lite dynamite: Did copying the president’s playbook blow up Dutton’s campaign?

The opposition leader clearly thought he was on a good thing when he looked to the approach of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

  • Tony Wright
Donald Trump has asked Elon Musk to find improvements in US shipbuilding.

Musk to review US submarines as Australia warned tariffs could push up cost

Donald Trump has ordered Elon Musk to improve the capacity of US shipbuilding amid growing concern that his tariffs will increase the cost of the AUKUS pact.

  • Michael Koziol
Donald Trump’s radical plan got a reality check from bond markets.

Trump’s sharemarket bonanza and the billionaire bros club

There were many winners in the market frenzy that followed Donald Trump’s about-face, including the US president himself, but his capitulation revealed who is really in charge.

  • Colin Kruger
Elon Musk and Peter Navarro have been trading barbs following the roll-out of Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Too many narcissists in the nest: Why Trump’s bromances were always bound to clash

Elon Musk’s public fallout with Trump’s trade advisor came as no surprise to psychologists like me. It’s increasingly clear that we might be dealing with significant personality pathologies in this administration.

  • Ahona Guha

‘Dumber than a sack of bricks’: Musk unloads on Trump’s top trade adviser

Divisions over tariffs have boiled over in Donald Trump’s inner circle with billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk launching a vicious attack on the president’s “dangerously dumb” top trade adviser Peter Navarro.

  • Michael Koziol
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Katy Perry is off to space.

Space has a PR problem. It’s time to make it great again

Using space as a stunt to recover from a failed album is just another nail in the coffin of the great black void’s reputation.

  • Patrick Lenton
The White House was last week forced to hose down Politico and ABC reports that Donald Trump had told members of his cabinet that Elon Musk would soon depart and return to the private sector.

Musk in public spat with Trump’s top adviser over tariffs

The billionaire attacked Peter Navarro, the president’s hawkish pro-tariff trade adviser who has been critical of Australia in negotiations.

  • Michael Koziol
Billionaire hit: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

Billionaires poised to lose nearly a trillion dollars in two days

The world’s 500 richest people suffered the biggest two-day loss ever in the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements.

  • Dylan Sloan
Protesters on the National Mall in Washington, DC, rally against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Angry protesters from New York to Alaska assail Trump and Musk in ‘Hands Off!’ rallies

The day of demonstrations is the biggest yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of Trump’s first weeks in office.

  • Dave Collins

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