1 hour ago Inside story of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's friendship after Elon Musk suggested the President appeared in FBI files. So what's the truth about claims of topless girls?

Like two little boys trading playground insults they know are escalating out of control, the pair had been sparring all day - until one of them finally blurted out the slur he knew might end their friendship for ever.

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3 h. ago Musk’s feud with Trump muddies xAI debt raising for Morgan Stanley

Bank was close to lining up $5bn for artificial intelligence group when US president and billionaire attacked each other

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3 h. ago Musk could lose billions of dollars depending on how spat with Trump unfolds

Elon Musk stands to lose billions of dollars in his fight with President Donald Trump

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3 h. ago Elon Musk's estranged dad tells his 'gorilla' son to make friends again with the president: Trump will prevail

Elon Musk's estranged father Errol told his 'gorilla' son to get back on President Donald Trump 's good side.

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3 h. ago Explosive truth behind Trump and Musk's 'abusive' bromance collapse... and which billionaire was secretly the CLINGY one

The abrupt break-up between President Donald Trump and his First Buddy played out in spectacular public fashion this week.

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4 h. ago State Dept says current US visas from travel ban countries will not be revoked

The State Department has instructed U.S. embassies and consulates not to revoke visas previously issued to people from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries now under President Donald Trump’s new travel ban, which goes into effect next week

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4 h. ago JD Vance silence on Musk may be the most Game of Thrones tactic ever — and Trump might not even notice

ANALYSIS: The vice president is usually the first to rush to the defense of his boss, but he has remained conspicuously quiet in the face of a barrage of abuse from the man who could make him king, writes Richard Hall

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4 h. ago US charges Kilmar Ábrego García with people smuggling as he is returned from El Salvador

US attorney general Pam Bondi says Ábrego García is back on US soil but will be sent back to El Salvador after serving a sentence if convictedTesla shares rose on Friday as investors took some comfort from White House aides scheduling a call with CEO Elon Musk to broker peace after a public feud with President Donald Trump, reports Reuters. The electric carmaker’s shares were up about 5% in Frankfurt on Friday, having closed down 14.3% on Thursday in New York, losing about $150bn in market value.“It’s unlikely that Trump will end subsidies and contracts with Tesla. Those are obviously threats that are unlikely to come into fruition,” Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index told Reuters. “I don’t expect this to blow out into anything more serious than a war of words for a couple of days.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump's new drone orders aim to counter threats while encouraging flying cars and supersonic flights

President Donald Trump has signed three executive orders dealing with drone regulations and encouraging the development of flying cars and supersonic flights

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5 h. ago Wrongly deported Kilmar Ábrego García reportedly on his way back to the US to face criminal charges

Federal grand jury has indicted him for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the US, media report saysTesla shares rose on Friday as investors took some comfort from White House aides scheduling a call with CEO Elon Musk to broker peace after a public feud with President Donald Trump, reports Reuters. The electric carmaker’s shares were up about 5% in Frankfurt on Friday, having closed down 14.3% on Thursday in New York, losing about $150bn in market value.“It’s unlikely that Trump will end subsidies and contracts with Tesla. Those are obviously threats that are unlikely to come into fruition,” Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index told Reuters. “I don’t expect this to blow out into anything more serious than a war of words for a couple of days.” Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Trump to build 'beautiful' and 'magnificent' ballroom as he revamps White House

President Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that he would proceed with building a ballroom on the White House grounds.

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6 h. ago Donald Trump hits back in Elon Musk feud saying Space X boss 'out of his mind' and considers selling Tesla

War-of-words between US president and world’s richest man escalates further after explosive public falling-out

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7 h. ago International Pride Orchestra plays outside DC in rebuff to Trump snub at Kennedy Center

LGBTQ+ ensemble was to appear at performing arts center but moved to Maryland after president reorganized venueAn event by the International Pride Orchestra this week swung from classical Gershwin favorites to choral patriotism to high drag in a rebuff to Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center and its subsequent snub of the LBGTQ+ ensemble.The spirited celebration of WorldPride, the peripatetic biennial international festival in support of LGBTQ+ rights which kicks off this month and is taking place in Washington DC, was staged instead at the Strathmore Music Center in Maryland, just north of the capital. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Tucker Carlson was on White House list of potential TikTok investors

Vice-president JD Vance pushed for rightwing media star’s inclusion in a deal for video app

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7 h. ago Trump and Musk’s allies urge reconciliation after damaging split

Tech industry fears commercial and political damage from breakdown in relationship between Tesla boss and US president

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7 h. ago Donald Trump hits back in Elon Musk feud saying Space X boss 'out of his mind' as he considers selling Tesla

War-of-words between US president and world’s richest man escalates further after explosive public falling-out

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7 h. ago Money can’t buy him love: Republicans give Elon Musk the cold shoulder

The billionaire’s acrimonious blow-up with Trump is a time to choose sides – and legislators are toeing the Maga lineUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk may believe his money bought the presidential election and the House of the Representatives for the Republicans. But he is discovering painfully and quickly that it has not bought him love, loyalty or even fear among many GOP members of Congress on Capitol Hill.Faced with the choice of siding with Musk, the world’s richest man, or Donald Trump, after the two staged a public relationship breakdown for the ages on Thursday, most Republicans went with the man in the Oval Office, who has shown an unerring grasp of the tactics of political intimidation and who remains the world’s most powerful figure even without the boss of Tesla and SpaceX by his side. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Savannah Guthrie mocks Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s feud, says it’s ‘giving 7th

Relationship between the president and his former billionaire ally appears to have imploded

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8 h. ago Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other – united in their ability to trash their own brands | Jonathan Freedland

What one did to Twitter and Tesla, the other is doing to the United States of America. Their feud is revealing a fatal flaw in the Maga projectThe scriptwriters of Trump: the Soap Opera are slipping. The latest plot development – the epic falling-out between the title character and his best buddy, Elon Musk – was so predictable, and indeed predicted, that it counts as the opposite of a twist. Still, surprise can be overrated. Watching the two men – one the richest in the world, the other the most powerful – turn on each other in a series of ever-more venomous posts on their respective social media platforms has been entertainment of the highest order. X v Truth: it could be a Marvel blockbuster.But this is more than mere popcorn fodder. Even if they eventually patch things up, the rift between the president and Musk has exposed a divide inside the contemporary right, in the US and beyond – and a fatal flaw of the Trump project.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnistDo you have an...

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8 h. ago Donald Trump says Elon Musk has ‘lost his mind’ and dismisses peace offering

Trump says he’s ‘not particularly’ interested in reconciling with Musk, who reportedly wanted to speak to presidentUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump has accused Elon Musk of “losing his mind” as the dramatic breakdown between America’s most powerful person and the world’s richest person escalated into a full-blown feud that could have seismic political and economic consequences.In a series of phone calls to US media on Friday morning, Trump snapped back at Musk, after the tech mogul and Republican financier launched an extraordinary social media attack on the president the day before, which ended with him accusing Trump of being named in the so-called “Epstein files” – documents related to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

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