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Trump spends first week as president-elect behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago
WASHINGTON (AP) — For a man who loves the spotlight, Donald Trump has been conspicuously out of view since his triumph in last week's presidential election. There have been no rallies, no press conferences, no speeches. Instead, Trump has spent most of his first week as...
FACT FOCUS: Election officials knock down Starlink vote rigging conspiracy theories
As President-elect Donald Trump begins filling key posts in his second administration, social media users are pushing false claims that the 2024 election was rigged in his favor. One such narrative claims that billionaire Elon Musk facilitated the alleged fraud with his internet...
Stock market today: Wall Street drifts lower as the Trump trade cools
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted lower Tuesday as momentum cooled for the torrid “Trump trade” that swept Wall Street following Donald Trump’s presidential victory. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% a day after setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday, 11/12/2024
U.S. stocks edged lower as momentum came out of the torrid “Trump trade” that swept Wall Street following Donald Trump’s presidential victory. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% Tuesday, coming off its latest record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.9%, and the Nasdaq...
Elon Musk's PAC spent an estimated $200 million to help elect Trump, AP source says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk's super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the group's spending, funding an effort that set a new standard for how billionaires can influence elections. The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO...
Stock market today: Wall Street rolls higher as bitcoin bursts above $87,000
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Monday, led by those seen as benefiting the most from Donald Trump’s reelection as president, but drops for some high-profile Big Tech stocks kept indexes in check. The S&P 500 edged up by 0.1%, coming off its best week of the year following...
How major US stock indexes fared Monday, 11/11/2024
Most U.S. stocks rose on Wall Street, but drops for Nvidia and some other heavyweight Big Tech companies kept indexes in check. The S&P 500 added 0.1% Monday, coming off last week’s spurt spurred by Donald Trump’s presidential victory and the Federal Reserve’s cut to...
US agency says Tesla's public statements imply that its vehicles can drive themselves. They can't
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's highway safety agency says Tesla is telling drivers in public statements that its vehicles can drive themselves, conflicting with owners manuals and briefings with the agency saying the electric vehicles need human supervision. The National...
Trump put Elon Musk on phone with Ukraine's Zelenskyy during congratulatory call, official says
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump put billionaire Elon Musk on the line with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the Ukrainian leader called to congratulate the incoming U.S. president, according to a Ukrainian official with direct knowledge of the phone call. The...
AP VoteCast takeaways: Gender voting gap was unremarkable compared with recent history
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ran a campaign centered on hypermasculinity, actively courting young men in particular with interviews on popular male-centric podcasts. In the closing weeks of the campaign, the former president and many of his surrogates leaned into sexist remarks and...
