Elon Musk

Supporters of Democrat-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Judge Susan Crawford react after voters elected Crawford, at her election night headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, US April 1, 2025. — Reuters WASHINGTON: Donald Trump and Elon Musk suffered a political blow in Wisconsin as voters rejected their favoured conservative candidate for the state’s…

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Elon Musk’s Tesla suffered its worst quarterly performance in the stock market since 2022, with shares plunging 36 percent in the first three months of 2025. CNBC reports that Elon Musk’s Tesla has taken a massive hit in share price during the first quarter of 2025, marking the company’s worst performance…

President Donald Trump's drive to scale down the federal government by unleashing and empowering Elon Musk to indiscriminately fire thousands of federal employees, has wreaked chaos. And while there is popular support for the notion of reining in federal spending—especially among Trump's voters—no one imagined that it would be done…

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Members of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly gained access to a payroll system over the weekend that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across various government agencies, despite warnings from senior staff about the potential risks. According to two people familiar with the situation who…

The market for memecoins is always full of surprises, but few developments have generated as much excitement as Elon Musk’s recent purchase of Vine, which now belongs to his company xAI. Since the Vine acquisition was announced, trading volume and price movement around $VINE, the token connected to the Vine…

Protesters rally against Tesla CEO Elon Musk outside a Tesla store in San Francisco on Saturday. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP Protests against Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk took place across the country over the weekend and are spreading globally. The Tesla Takedown movement is urging…

Elon Musk began and ended his town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Sunday by urging attendees to back conservative Brad Schimel in the state's high-stakes Supreme Court election Tuesday. But the bulk of Musk's nearly two-hour event was ultimately focused not on the off-year election that he ha s…

By Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in 2024 from Fox News Digital and had previously freelanced at Business Insider. He has interviewed such notable figures…