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Much attention has been paid to how Elon Musk’s high-profile role in President Trump’s White House has hurt Tesla: Sales are falling, its stock price has slipped from its peak and embarrassed liberals are turning their cars back in.Some of that attention is being supplied by Trump himself. “I know you’ve been through a lot,” Trump told Musk during today’s cabinet meeting, at which Musk perched at one end of the table wearing a red hat that said “Trump was right about everything.” Trump portrayed him as stoically weathering the backlash against his businesses.“He has never asked me for a…

A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices will gather to determine whether former president Jair Bolsonaro and close allies will stand trial on five counts, including attempting to stage a coup.Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet charged Bolsonaro in February with plotting a coup after he lost the 2022 election to his opponent and current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.Part of that plan allegedly included poisoning Lula and killing Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, a foe of Bolsonaro.Five Supreme Court justices – including de Moraes, the rapporteur – will meet on Tuesday in Brasilia to rule on the charges levelled by…

SEOUL: A motorcyclist who fell into a massive sinkhole that opened on a Seoul street was found dead after around 17 hours, officials said on Tuesday (Mar 25). The roughly 20m-wide, 20m-deep sinkhole appeared at an interception in the Myeongil-dong neighbourhood in eastern Seoul on Monday afternoon, swallowing the motorcyclist and injuring a woman whose van was passing over the site, according to safety and emergency offices. The motorcyclist, who was in his 30s, was found in cardiac arrest before noon on Tuesday, emergency officer Kim Chang-sup told a televised briefing. Kim later described the man’s status as dead but…

Fashion and art have long danced a pas de deux, with artists evoking dress in their work and designers referencing art in their creations.But rarely are the two examined together by major art institutions, said Annabelle Ténèze, the director of the Musée du Louvre-Lens, a satellite in Lens, northern France, of the famed Musée du Louvre. “The intersection of art and fashion speaks to everyone. We all dress every day, which is an act of artistic expression, in its way. I thought, ‘Why not look at the history of this relationship, and show how it fits into our lives today?’”Shortly…

With stars like Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, maybe it’s no wonder “Othello” just became the highest-grossing Broadway play ever, pulling in $2.8 million in a single week.Washington said, “It’s the most excited I’ve been this century. Seriously. I haven’t been this excited about anything I’ve done as I am about this.”That’s saying something coming from Washington. Known for roles in films like “Glory” and “Training Day” (both of which won him Oscars), he’s been called the greatest actor of the 21st century. But be careful before you call him a “Hollywood actor.” “What’s the definition of a Hollywood actor?”…

Han Jong-hee, co-chief executive officer of Samsung Electronics Co., at the company’s annual general meeting at the Suwon Convention Center in Suwon, South Korea, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSouth Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee, 63, passed away due to a heart attack. He headed Samsung’s digital appliances division, as well as its device experience unit, which includes mobile phones and home appliances. Han joined Samsung in 1988, rising through the ranks over the years and becoming the head of the product research and development team at the company’s visual display division in…

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Company says it is ‘grateful’ to Chinese authorities for releasing local staff after two years in detention.China has released five staff of the due diligence firm Mintz Group after nearly two years in detention, the United States-based company has said. Chinese authorities detained the five local staff in March 2023, marking the start of a series of raids on foreign consultancy and due diligence firms, including Bain & Company and Capvision Partners. China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced later that year that Mintz Group, which has its headquarters in New York, had been fined $1.5m for undertaking “foreign-related statistical investigations”…

Increased federal spending in recent years has helped to improve U.S. ports, roads, parks, public transit and levees, according to a report released on Tuesday by the American Society of Civil Engineers.But that progress could stagnate if those investments, some of which were put on hold after President Trump took office in January, aren’t sustained.Overall, the group gave the nation’s infrastructure a C grade, a mediocre rating but the best the country has received since the group’s first report card in 1998. Most infrastructure, including aviation, waterways and schools, earned a C or D grade; ports and rail did better.…

A man who called 911 during a drug-induced hallucination claiming that people were trying to kill him and that his entire family had been murdered fired 30 shots into his home, prompting his loved ones to hide for cover, was living in the United States illegally, police in Texas said. Homero Salinas, 47, was determined to be the source of the threat when Ferris police officers responded to a home at around 2:40 a.m., authorities said. Salinas had been hallucinating after taking cocaine and drinking alcohol when he fired 30 rounds, including multiple gunshots at the front residence where his family lived,…