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Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, will be sworn in as president for a record third term on January 10, four months after being declared the winner of the country’s highly contentious election. Maduro will receive the standard obeisance from his cronies and will hug the limelight, but plenty of Venezuelans will…

Bulk of funds for electric vehicle firm relate to government’s plug-in car grant, analysis finds

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink internet satellites lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.

The president says he wants the body of water to be called the Gulf of America but has not elaborated on how his plans could be enacted

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a major force in U.S. politics, is taking his influence to Europe.

Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes rival’s move

In today’s newsletter: The owner of X, who previously said ‘civil war is inevitable’ in Britain, has stoked online unrest with incendiary comments about the UK

Rival social network X has applauded Meta's decision to follow its lead on ditching fact-checking, with its CEO calling the move an endorsement.

Mark Zuckerberg says time to ‘get back to our roots’ around free expression but opponents argue ‘ordinary citizens should be very concerned’