The privatization of political power in the United States

Jorge Costa Oliveira The significant influence that major corporations exert on American politics is well known, from funding extremely expensive electoral campaigns to spending fortunes on lobbying

Tesla awards CEO Musk millions of shares valued at about $29 billion

Tesla is awarding CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares of restricted stock valued at approximately $29 billion, just six months after a judge ordered the company to revoke

Trump says Elon Musk could face ‘serious consequences’ if he backs Democratic candidates

President Donald Trump is not backing off his battle with Elon Musk, saying Saturday that he has no desire to repair their relationship and warning that his

Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after leading effort to slash federal gov’t

Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal

Elon Musk to visit Macau in April on a fact-finding mission, sources say

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is reportedly planning a discreet visit to Macau in late April. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is said to be “checking in on American

Tesla tumbles again as investors bail on Musk’s suddenly struggling EV company

Shares of Tesla slid again Monday as confidence in Elon Musk’s electric car company continues to disintegrate following a post-election “Trump bump.” Tesla shares tumbled 15.4%,

USA Musk’s embrace of right-wing politics risks sinking Tesla’s stock

Elon Musk’s car company is required each year to report to investors all the bad things that could happen to it, and the latest version lists

‘Dark MAGA’ spreads as conservatives embrace Musk’s influence on Trump

At an annual gathering of conservative activists, the signature red “ Make America Great Again “ hats popularized by President Donald Trump were interspersed with a noticeable number

Trump backs idea to send some DOGE savings to American citizens

President Donald Trump said that he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a

DeepSeek’s meteoric rise sparks billion-dollar debate

In less than two years, DeepSeek—a Chinese startup that began as a side project—has become the subject of heated valuation debates across the global tech community. Estimates

US democratic senators protest Trump granting Musk’s staff access to classified info US

Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are demanding answers after they say President Donald Trump gave billionaire Elon Musk and his staff access to sensitive

Trump fills his cabinet with billionaires after running on a working-class message

President Donald Trump’s brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the U.S. economy’s trajectory, could

Elon Musk helped Trump win. Now he’s looking at Europe, and many politicians are alarmed

Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win reelection, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians

X to be reinstated after complying with Supreme Court demands

The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes yesterday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide

How X owner Elon Musk uses his social platform to amplify his right-wing views

As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used the social media platform as a megaphone to amplify his political views and, lately,

Trump is returning to X for a live interview with the platform’s owner, Elon Musk

Donald Trump is returning — at least for one night — to do a live interview today on X, the platform from which he was banned

Tesla recalling more than 1.8 million vehicles due to hood issue

Tesla is recalling more than 1.8 million vehicles because of a hood issue that could increase the risk of a crash. Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla is recalling some

Musk’s visit exposes malignancy of Washington’s ‘overcapacity’ claim

Coming hard on the heels of the rather gloomy visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whose agenda for his trip seemed to be to hype up

Musk visits China as competitors show off new electric vehicles at Beijing auto show

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk met with top government leader in the Chinese capital over the weekend, just as the nation’s carmakers are showing off their

Brazil Supreme Court orders investigation of Musk

A  crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate

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