Musk needs to become a more normal CEO

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Has dabbling in politics ever proved so costly? Between its peak last December and its dismal first-quarter sales and earnings report last week, Tesla lost roughly $800bn in market value. That knocked a cool $100bn…

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Why aren’t more QBs selected in middle rounds? Inside the NFL’s latest draft trend

Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer <!–> Two weeks ago, as the 2025 NFL Draft transitioned from Day 2 to Day 3, the parallel slides of former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders and former Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers began to dominate the discussion surrounding this year’s event — even as their respective freefalls were sorted…

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Trump’s ‘Marie Antoinette moment’: call for national sacrifice falls flat

When Donald Trump announced this week that American children will have to make do with fewer toys at Christmas, unflattering comparisons were drawn to noted figures from history. “It sounded like Marie Antoinette saying ‘let them eat cake’,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. Economists and businessmen have been warning for weeks that the president’s…

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The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump

Picture Muhammad Ali limbering up for his great Kinshasa “rumble in the jungle” with George Foreman. Or Björn Borg squaring off for a Wimbledon centre court final with John McEnroe. Most fittingly, ruminate on chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer ahead of his 1972 Reykjavík “match of the century” against Soviet opponent Boris Spassky. Although it spanned…

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7 charged in burglary ring that struck Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, other star homes

<!–> Seven men from Chile have been charged in Florida federal court with orchestrating burglaries at the homes of prominent professional athletes around the country, according to a criminal complaint. The FBI complaint doesn’t name the athletes, but lists burglaries already made public involving the Kansas City Chiefs‘ Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, Joe Burrow…

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