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Elon Musk gave $75M to his pro-Trump super PAC
Billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk poured just shy of $75 million into his super PAC backing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign last quarter, according to a new campaign finance filing. Musk, the...
View ArticleElon Musk’s politics are crashing hard into his business
If you just ignore the political news and Wall Street, Elon Musk had an incredible week. His company SpaceX pulled off an engineering marvel on Sunday when it launched the largest, most powerful...
View ArticleElon Musk is a ‘promoter of evil,’ EU rule-of-law chief says
BRUSSELS — Elon Musk, unlike other tech bosses, “is not able to recognize good and evil,” a European Union top official said Wednesday. The multibillionaire tech mogul and boss of X, Tesla and SpaceX...
View ArticleElon Musk fails to get nod for EU human rights award
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday failed to make the shortlist for a prestigious European human rights award, despite a far-right campaign praising his hard line on free speech. Musk was...
View ArticleElon Musk: Senior EU official is ‘the epitome of banal, bureaucratic evil’
Elon Musk lashed out at the EU’s rule-of-law chief over her characterization of him as a “promoter of evil.” Outgoing European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová said in an interview with...
View ArticleMeet Elon Musk’s man in Washington
Elon Musk has forged a relationship with a Republican figure who could open up a geyser of federal cash for his Starlink satellite internet business — and it’s not the person running for president....
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published on PoliticalCartoons.com, Ukraine, October 18, 2024 | By Vladimir Kazanevsky First published on PoliticalCartoons.com, Canada, October 16, 2024 | By Dave Whamond First published in The...
View Article‘Blade Runner 2049’ producers: Elon Musk ripped us off at robotaxi launch
“Blade Runner 2049” producers filed a lawsuit against billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk for allegedly using images from the film without permission at the Tesla robotaxi launch event. Alcon...
View ArticleWho won the day? Walz.
Tim Walz is hunting big game. On Tuesday, the Minnesota governor rediscovered the looseness that once had him casting Republicans as “weird,” skewering Donald Trump, JD Vance — and, more than anyone,...
View ArticleTrump ally Farage rages at Labour help for Democrats amid legal fight
LONDON — Nigel Farage backed up his old friend Donald Trump after the Republican presidential hopeful accused the governing U.K. Labour Party of meddling in the U.S. election. Reform UK leader Farage,...
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Why Donald Trump went to war with UK’s Keir Starmer — over a LinkedIn post
WASHINGTON, DC — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer had spent the summer making cautious overtures to woo Donald Trump. Then a Labour staffer threw a diplomatic grenade onto LinkedIn. It was less than...
View ArticleVenezuela’s opposition wins top EU human rights award
The European Parliament on Thursday awarded the Sakharov Prize to Venezuela’s opposition leaders. Democratic leader María Corina Machado and exiled presidential candidate Edmundo González won the top...
View ArticleMusk has been in secret contact with Putin since 2022, says bombshell new report
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal’s intelligence...
View ArticleNASA chief: Reported Musk and Putin conversations ‘should be investigated’
The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Friday said a report that billionaire space scion and Donald Trump-backer Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President...
View ArticleMusk’s reported contacts with Putin trigger anxiety in Washington
The House Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat called for an investigation Friday into a report that Elon Musk, the billionaire space tycoon who backs former President Donald Trump, has been in...
View ArticleMusk isn’t the first tycoon to flirt with a dictator. History hasn’t been kind.
Elon Musk just vaulted himself into some troubling historical company. A bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal Friday morning revealed that Musk has secretly been in regular contact with...
View ArticleBen Bradlee’s posthumous advice to Jeff Bezos: You need to sell The...
In the summer of 2013, the then-owner of POLITICO, Robert Allbritton, asked me a question in a casual, just-shooting-the-breeze tone of voice: Do you think the Graham family would ever sell The...
View ArticleMusk’s Tesla backs California electric-car rules opposed by Trump
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s electric car company is endorsing a California climate policy that his political ally Donald Trump has promised to dismantle if reelected. Tesla has joined other electric...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in Latvijas Avize, Latvia, Oct. 30, 2024 | By Gatis Sluka First published in U.T. Independent, India, Oct. 29, 2024 | By Paresh Nath First published on Caglecartoons.com, The...
View Article‘Chaos and confusion’: Microsoft braces for foreign election interference in...
Microsoft has exposed cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns from foreign adversaries in the lead up to the U.S. presidential election that go beyond the tactics deployed four years ago. On the...
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Elon Musk’s dad says Britain is fascist hell now
LONDON — Like father, like son. Elon Musk’s dad joined his billionaire son in ranting against Britain’s government on Monday, accusing center-left Prime Minister Keir Starmer of being a “fascist” and...
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In Pennsylvania, election-weary locals find relief in Belgian beer
Tim Ross is deputy head of news at POLITICO Europe. PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Tom Peters fell in love with Belgian beer by accident. After stopping for a drink in Brussels on his way to Paris in...
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Britain braces for a Trump tariff war
LONDON — Donald Trump thinks “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the English language. Britain’s new trade chief doesn’t see it that way. Four months after taking on the trade portfolio in July’s...
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The world waits on America
The world waits on America Tens of millions of voters go to the polls as a vicious campaign between Trump and Harris draws to a close. By TIM ROSSin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Illustration by Katy...
View ArticleUK Labour to Trump: Let’s be friends
LONDON — Britain’s Labour government can move past a host of highly critical comments about Donald Trump and work with him if he wins the U.S. presidential election, a U.K. Cabinet minister insisted...
View ArticleElon Musk goes all-in for Trump
The suddenly MAGA tycoon is pushing the boundaries of what social platforms (and tycoons) have done in politics.
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5 big ways Donald Trump will strain the UK-US special relationship
LONDON — Donald Trump’s return to the White House will put Britain’s much-lauded “special relationship” with the United States to the test like never before. Center-left prime minister Keir Starmer...
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Democrats keep forgetting the working class
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Once again America’s Democrats are aghast. How could a man they see as unhinged and weird and a fascist defeat them for a second time? Of course,...
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Trump’s win will test the EU’s tech crackdown on Musk’s X
BRUSSELS — Elon Musk’s X platform was already proving a tough test for the European Union’s efforts to police social media. Donald Trump’s reelection just raised the stakes, giving the tech tycoon...
View ArticleSpeculation whirls as Trump begins vetting for top White House jobs
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — Donald Trump’s campaign team launched into transition mode barely 12 hours after polls closed — a jarring turn that left exhausted staffers and members of the media...
View ArticleHow Trump is already breaking Europe
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music After Donald Trump’s election victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is breaking out the Champagne. Germany’s government, meanwhile, is breaking up....
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