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Elon Musk, chairman and CEO at Tesla and chairman of SpaceX, inhales what he said was marijuana on a live YouTube webcast Thursday night. (Screenshot/Youtube)

September 7, 2018 at 7:18 am

Tesla stock sinks after senior execs leave, Elon Musk tokes up

The turmoil at Tesla reached a fever pitch Friday, as news emerged that two senior executives will leave Elon Musk's electric-car maker a matter of...

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FILE- In this May 7, 2018, file photo, Elon Musk attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition in New York. Tesla Inc. is laying off about 3,600 white-collar workers as it slashes costs in an effort to become profitable. Musk says in an e-mail to workers Tuesday, June 12, 2018, that the cuts amount to about 9 percent of the companyâ€™s workforce of 40,000. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) NYBZ244

June 14, 2018 at 6:02 pm

Laid-off workers praise Elon Musk, Tesla’s mission on their way out

Some Tesla workers who lost their jobs this week have had surprisingly positive parting words to share with the chief executive who let them go.

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May 7, 2018 at 5:25 pm

Musk buys $9.85 million in Tesla stock after taunting short sellers

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has taunted traders who are betting his company’s stock will fall, has bought a bigger stake in the company, whose...

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May 2, 2018 at 6:30 pm

Elon Musk sees end to Tesla’s cash-burning era, cuts off analysts’ ‘not cool’ questions

The electric-car maker, which burned through another $1 billion in the first quarter, will generate cash in the second half of the year as it...

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In this image made with a long exposure the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 7, 2018. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

January 9, 2018 at 9:05 am

SpaceX is dealt blow as secret military satellite goes missing

The second-stage booster section of the Falcon 9 failed, said a U.S. official and two congressional aides familiar with the launch. The satellite was lost,...

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In this image made with a long exposure the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. On Sunday, SpaceX has launched a secret satellite codenamed Zuma on its first flight of the new year. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

January 8, 2018 at 8:32 pm

SpaceX military satellite mission may have failed

Officials familiar with the launch said that the second-stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster rocket failed. The satellite was lost, one said, and the other...

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epa06233677 CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk delivers a presentation at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 29 September 2017. EPA-EFE/MORGAN SETTE AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

September 29, 2017 at 6:23 am

Elon Musk’s new vision: Fly anywhere on Earth in under one hour

The entrepreneur is planning to build a new rocket capable of traveling anywhere on Earth in under an hour, setting up a potentially competitive challenge...

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June 23, 2017 at 4:46 pm

SpaceX picks up pace of rocket launches

SpaceX fired up a Falcon 9 rocket for the eighth time this year on Friday, matching its flight total for all of last year. Its...

May 29, 2017 at 8:00 pm

Tesla’s Model X misses out on nation’s SUV hunger

Not everything Elon Musk touches has been a runaway sales success. While Tesla’s Model S has been a hit and thousands lined up to order...

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May 4, 2017 at 4:33 pm

Elon Musk tries to ‘anti-sell’ Tesla’s Model 3

Two months before the electric-car maker plans to begin production of its first vehicle to sell for near mass-market prices, CEO Musk told investors he’s...

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