07 Mar Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has long held anti-surveillance views. Now she oversees a key surveillance program she once tried to dismantle.
06 Mar DOGE’s $1 Federal Spending Limit Is Straight Out of the Twitter Playbook On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Elon Musk’s move to put spending limits on US government employee credit cards, plus how DOGE is embracing AI.
06 Mar Here’s a Map of the For-Sale Government Properties the GSA Pulled From Its Website The General Services Administration plans to sell hundreds of government buildings, including FBI headquarters. Use our interactive tools to see where they are—and the congressional districts they’re in.
06 Mar The Weird and Wacky Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2025 Look past the glitzy phone launches, and you’ll find some truly bizarre, sometimes ingenious devices and concepts lurking in the halls of Mobile World Congress.
05 Mar Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
05 Mar Trump Still Considering Tariffs on Taiwanese Chips, Despite $100 Billion TSMC Deal Enforcing the tariffs on Taiwan would be difficult, and they wouldn’t necessarily be enough to meaningfully increase semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, experts told WIRED.
05 Mar How Trump’s Tariffs Will Disrupt Key Industries in Mexico The imposition of tariffs on Mexico and Canada represents a violation of the USMCA and could trigger a tariff war, experts say.
04 Mar Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
04 Mar Trump’s FDA Cuts Are Putting Drug Development at Risk New SEC filings from pharmaceutical companies reveal Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting measures could slow drug research and delay FDA approvals.
04 Mar A Lethal Mystery Illness Spread in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.
