A version of this article appears in print on July 22, 2025, Section A, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: Regret, Thy Name Is Hawley. And Murkowski. And Musk..

Trump and Elon Musk have already tried to reinvent government, as Clinton promised to do. Voters haven’t stressed much about the welfare system since Clinton signed a bipartisan bill scaling it ...

Even Elon Musk, who accused Mr. Trump in a now-deleted post on X of being named in the F.B.I.’s files earlier this year after the two had a falling out, said he did not believe the letter was real.

The case represents a considerable risk to Tesla. The automaker and its chief executive, Elon Musk, have built Tesla’s brand on the idea that its cars are nearly capable of driving themselves.

But for now, whether you’re the progressive Mr. Mamdani, the centrist former Representative Abigail Spanberger running for the Virginia governorship or even Elon Musk, we can all agree on one ...

And on Wednesday, Elon Musk’s Tesla and Google’s Alphabet are set to deliver earnings with big questions around, among other things, their bets on artificial intelligence.

Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.

Education funding: Under bipartisan pressure from lawmakers, Trump administration officials announced they would release $5.5 billion in education funding to states, money that had been frozen ...

Investors continue to shrug off the president’s threats, sending stocks to new highs. That calm could be tested going into a packed week for corporate earnings.

This month Elon Musk’s xAI released an “improved” Grok model that sprayed the internet with veneration of Hitler. One user asked Grok if it could worship a god, and if so, which it would choose.

With the help of his onetime adviser Elon Musk, Mr. Trump fired thousands of federal workers, and in some cases gutted entire agencies.

Andrea Morales for The New York Times It was the summer of 1996 when Maria Farmer went to law enforcement to complain about Jeffrey Epstein.