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Elon Musk trumpets Tesla’s foray into car insurance — after Warren Buffett warned any automaker would struggle in that business
Warren Buffett. AP Images Tesla has started underwriting auto insurance for its customers in three US states. Elon Musk expects ...
See inside Facebook’s first ever physical retail location. Dubbed the Meta Store, it’s designed to drum up interest in VR headsets and the metaverse.
Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s first ever Meta Store Facebook/Meta Facebook, or Meta, is opening its first-ever retail location, along with ...
Beijing seeks to halt the yuan’s slide as China’s currency hits a 17-month low against the dollar
Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images The People’s Bank of China is cutting the required ratio of ...
A mysterious liver disease infecting kids across Europe and the US has now killed at least 1 child
At least one child is dead, and 17 have required liver transplants. PhotoAlto/Sigrid Olsson/Getty Images A mysterious hepatitis spreading across ...
Chevrolet confirms a hybrid and all-electric Corvette are on the way
Chevrolet teased an electric Corvette on Monday. Chevrolet/Youtube General Motors is working on hybrid and electric Corvette sports cars. The ...
Blinken says a sovereign Ukraine will last longer than Putin in vote of confidence for Zelenskyy
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP ...
A ban on Russian crude is the EU’s easiest choice from a bunch of hard sanctions options, an influential energy markets historian says
Jim Urquhart/Reuters Banning Russian crude oil would be the easiest of the hard sanctions options for the EU, S&P Global’s ...
Austria — an EU country — said Ukraine should not be able to join the bloc, which could harm its membership efforts
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg in Berlin, Germany. AP Photo/Hannibal Hanschke, Pool Austria’s foreign minister showed opposition to Ukraine becoming ...
An exiled Russian oligarch says a European ban on Russian oil and gas would deal a ‘very serious blow’ to Putin, cutting off around half his revenues
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was CEO of Yukos, then Russia’s largest oil company, between 1997 and 2004. Matej Divizna/Getty Images, Mikhail Tereshchenko/Sputnik/AFP ...
Insider’s Guide to the Metaverse: How to play, make money, and party in 7 of the most popular virtual worlds right now
Ariel Davis for Insider For the past several weeks, Insider reporters Kari McMahon and Lisa Kailai Han have been attending ...
A Miami mansion with 300 feet of waterfront is on the market for $48 million — 50% more than its original listing price. Take a look inside.
Exterior view of the mansion. LPG for ONE Sotheby’s International Realty A Mediterranean-style estate in Miami is on the market ...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says up to $5 billion a month is needed to keep the war effort in Ukraine afloat
The Russian army has taken control of Ukraine’s besieged port city of Mariupol, except for the Azovstal plant. Leon Klein/Anadolu ...
How 350 kilogram batches of rice pilaf are cooked daily in Uzbekistan
This restaurant serves 3,000 people every day. One dish of plov uses 350 kilograms of ingredients. Plov is the national ...
Former Ukrainian president says the Vladimir Putin he once dealt with ‘no longer exists,’ outlines how the world can defeat the ‘brutal despot’
One thing that “really bothers” Russian leader Vladimir Putin is “international solidarity and support,” says former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. ...
Elon Musk and Twitter have kicked off talks over his proposed $43 billion takeover deal, reports say
Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Twitter is in talks ...
Trump snubbed Twitter as a ‘boring place’ he wouldn’t return to, but has only made one post on his Twitter-replacement platform TruthSocial since its launch
Former President Donald Trump has only posted once on TruthSocial since its launch. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Donald Trump appears ...
Indonesia, the world’s top cooking-oil exporter, says it’s going to ban exports of the oil this week, and it’s sent the global prices of oils soaring
Indonesia is the world’s largest palm oil exporter. Azwar Ipank/AFP via Getty Images Top palm-oil exporter Indonesia is planning to ...
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is bankrolling a nationwide push to halt the use of voting machines in elections — starting with Arizona
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is bankrolling what he says is a nationwide effort to file injunctions in every state to ...
Twitter says it’s banning ads pushing climate change denial as Silicon Valley ramps up its fight against climate misinformation
“We believe that climate denialism shouldn’t be monetized on Twitter,” the company said in a blog post. SOPA Images/Getty Images ...
Video shows Donald Trump struggling to say the name of his own social media platform, Truth Social
Former President Donald Trump appeared to forget the name of his own social media app, Truth Social, during a rally ...
Chris Christie says Donald Trump’s endorsements are ’emotional decisions’ and not ‘political analysis’
Governor Chris Christie(R-NJ) speaks with US President Donald Trump(L) after he delivered remarks on combatting drug demand and the opioid ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called Rep. Kevin McCarthy ‘a liar and a traitor’ over leaked Jan. 6 recording
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren called Rep. Kevin McCarthy a “liar ...
As fighting rages in Ukraine, Europeans are trying to root out Russian spies
Protesters outside the Russian Embassy in London, March 25, 2022. Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Hundreds of Russian diplomatic ...
Exxon Mobil will ban ‘external position flags’ like the LGBTQ rainbow pride flag from being flown outside its offices
The logo for Exxon Mobil appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Richard ...
North Carolina GOP leader threatens local elections director to gain access to voting equipment: report
A worker prepares tabulators at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C., on September 3, 2020. AP Photo/Gerry ...
Twitter is reportedly reconsidering Elon Musk’s bid to buy the social media company after the Tesla CEO confirmed $46.5 billion in financing
Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter officials are expected to meet Sunday to re-examine Musk’s offer to buy the company, ...
Alabama Arby’s employee arrested and fired for throwing hot grease at a customer during drive-thru altercation, police report says
AP An Arby’s staffer was arrested after throwing hot grease on a customer on Saturday. The employee was immediately taken ...
United Nations calls for an ‘immediate stop’ to fighting in Mariupol amid urgent need to evacuate ‘hundreds of wounded’ civilians
Russian military vehicles move in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, April 23, 2022. Alexei ...
Mariupol is ‘almost wiped out’ as over 100,000 civilians remain trapped in the city, top Zelenskyy advisor says
A Ukrainian national flag on a wire on the ground in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, ...
Zelenskyy asks Ukrainians not to let anger overwhelm them as Ukraine marks Orthodox Easter with prayers for frontline fighters and trapped civilians
Olga Zhovtobrukh, 55, cries during an Easter religious service celebrated at a church in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, ...
