Elon Musk speaks during a press event with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025.Nathan Howard | ReutersElon Musk ripped into the Senate’s massive domestic policy package on Saturday, calling it “utterly insane” and destructive.” His remarks come weeks after he first hurled harsh criticism against the bill, which is backed by President Donald Trump.”The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote on X, a platform that he owns.”Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to…
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It was another exciting week on Wall Street as the S & P 500 and Nasdaq each closed Friday at new record highs. Incredible as that was, this week could have easily gone another way. Last Saturday, the world learned that the U.S. had entered the Israel-Iran conflict, dropping several massive bunker busters on Fordo, Iran’s underground nuclear facility buried under a mountain, and bombing two other sites, Isfahan and Natanz. While fear of further escalation and a prolonged war involving the U.S. was palpable last weekend, the market on Monday shrugged, betting on the notion that the conflict would not…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. Ken Cedeno | ReutersA federal judge on Friday dealt another blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to throw out a defamation lawsuit against him filed by plaintiffs formerly known as the Central Park Five.U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone said that Pennsylvania’s Anti-SLAPP law, designed to protect defendants from lawsuits targeting protected speech, does not apply in federal court, rejecting Trump’s motion…
A Tesla logo outside the company’s Tilburg Factory and Delivery Center.Karol Serewis | Getty ImagesTesla CEO Elon Musk said the automaker completed its first driverless delivery of a new car to a customer, routing a Model Y SUV from the company’s Austin, Texas, Gigafactory to an apartment building in the area on June 27.The Tesla account on social network X, which is also owned by Musk, shared a video overnight showing the Model Y traversing public roads in Austin, including highways, with no human in the driver’s seat or front passenger seat of the car.Tesla did not say which version…
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks at a press conference following the U.S. Senate Republicans’ weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 10, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersAfter weeks of sparring over the specifics of the “one big, beautiful bill,” the package is poised to soon head to the Senate floor, where lawmakers are pushing to get it across the finish line and on President Donald Trump’s desk before July 4.Questions remain over whether the House will ultimately accept the Senate version of the bill, which was finalized just before midnight on Friday, as…
China’s dominance of the global supply chain is starting to hurt automakers.On April 4, the country cut off exports of a class of minerals called “heavy rare earth elements,” and it sent the global auto industry into a panic.Rare earths are a class of 17 elements that have become indispensable in all kinds of applications — everything from fighter jets and submarines, to smartphones and appliances. You can even find them in sports equipment, like tennis rackets and baseball bats.They are also, of course, essential to the modern automobile. Gas burning cars use them to filter pollution through the vehicle’s…
Steve Carell wants young people to foster a “simple” soft skill — something “we need more of in the world,” he said in a commencement speech at Northwestern University on June 15: being kind and respectful to others.Kindness can go a long way in life, the actor and comedian said. It can open doors to new opportunities, allow you to foster deeper connections with your colleagues and help you weather the fear and uncertainty that can come with starting a new chapter in life, he said.”It’s difficult for me to process just how much you’ve all experienced in your young…
Jeffrey Bland, 79, is considered the “father of functional medicine.” He’s devoted most of his lifetime to studying the origins of diseases to focus on prevention in healthcare.The main question Bland’s research looks to answer is this one: “Could we move to a form of healthcare where we’re spending more time worrying about and focusing on how to keep a person from being sick than just treating the sick downstream?”In 1991, he launched the Institute for Functional Medicine with his wife, Susan, to build off of the research he did under two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling at the Linus Pauling Institute of…
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., talks with reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesRep. Don Bacon, a centrist Republican in Nebraska, is preparing to announce his retirement from Congress.Bacon’s retirement from Congress creates a ripe opportunity for Democrats to win the House seat representing Bacon’s Omaha district. In an election cycle where the House majority could be decided by just one or two seats, Democrats will need to flip several Republican-held seats like the one in Nebraska’s 2nd District.With Bacon out, the GOP no…
Bank of America recently named five stocks that have room to run in the second half, according to analysts. The firm says buy-rated companies such as Apple are compelling and have plenty of upside. The other names include Hinge Health , Roku , Datadog and Jabil. Roku The TV streaming service is firing on all cylinders following a recent advertising partnership announcement with e-commerce giant Amazon. “The combination of Roku’s scale, with nearly half of all TV streaming time in the US occurring on Roku, with Amazon’s breadth of data is powerful,” analyst Brent Navon and team wrote. He raised…
