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With many late-night hosts still on holiday, Jimmy Kimmel looks at Donald Trump’s new White House flagpole obsession and Elon Musk’s Tesla woes. Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday marked 93 days of the new Trump administration, “and things are going pretty great. Really good,” Jimmy Kimmel said with deep sarcasm on Wednesday…

Good morning. Congressional lawmakers denounced the treatment of Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, students being detained by US immigration authorities for their pro-Palestinian activism, as a “national disgrace” during a visit to the two facilities in Louisiana where each are being held. “We stand firm with them in support of…

The Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, said he will start pulling back from his role at the so-called “department of government efficiency” starting in May. Musk’s remarks came as the company reported a massive dip in both profits and revenues in the first quarter of 2025 amid backlash against his…

Welcome to Opt Out, a semi-regular column in which we help you navigate your online privacy and show you how to say no to surveillance. The last column covered how to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border. If you’d like to skip to a section about…

Protective helmets were donned and sledgehammers wielded as Elon Musk critics vented their frustration at the Tesla boss and billionaire by smashing up a disused Tesla bound for the scrapheap. The public art project was organised by the social media campaign group Everyone Hates Elon. A 2014 Tesla Model S…

Elon Musk made personal, repeated attempts to try to get Donald Trump to back off from the wave of global tariffs that have created turmoil in international markets, it was reported on Tuesday. Musk’s failure to get Trump to listen, however, is evidence to some observers of a growing rift…

After our children left home, my wife and I decided to treat ourselves and buy a new car for a driving holiday in Europe. We’d been driving a family estate car for years, loading it up with kids and making trips to and from universities, but we wanted something for…

Morning everyone. Donald Trump is expected to reveal in the next hour which tariffs he is going to place on imports from Australia and other countries in his much-waited “liberation day” announcement. We have full coverage on what it means for the economy and the world. We also have the…

Tesla reported a 13% drop in vehicle sales in the first three months of the year, making it the electric vehicle maker’s worst quarter since 2022. It’s another sign that Elon Musk’s once high-flying electric car company is struggling to attract buyers. The drop is probably due to a combination…

Italy’s interior ministry has written to police forces across the country to increase security at Tesla dealerships after 17 of the electric cars made by Elon Musk’s company were destroyed in a fire in Rome. Italy’s state police anti-terrorism unit, Digos, is investigating whether the fire at the Tesla dealership…