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The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress. Tesla and SpaceX’s multibillionaire CEO mused about that approach on Friday in a post on […]
According to AirNow, the federal government’s website that is home to the U.S. Air Quality Index, ground-level ozone, a major component of smog, is one of five major pollutants the Environmental Protection Agency measures to establish a particular community’s air quality index. Still, the city described its limited findings as “definitive and reassuring.” We deserve […]
The very public and nasty feud between billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has garnered major reactions and elicited much fodder—and jokes—on television and social media timelines. “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?” said U.S . . .
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | 2 a.m. Elon Musk came to Washington with a chain saw and a promise we all knew was little more than a dark fantasy: cut a third of the federal budget, root out inefficiency and save the American taxpayer $2 trillion. He left with a black eye, a ruined reputation, […]
Elon Musk joined President Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Friday for a press conference, during which the president bid farewell to the Tesla CEO following his departure from the “Department of Government Efficiency” or DOGE. But what grabbed the internet’s attention was Musk’s visible black eye. Elon Musk, alongside Secretary of Treasury Scott […]
Elon Musk at the Trump presser. Photo : Twitter As Trump sent off Elon Musk as the chief of the Department of Government Efficiency on Friday afternoon at the Oval Office, social media noticed a possible back eye on Musk’s right eye. There was wild speculations that it could be the result of a bruise. […]
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 […]
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday. On Friday, Congress was
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday in the latest attempt to dent the fortune of the world’s richest man. A Tesla driver shrugs while passing protesters against […]
Errol Musk, father of billionaire Elon Musk, recently defended his son against accusations of racism by highlighting the family’s relationship with Black domestic staff during apartheid-era South Africa. Speaking to The Washington Post, the 79-year-old claimed his children were uninterested in “political nonsense” despite being raised under a system of racial segregation. “We had several […]