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a trial over his tweets about Tesla

MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, billionaire Elon Musk is now facing a trial over a company he didn’t.

Long before Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October, he had set his sights on Tesla, the electric automaker where he continues to serve as CEO and from which he derives most of his wealth and fame.

Musk claimed in an Aug. 7, 2018 tweet that he had lined up the financing to pay for a $72 billion buyout of Tesla, which he then amplified with

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Slow December sales cap transition year for LI housing market

The Long Island housing market slogged through another disappointing month in December, capping off a year of transition for the residential real estate industry.

As had been the case for most of 2022, home sales slowed down, and home prices continued to retreat again last month.

There were 1,583 Long Island homes contracted for sale in December, down 14 percent from the 1,846 pending sales of the previous month and a drop of 34.4 percent from the 2,414 homes that were contracted for sale in Dec. 2021, according to preliminary numbers from OneKey MLS.

The number of Long Island home

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Enterprise Council of Canada says Nexus closure ‘deeply troubling’

OTTAWA –

The Enterprise Council of Canada says it’s involved over the continued closure of the Nexus trusted-traveller program, which permits pre-screened vacationers expedited processing when getting into america and Canada.

CEO Goldy Hyder says it’s “deeply troubling” that the US authorities has not reopened 13 Nexus enrolment centres, in a letter to David Cohen, the American ambassador to Canada, obtained by The Canadian Press.

The 2 nations are in dispute over a long-standing request by the US Customs and Border Safety company that its brokers be afforded the identical authorized protections inside Nexus amenities in Canada that they presently

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The Fundamentals: What’s an Property?

Many purchasers come to us not know what is part of their property.

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Whereas it looks like a easy idea, usually it’s sophisticated.

So, what’s an property?

For functions of property planning, your property is the whole lot you owns, much less all money owed that you simply owe.

Your property may embody:

  • Your automotive
  • your house
  • Different actual property
  • financial institution accounts
  • Investments
  • Furnishings
  • Private possessions
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Advertisements on sure reveals may be netting. Can Netflix make them much less so?

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Good morning from Los Angeles. In leisure enterprise information, Rupert Murdoch is contemplating reuniting Fox and Information Corp. Kanye West has entered an settlement to amass Parler, a social media platform cherished by MAGA conservatives due to its lack of political guardrails. Comcast is killing the G4 community once more.

“Halloween Ends” is the No. 1 film on the field workplace, scoring a so-so home opening weekend of $41.2 million whereas additionally debuting on Peacock. Possibly that is simply

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