Elon Musk — the world’s richest man, who for the past two months has been dismantling or threatening to dismantle government services that help the less fortunate —is having a bad week, and Donald Trump feels sorry for him. The president’s trade wars have been tanking the stock market, and …
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Tesla stock took a beating on Monday, plummeting more than 15 percent in its worst single-day performance in years, a sell-off precipitated by both a market downturn and a rising tide of resentment over CEO Elon Musk‘s gleeful destruction of federal government agencies. But Donald Trump is looking out for …
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Today, Elon Musk‘s X feed offered the usual mix of paranoid politics, attacks on Democrats and government agencies, and content from accounts affiliated with President Donald Trump (who still prefers his own web platform, Truth Social). But mixed in were a number of posts about Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer …
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Once upon a time, Tesla owners could feel assured that they came off as forward-thinking consumers looking to reduce their carbon footprint. The sleek, high-tech electric vehicles were even something of a liberal status symbol. But no longer. The company’s CEO, billionaire oligarch Elon Musk, who had formerly cultivated the …
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is taking a chainsaw to the US government and, at first glance, no one is standing in his way. Musk and his rogue’s gallery of minions are moving fast, dead set on breaking the things that hundreds of millions of people in this country …
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As Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues its punitive onslaught against government agencies in what he claims is an effort to reduce wasteful spending, his own companies continue to enjoy lucrative federal contracts. Tesla and SpaceX have been awarded some $230 million worth in contracts so far …
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The U.S. soldier found dead in a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside theTrump International Hotelin Las Vegas left a note suggesting the incident was a “stunt” meant as a “wakeup call” to the country, investigators said. During a new briefing on Friday afternoon, police said that they had found a …
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It’s not yet known what led to the detonation of incendiary materials in a Tesla Cybertruck on the morning of New Year’s Day in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, in a blast that killed the driver and injured seven others. So far, law enforcement has only confirmed …
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Local authorities and the FBI are investigating a Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas that left one person dead on Wednesday morning. The driver of the car was killed in the blast and at least seven people who were nearby sustained minor injuries, officials said. …
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President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition team has recommended the elimination of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule about collecting data from crashes of cars equipped with automated driving systems, according to a document reviewed by Reuters. It just so happens that Tesla — whose CEO, Elon Musk, spent roughly a …
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