Elon Musk has said he is pulling back from investing in politics, which at first blush seems counterintuitive. He has said more than once that America and the West are facing an existential risk, and he has already proven that he is immune to the usual financial and social pressures that most mortals would fear...
Man, these guys passed ‘goofy’ and ‘outrageous’ a long time ago, and went straight into demented, desperate lunatic ravings. I guess when you’re a colorless, inner-fireless, charisma-free party apparatchik like Chuck Schumer, having to fight for your very existence for the first time in your political life against an on-coming swarm of out-of-control, flamboyant, drop-mic-moment...
An internal document bolsters warnings that the hunt for fraud is a pretext for slashing Social Security benefits. An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000 — a rate of 0.0018%....
Due process for me, not for thee. This story seems to put to rest the Democrats’ commitment to due process. A Heartland Institute/Rasmussen Reports poll has found that 7 out of 10 Democrats would like to see a law passed that would put Elon Musk in jail. FULL STORY:https://t.co/EqwfwI5MAs — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) May 8,...
Getty Images A sign outside a SpaceX facility near the proposed new city The area where Elon Musk’s SpaceX company operates on the southern tip of Texas is to officially become a city called Starbase. Residents approved incorporating a patch of land as the new municipality in an election on Saturday. Most of the 283...
It’s a wonder that President Trump and his team haven’t been driven out of office by now. He and they would have been if the Pravda Media had their way. You got me beat ???? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2025 Buried in the news that Trump and his team get almost nothing but...
Depose the DOGEfather? Spike the space genius? Eject the engineer behind the whole company? So says the Wall Street Journal. And “no,” says both the Tesla board and Elon Musk. Get ready for a fight, because Musk got hopping mad over this report last night from the Murdoch operation. According to their sources, the Tesla...
Tesla has denied reports that it has contacted recruitment firms to launch a search for a replacement for Elon Musk as chief executive. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the electric car firm’s board began looking for a successor to Mr Musk last month. It said this was because of frustration around Mr...
Lucy Gilder, Jake Horton and the Data Science team BBC Verify BBC Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) – set up to cut US government spending – claims to have saved, on average, more than $10bn a week since President Trump entered office. “We’re talking about almost $200bn and rising fast,” Trump told the...
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Mike Wendling Reporting fromBastrop, Texas Getty Images The site pictured in 2023, with SpaceX facilities at the top, The Boring Company located to the left and the building housing local businesses in the centre. Since then, the development has expanded further. After fleeing Silicon Valley for political and business reasons, Elon Musk is building a...
Graham Fraser Technology reporter Getty Images A Tesla whistleblower who has fought Elon Musk and his company through the courts for years has won the latest round of a long-running legal battle. Engineer Cristina Balan lost her job after she raised a safety concern in 2014 about a design flaw which could affect the cars’...
Khanyisile Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg Getty Images The tussle between Starlink boss Elon Musk and South Africa over the company’s failure to launch in the country stems from the nation’s black empowerment laws, and could be one factor behind the diplomatic row between the US and Africa’s most industrialised nation. To his more than 219...
OpenAI is suing Elon Musk over claims he has tried “nonstop” to slow down its business for his own benefit. The company accuses the Tesla boss of using “bad-faith tactics” against OpenAI to help him control-cutting edge AI technology. Mr Musk sued OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last year in a bid to stop him...
Elon Musk has called President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a “moron” over comments he made about his electric vehicle firm, Tesla. Musk – who is also a member of the Trump administration – also said Navarro was “dumber than a sack of bricks” in posts on his social media platform X. It was...