In many ways, these have been tough days for Tesla. Falling sales. Squeezed profit margins. Proposed changes in US government ...

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Even as Mr Musk was speaking, workers at USAID ’s headquarters in Washington were being told not to come in the next day.

Elon Musk used to be a nerd loved by the public. But a MAGA turn has seen his favorability plummet - In 2016, Elon Musk was beloved by the public. That isn’t the case today, a new poll found ...

But this morning, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., released a letter he wrote to Musk declaring ...

Staff of Musk-led DOGE is now embedded at agencies across the government, including the General Services Administration, the ...

To be clear: It’s not that I was wrong about the conflicts of interest Musk would be subject to — there is virtually nothing in government that doesn’t affect Musk’s businesses, which span electric ...