17 h. ago ‘Dumber than a sack of bricks’: Musk unloads on Trump’s top trade chief

Divisions over tariffs have boiled over in Donald Trump’s inner circle with billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk launching a vicious attack on the president’s “dangerously dumb” top trade adviser Peter Navarro.

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17 h. ago ‘Dumber than a sack of bricks’: Musk unloads on Trump’s top trade adviser

Divisions over tariffs have boiled over in Donald Trump’s inner circle with billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk launching a vicious attack on the president’s “dangerously dumb” top trade adviser Peter Navarro.

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5 d. ago The day Elon Musk and Kanye West messaged ABC chair Kim Williams

An at times emotional Kim Williams told the Melbourne Press Club he’d learnt a lot about pile-ons in recent months.

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6 d. ago ‘Disaster on every metric’: Tesla sales tumble amid Elon Musk backlash

Tesla shares tumbled before turning positive on a report that Musk is eyeing an exit from the White House.

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7 d. ago Elon Musk bet it all on a judicial election in Wisconsin. He just lost

Trump’s billionaire sidekick said the poll would “determine the fate of western civilisation”. It might also alter his image as a rainmaker for American conservatives.

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8 d. ago Romance novel pulled over racism claims and character’s praise for Elon Musk

Bestselling independent author Sophie Lark was set to make her debut with a traditional publisher when early readers of her new novel pounced.

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9 d. ago This US state is electing a Supreme Court judge, but this poll is really all about Elon Musk

A judge, a former politician and the head of the Young Republicans walk into a bar. No, it’s not a joke – it’s a Thursday night in Wisconsin and there’s an election to be won.

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9 d. ago The Wisconsin election that will serve as a referendum on Trump and Musk

A judge, a former politician and the head of the Young Republicans walk into a bar. No, it’s not a joke – it’s a Thursday night in Wisconsin and there’s an election to be won.

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2 w. ago ‘Grease meets Jetsons’: Elon Musk is getting into the restaurant game

Tesla’s all-night diner, theatre and charging station is on its way as the company’s leader, Elon Musk, prepares to shake up the future of petrol stations.

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2 w. ago Bullet holes and Molotov cocktails: Elon Musk’s Tesla is under attack

Property carrying the logo of Musk’s electric-car company has been targeted across the US and overseas.

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2 w. ago Bullet holes, fires and Molotov cocktails: Elon Musk’s Tesla is under attack

In Trump’s first term, his properties in New York, Washington were targeted by protesters. In the early days of his second term, Tesla is filling that role.

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3 w. ago How this comedian ended up being (briefly) richer than Elon Musk

Max Fosh is making a career out of cutting corners.

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3 w. ago China’s BYD cemented its lead on Elon Musk’s Tesla in five minutes

Musk’s politicking damages Tesla’s brand, but the underlying problem goes much deeper: It’s Tesla’s relatively old line-up of electric car models.

Technology

3 w. ago Trump rant about impeaching a ‘radical left lunatic’ judge sparks rare scolding from chief justice

The White House is escalating its war against the US judiciary after judges temporarily blocked the deportation of alleged criminals and halted parts of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting romp through the bureaucracy.

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3 w. ago He’s barely two, but my grandson is already smarter than Elon Musk

He might be the richest man in the world, but Musk’s dirt-poor in the only thing that matters.

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3 w. ago ‘Pain’: Elon Musk steps up fight to save his $100 billion Tesla payday

The world’s richest person is trying to recover the largest pay package ever awarded to a US executive.

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4 w. ago Trump slump leaves president’s billionaire friends $335 billion poorer

As Donald Trump took the oath of office on January 20, he was flanked by the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. They had never been richer. How things have changed.

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