Amber Wheeler colours client Whitney Barnes’ hair in her salon,Steel Magnolia,in the Kentucky town of Magnolia.

The world is consumed by Trump’s chaos. In MAGA heartland,they’ve barely noticed

Polls show the president has lost his sheen. But from “Hog’s Haven” to a hair salon in rural Kentucky,Americans who voted for Donald Trump still think he’s their best chance.

  • Michael Koziol

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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.

How Peter Navarro went from Democrat to inmate to Trump’s tariff guru

The man behind the US president’s tumultuous tariff policies has sought for decades to set off the ultimate trade war with China.

  • Michael Kranish andJeff Stein
US President Donald Trump is standing by his embattled Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Trump’s macho crew,it turns out,is a vicious little sewing circle

One hundred days into Trump’s second term,cracks are appearing in the testosterone-filled White House manosphere.

  • Maureen Dowd
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The Bain of our existence

And the soft shell of southerners.

Visions of colonising Mars.

Utopia or extinction:The space visions driving Bezos and Musk

One billionaire wants to move industry off-world,returning Earth to a pristine state. The other wants humans to colonise Mars for our own survival.

  • Chris Zappone
Elon Musk’s close alliance with US President Donald Trump is hurting Tesla,he says he will spend less time at DOGE from May.

A subdued Musk backs away from Washington,but his project remains

The Department of Government Efficiency has already made an immense imprint on the government,but it has not come close to Elon Musk’s pledge of cutting $US1 trillion.

  • Jonathan Swan,Maggie Haberman,Nicholas Nehamas,Theodore Schleifer andDavid A. Fahrenthold
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Anecdote delivered,by George

Though some strayed from the self-serve option.

Elon Musk during a cabinet meeting at the White House in April.

Two middle-aged billionaires went to the White House. A ‘WWE-style shouting match’ broke out

The alleged fracas between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was said to have been witnessed by President Donald Trump.

  • David Millward
Footage online appears to show an Optimus model talking to an attendee at the event and having a discussion about where it lives and where it was trained.

Elon Musk warns rare earth magnet shortage may delay Tesla’s robots

China’s halt this month on exports of magnets containing heavy rare earth metals has affected Tesla’s plans to manufacture Optimus robots.

  • Keith Bradsher
Elon Musk’s close alliance with US President Donald Trump is hurting Tesla,he says he will spend less time at DOGE from May.

Elon Musk’s DOGE backdown won’t put Tesla back on track

The Tesla brand is damaged and the Trump tariffs are going to sting,but Musk’s fixation to serve the MAGA agenda remains the biggest threat facing the company.

  • Elizabeth Knight