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LISTEN TO ARTICLE 3:48 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share Tweet Post Email In this article TSLA TESLA INC 273.07 USD -34.45-11.20% MS MORGAN STANLEY 47.19 USD -0.58-1.21% 3382936Z PUBLIC INVESTMENT FUND/THE Private Company Tesla Inc. is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to two…
Throughout Thursday’s Senate hearing on Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual-misconduct allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee claimed that they had tried in vain to secure more information about other accusations made about the judge. “We were moving heaven and earth and even moving the schedule to get to the truth,” Senator Thom Tillis,…
Tesla and the Securities and Exchange Commission were very close to a no-guilt settlement Thursday, reported CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Friday, citing sources. But, these people say Musk pulled out of the agreement at the last minute. Under the terms of the deal, Musk and Tesla would have had to pay a nominal fine,…
Look, sometimes you wake up in the morning and think, “What can I do today that would make J.R.R. Tolkien proud of me?” And your brain, rested and wise, supplies the only true answer: You will rank hobbits by hotness for Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday. Disclaimer: This is a ranking of hobbits by hotness, not…
During Thursday’s dramatic questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, he was quizzed repeatedly about the calendars he provided to bolster his case that he didn’t assault Christine Blasey Ford while a high school student in 1982. Ford alleges that she attended a party at someone’s home that summer, where, she alleges, Kavanaugh and his…
Elon Musk was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of misleading investors when he tweeted that he had funding lined up to take Tesla Inc. private. The SEC’s allegation, contained in a lawsuit filed fewer than two months after the Tesla CEO’s tweet, sent the company’s shares down more than 11 percent in after-hours trading. It sought…
As soon as Christine Blasey Ford went public with her accusation that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were teens, a chorus of conservative political commentators came to his defense. Some of them aimed primarily to sow doubt about Ford’s story, but others weighed the accusations, only to conclude that the…
Before delivering his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh assured us that only one other person had seen it. But it was as if it had been approved by President Trump himself. No, Kavanaugh didn’t go as far as Trump has by calling his female accusers “liars,” but…
“Anything you want. Anyone you want. Anywhere you want. Anyway! Anyway!” —Priests, “Pink White House” (2017) Imagine you are in an airport, and you have forgotten to eat lunch. It’s a mistake you will pay for with a dull, expensive dinner. Hungry, meandering, you happen upon one of those iPads that line every other table,…
I never saw Barstool Sports coming. I probably should have. I am the guy who founded Deadspin, after all, and during the years I actively ran the site — now more than a decade in the past — I was ostensibly in charge of figuring out what was coming next on the sports internet; I was the…