Elon Reeve Musk (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, investor,[8][9] and engineer.[10] He is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX;[11] co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; and co-founder and CEO of Neuralink. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.[12] As of February 2018, he has a net worth of $20.8 billion and is listed by Forbesas the 53rd richest person in the world.[13] Born in Pretoria, Musk taught himself computer programming at the age of 12. He moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received…

  West Virginia teachers made history when they went on strike for nine days, shuttering schools from February 22 to March 6 over their dismal pay and shoddy benefits. Teachers in the state do not have a legal right to strike or to collectively bargain; still, they walked off the job to demand better compensation and walked back into their classrooms with a 5 percent raise. The unrest, however, is not over. Teachers in Oklahoma have promised to strike beginning April 2 if their Legislature doesn’t give them a raise and increase money for schools. Striking is also illegal for Oklahoma’s teachers,…

A 19-YEAR-OLD man wearing a gas mask and toting an assault rifle rampaged through his former school in Florida on February 14th, killing 17 pupils. Local television stations reported that the slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High appeared to be the worst mass murder in the history of Broward County, an affluent area north of Miami. As that might suggest, America is running out of superlatives to describe its frequent gun massacres. The killing in Florida, whose perpetrator, Nicklas Cruz, was later arrested, was a bad one. It was America’s deadliest school shooting in five years—since a man killed 20…

  ebekah Frank got into the food-service industry because of the freedom it allowed her: to travel, to go to school, to figure out what she might want to do later. She hopped among a number of different jobs in New York City—at a pub, a steak house, a celebrity chef’s restaurant. About three years ago, she got a job bartending in Brooklyn. Soon after the job started, her manager told her to be careful about how much water she drank on the job, because male customers were going to grope her on the way to the bathroom. And they…

Updated | Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling on Congress to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador who fled to the U.S. legally in the wake of a 2001 earthquake after the Trump administration said Monday it will end their protected status. “First, the Trump Admin ended Temporary Protected Status [TPS] for 2,500 Nicaraguans. Then, nearly 60,000 Haitians. Today, @realdonaldtrump crossed another item off his anti-immigrant agenda by terminating TPS for 200,000 Salvadorans,” Warren tweeted Monday. “Congress should act now to pass the SECURE Act and provide qualified TPS recipients with access to legal permanent residency,” Warren, a senator…