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A joint law enforcement operation uses a drone swarm for inspection in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, on August 26, 2025.

The U.S. keeps warning about China’s surveillence tech threat—while cashing in on it: ‘I think we’ve been naive or complicit in the extreme’

By Garance Burke, Dake Kang, and others

Jeffrey Scholes

‘A bit of a shock’: Even community colleges, largely nonpartisan commuter schools, are feeling the Trump education crackdown

By Byron Tau and The Associated Press

FILE – Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

Two of Elon Musk’s top DOGE hires are a married couple who worked at X and lived at Twitter’s HQ with their infant child

By Byron Tau, Joshua Goodman, and others

Elon Musk wields a chainsaw on stage

21 tech staffers quit from DOGE en masse, warning Elon Musk’s hires are political idealogues without the necessary skills or experience

By Brian Slodysko, Byron Tau, and others

People protest during a rally against Elon Musk outside the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Judge temporarily blocks Elon Musk plan offering incentives for federal workers to quit

By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley, and others

People protest during a rally against Elon Musk outside the Treasury Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Federal workers ask whether Musk buyout deal is real or a trick as deadline approaches

By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley, and others

FILE – The smartphone app DeepSeek page is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

DeepSeek could send sensitive user information to Chinese state-owned telecoms company, researchers warn

By Byron Tau and The Associated Press