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Allies say move is intended to help Trump replace long-serving workers with loyalists faithful to agenda
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New president’s wife chose to wear a dark, high-necked coat and a boater hat to celebrate her husband’s second inauguration
Donald Trump returns to strike sombre tone of vindication and providential intercession
Icy, strained inauguration day is rich with human drama - and the abiding American theme of defeat and redemption
Squid Game or Sweden? The choice Ireland faces as Donald Trump takes office
Unthinkable: Irish economic policy was once framed as ‘Boston or Berlin’ – our options today are much starker
As UK grapples with Elon Musk’s interventions, there’s no room for complacency here on child protection
A 2023 study found that young people in State care, particularly girls, were being targeted by older men who plied them with gifts, drink and drugs and then exploited them sexually
New books about inequality by Thomas Piketty: Counterpoints to the Trump-Musk war on the state
Among the French economist’s arguments is that ‘no credible solution to the challenge of global warming is imaginable without a drastic reduction in inequality’
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg bending the knee before Trump shows they stand for nothing
What is the point of having all the money if you can’t stand up for traditional American values or stick up the middle finger if someone is trying to intimidate you or put you in prison
Brussels orders X to hand over documents on algorithm
Expansion of probe follows complaints from politicians in Germany ahead of election next month
Michael Lowry and Elon Musk know kingmaker is more powerful than king
How can our new government claim to be an international referee of political integrity when it has shamelessly thrown away its moral compass?
SpaceX’s Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert
Mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded rocket eight minutes after lift-off from Texas
SEC sues Elon Musk over Twitter-related share violations
Regulator alleges businessman’s failure to follow disclosure rules delivered $150m benefit on share purchases
EU to review investigations into Apple, Google and Meta as US pressure mounts
Tech groups urging president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against 'overzealous' European regulation
Qantas delays flights to avoid SpaceX rocket parts
Airline warned by US government about risk of debris re-entering atmosphere on Indian Ocean routes
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More masculine energy? Only a Musk-Zuck inauguration day cage fight will do
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has entered the MMA-MAGA arena. A high-profile bout is the next logical step
Launch of Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket postponed over ‘a few anomalies’
New Glenn rocket was preparing to take off from Cape Canaveral to compete with SpaceX in the satellite launch market
Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’
Former Trump advisor pledges to ‘take this guy down’ and kick him out of the Maga movement
Moves by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg set scene for confrontation between EU and US
Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’
How will the contradictions in Trump’s policies play out?
Worldview: With his economic and policy goals often irreconcilable, how these economic and international contradictions play out will determine whether the US president-elect can claim success
The Irish Times view on Zuckerberg’s changes: Meta goes Maga
It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X
Musk says ‘things will get much worse’ for Germany unless voters rally behind far-right party
Billionaire made comments in live-streamed conversation with Alternative for Germany’s co-leader Alice Weidel on X
Musk examines how to oust Starmer as prime minister before next UK election
Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK
Zuckerberg shifts to Trump, but will he pay a price?
Meta chief drops factcheckers, but don’t bet on move to go well with his advertisers
Better passwords, empty inbox and thinking before you share: How to put manners on your tech use
Digital clutter, excessive screen time and bad screen habits are all issues worth tackling this new year
Calls for EU to resist social media giants regulation rollback
European Commission under pressure to combat Elon Musk’s ‘intolerable’ meddling in European elections
Musk-Trump effect has the capacity to destabilise Irish democracy
Musk seems to consider he has some role in using his wealth to influence political processes and debate in European states
Sucking up to Trump and his coterie of billionaires will not leave us on the right side of history
Wealth and its uses are rarely benevolent – it’s not just a means of living in luxury, but a means of changing perceptions. Just ask Conor McGregor or Elon Musk
Elon Musk would be interested in buying Liverpool FC, says father
Musk snr says there is family connection to the city
Trump’s alt right edgelords will inevitably come for Ireland. We can’t take the bait
Blurring of online jokes about Canada and declarations of intent - such as buying Greenland - by the world’s most powerful man is deeply destabilising. Ireland could be next
Sanewashing by the media helps absurdity and extremism flourish
News outlets may have a structural bias towards the rational over the mind-bendingly nonsensical. In 2025, that’s not ideal
Elon Musk fights Battle of Britain on two fronts as he clashes with Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer
Billionaire’s latest interventions in UK politics are ostensibly about Britain’s handling of child abuse grooming gangs
Musk accused of ‘politicising’ rape of young girls in UK to attack Starmer
Tech billionaire calls on the king to step in after Labour rejects call for national inquiry into child grooming
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