Musk says he may need surgery following MRI on back, neck
Elon Musk said he will know this week whether surgery will be required, ahead of his proposed cage fight with Meta Platforms co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Daimler Truck says CFO Jochen Goetz dies in 'tragic incident'
The 52-year-old German spent more than 36 years at Daimler Group after first starting his career as an apprentice at Mercedes-Benz.
DeSantis’ retaliation against Disney hurts Florida, former governors and lawmakers say
Saying Gov. Ron DeSantis has followed the autocratic examples of governments in Russia and China, a group of mostly Republican former high-level government officials has called the Florida governor’s takeover of Disney World’s governing district “severely damaging to the political, social, and economic fabric of the State.”
The group of former governors, U.S. House members and presidential administration officials filed a “friend of the court” brief on Wednesday in Disney’s federal lawsuit against DeSantis and his appointees to the board of Disney World’s governing district. Disney’s lawsuit says the Republican governor violated the company’s free speech rights by taking over the district after Disney publicly opposed Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, which banned classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades.
The group’s goal in filing the brief last week is to demonstrate “how the path the Governor has chosen is corrosive to the form of democracy envisioned by the Constitution, and to re-emphasize this Court’s critical constitutional role in curbing the excesses of governance by retaliation,” they said in a court filing.
SpaceX launch tonight could set record from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX is lining up a rocket launch tonight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that would be its quickest turnaround ever from a single launch pad.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 of its Starlink satellites is aiming for liftoff from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 now shooting for the third of five opportunities tonight at 10:41 p.m. with the remaining backups at 11:31 p.m. and 12:22 a.m. Monday. Five more backup launch options fall between 8:35-11:57 p.m. Monday.
Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron gives only a 30% chance for good conditions at the opening of the first window at 9 p.m., which SpaceX passed over along with the first backup at 9:50 p.m. Conditions were predicted to improve to 80% by the end of the window. Similar conditions are predicted in the event of a 24-hour delay.
The first-stage booster is making its fourth flight aiming for a recovery on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas downrange in the Atlantic.
The pad last hosted a launch on Thursday when a Falcon 9 lifted off on the Intelsat G-37 mission at 1 a.m.
Lucid Motors slashes price of Air sedan as EV price war grows
Rising interest rates to curb inflation and fears of recession have dampened consumer demand, prompting market leader Tesla to slash prices this year.