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

    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)Politics

    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 panelPolitics

    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)Politics

    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 storefontFinance

    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 signFinance

    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)Finance

    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)Finance

    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)Politics

    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.Environment

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

    By Jennifer McDermott, Bernard Condon, and others
  • Kahana, HI- AUGUST 12: People gets propane tanks and other supplies brought in by boats on Saturday August 12, 2023 in Kahana, HI. The death toll continues to rise for the fires on Maui. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)Environment

    ‘I heard buzz, buzz’: Downed power lines are a prime suspect in at least some of Maui’s devastating wildfires

    By Jennifer McDermott, Bernard Condon, and others
  • Sri Lanka

    ‘In a lot of the world, the clock has hit midnight’: China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya

    By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping listens to Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev

    China’s unforgiving loans are pushing world’s poorest countries to the brink of collapse: ‘Clock has hit midnight’

    By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press
  • Afghan special forces

    Russia is recruiting soldiers from the Afghan special forces who were trained by Navy SEALs and Green Berets. It wants a ‘foreign legion’

    By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press
  • David DePapePolitics

    The man who beat Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer seems to have online history featuring racist remarks, QAnon, election denial

    By Michael Biesecker, Bernard Condon, and others