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Delaware's capitalist-friendly approach to taxes and regulation has long made it a lynchpin of the American economy: More than 1.5 million global businesses are incorporated there. But Elon Musk's "Dexit" to Nevada could change all that, and state legislators are scrambling to respond.Musk moved Tes...
Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's estranged daughter, on the direction American politics are going. "It's cartoonishly evil," she said to Teen Vogue. "It's terrifying."
After more than a century of steady increases, IQ test scores are plateauing or even falling. And the limited data available on "cognitive capacity" — the ability to apply intelligence to real-world uses — suggests the average person's problem-solving capability "peaked in the early 2010s and has be...
$6.1 billion: The valuation at which the Boston Celtics have been sold — the highest price ever paid for a North American sports team. The basketball club is being sold to a private equity group led by businessman Bill Chisholm. The previous record for a sports team sale was held by the Washington C...
America's national railway service could be heading off the tracks, as Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner announced on Wednesday that he was stepping down from his position. His resignation comes amid a flurry of criticism aimed at Amtrak from the Trump administration, specifically from Elon Musk and his De...
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