GOP bill targeting ‘Chinese billionaire loophole’ on EVs passes after clash with Dems
Lawmakers sparred on Capitol Hill before passing a bill that would prevent banned foreign companies from receiving U.S. tax credits on electric vehicles. The Republican-introduced “Bill to End Chinese Companies' Dominance in Electric Vehicles” was debated in the House of Representatives on Thursday and passed with seven Democrats voting in favor. This bill: The Internal […]
Tech Billionaire Jared Isaacman Becomes First-Ever Civilian To Complete Private Spacewalk
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 10, 2024. The Polaris Dawn mission is a private spaceflight backed by billionaire Jared Isaacman, founder of payments platform company Shift4. During the mission, astronauts will attempt the first privately funded spacewalk. […]
Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman conducting first-ever private spacewalk
Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman became the first private citizen in history to perform a spacewalk early Thursday morning, following humanity's farthest journey from Earth since the Apollo moon missions. Footage of the daring stunt shows 41-year-old Isaacman jumping on a rope from SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule just before 7am and coming face-to-face with the dark […]
Billionaire Ken Griffin ‘significant part’ of USMNT’s Mauricio Pochettino hire
The U.S. men's soccer team finally has a new coach, but the hire was made in a way that mimicked a coaching change in college football. Mauricio Pochettino has been named the new head coach of the United States men's national team after being rumored for months to be the leading candidate for the job. […]
SpaceX launches billionaire to conduct the first private spacewalk
The daredevil billionaire rocketed back into orbit on Tuesday, setting his sights on the first private spacewalk since NASA's Apollo moon landings and further venturing into the final frontier. Unlike previous charter flights, this time tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is sharing costs with SpaceX to also develop and test a new spacesuit to see how […]
Selena Gomez is a billionaire thanks to her cosmetics company
At 32, former Disney Channel pop star and actress Selena Gomez has become one of the world's youngest billionaires, cashing in on her wildly successful beauty and cosmetics brand. Gomez was recently valued at $1.3 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. According to Bloomberg News. The bulk of Gomez's wealth comes from her stake in […]
Tech billionaire business partner die separately on SAME day
On August 19, tech billionaire Mike Lynch died when his yacht capsized off the coast of Sicily during a severe storm. The same day, a few miles away, in an English village near Cambridge, Lynch's business partner, Stephen Chamberlain, was hit by a car while jogging. Even more ominously, the pair were recently acquitted of […]
Billionaire Jared Isaacman blasting off on five-day space mission
It’s one small step for a billionaire… Pilot and philanthropist Jared Isaacman is poised to make history when he blasts off Tuesday morning as leader of the Polaris Dawn space mission. Setting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, he is part of a four-person crew aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft that will travel farther from Earth […]
Billionaire CEO: Democrats ‘starting to recognize’ the green energy push is ‘all a fallacy’
United Refining Company and Red Apple Group Chairman and CEO John Catsimatidis reacts to some Democrats turning around … source
Polish billionaire ‘locker king’ takes on Meta over deepfake ads, predicts ‘long battle’
A prominent Polish billionaire known as “Locker King” said he was considering taking legal action against Meta for allowing the spread of “deepfake” advertisements depicting him and his wife. Earlier this month, Poland’s Personal Data Protection Agency issued an order banning Meta for three months from publishing fake ads using real details and images of […]