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The delivery of Dum-Dums lollipops left outside of the LaFaverses’ home.

‘My suckers are here!’ Boy orders almost 70,000 lollipops on Amazon

As Holly LaFavers was preparing to go to church, a delivery worker dropped 22 boxes of lollipops in front of her apartment building. Then she heard what no parent wants to hear.

  • Christine Hauser

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Slate Auto is making an anti-Telsa; a simple and lower-cost EV it hopes Americans can afford as a first car.

This electric ute is shaping as the anti-Tesla for EV buyers

The US start-up hopes its small and affordable ute will become the Ford Model T of electric vehicles.

  • Tim Biggs
Many are describing Musk’s assault on the federal bureaucracy as a coup, which isn’t quite right. Trump was, alas, elected, and delegated outsize power to Musk voluntarily.

Donald Trump is proving disastrous for big tech

Three months in and the bosses of America’s most valuable firms have little to show for all their toadying.

  • The Economist
Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump.

The billionaire and the bully: Trump’s strong-arm phone call with Amazon’s Bezos

With a metaphorical gun to his head, billionaire Jeff Bezos backed down. The US president described their chat as a “good call”.

  • Elizabeth Knight
The company’s ultra low cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products.

Trump blasts Bezos over putting tariff prices on Amazon goods

Amazon.com said it will not display the cost of US tariffs on products after President Trump called Jeff Bezos to complain.

  • Skylar Woodhouse and Matt Day
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
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Even as he rocked the world with his tariff announcement, Donald Trump attempted to sell America to rich would-be immigrants with a $US5 million gold for a fast track to citizenship.

Is this the beginning of the end for Trump?

Cracks are appearing in Donald Trump’s armour. Let’s consider his self-inflicted wounds.

  • Bruce Wolpe
Elon Musk and Donald Trump in a Tesla at the White House.

Musk and big tech urge Trump to punish Australia

The companies have blamed Australia for “coercing” them into sacrificing their revenue to schemes such as the News Media Bargaining Incentive.

  • David Crowe and Paul Sakkal
Shaken, not stirred … superspy James Bond.

What the Amazon deal means for the world of James Bond

After Amazon’s James Bond takeover, anything is possible in the world of the world’s most stylish super-spy.

  • Michael Idato
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The retsina diet will have to wait

It’s all Greek to feed.

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