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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Elon Musk’s war of words with President Trump cost Tesla $150 billion of value in one day

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

ARCHIVO – Warren Buffett, presidente y director general de Berkshire Hathaway, concede una entrevista a Liz Claman en el programa “Countdown to the Closing Bell” de Fox Business Network, el 7 de mayo de 2018, en Omaha, Nebraska. (AP Foto/Nati Harnik, archivo)

94-year-old Warren Buffett isn’t retiring from Berkshire Hathaway and its $348 billion cash pile just yet

By Bernard Condon, Josh Funk, and others

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 14: A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi is stopped at a light while driving along a street on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Beginning today, Waymo One is offering robotaxi services in a 63-square mile area of greater Los Angeles including Santa Monica, Venice and downtown with over 50,000 people on the wait list. Waymo is owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The Trump administration is so hell-bent on winning the self-driving car race against China it’s cutting ‘red tape’ around safety rules

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

Marjorie Taylor Greene wears a hat reading "Trump was right about everything"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene scooped up shares of Amazon and Dell when stocks were down 40% from Trump’s tariff whiplash

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

Police officers stand next to a Tesla sign

Wedbush’s Dan Ives says Tesla’s first-quarter sales were ‘a disaster on every metric’

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

FILE – Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Elon Musk’s embrace of right-wing politics is turning off potential customers, experts warn: ‘It’s marketing 101’

By The Associated Press and Bernard Condon

This image from a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report released on Jan. 14, 2025 shows a crash test of a 2024 Tesla Cybertruck in Adelanto, Calif., on Dec. 18, 2024. (NHTSA via AP)

Musk’s DOGE is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing Tesla

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

Ross Gerber puts his hand to his face while on a panel

Investment firm CEO who wrote down his stake in X to zero says he expects Elon Musk to fail in Washington: ‘The federal government is going to eat him up and spit him out’

By Matt O'Brien, Bernard Condon, and others

Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Man accused of trying to kill Trump voted for him once then called on Iran to assassinate him

By Michael Biesecker, Audrey McAvoy, and others

Bed, Bath & Beyond storefont

They accrued debt to buy back their own stock. It led them to bankruptcy

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

A person wearing a protective face mask walks by a going out of business sign

Number of debt-laden ‘zombie’ companies soars to nearly 7,000—and many of these publicly traded firms won’t survive: ‘They’re going to get crushed’

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 23, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

Betting that Trump’s Truth Social will flop has been very profitable for a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump’s finances hit by New York fraud case ruling: ‘I can imagine the Saudis lending him $300 million’

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP)

If Trump’s real estate empire is ‘dissolved’ under New York anti-fraud law, it will be one of only a dozen times it’s happened—and the first without an obvious victim

By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

Linemen work on poles Aug. 13, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii, following a deadly wildfire that caused heavy damage days earlier.

A utility company’s decrepit power lines may have sparked deadly blaze in Maui

By Jennifer McDermott, Bernard Condon, and others