Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy.

Elon Musk has grown increasingly vocal with criticism of the Trump administration, saying that a megabill pushed by the White House proposing an overhaul to the tax code risks undermining his efforts to cut government spending.

Rather than justify sticker shock at the trillions of dollars President Donald Trump’s tax bill would add to deficits and the national debt, some Republican lawmakers and conservative economists are trying out some mind tricks.

The Trump administration is relying on an obscure bureaucratic lever to stop the school, the latest in a series of aggressive moves.

Laid-off and former federal workers are running for local office to address civil rights and community issues. Erica Evans, a former federal attorney, is among those seeking change at the city level amid growing political activism.

U.S. Sen. David McCormick says an arrangement for Japan-based Nippon Steel to invest in U.S. Steel will guarantee an American CEO, a majority of U.S. board members and U.S. government approval over certain corporate functions.

Germany's government approved measures to restrict family reunification for migrants and delay citizenship access on Wednesday, forging ahead with a major shift in migration policy under conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

The new strategy includes a change in cryptography systems to better protect the government's internal communications against cyberattacks from quantum computers.

The judge ordered ICE to release Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, who also faces criminal charges.

Stocks of Brazilian steel companies fell on Wednesday after the government said it would renew for 12 months a system meant to protect the national steel industry, but that steelmakers have said is ineffective.