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Apr 17, 2025 - World

Noted investment expert Steve Rattner had nothing but bad news for billionaire Elon Musk and Wall Street investors who have been hanging onto their shares of Tesla stock as the value of the shares keeps spiraling downward.During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rattner used enlarged charts showing a bevy of downward trends and directly linked the collapse –– dubbed "Tesla tanking" –– to Musk's highly unpopular relationship with Donald Trump.One major concern he noted, was that, at a time when EV sales are seeing a swing upward, Tesla sales are heading in the opposite direction.ALSO READ: 'We’ve made a mistake': Trump’s trade war sends GOP into frenzyPointing to his graphs, he began, "See here that Tesla in its early years had huge sales increases, as you would expect, very popular. One of the few makers of really good electric vehicles (EV) in the country. But beginning in 2025. its sales kind of stagnated, a combination of really two reasons. One, some competition, more competition from other people trying to get in the business, including domestic manufacturers and also the fact that people are getting their models Y and S, two of their most popular models, are getting a little bit long in the tooth, so to speak.""But look what happened here in the first quarter," he added. "In the first quarter, their sales went down 13 percent more than they've ever done before and that's across the world. If you look at just the U.S., you can see that all U.S. EV sales are actually up 11 percent and Tesla was down nine. And so what I think you are starting to see, and I'll get to this a bit in a second, you are starting to see Musk's unpopularity weigh on Tesla's sales."Asked by host Mika Brzezinski for more details about "Tesla tanking" he added, Tesla had a "...huge run up because people thought that Musk was simply going to be a great beneficiary of the federal government's largesse. And then you can see that, along with all the chaos and commotion and Trump's own personal issues, you can see Tesla stock's gone all the way back down."You can watch below or at the link here. - YouTube youtu.be

Apr 17, 2025 - World

United Arab Emirates says Sudan ‘misusing’ world court in proceedings relating to African nation’s civil warThe international court of justice will rule in the next few weeks on whether the United Arab Emirates can be plausibly found “complicit in the commission of genocide” by arming the Rapid Support Forces militia in Sudan’s civil war.The case was brought by Sudan, whose acting justice minister, Muawia Osman, told the world court in The Hague last week that the country’s “ongoing genocide would not be possible without the complicity of the UAE, including the shipment of arms to the RSF”. Sudan wants ICJ judges to force the UAE to stop its alleged support for the RSF and make “full reparations”, including compensation to victims of the war. Continue reading...

Apr 17, 2025 - World

Growth in international hotels coincides with government effort to push region as a tourism destination Almost 200 international hotels are operating or planning to open in Xinjiang, despite calls from human rights groups for global corporations not to help “sanitise” the Chinese government’s human rights abuses in the region, a report has said.The report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) identified 115 operational hotels which the organisation said “benefit from a presence in the Uyghur region”. At least another 74 were in various stages of construction or planning, the report said. The UHRP said some of the hotels also had exposure or links of concern to forced labour and labour transfer programmes. Continue reading...

Apr 17, 2025 - World

MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski went off on a brutal rant on Thursday morning aimed at the conservative media for smearing critics of Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies.Using the abduction and shipping of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador maximum security prison without due process which has led to criticism as a springboard, the MSNBC host pointed out that criticism of Trump's policies have come from both liberals and conservatives –– including hosts on Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial board.Addressing her panel, she began, "You guys are deep into this and understanding of the law but Trump TV will tell you that, 'Oh, the lefties on MSNBC, the Democrats, they don't want gang members to be thrown out of this country, listen to them.'""That is not what we're saying!" she exclaimed. "Just FYI: everybody wants criminals and gang members to. be put into jail or put in a situation where they can't hurt people again. We're all with you there. You can't say that because you're lying when you do.""What we are saying is that people deserve the process that is due to them whether they are illegal immigrants or American citizens and none of these people received any of that," she explained. "And many of these people are being defamed by Trump TV. Defamed by the president. Defamed by [Attorney General] Pam Bondi. Defamed and being labeled things that they may not be. And in the case of Abrego Garcia they're taking a baseball hat, a baseball hat! And saying he's a terrorist because he's wearing a baseball hat. Who's crazy?"You can watch below or at the link right here. - YouTube youtu.be

Apr 17, 2025 - World

Jensen Huang causes stir on social media and is reported to have met founder of AI company DeepSeekBusiness live – latest updatesThe chief executive of the American chip maker Nvidia visited Beijing on Thursday, days after the US issued fresh restrictions on sales of the only AI chip it was still allowed to sell to China.Jensen Huang’s surprise visit was on the invitation of a trade organisation, according to a social media account affiliated with state media. Continue reading...