Just hours into President Donald Trump’s second term, he has already blown his first deadline. During a 2023 CNN town hall, Trump bragged that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours. “I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said. “I’ll get the…
In less than 30 minutes on Monday, Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency were hit with three different lawsuits over the legal status of the effort to find federal regulations to eliminate and federal employees to fire. The lawsuits landed as Musk rubbed elbows with fellow billionaires at President Donald Trump’s inauguration….
President Donald Trump was sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Monday in an unusually quiet affair for a presidential inauguration. Gone were the roaring crowds of years past, which had reached into the millions at their height. In their place was a small inner circle of some of the wealthiest and most…
HONG KONG — China’s most valuable company, Tencent Holdings, posted a slightly worse-than-expected quarterly result on Wednesday as domestic consumption remains weak. In the July-September quarter, revenue of the Shenzhen-based company rose 8% on the year to 167.19 billion yuan ($23.1 billion), just missing the average forecast of 167.82 billion yuan from analysts surveyed by…
A Philadelphia judge on Thursday paused a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s massive cash giveaways to voters in battleground states after the billionaire argued that questions about his political efforts should be resolved in federal court. Philadelphia’s district attorney claimed a $1 million-a-day sweepstakes sponsored by Musk and America PAC, his pro-Trump group, violated state lottery…
Digital security appears to be a fixation of New York Mayor Eric Adams and his staff, at least according to his indictment on multiple charges, including soliciting and receiving campaign contributions from a foreign national, bribery, and wire fraud. But then why were they so bad at it? Case in point: The indictment quotes a text…