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Elon Musk tightens grip on federal government as Democrats raise alarms

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Feb 04, 2025 5:24 pm - WASHINGTON — Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Donald Trump ’s blessing, sidelining career officials, ...
China launches an antitrust probe into Google. Here’s what it means

By ZEN SOO
Feb 04, 2025 3:34 pm - The Chinese government's move to open an antitrust probe into Google is the latest development in a long and tangled relationship that goes back to the early 2000s.
How Trump tariffs could impact trade in Illinois

By BEN SZALINSKI
Feb 04, 2025 1:17 pm - President Donald Trump’s plan to implement tariffs on key United States trading partners could affect more than $100 billion worth of goods imported to Illinois from Canada, Mexico and China.
US aid freeze puts at risk Ukraine’s wartime help for frontline evacuees

By HANNA ARHIROVA
Feb 04, 2025 7:59 am - In what used to be the concert hall in this town in eastern Ukraine, cots are arranged on stage. Instead of music, the room is filled with the muffled sobs of local people driven from their homes by fighting in the country’s almost three-year war with Russia.
RFK Jr. appears on track to become US health secretary as he wins key Republican senator’s support

By AMANDA SEITZ and STEPHEN GROVES
Feb 04, 2025 7:45 am - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, is set to find out on Tuesday if he has cleared the first hurdle to become the nation’s top health official when the Senate Finance Committee votes on his nomination.
Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 04, 2025 7:20 am - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google

By KEN MORITSUGU and HUIZHONG WU
Feb 04, 2025 7:12 am - China countered President Donald Trump's across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports Tuesday, as well as announcing an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures.
Wall Street falls following Trump’s tariffs, but not as badly as feared in the morning

By STAN CHOE
Feb 03, 2025 4:01 pm - The threat of a punishing trade war sent Wall Street on a roller coaster Monday. After initially falling sharply on worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, U.S. stocks pared their losses after Mexico said it had negotiated a one-month reprieve.
Democrats push back after Musk says Trump agrees to close USAID and workers are kept out

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Feb 03, 2025 2:44 pm - Democrats have delivered a strong rebuke against the Trump administration’s attempt to gut an agency that provides crucial aid overseas to fund education and fight starvation and disease, calling it illegal, vowing a court fight and lambasting billionaire Elon Musk for wielding so much power in Washington.
Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could own part of TikTok

By ZEKE MILLER
Feb 03, 2025 1:56 pm - President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the U.S. to take steps to start developing a government-owned investment fund that he said could be used to profit off of TikTok if he's successful at finding it an American buyer.

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