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"Basically, the left-wing NGO [non-governmental organizations] cabal."

It was reported last month that Musk did not fly to a conference in Miami due to death threats.

During the podcast, Musk and Cruz mentioned ActBlue and Arabella Advisors as being among the leading leftist groups that fund progressive causes.

Once a hero of the left for creating electric cars, Musk's work for Trump has made him an enemy of Democrats. The billionaire said he knows why.

"We're clearly over the target. If DOGE was ineffective, if we we're not actually getting rid of a bunch of waste and fraud...and the fraud we're seeing is overwhelmingly on the left," he said. "It's not zero on the right, but these NGOs are almost all left-wing NGOs that are being funded.

Garber said the plan also means students whose families make less than $100,000 will pay nothing, meaning their tuition as well as other expenses like food and housing will be covered. As a result, the university estimates that going forward nearly 90% of families in the United States whose children are accepted will qualify for some form of financial aid.

"Harvard has long sought to open our doors to the most talented students, no matter their financial circumstances,” Hopi Hoekstra, the Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said. “This investment in financial aid aims to make a Harvard College education possible for every admitted student, so they can pursue their academic passions and positively impact our future.”

The announcement is the latest from an elite higher education institution offering tuition breaks and comes as the rising cost of higher education has some questioning whether college is worth the price.

In November, MIT announced that students whose families make less than $200,000 will be able to attend tuition-free this fall. Similarly to Harvard, students whose families make less than $100,000 will pay nothing at all. Those income limits are from previous limits of $140,000 and $75,000 respectively.

“The cost of college is a real concern for families across the board,” MIT President Sally Kornbluth said. “We’re determined to make this transformative educational experience available to the most talented students, whatever their financial circumstances. So, to every student out there who dreams of coming to MIT: Don’t let concerns about cost stand in your way.”

Drone technology has become so ubiquitous in the conflict that command operations now resemble the basement of a tech startup rather than a traditional front-line bunker. Scores of monitors with aerial and ground-based drones now lay waiting to be unpacked and launched, ready to do battle with Russia’s own robot army.

The snowy, rugged terrain has forced the drone units to adapt to what is capable and which type of tech to send into the field. Land drones, or UGVs, can look like a lunar rover, or like a robot-dog and each come with their own advantages and disadvantages.

Tamiris Pereira dos Santos, a land platforms analyst at the defense-intelligence company Janes, said the use of UGVs in Ukraine has shown their current limitations but also gives developers a real-world scenario to observe and improve drone technology for the next conflict. "What the deployment of UGVs in Ukraine has done is to catalyze testing and experimentation of these platforms for other armed forces and larger manufacturers," he said.

"You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who is trying to save your country," Vance said.

The willingness of Vance to openly address a past grievance in public drew ire from politicians on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the Atlantic. But the confrontation drew plenty of praise from the party's base who has grown weary of GOP politicians playing nice.

Matt Boyle, the Washington bureau chief for the conservative outlet Breitbart News said, "Vance is clearly the far, runaway front-runner, and no one else can hold a candle to him right now. He's also been very smart about developing strong relationships with a lot of the MAGA 'America First' [originals] and with Congress in passing President Trump's agenda and confirming the president's Cabinet."

In February, Brazil's prosecutor-general charged the former president with staging a coup to remain in office after his loss to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022.

The plot allegedly included plans to kill Lula, his vice-president Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is leading the case and others against former President Bolsonaro.

His son told The Financial Times that pro-Trump lawmakers and officials are receptive to his arguments that Lula is leading Brazil into authoritarianism.

"Jair Bolsonaro is already a condemned man," Bolsonaro said in the interview. "It is very likely they will try to kill him in jail or that he'll never leave jail."

Bolsonaro is claiming that the U.S. Magnitsky Act, which was created to punish Russian officials for human rights violations, could also play against de Moraes because of his actions against political opponents and free speech.

He said he's learned from Trump while fighting political battles that "you have to work on everything politically."

A source linked to the Trump camp suggested the former president's son's arguments are having an effect, as it is U.S. government policy to fight censorship.

The former president, who has been friendly with President Donald Trump for years, was not able to attend his inauguration after de Moraes made him surrender his passport.

And now, prosecutors are calling for his son's passport to be taken away after lawmakers from Lula's party accused him of committing "crimes against national sovereignty" for his efforts against the Brazilian supreme court in the United States.

He told The Financial Times the government is trying to "silence" him.

Bolsonaro said in a speech at a conservative conference last month that Brazil, under Lula, is a "testing ground for the weaponization of the courts against conservative libertarians and Christians, always under the noble pretense of ‘protecting democracy."

Meanwhile, Trump's media group in February joined in with video platform Rumble to sue de Moraes, accusing him of censorship.

The next week the State Department attacked Brazil's government saying its moves to block access to U.S.-based social media companies is "incompatible with democratic values."

"The values of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation reflect our commitment to integrity and accuracy, and we categorically condemn antisemitism and all forms of hate," a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, told the New York Post in a statement.

"Though our preliminary review of this report finds troubling and flawed conclusions that are not supported by the Anti-Defamation League's data, we are currently undertaking a more thorough and detailed analysis," the spokesperson said.

Wikimedia's spokesperson added that it was "unfortunate" the ADL did not contact the foundation before the report was released.

According to the report, an NPR story about a young Palestinian flying a kite emblazoned with a swastika was deleted from a Wikipedia entry about Gaza protests, while colluding editors took down reports of sexual violence committed by Hamas from the site. Other "bad-faith editors" excised references to terrorist violence from pages on Hamas, the report stated.

Changes to Wikipedia's main Zionism page beginning in 2022 have reframed the founding of Israel in a negative way, the ADL claimed.

"Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible," the page said.

Going forward, the ADL recommends that search engines deprioritize Wikipedia pages in their results and that the nonprofit create a program with experts on Israel. The report also recommends Wikipedia revisit its policies on sourcing standards, as well as bias and harassment.