By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is targeting one of the federal government's most notorious examples of waste: the penny. Getting rid of the penny would be an early test of DOGE's ...

He’s right — in fact, each US penny costs 3.7 cents to produce and distribute as of 2024. Pennies and nickels cost more than they were worth for the 19th consecutive fiscal year, according to ...

President Trump wants to end production of the penny It takes about 3.7 cents to produce and distribute one penny A 233-year run could be over. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire part entrepreneur and part Cabinet member known for his groundbreaking and disruptive innovations, including Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink, has recently been vocal about ...

Vice President Vance celebrated the news that the prestigious venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz hired Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who was acquitted two months ago of a negligent homicide ...

Trump said in a Truth Social post Sunday. "Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time." The one-cent coin was one of the first made by the U.S. Mint more ...

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On Saturday morning, Trump announced he nominated Penny Schwinn, the former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education, as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.

Billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has a new target in its sights for trimming federal spending: the U.S. penny. In Tuesday X post, Musk's DOGE wrote that the U.S. spends ...