Elon Musk has issued an ultimatum to US federal employees – respond to an email justifying the work they completed this week or resign. The billionaire boss of X, Tesla and SpaceX also leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which has been tasked with cutting government spending, after he was appointed by President Donald
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Tom HamiltonFeb 21, 2025, 09:00 AM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions There was a time when the Calcutta Cup set up residence south of the border. From 1991 to
Tesla deliveries are expected to decrease this quarter to levels not seen in more than two years. We have to go back to 2022 to see the delivery volume the automaker is expected to deliver. Time to worry for Tesla shareholders? Prediction markets are entering the game of setting expectations for Tesla’s quarterly deliveries. These
Ford is offering big savings opportunities right now on its electric vehicles. The Ford Mustang Mach-E can be leased for less than a Toyota Camry in some places despite costing over $10,000 more. Here’s how you can snag some savings. Ford’s Mach-E is cheaper to lease than a Camry right now With over 51,700 models
Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com The Trump administration is shutting down EV chargers at all federal government buildings and is also expected to sell off the General Services Administration‘s (GSA) newly bought EVs. GSA, which manages all federal government-owned buildings, also operates the federal buildings’ EV chargers. Federally owned EVs and federal employee-owned personal EVs
A view of the turbines at Orsted’s offshore wind farm near Nysted, Denmark, September 4, 2023. Tom Little | Reuters President Donald Trump promised to unleash U.S. energy dominance, but his sweeping executive order targeting wind power puts a pipeline of projects at risk that would generate enough electricity for millions of American homes. The
The handover of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners has been postponed “until the release of the next hostages is secured without humiliating ceremonies”, Israel has said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s office accused Hamas of “repeated violations” of their truce deal and lashed out at “disgraceful ceremonies” during the release of the captives in Gaza. The
A police officer who removed a burglar’s electronic tag so she could have a secret sexual relationship with him has been jailed. Natasha Conneely was part of a Bedfordshire Police unit responsible for offender management in May 2023 when the relationship was discovered. The force said its professional standards department found messages between the pair.
A body has been found in the search for 23-year-old runner Jenny Hall. She was last seen leaving her home in Barracks Farm, County Durham, in her car just after 3pm on Tuesday. Police said there are not thought to be any suspicious circumstances after a body was found in a very remote area in
Police are searching for a van driver who fled the scene of a Manchester city centre collision in which a three-year-old girl was killed. The girl, a pedestrian, died after a collision between a tram and a van at about 10am on Saturday morning. The tram forced the van onto the footpath on Mosley Street,
Donald Trump has purged top military figures in the Pentagon, including firing America’s most senior commander. He also pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of US military leadership. The Pentagon had been bracing for mass firings of civilian staff as well as a dramatic overhaul of its budget and a
A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder celebrated “Freedom Friday” after a judge ordered him to be released because of new DNA evidence. There were gasps and cries when Judge Kirstin Hamman said “the sentence is vacated and the defendant is ordered to be released from custody”. She ruled that
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not ready to accept a minerals deal with the US as Ukraine sees a “number of problematic issues” with the draft agreement, according to a Ukrainian source. Donald Trump had said a deal was close, but a source with knowledge of the negotiations told Sky News the Ukrainian president is not ready
The body of hostage Shiri Bibas has been returned, her family has confirmed. The remains were released by Hamas overnight and Israel’s army radio earlier said they had been identified as the Israeli mother-of-two. The radio station said that Ms Bibas was likely to have been killed while in captivity with her two young sons,
Specialist drones have been deployed to look for a missing runner as police warn volunteers not to join the search. Jenny Hall, 23, was last seen leaving her home in Barracks Farm, County Durham, in her car just after 3pm on Tuesday. Durham Constabulary said her last known location was on the B6278 between Stanhope
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla models Y and 3 are displayed at a Tesla dealership in Corte Madera, California, on Dec. 20, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Tesla is voluntarily recalling 376,241vehicles in the U.S. to correct an issue with failing power-assisted steering systems, according to records posted
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Feb. 20, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images For X owner Elon Musk, the solution to monitoring misinformation online has been
Apple’s decision to withdraw its most secure cloud storage service from the UK is just the latest turning point in a battle that has been rumbling on between US tech companies and successive British governments for some time. The dispute centres on end-to-end encryption, a method of secure communication which enables only the sender and
Dado Ruvic | Reuters STOCKHOLM — Executives at U.S. tech giants Google and Meta said that Europe’s artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation, adding to rhetoric from Donald Trump’s administration that the region’s strict tech rules are choking innovation. Speaking at the Techarena tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden, public policy chiefs
Feb 20, 2025, 09:40 AM Open Extended Reactions Dan Sheehan will captain unbeaten Ireland in Saturday’s Six Nations game against Wales in Cardiff after both Caelan Doris and Rónan Kelleher were ruled out through injury, the Irish Rugby Union said on Thursday. It will be Sheehan’s first start for Ireland since suffering a serious knee