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’...
Pedestrian crossings in several areas of northern California have been hacked with fake greetings mocking the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Officials in Silicon Valley are investigating and have disabled the audio feature on the crossings which usually plays instructions to “walk” or “wait”. The surprise message were noticed over the weekend in...
By now there are a ton of reasons why the left hates Elon Musk. His role in DOGE and defunding the illicit and evil NGOs and threatening the sinecures of leftists like Stacey Abrams tops the list, but Musk turned into their Emmanuel Goldstein long before Elon hooked up with Trump. Jonathan Turley, whose current...
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...
As federal agencies face crippling cuts and are forced to cut essential services, President Trump has announced he will seek a $1 trillion budget for the Pentagon, a record-setting number that would mark the highest level of U.S. defense spending since World War II. William Hartung, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for...
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...
The plans of Elon Musk — the richest man on Earth — to slash Social Security and force mass layoffs will cause tens of thousands more Americans to die while waiting for their disability benefits to be approved, a new report by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has found. Right-wing cuts to Social Security have already...
Musk spent millions to meddle in a Wisconsin state Supreme Court election — which his candidate lost by double digits. President Donald Trump is reportedly considering pushing “shadow president” Elon Musk out of his administration after the billionaire spent $25 million to elect a Republican to the Wisconsin state Supreme Court — and lost badly....
Tesla’s sales plummeted to their lowest level since 2022 in a surprise to analysts amid a backlash against its boss Elon Musk. The electric car maker delivered almost 337,000 electric vehicles in the first three months of this year, a 13% drop from a year ago. Shares of Tesla tumbled after the release of the...
Nomia Iqbal in Milwaukee & Max Matza BBC News Getty Images Susan Crawford’s win means liberal control of the state’s top court is retained Wisconsin voters have elected a Democratic-backed judge to serve on the state supreme court, according to projections, following the most expensive judicial election in US history. Susan Crawford is on course...
The embattled head of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Louis DeJoy abruptly resigned from his position as postmaster on Monday — just weeks after Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) paid a visit to the agency to force it to adopt agency-shrinking measures. In a statement, DeJoy did not give a reason for his...
On Saturday 29 March, thousands of people will take on far-right billionaire and fascist Elon Musk in a Tesla Takedown Global Day of Action. Across seven UK cities (and counting), protesters will pitch up at Tesla dealerships across the UK, in tandem with activists in Australia, Canada, and Germany. Elon Musk: Tesla Takedown to hit...
Musk’s donations could influence Republican lawmakers’ decision-making on future legislation. Elon Musk, whose Trump administration-endorsed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) cuts have been challenged (and sometimes successfully blocked) in courtrooms across the country, has donated to several Republican members of Congress who have called for the impeachment of judges issuing those rulings. Musk has given...
Tech billionaire and senior Trump adviser Elon Musk visited the Pentagon on Friday for briefings that have sparked debate after multiple US media outlets reported that he would be given an overview of US plans in the event of war with China. President Donald Trump denied the reports, saying “China will not even be mentioned...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing mounting calls to step down after he voted in favor of the Republicans’ spending package Friday. The Republican bill has been described as a “blank check” for the White House to keep defunding and dismantling government services and agencies. Calls have been mounting for New York Congressmember Alexandria...