Since Election Night, Elon Musk , who played an active role in President-elect Donald Trump ‘s efforts to secure a second term in 2025, has only gained greater influence within Trump’s inner circle. In November 2024, Trump announced that Musk, along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy , would lead the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is not an official government agency. Trump said the duo “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, cut excessive regulations, eliminate wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies.” In addition to this role, Trump’s ongoing endorsement of Musk has helped elevate his business ventures. SpaceX, for instance, saw its valuation surge to approximately $350 billion, according to a Bloomberg report. Find out more about Musk’s financial standing and discover who else is currently among the richest people in the world. What Is Elon Musk’s Net Worth? Musk has an estimated value of $450 billion as of December 2024, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List . How Did Musk Make His Money? A significant portion of Musk’s net worth comes from his 12 percent stake in Tesla, which represents approximately 412 million shares. He has pledged 58 percent of his Tesla shares as collateral for personal loans totaling $3.5 billion. In 2022, Musk sold $40 billion worth of Tesla stock to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded as X. Although Musk still owns roughly 79 percent of the company at that original valuation, Twitter’s worth has dropped by nearly 70 percent as of August 2024. Musk is also the co-founder of SpaceX and The Boring Company, and serves as chairman of SolarCity. He owns 43 percent of SpaceX, which was valued at $180 billion in its most recent funding round and is now estimated at $350 billion. The Boring Company, in contrast, was valued at around $5 billion in its latest round. Additionally, Musk owns about 54 percent of xAI, the artificial intelligence company he founded in 2023. The startup was valued at $50 billion as of last month, according to the Wall Street Journal . Who Are the Richest People in the World? As of today, the richest people in the world according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List are: Elon Musk – $450 billion Jeff Bezos – $241 billion Larry Ellison – $218 billion Mark Zuckerberg – $208 billion Bernard Arnault — $167 billionInzaghi: ‘Inter did not do enough in Leverkusen, not our best game’
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The last sack the Bears gave up Sunday had all the hallmarks of the problems that have plagued the franchise this season. They had six players — all five linemen plus tight end Cole Kmet — blocking only four 49ers edge rushers. They had just one receiver open: Keenan Allen, who was over the middle but could only watch as his quarterback didn’t throw the ball. The reason: left tackle Braxton Jones, who has long been susceptible to the bull rush, was being pushed into rookie Caleb Williams. When Williams was pulled to the ground by 49ers edge rusher Yetur Gross-Matos, he made history. It was the 56 th sack Williams took this season, the single-season Bears record. And he still has four games left to play. Remember Justin Fields failing to throw the ball away in 2022? He took 55 sacks in 15 games. Or the lasting image of Jay Cutler always being on the ground? He was never sacked more than 52 times, and that happened during 15 games in 2010. Williams is on the wrong side of history. Time will tell how much harm it does to his career. He could not play another snap this season and he’s still be tied for 17th in NFL history in sacks taken in one season. He’s on pace to finish with 72, which would tie him for the second-most ever. The Texans’ David Carr holds the sacks record, with 76 in 2002. The Eagles’ Randall Cunningham is second, with 72 in 1986. Carr — the first pick in 2002 and a cautionary tale for how a franchise can hamper a quarterback — also ranks third with 68 in 2005. He went 23-53 in five seasons as the Texans starter from 2002-06. He started four games for the Panthers in 2007 and none the rest of his career. Williams’ sack total is partly a function of the Bears’ eagerness to throw — he’s on pace to set the franchise record with 567 passes. The percentages are still brutal, though — he’s been sacked on 11.4% of his dropbacks, the third-most of any Bears quarterback with 300 passes in a season. Fields’ 14.8% in 2022 is the Bears’ record. This is not what the Bears envisioned when they surrounded Williams with a roster that some thought was the strongest one ever bestowed to a No. 1 overall pick. Or when they paired him with offensive coordinator Shane Waldron, who was fired two-and-a-half months into the season. And with head coach Matt Eberflus, who was canned three games later. Thomas Brown, who replaced Waldron and then Eberflus, was left to answer for Sunday’s performance in which the Bears gave up seven sacks —five on third down. He sounded a lot like Eberflus. Third down success starts with playing well on first and second down, he said. “To me the common theme is all of us,” Brown said Monday. “That’s probably not the response you were hunting up. But I think again, me being critical from a play calling standpoint of how I sequence plays throughout the flow of the game. Trying to figure out how to stay a step ahead of the defense. “Also, it all comes together in how we protect the quarterback, his rhythm and timing, pocket movement, when the ball is distributed – also us being able to win in the rhythm and timing so the ball can come out on time.” The ball’s not coming out fast enough. Williams isn’t being decisive enough, either. He hasn’t thrown an interception in more than two months, and it’s fair to wonder if such caution has made him hesitant. One of his two sacks that didn’t come on third down Sunday came when he looked to throw left, tried to stop his throwing motion and fumbled the ball away. “The timing was a little off,” Williams said.
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The US says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern.Federal agencies to revise environmental study for Columbia River Basin dam operationsWASHINGTON (AP) — A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world withdrew a new report this week warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel's “near-total blockade,” after the U.S. asked for its retraction, U.S. officials told the Associated Press. The move follows public criticism of the report from the U.S. ambassador to Israel. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * WASHINGTON (AP) — A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world withdrew a new report this week warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel's “near-total blockade,” after the U.S. asked for its retraction, U.S. officials told the Associated Press. The move follows public criticism of the report from the U.S. ambassador to Israel. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? WASHINGTON (AP) — A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world withdrew a new report this week warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel’s “near-total blockade,” after the U.S. asked for its retraction, U.S. officials told the Associated Press. The move follows public criticism of the report from the U.S. ambassador to Israel. The rare public dispute drew accusations from prominent aid and human-rights figures that the work of the U.S.-funded Famine Early Warning System Network, meant to reflect the opinion of unbiased international experts, has been tainted by politics. A declaration of famine would be a great embarrassment for Israel, which has insisted that its 15-month war in Gaza is aimed against the Hamas militant group and not against its civilian population. U.S. ambassador to Israel Jacob Lew earlier this week called the warning by the internationally recognized group inaccurate and “irresponsible.” Lew and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which funds the monitoring group, both said the findings failed to properly account for rapidly changing circumstances in north Gaza. Humanitarian and human rights officials expressed fear of U.S. political interference in the world’s monitoring system for famines. The U.S. Embassy in Israel and the State Department declined comment. FEWS officials did not respond to questions. “We work day and night with the U.N. and our Israeli partners to meet humanitarian needs — which are great — and relying on inaccurate data is irresponsible,” Lew said Tuesday. USAID confirmed to the AP that it had asked the famine-monitoring organization to withdraw its stepped-up warning issued in a report dated Monday. The report did not appear among the top updates on the group’s website Thursday, but the link to it remained active. The dispute points in part to the difficulty of assessing the extent of starvation in largely isolated northern Gaza. Thousands in recent weeks have fled an intensified Israeli military crackdown that aid groups say has allowed delivery of only a dozen trucks of food and water since roughly October. FEWS Net said in its withdrawn report that unless Israel changes its policy, it expects the number of people dying of starvation and related ailments in north Gaza to reach between two and 15 per day sometime between January and March. The internationally recognized mortality threshold for famine is two or more deaths a day per 10,000 people. FEWS was created by the U.S. development agency in the 1980s and is still funded by it. But it is intended to provide independent, neutral and data-driven assessments of hunger crises, including in war zones. Its findings help guide decisions on aid by the U.S. and other governments and agencies around the world. A spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry, Oren Marmorstein, welcomed the U.S. ambassador’s public challenge of the famine warning. “FEWS NET – Stop spreading these lies!” Marmorstein said on X. In challenging the findings publicly, the U.S. ambassador “leveraged his political power to undermine the work of this expert agency,” said Scott Paul, a senior manager at the Oxfam America humanitarian nonprofit. Paul stressed that he was not weighing in on the accuracy of the data or methodology of the report. “The whole point of creating FEWS is to have a group of experts make assessments about imminent famine that are untainted by political considerations,” said Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch and now a visiting professor in international affairs at Princeton University. “It sure looks like USAID is allowing political considerations — the Biden administration’s worry about funding Israel’s starvation strategy — to interfere.” Israel says it has been operating in recent months against Hamas militants still active in northern Gaza. It says the vast majority of the area’s residents have fled and relocated to Gaza City, where most aid destined for the north is delivered. But some critics, including a former defense minister, have accused Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza’s far north, near the Israeli border. North Gaza has been one of the areas hardest-hit by fighting and Israel’s restrictions on aid throughout its war with Hamas militants. Global famine monitors and U.N. and U.S. officials have warned repeatedly of the imminent risk of malnutrition and deaths from starvation hitting famine levels. International officials say Israel last summer increased the amount of aid it was admitting there, under U.S. pressure. The U.S. and U.N. have said Gaza’s people as a whole need between 350 and 500 trucks a day of food and other vital needs. But the U.N. and aid groups say Israel recently has again blocked almost all aid to that part of Gaza. Cindy McCain, the American head of the U.N. World Food Program, previously called for political pressure to get food flowing to Palestinians there. Israel says it places no restrictions on aid entering Gaza and that hundreds of truckloads of goods are piled up at Gaza’s crossings and accused international aid agencies of failing to deliver the supplies. The U.N. and other aid groups say ongoing combat, looting and insufficient security by Israeli troops make it impossible to deliver aid effectively. Lew, the U.S. ambassador, said the famine warning was based on “outdated and inaccurate” data. He pointed to uncertainty over how many of the 65,000-75,000 people remaining in northern Gaza had fled in recent weeks, saying that skewed the findings. FEWS said in its report that its famine assessment holds even if as few as 10,000 people remain. USAID in its statement to AP said it had reviewed the report before it became public, and noted “discrepancies” in population estimates and some other data. The U.S. agency had asked the famine warning group to address those uncertainties and be clear in its final report to reflect how those uncertainties affected its predictions of famine, it said. “This was relayed before Ambassador Lew’s statement,” USAID said in a statement. “FEWS NET did not resolve any of these concerns and published in spite of these technical comments and a request for substantive engagement before publication. As such, USAID asked to retract the report.” Roth criticized the U.S. challenge of the report in light of the gravity of the crisis there. “This quibbling over the number of people desperate for food seems a politicized diversion from the fact that the Israeli government is blocking virtually all food from getting in,” he said, adding that “the Biden administration seems to be closing its eyes to that reality, but putting its head in the sand won’t feed anyone.” The U.S., Israel’s main backer, provided a record amount of military support in the first year of the war. At the same time, the Biden administration repeatedly urged Israel to allow more access to aid deliveries in Gaza overall, and warned that failing to do so could trigger U.S. restrictions on military support. The administration recently said Israel was making improvements and declined to carry out its threat of restrictions. Military support for Israel’s war in Gaza is politically charged in the U.S., with Republicans and some Democrats staunchly opposed any effort to limit U.S. support over the suffering of Palestinian civilians trapped in the conflict. The Biden administration’s reluctance to do more to press Israel for improved treatment of civilians undercut support for Democrats in last month’s elections. ___ Sam Mednick and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report. Advertisement Advertisement
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Principal Financial Group Inc. raised its position in Immunocore Holdings plc ( NASDAQ:IMCR – Free Report ) by 25.0% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 546,318 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 109,206 shares during the period. Principal Financial Group Inc.’s holdings in Immunocore were worth $17,007,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC raised its holdings in Immunocore by 40.4% in the 3rd quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC now owns 5,075 shares of the company’s stock valued at $158,000 after acquiring an additional 1,461 shares in the last quarter. Connective Portfolio Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Immunocore in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $218,000. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. raised its holdings in shares of Immunocore by 69.7% in the 3rd quarter. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 7,433 shares of the company’s stock worth $231,000 after buying an additional 3,053 shares in the last quarter. XTX Topco Ltd acquired a new position in shares of Immunocore in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $303,000. Finally, Seven Eight Capital LP acquired a new stake in Immunocore during the 2nd quarter valued at $434,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 84.50% of the company’s stock. Analyst Ratings Changes IMCR has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Morgan Stanley reaffirmed an “equal weight” rating and set a $35.00 price target (down from $74.00) on shares of Immunocore in a report on Friday, December 13th. UBS Group assumed coverage on Immunocore in a research report on Thursday, October 24th. They issued a “sell” rating and a $24.00 price objective for the company. HC Wainwright reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $100.00 price target on shares of Immunocore in a research report on Thursday, October 24th. Needham & Company LLC reduced their price objective on shares of Immunocore from $78.00 to $71.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. Finally, Guggenheim downgraded Immunocore from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Monday, October 7th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $65.64. Immunocore Stock Down 3.4 % NASDAQ:IMCR opened at $29.18 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $1.46 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -30.72 and a beta of 0.73. The company has a current ratio of 3.78, a quick ratio of 3.76 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.03. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $31.66 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $34.30. Immunocore Holdings plc has a 1 year low of $27.69 and a 1 year high of $76.98. Immunocore ( NASDAQ:IMCR – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November 6th. The company reported $0.17 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.33) by $0.50. The business had revenue of $80.25 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $78.94 million. Immunocore had a negative net margin of 15.87% and a negative return on equity of 12.84%. The firm’s revenue was up 23.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted ($0.59) EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that Immunocore Holdings plc will post -0.94 earnings per share for the current year. About Immunocore ( Free Report ) Immunocore Holdings plc, a commercial-stage biotechnology company, engages in the development of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, infectious, and autoimmune diseases. The company offers KIMMTRAK for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic uveal melanoma. It also develops other programs for oncology, including tebentafusp that is in Phase 2/3 clinical trial to treat advanced cutaneous melanoma. Recommended Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding IMCR? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Immunocore Holdings plc ( NASDAQ:IMCR – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Immunocore Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Immunocore and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .How to Watch Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Games – Wednesday, November 27Millions more Americans might get access to GLP-1 drugsJoanna Gaines gets 'emotional' as she speaks out on backlash from fans
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Middle East latest: Israel bombs hundreds of sites across Syria as army pushes into border zoneKhalid is speaking out in response to allegations made by his ex-boyfriend Hugo Almonte , who allegedly was the person who outed the singer as gay. The 26-year-old “Young Dumb & Broke” singer came out as gay last week in a series of tweets after Hugo wrote about their relationship in since-deleted posts. Hugo claimed that Khalid “lied and said that I broke into his house,” according to Rolling Stone . Hugo told the outlet that he didn’t mean to out anyone and he meant to “share how [Khalid] tried to use his power to silence me because I simply ended our relationship.” Khalid posted a video on social media on Monday (November 25) in response to some of Hugo ‘s allegations. Keep reading to find out more... “I’ve never accused anybody publicly of breaking into my house, and the only people who even know about a breaking are my close circle. Nobody knew because I don’t want everybody in my business,” he said. Khalid also denied allegations that he does cocaine and that he pays people to date him. “I’m gonna speak about the pink cocaine thing. I’ve never done cocaine a day in my life. I don’t place myself in those scenarios. I’m not in those surroundings,” he said. “I smoke weed. And I drink a little bit, but I’ve never done cocaine a day in my life, for real.” “Let’s talk about his escorting thing,” he continued. “I’ve never I’ve never paid for sex a day in my life, ever. I’ve never paid anybody to date me, I’ve never paid anybody to be in a relationship with me, ever.” Khalid said he hasn’t seen Hugo in years. “This is four years ago. Where is this coming from? You tell me, cause I really don’t know. The only reason I’m really clearing up any of this is because it’s just a little triggering seeing the few comments – it’s not that it’s a running narrative or anything like that — but it’s triggering seeing a few comments of people painting me as if I’m just some manipulative abuser. It’s just crazy to me,” Khalid said. Khalid also claimed the abuse “was the other way around, and that’s what hurts the most.” “All of this is definitely frustrating. I want all of this to be over just like y’all. It’s literally one of the main reasons why I don’t involve myself in any drama, why I stay out of the way. I don’t like this. So I”m not gonna run around like I’m unbothered. I never said I was unbothered. This is very bothering for real,” he said. Watch the full video below. Shared this on Instagram so I’m gonna share this here too. Thank you pic.twitter.com/i8mJIZsfAn — Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) November 25, 2024