3 h. ago Elon Musk lashes out at Senate’s take on Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill as support comes down to the wire

Senate Republicans dropped the final text of the sprawling 940-page bill late on Friday evening

Politics

4 h. ago Fresh blow for Musk’s DOGE as it loses power to award $500B in federal funds

US DOGE Service has lost control of government grants website in latest roadblock to trillions in cuts Elon Musk once hoped to achieve

Economics

30 h. ago Trump's Bezos wedding snub: How Amazon founder and bride Lauren Sanchez failed to cash in on Elon Musk fallout

President Trump's fall-out with Elon Musk has created an incredible opportunity for Jeff Bezos - and he is said to be keen to capitalize on it.

Politics

30 h. ago The government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting, and experts sound an alarm

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites

Politics

52 h. ago Trump administration expands military's role at the border to the southern tip of Texas

The Department of Defense is expanding a militarized zone along the southern U.S. border where troops are authorized to detain migrants for prosecution on charges of trespassing in a national defense area

Events

54 h. ago ‘Send them to Mars’: Glastonbury installation takes aim at Elon Musk

An anti-Brexit protest group has set up a billboard at Glastonbury Festival, taking aim at Elon Musk.

Politics

55 h. ago Elon Musk regains ownership of Gene Wilder’s former LA home after foreclosing on Willy Wonka star’s nephew

Tesla billionaire moved to foreclose on the property last November after Wilder’s nephew defaulted on loan payments

Politics

59 h. ago ‘Send them to Mars’: Led By Donkeys Glastonbury exhibit takes aim at Musk

Campaign group say piece responds to tech billionaires’ ‘dangerous’ mission to make humans interplanetaryIn the psychedelic south-east corner of the Glastonbury festival site a rocket has been built to carry Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos on a one-way journey to Mars.The construction is not a hallucinatory vision but a installation designed by the political campaign group Led By Donkeys in collaboration with Block9, an area of Worthy Farm known for its immersive stage designs and diverse music genres. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago The Elon Musk effect continues as Europe’s Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row

Tesla's stock price fell by more than 4 per cent in early afternoon trading

Politics

67 h. ago US strikes on Iran force China to reconsider Trump’s isolationism

President’s willingness to use military force prompts rethink in Beijing over Taiwan

Politics

3 d. ago Andy Murray plans to keep his kids away from ‘damaging’ social media

Boulter spoke out about the level of abuse she and other tennis players receive online.

Politics

3 d. ago Mexico’s president threatens to sue over SpaceX debris from rocket explosions

Company’s Starbase launch site in Texas near the Mexican border has seen test failures resulting in large explosionsMexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has threatened legal action over falling debris and contamination from billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket launches across the border in the United States.Mexico’s government was studying which international laws were being violated in order to file “the necessary lawsuits” because “there is indeed contamination”, Sheinbaum told her morning news conference on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Pakistan debates Trump Nobel peace prize nomination after US strikes on Iran

Pakistani government had credited US president with ‘pivotal leadership’ in its ceasefire negotiations with IndiaMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump’s intervention into the Iran-Israel war, and brokering then announcing a ceasefire, has drawn a heated debate in Pakistan – where the government had formally nominated the US president for the Nobel peace prize as the US military was making its final preparations for a strike that threatened all-out war in the Middle East.A statement in the early hours of Saturday local time – shortly before US B-2 bombers left the Whiteman air force base in Missouri and headed to Iran – had credited Trump for a “legacy of pragmatic diplomacy” and “pivotal leadership” for ensuring Pakistan’s ceasefire with India in a conflict that had begun with the killing of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir in April. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago Voices: As Tesla’s sales continue to slump, is it time for Elon Musk to step aside?

The former ‘first buddy’ is back in the driving seat of his car business, but hasn’t been able to take the brakes off decline in the key European market since leaving the White House. So who else might be able to turn around the fortunes of the EV juggernaut, asks James Moore

Politics

3 d. ago Trump's budget bill could complicate 2026 tax filing season after IRS cuts, watchdog warns

The budget bill championed by President Donald Trump could complicate next year’s tax filing season after the IRS lost one-quarter of its employees through staffing cuts

Events

4 d. ago Britain to expand nuclear deterrent fleet of new fighter jets

The jets, a variant of the F35Bs the UK already uses, can carry conventional weapons, but can also be equipped with nuclear bombs.

Events

4 d. ago ‘Another big success’: Nato leader flatters Trump before The Hague summit

Mark Rutte is keen to ensure US president’s support and secure agreement among members on defence spendingIn The Hague, the Nato summit waits for Donald Trump – and no one more so than the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte. “You are flying into another big success,” Rutte wrote in a text on Tuesday, one of several released shortly afterwards by a hyperactive Trump as he travelled across the Atlantic in Air Force One.The sycophantic messages from the Dutchman had compared Nato’s plan to dramatically increase defence spending to the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites over the weekend: “Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary, and something no one else dared to do.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Elon Musk claims he ‘does not use a computer’ in OpenAI lawsuit

Elon Musk’s legal team claims he “does not use a computer,” despite the tech mogul’s many social media posts about his laptop.

Politics

4 d. ago BBC forced to apologise for Donald Trump outburst over Iran Israel conflict

The US President swore on live TV as he spoke of his furstrations over the failed ceasefire in the Iran Israel conflict

Politics

4 d. ago Donald Trump 'not happy' with Israel and warns 'do not drop those bombs'

Donald Trump has broken his silence after Israel vowed to 'respond forcefully' to Iran's alleged flouting of the ceasefire deal he brokered, before Iran accused Israel of also breaking it

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