TORONTO, ONTARIO — Donald Trump is losing an election in a landslide — in Canada. After a decade under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada was ready to move on from his center-left Liberal Party. It seemed inevitable that my homeland was about to elect a new conservative government and perhaps …
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WASHINGTON — From Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, Topeka, Kansas to Chicago and several of its suburbs, in all 50 states and in many cities worldwide, hundreds of thousands of people assembled to protest against Donald Trump and his billionaire financier and adviser Elon Musk on Saturday. The “Hands Off” …
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This article is being published in partnership with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. Last week, Abundance co-author Ezra Klein went viral on social media. In a widely shared video clip from Jon Stewart’s podcast, Klein described the maddeningly …
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Elon Musk is posting through it. Since polls closed in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, he’s posted about genetically-engineered cat girls, humanoid robots, and Tesla sales, along with multiple AI-generated images of himself and CIA Director John Ratliff. He has not posted at all about the person he spent the last …
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They have been virtually inseparable since the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign, but their closeness has precipitated a question that looms over the relationship: when will Donald Trump and Elon Musk part ways? Two men famed for their egos, temperamental attitudes, spotlight-hogging, and lust for unlimited power surely can’t …
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It’s been a tough quarter for Elon Musk. Not only has Tesla stock dropped 35 percent since President Donald Trump’s inauguration — hacking more than $100 billion off Musk’s personal net worth — today he saw another $20 million go down the drain as the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat he …
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The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege. Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for …
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If Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has its way, a 28-year-old college dropout guided by the right-wing libertarian ideologies of figures including Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel and Argentine president Javier Milei will oversee the dismantling of a Washington nonprofit that promotes peace worldwide. Following a February …
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, delivered $1 million checks to two of his supporters on Sunday evening at his town hall, saying the point of giving out these payments is to “get attention.” “I should say that the reason for the checks is that it’s …
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At his million-dollar elections giveaway in Wisconsin on Sunday night, Elon Musk shared a supposedly “mind-blowing” chart showing a sharp uptick in immigrants receiving Social Security numbers. The chart showed that noncitizens have increasingly been granted Social Security numbers, not benefits, although Musk and Antonio Gracias, a staffer with his …
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