Tesla vehicle sales declined for a second consecutive year in 2025, hitting their lowest point since 2022.
The results mean that Chinese automaker BYD sold more EVs in 2025 than Tesla for the first time in a full year: 2.26 million for BYD vs. 1.64 million for Tesla.
Why it matters: Tesla vehicle sales are critical to funding CEO Elon Musk's AI ambitions, including humanoid robots and self-driving cars.
Venezuela's leader Nicolás Maduro said U.S. and Venezuelan officials should "start talking seriously" on drug trafficking and oil, per an interview published Thursday.
The big picture: Maduro acknowledged during the interview the months-long U.S. militarized pressure campaign targeting suspected "narco-terrorists" and was asked directly about President Trump's comments that the U.S. military had "knocked out" a dock that Venezuelan drug boats allegedly used.
U.S. adults surveyed in 1999 correctly predicted major shifts for the half-century ahead: the election of a Black U.S. president, civilian travel to space and a warming planet.
The big picture: The turn of the millennium marked a cultural, technological and political inflection point, with Americans anticipating some of the changes that have come to define the 21st century so far.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) criticized President Trump's veto of a bill that would have funded a Colorado drinking water project in her district.
Why it matters: The prominent MAGA lawmaker and longtime Trump ally, who was among a group of Republicans pushing for the president to release the Epstein files, in a statement to a Colorado news station questioned his motives for the veto.
