A man accused of damaging three vehicles at a Tesla location in Kansas City in February, the first of two such incidents in the Kansas City metro, was arrested last week near St. Louis.

Pope Leo has criticised corporate pay packages that offer executives much higher salaries than their employees, citing Tesla’ s recent $1 trillion compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk.

Elon Musk was credited with helping drive an 8% rally in Tesla's share price before the NASDAQ opened on Monday morning after he bought $1 billion in shares.

Musk, who now holds $1.3 billion worth of bitcoin on Tesla’s balance sheet, helped Trump get reelected with his campaign rally warnings of looming financial disaster before quitting the administration amid a row over government spending and promising to create his own bitcoin-backing political party.

Musk, once a prominent booster of President Donald Trump's second term, had an equally high-profile break and subsequent feud with the administration in late May. According to reports, the cause of their split was the administration's lack of support for electric vehicles.

At the heart of this strategy is Tesla's push toward fully autonomous driving. While robotaxis dominate the conversation around Tesla's AI roadmap, there is another opportunity quietly flying under the radar that could carry even greater implications: Optimus, the company's humanoid robotics project.

Tesla Inc. Board Chair Robyn Denholm dismissed concerns that Elon Musk’s political activity has depressed sales at the electric vehicle maker and gave him wide latitude on future electoral