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Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free

On Tuesday, US district judge Beryl Howell effectively allowed the transfer of the headquarters building of the United States Institute of Peace to the General Services Administration.In fact, the building—and all of...

DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show

The DOGE-affiliated acting president of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded, independent think tank, has moved to transfer the agency’s $500 million headquarters building to the General Services Administration...

The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing

With the clock running out on the Biden administration, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in federal court. The statute at hand is relatively straightforward. The timing of...

Meta’s Future Looks Like a Lot Like Elon Musk’s X

It’s a social networking company with close ties to the incoming Trump administration. It deploys a “community notes” system to fight misinformation and lets hateful comments fly under the banner of “free...

The Apartment Rental Market Is Rigged by Algorithms, a DOJ Lawsuit Alleges

If you’ve rented an apartment in the US in the past several years, you may have had the sense that the game was rigged: Prices creep up not only at your building...

Twitter Is Finally Dead. It’s X All the Way Down

Like a venomous puss moth emerging from its hard cocoon, the social network formerly known as Twitter has fully metamorphosed into X.com.Various elements of Twitter had already embraced the rebranding, and the...

An AT&T Outage Is Wreaking Havoc on US Cellular Networks

It started around 3:30 in the morning on the East Coast, reports flooding in about an AT&T service outage. Customers complained across Reddit and X and logged their issues on Downdetector, a...

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