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The US Senate has passed legislation to extend public funding and end a temporary government shutdown after missing a midnight deadline.

The new legislation looks to extend government funding until March 14, provide $US100 billion for disaster-hit states and $US10 billion for farmers.

Government funding will extend until March 14, after president-elect Donald Trump has been sworn into office.

The US Senate has passed legislation to extend public funding and end a temporary government shutdown after missing a midnight deadline to avert the closure.

The temporary shutdown came after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday aimed at averting a midnight closure at Capitol Hill in Washington, in defiance of president-elect Donald Trump's demand to approve trillions of

Hey there, I was wondering if I'm the only one who feels like this or not.

So I grew up thinking that we people all look different and never had a concept of something such as "white" and "black" people.

But especially in the last years I noticed more and more that a lot of people make such a big thing out of whether someone is "black" or "white" and what their ethnicity is.

It feels like it's to the point where they make this define their core identity as if it's very relevant how people look and how bright/dark their skin is as if this changes their personality.

It's like so many of these people constantly bring this up to the point where it's brainwashing and they literally even use racial slur as slang that was used in the past to devalue and enslave people based on their skin tone.

Since I experienced this it made me very uncomfortable since I never had this concept before and now I constantly have to obsessively think about it and feel like it's manipulating me and these peo

JD Vance has suggested that American support for NATO should be predicated on the European Union not regulating Elon Musk and his X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.

The Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio senator claimed in an interview with YouTuber Shawn Ryan that a top EU official had threatened to arrest the billionaire if he allowed former President Donald Trumpback on X. 

Recent video purportedly showing a man destroying ballots marked for Trump is a disinformation campaign, say officials

Russian actors were behind a viral video falsely showing mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in the swing state of Pennsylvania, US officials said on Friday, amid heightened alert over foreign influence operations targeting the upcoming election.

The video, which garnered millions of views on platforms such as the Elon Musk-owned X, purports to show a man sorting through mail-in ballots from the state’s Bucks county and ripping up those cast for the former president.

Elon Musk's super PAC did not announce a lottery winner Wednesday in its daily $1 million giveaway that sparked concern from legal experts and prompted a warning from the Justice Department. 

**Why it matters: **The DOJ sent a letter notifying America PAC, Musk's pro-Trumpgroup, that its lottery could violate federal law against paying people to register to vote, per multiple outlets

• The SpaceX CEO had pledged to give away $1 million every day to registered voters in swing states who sign the super PAC's petition in favor of the First and Second Amendments.
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Thanks to a provision buried in the tax code, Elon Musk could reap one of the largest personalized tax breaks in American history if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election and fulfills his pledge to appoint Musk to a top government post, according to tax and ethics experts’ review of long-standing statutes. 

This special tax benefit — which is only available to federal officials — would be in addition to massive tax breaks Musk could reap if a new Trump administration furthercuts income and other taxes for billionaires.

The creator of @ElonJet says he received no explanation as to why accounts tracking celebrities like Mark Zuckerberg and Kim Kardashian have been suspended.

Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and former US president Donald Trump. 

Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available d

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There’s a moment in the new HBO documentary about the January 6 insurrection, Stopping the Steal, in which the fringe-right Arizona state Republican legislator and proud Oath Keeper Mark Finchem solemnly intones the recipe for a stolen election: “Big Business, Big Tech, and Big Media all collude[ ] together… It’s that simple.”

Finchem was making an accusation, of course, about the 2020 presidential election.

But his words are relevant today not because of their relation to a past national vote he tried to help overturn in the most odious and unprecedented ways imaginable, but because they may well presage the axis MAGA Republicans are trying to create—or, as they might feel, re-create—in 2024.

If, as a defining adage of this decade goes, “Every MAGA accusation is a confession”, what we heard from one of the leading insurrectionists in his interview for Stopping the Steal is a terrifying forecast of what’s already happened within far-right media, the elements of U.S. bi

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to appoint a legal representative in Brazil following a Supreme Court order in August. However, Judge Alexandre de Moraes has requested more proof of the lawyer's power of attorney.

The Supreme Court of Brazil on Saturday made further requests of documentation from X owner Elon Musk.

The social media platform was shut down in the South American country in August for failing to comply with an order to name a new legal representative for the company in Brazil by a certain date.

Despite initially speaking out against the ruling, tech billionaire Musk seemingly relented to the order, saying the company had appointed a lawyer.

The Secret Service has launched a probe into an X post by Elon Musk in which he tweeted that “no one is even trying” to kill Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.

The tech billionaire deleted the post on his X platform and passed it off as a “joke.” However, the White House did not find it funny and instead called it “irresponsible.”

“Violence should only be condemned, never encouraged or joked about,” the White House said in a statement. Now the Secret Service is involved.

Nearly two years after Elon Musk’s acquisition, X’s business is still struggling to climb out of the deep hole it fell into under his ownership.

The $13 billion that Elon Musk borrowed to buy Twitter has turned into the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008-09 financial crisis.

The seven banks involved in the deal, including Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, lent the money to the billionaire’s holding company to take the social-media platform, now named X, private in October 2022. Banks that provide loans for takeovers generally sell the debt quickly to other investors to get it off their balance sheets, making money on fees.

J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newl crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif.

Nabil Boudi, the Paris-based attorney of Khelif, confirmed to Variety that both figures were mentioned in the body of the complaint, posted to the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor’s office on Friday. 

The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. That “ensures] that the ‘prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages under pseudonyms, said Boudi. The complaint nevertheless mentions famously controversial f

The North Carolina Attorney General’s Office said Monday that it is eyeing a political action committee created by billionaire Elon Muskfollowing a complaint to the state election board over the PAC’s collection of personal data while failing to help users register to vote as promised.

The North Carolina Board of Elections later Monday told CNBC that it has opened an investigation of Musk’s America PAC.

“North Carolina law makes it a crime for someone to fail to submit a voter’s registration form if that person has told a voter that they would be submitting the voter’s registration form,” the board’s spokesman, Patrick Gannon, told CNBC.

The new inquiries and a similar one announced Sunday by Michigan’s secretary of state’s office follow a report by CNBC that Musk’s America PAC was asking website

A political action committee backed by billionaire Elon Musk is being investigated by the Michigan secretary of state’s office amid efforts to collect voter data.

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has said he created and helped fund the America PAC, which is supporting former President Donald Trump. Musk has a net worth of over $225 billion, according to Forbes.

The committee has been acquiring detailed voter information from those living in Michigan and other battleground states after people submit their personal data through a section on the PAC’s websi

• Elon Musk wanted Tesla to reduce its workforce by one-fifth, Bloomberg reported.
• Musk wanted the layoffs to match the drop in quarterly vehicle deliveries. 
• Tesla delivered 386,810 cars in the first quarter of 2024, a 20.1% drop from the last quarter.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at one point wanted the EV giant to trim its workforce by 20%, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The reduction, Musk reasoned, should match the reduction in vehicle deliveries between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, per Bloomberg.

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Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right groups. Musk’s excruciating March 27 deposition in the matter, which a judge ordered released to the public over the objections of the CEO’s lawyer, reveals the extent to which he has continually sabotaged both himself and the social media platform he owns.

Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right groups. Musk’s excruciating March 27 deposition in the matter, which a judge ordered released to the public over the objections of the CEO’s lawyer, reveals the extent to which he has continually sabotaged both himself and the social media platform he owns.

• Interest in universal basic income has grown due to the pandemic, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and economic pain.
• A common question about the concept is how people spend the cash.
• Experts and initial trials suggest UBI is mostly spent on essentials like food and housing.

Interest in a universal basic income (UBI) is only intensifying as the pandemic and other crises reveal the shortcomings of emergency aid programs, the likes of Elon Musk and Sam Altman warn AI will make human workers obsolete, and a one-two punch of historic inflation and steeper borrowing costs pinch household budgets

Elon Musk and his social media platform X just suffered an embarrassing defeat in court, where a judge pilloried the "free speech" company for attempting to silence a critic's speech.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer dismissed X's lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit group that tracks hate speech on social media.