Topline Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticized the Biden administration’s proposal to boost subsidies on electric vehicles (EV) in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Monday, where he also reiterated his opposition to efforts by Democrats to tax billionaires. Key Facts Speaking at the Journal ’s CEO Council Summit, Musk said he hoped that…
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Topline India on Tuesday reported its smallest rise in daily Covid-19 cases in nearly 18 months despite being in the middle of a busy festival season, a development that comes months after India’s devastating second pandemic wave and that mirrors the situation in several other Asian nations that witnessed surges in the summer. Key Facts…
Updated Nov 12, 2021, 08:32am EST Topline Former President Donald Trump has defended his supporters who threatened to “hang” former vice president Mike Pence during the January 6 Capitol riot, Axios reported on Friday citing an unreleased ABC News interview, marking the first instance of the former president vocally defending violent threats towards his deputy…
Updated Oct 28, 2021, 02:49am EDT Topline A New York State judge on Wednesday rejected a police union request to temporarily halt New York City’s stringent vaccine mandate for the city’s municipal workforce, which means that workers who do not comply with the mandate by the end of this week will be put on unpaid…
Topline A Singapore-based cruise ship was forced to return to port after one of its passengers tested positive for Covid-19 on board on Wednesday forcing the ship’s nearly 3,000 occupants to confine themselves to their cabins, in the latest Covid outbreak scare onboard the vessels that have been described by some as a petri dish…
Updated Jul 2, 2021, 10:31am EDT Topline American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, who won the women’s 100-meter race at the U.S. trials last month, has tested positive for marijuana, the United States Anti-Doping Agency and USA Track and Field announced on Friday, with the gold medal contender suspended from the U.S. Olympic team for one month…
Updated Apr 5, 2021, 07:52am EST Topline South Korean electronics giant LG is exiting the smartphone business after years of losses to focus on other growing businesses the company announced on Monday, a decision that will leave a sizeable gap in the American smartphone market where LG is the third biggest brand after Apple and…
Updated Apr 2, 2021, 02:19am EDT Topline The U.K. has recorded 30 cases of rare blood clotting events after the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the country’s drug regulator announced on Thursday evening but insisted that the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh any possible risks, unlike other countries in Europe who have either…
Updated Feb 26, 2021, 03:32am EST Topline Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took a swipe at fellow Republican Ted Cruz while recording an ad-libbed expletive-filled audio version of his new book ‘On the House: A Washington Memoir’, Axios reported, showing that no love has been lost between the two Republican leaders who have clashed…