‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump's ‘first friend’ Elon Musk's Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war  —  Canada's EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.  —  Business Today Desk

Elon Musk's team has gotten access to the Treasury Department's payments system.  — Trump tariffs: The Canadian government has been notified by the United States government that goods exported to the United States will be subject to a 25 percent tariff, with a lower rate for Canadian oil …

Critical FAA warning system outage could cause ‘residual’ flight delays today  —  Flights across the US could experience “residual delays” Sunday morning as the Federal Aviation Administration works to restore a critical warning system that experienced an outage Saturday night, according to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump  —  More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.

Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump's Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I.  —  The Education Department told employees of the suspensions in letters on Friday.  Some of those put on leave said they had only a minimal connection to diversity or equity efforts.

Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings  —  Brian Driscoll pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be dismissed.  Driscoll has so far not handed over the names of thousands of FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6th cases.

The Logic of Destruction  —  What is a country?  The way its people govern themselves.  America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws.  The assumption of a democracy is that individuals have dignity and rights that they realize and protect by acting together.

The power of independent journalism: From her Brooklyn apartment, she ‘scooped’ the nation's media  —  First word of the Trump administration's since-rescinded order to freeze spending on federal loans and grants came not from a major news organization, but from a woman working alone in her Brooklyn apartment.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals.  Banned terms must be scrubbed.  —  I believe we are breaking news some news here.  To help sustain independent journalism and analysis, please support Inside Medicine.

NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X  —  The agency says it will no longer notify reporters about plane crash press briefings via email.  —  The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates …

Donald Trump and the incredible shrinking Congress  —  The framers of the Constitution imagined Congress as the preeminent branch of government.  But many Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem content to play second fiddle.  —  Republican lawmakers spent the last two weeks deferring …

End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say  —  A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.'s website went dark.  —  The website for the U.S. Agency for International Development went dark Saturday afternoon as lawmakers and aid workers …