The Best of the Week’s News

• Trump administration lifts ban on sugar company that practiced forced labor. The co-owners are major Trump donors. (NYT)
   

• DOGE overruns the US Institute of Peace. (Guardian)
   

• East African housekeepers are dying horrible deaths in Saudi Arabia. (NYT)

   

• Musk claims DOGE is auditing the government but auditors say he’s stealing data. (WIRED)
   

• Elon Musk’s swashbuckling, conspiracy theorizing, apartheid-loving grandfather loomed large in his childhood. (CBC)