Elon Musk’s role as President Trump’s cost-cutting czar and his immersion in right-wing politics appears to be diverting his attention from Tesla at a perilous moment for the electric car company. Tesla’s car sales fell 1 percent last year even as the global market for electric vehicles grew 25 percent. Mr. Musk has not addressed…
Salvage crews began lifting the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 from the Potomac River in Washington on Monday morning, the start of an operation that was expected to take three days. Just after 10 a.m. Eastern, the first piece of wreckage appeared. A crane perched on a barge in the middle of the river…
Preliminary data about the aircraft collision over Washington DC show readings about the altitudes of the passenger plane and army helicopter, investigators say. There were no survivors from the collision, which happened when an American Airlines flight carrying 64 passengers hit an army Black Hawk helicopter that apparently flew into the jet’s path. Data from…
Donald Trump, cold weather make history on Inauguration Day Donald Trump will serve as the first president in 100 years since Grover Cleveland to serve non-consecutive presidential terms. Updated: 9:01 AM EST Jan 20, 2025 Washington Bureau Reporter Donald Trump will return to the White House as the 47th president of the United States on…
It was Saturday afternoon and two men who voted for Donald J. Trump were wandering the frosty streets of downtown Washington, not quite sure where to go or what to do. They had traveled far — one from Arkansas, the other from Louisiana — to watch Mr. Trump’s inauguration. Now it was being moved inside,…
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Jan 19, 2025 07:41 AM IST Monday’s inauguration has made a traditional shift for the first time in 40 years by moving the ceremony indoors due to sub-freezing forecasts. Freezing weather expectations in Washington DC on January 20 have vastly impacted Donald Trump’s inauguration to move indoors. The president-elect will now be sworn in and…
Jane Austen fans have a good reason to explore the southwest of England this year: It’s the 250th anniversary of her birth, and celebrations abound. Hampshire was both Austen’s birthplace and a source of inspiration; as a novelist, she was most prolific in this bucolic setting. Start out at Jane Austen’s House, her former cottage,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan praise and ceremonial pomp the Georgia Democrat rarely enjoyed at his political peak. The military honor guards, a procession down Pennsylvania…
And with additional headwinds expected in 2025, they said, brands with international appeal or unique selling points are driving new demand for retail space in the city. “The survival of the fittest will continue in the retail market,” said Cathie Chung, senior director of retail at JLL. “The fierce regional and local competition and the…