A Black technician is suing SpaceX for workplace discrimination, alleging he was fired for tardiness while caring for his daughter, who was recovering from a heart transplant. L’Tavious Rice, 38, claims that Elon Musk’s rocket company ignored white workers’ lateness—even manipulating time records to hide it—yet fired him for being late.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner who catapulted his zealous embrace of President Donald Trump into a powerful position slashing government spending now risks sweeping cuts to his own bottom line after resuming the feud that led to their very public bitter split last month.

Elon Musk told you he could cut “$2 trillion” from the $6.7 trillion federal budget. We told you it was baloney. We were right.