Rep. Chellie Pingree says the tech billionaire’s access to sensitive personal information and aggressive efforts to cut federal spending have caused a flood of calls to her office from ‘panic-stricken’ Mainers.
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Elon Musk’s straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists, regardless of what he meant
Many social media users noticed that the gesture looked like a Nazi salute, and Musk only fanned the flames by not explicitly denying those claims.
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Musk ascends as a political force beyond his wealth by tanking budget deal
Elon Musk’s role in taking down a bipartisan budget deal shows his ascendance as a political force.
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Why bringing tech ‘disruption’ to the U.S. government won’t be pretty
Silicon Valley’s history of efforts to replace public services or make them more efficient has produced mixed results.
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Elon Musk joins Trump’s call with Ukraine’s Zelensky
Ukraine relies heavily on Musk’s Starlink to provide secure communication among front-line troops and to allow constant battlefield monitoring in command centers, where internet access may otherwise be spotty if not nonexistent.
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Pennsylvania challenge of Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes moves to federal court
A judge in Philadelphia has put a state challenge of Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes on hold while lawyers for the billionaire and his political action committee try to move the lawsuit to federal court
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Philly DA sues to stop Elon Musk’s $1 million voter giveaway in Pennsylvania
The suit is the first legal action challenging the controversial sweepstakes launched earlier this month by the X and Tesla executive’s America PAC.
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Trump’s Madison Square Garden event turns into a rally with crude and racist insults
Several of Trump’s allies have used crude and extreme rhetoric toward Harris and other Trump critics before the former president was to take the stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Musk arrived in Palo Alto in 1995 for a graduate degree program at Stanford University but never enrolled in courses, working instead on his start-up.
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Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories
Less than 2 weeks before Election Day, a resurgence of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run.