Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is pressing Elon Musk to explain Ukraine’s loss of military access to Starlink and expressing hope that Ukraine’s restricted access to the space-based communications network was because of an error and not a deliberate decision.
Tillis called on Musk in a social media post to “please tell me these overnight disruptions to Starlink terminals in Ukraine were unintended — that @SpaceX is doing everything it can to fix a temporary glitch.” Read more. |
The Republican donor at the center of the Kimberly Guilfoyle scandal said he was ready to go after other administration officials, including Vice President Vance, if they did not heed his call to extradite Dr. Abubakar Atiq Durrani, who fled to Pakistan after being accused of performing unnecessary spinal surgeries, including on children.
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Elon Musk is jumping back into the political fray, reviving his role as a massive election spender and technology leader with a seat at the table again in Washington.
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Ukraine warned on Wednesday that a disruption to its Starlink services would have dire consequences, following reported slowdowns. Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced SpaceX was reinstating speeds in a social media post, thanking company founder Elon Musk for his attention to the issue. Read more. |
President Trump’s administration has filed 42 emergency pleas to the Supreme Court since retaking the White House — surpassing the count from his entire first term.
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against a California law requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to show visible identification, a final ruling after the law was previously put on hold.
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Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an election handicapper, shifted the Kansas Senate race to a “toss-up” amid growing voter dissatisfaction with the GOP over the economy.
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Georgia set a midterm election record on its first day of early voting Tuesday, with more than 188,000 ballots cast. That is about 50,000 more than the number who voted early on Day 1 in 2022, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office.
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President Trump is breaking a more than two-decade-long tradition of welcoming a key group of international election observers to monitor the midterm contest, drawing criticism for discouraging democratic transparency.
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