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Tesla shares fell after the company’s first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday as the company expanded its capital spending by more than expected, but Wall Street has been fueled by speculation that the company will remain underbid for the foreseeable future. The conversation is about a possible merger with SpaceX, Elon Musk’s Great Leap Forward rocket company. SpaceX plans to go public later this year at a valuation close to $2 trillion. “The takeaway from this is that Mr. Musk is focused on a long list of projects that combine the TSLA project with the upcoming SpaceX IPO,” the Baird researchers…

When Leanne Rimes married Eddie Cibrian in 2011, even her biggest fans wondered what life would be like. Because, as you recall, they met while married to other people and that didn’t prevent them from embarking on a romance. “I’ve been on both sides of the coin. I’ve been fooled too, so I know how it feels,” Rhimes told Flow Space last year, acknowledging “all the craziness” that followed. “But a lot of women don’t know what to do with that anger…I was an easy target to project onto. And once I realized that, things got a lot easier.” It…

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, DC, USA, on Saturday, January 24, 2026. Valerie Preche | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA Chilean man who admitted stealing then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s Gucci handbag as part of a series of wallet thefts in Washington, D.C., last year was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison, the Justice Department announced.The fraudster, Mario Bustamante Leyva, 50, is in the United States illegally and will be subject to deportation at the end of his sentence, the…

NASA has announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into orbit in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule. The new space telescope is expected to provide astronomers with 20,000 terabytes of data over its lifetime. Add to this the 57 gigabytes of breathtaking images downlinked daily from the James Webb Space Telescope, which began operations in 2021, and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the mountains of Chile, which is expected to begin exploring later this year and collect 20 terabytes of data each night. For comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope, once the gold standard,…

A view of Microsoft offices in Shanghai, China, April 8, 2025.Ying Tan | Null Photo | Getty Imagesmicrosoft The company is offering voluntary buyouts to some of its U.S. employees as the technology industry faces major changes sparked by the artificial intelligence boom. This is a first for the 51-year-old software giant.About 7% of U.S. employees will be affected, said a person familiar with the plan, who asked not to be identified because the numbers have not been made public. The one-time retirement program, announced in Thursday’s memo, is available to U.S. workers below the senior director level who have…

AP — The European Union has approved a huge two-year loan package to meet Ukraine’s economic and military needs, Cyprus’ president announced on Thursday, as oil began flowing into key pipelines to Hungary and Slovakia, ending months of political deadlock. The EU also approved new sanctions against Russia over its war with Ukraine. The measure was prepared earlier this year and was due to be announced in February to mark the fourth anniversary of the conflict, but was opposed by Hungary and Slovakia. Hungary and Slovakia have been at loggerheads with Ukraine since oil shipments from Russia to the two…

FIFA’s decision to release the latest tranche of World Cup tickets to coincide with the 50-day countdown mark to the tournament has left fans more frustrated than excited ahead of the world’s biggest sporting event.Football’s world governing body announced yet another “final stage of ticketing” on Wednesday, with tickets for all 104 games available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets are also available for purchase in the three previously published categories, as well as a new “Front Category” pricing added this month.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listFans have expressed anger at the exorbitant prices for matches (the most…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Financial Services Subcommittee, and General Government Hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 22, 2026, in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that “many” U.S. oil-rich allies in the Persian Gulf have requested financial support amid the economic turmoil caused by the war with Iran. Bessent’s comments went further than the White House’s claims to CNBC on Tuesday, with officials saying only that the United States had not yet been formally asked by the United Arab Emirates to set…

The story of Delve, a startup facing compliance issues, has many twists and turns. TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve is the compliance company that provided security certification for Context AI. Context AI is an AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident that led to a data breach at popular app and website hosting giant Vercel. Meanwhile, Lovable is no longer a Delve customer due to its own security incident. To recap, Delve came under fire last month after an anonymous whistleblower alleged that it falsified customer data and used rubber-stamped auditors in its compliance and certification…

Tourists and visitors walk around the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates, an important place of daily prayer in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It has 82 domes of 7 different sizes and 4 minarets, with a large parking lot and shopping mall below.Andrew Aitchison | In Photo | Getty ImagesThe US government’s consideration of the United Arab Emirates’ financial lifeline raises larger questions about what lies in store for the burgeoning post-war Middle East economy. The UAE has spent decades building one of the world’s most resilient tourism economies, built on global connectivity…