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……. The outreach appears to include venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, and former Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick. Antonio Gracias, a former Tesla director, and Steve Davis, president of the Boring Company, were named too. The latter two are affiliated with Musk’s many companies. And it seems that cohort is involved in the planning but, more specifically, is expected to work on technical challenges to collecting data on federal employees and programs. Andreessen is recruiting talent, according to the Washington Post. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is supposedly charged with...

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick says he has traded California for Texas, joining a growing list of billionaires abandoning the state as lefty lawmakers push for a one-off tax their wealth. Appearing on TPBN to discuss his robotics startup Atoms, Kalanick told hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays he relocated to Austin on December 18. California lawmakers and activists are currently pushing a proposed 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, which could appear on the state’s November 2026 ballot. The measure would impose a one-time 5% tax on fortunes exceeding $1 billion and would apply to people who were California residents as of...

Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform. The new feature is being rolled out nationwide despite an ongoing class action lawsuit against the policy in California, filed by Uber drivers who argue that it is discriminatory against men. Rival ride-hailing company Lyft is also facing a discrimination lawsuit over a similar offering that it introduced nationwide in 2024. The feature, announced in a blog post, allows women to request...

CHICAGO (Gray News) - Chicago authorities say a woman has been charged after carjacking a food delivery driver who was fatally hit by his own vehicle. The Chicago Police Department said Montoya Perry, 33, was arrested earlier this week on charges of murder and vehicular hijacking. Perry is accused of taking 28-year-old Daniel Figueroa’s vehicle in the 5500 block of West Flournoy Street at about 2 a.m. on Monday. Authorities said Figueroa was struck by his own vehicle as the offender, identified as Perry, took off from the scene in his car. The Uber Eats driver was taken to an...

SUNRISE, Fla. (WFLA) — A woman was arrested in Broward County, Florida, after allegedly leaving her two young kids with an Uber driver for hours, according to authorities. An arrest report said that the Uber driver picked up 32-year-old Emily Sabogal and her two young children, ages 3 and 4 years old. The Uber driver told police that Sabogal had a cup of what he believed to be liquor. At one point during the ride, the Uber driver said that Sabogal grabbed his phone and canceled the ride. She then gave him $10 and asked him to stop the vehicle....

An Arizona family is calling for change and demanding answers after a 27-year-old man died hours after he was wrongfully discharged from a hospital and dumped on a sidewalk during a hot summer day, according to a wrongful death lawsuit. Seth and Gayle Lachica, the parents of Kaelen Lachica, allege staffers at Abrazo Health Arrowhead put their son in an Uber and had him dropped off outside a local homeless shelter in Phoenix despite his deteriorating condition. “What they did is abandonment. I mean, they absolutely killed my son,” Seth Lachica told Fox News Digital. Kaelan Lachica suffered from anorexia...

A recent Uber trip in Summit County will likely become something four unfortunate passengers will laugh about years down the road. That said, it must have been very frustrating at the time it all went down. According to a report from the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, four riders and their Uber driver became stranded on the snowmobile-only Georgia Pass after the driver’s GPS unit reportedly told him to take the route during a trip to Bailey. Prior to getting stranded, the passengers reportedly told the driver that his GPS was wrong multiple times, but he continued, insistent on following the...

Kiefer Sutherland is still on the hook for possible charges after his alleged Uber driver assault case was sent back to the LAPD for further investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, a source confirmed to The California Post on Monday. Sutherland was arrested Jan. 14 after allegedly threatening an Uber driver who refused to pull over and let him out, TMZ reported. Sutherland, 59, told cops he called for an Uber Black after having dinner with a friend on the evening of Jan. 11 and asked the driver to take him home. At some point during the...

Kiefer Sutherland allegedly lost it on an Uber driver — threatening to kill them if they didn’t pull over — leading to the star’s arrest, according to a report. The actor, 59, told cops he called for an Uber Black after having dinner with a friend late Sunday night, and asked the driver to take him to his home, TMZ reports. At some point during the ride, Sutherland asked the driver to pull over and let him out, according to the Uber driver. Sutherland then threatened to kill him if he didn’t pull over, the report states.

New details have emerged about an Olympic hopeful from Colorado who allegedly stabbed an Uber driver to death inside his car, including how she claims he attempted to reach back and assault her despite being partially paralyzed — which prompted her to plunge a kitchen knife into him 60 times, prosecutors say. Khayla Dawson, 27, of Colorado Springs, claims she was going for a "joy ride" when she scheduled an Uber pickup with 38-year-old victim Jeremy Campbell on Oct. 26, according to an arrest affidavit filed by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and obtained by Law&Crime. Dawson — who...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — An Uber driver was shot in the back and killed early New Year’s morning in what police say was a carjacking by a 15-year-old suspect. 58-year-old Cesar Tejada, of Grayson, a father of two, picked up Christian Simmons on Rangewood Drive in Lilburn around 4 a.m. on Thursday, according to Lawrenceville Police. Simmons requested a ride to Groveland Parkway in Lawrenceville. Surveillance video captured Tejada’s black SUV in the neighborhood just before the shooting. According to the arrest warrant, Simmons exited the back seat and shot Tejada in the back. Tejada’s body was left in the...

Mahad Mohamud is slowly readjusting to the heat, chaos and tension of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after being deported from the US city of Minneapolis last month just as winter was closing in there. SNIP But to those running the White House-linked "Rapid Response 47" X account, Mahad was a "criminal illegal scumbag". In an October post it accused him of being "involved in the kidnapping of French officials" from a hotel in the Somali capital. Mahad has denied the allegation, saying that he was not in Mogadishu at the time. He was never convicted and the case was dropped. He...

A South Florida Uber driver was arrested for allegedly inappropriately touching a teen passenger, authorities said. Jose Miguel Perez-Molina, 39, of North Miami Beach, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child under 16...

Authorities in California charged a 29-year-old man with "malicious destruction' for allegedly starting a deadly fire that erupted into the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history and destroyed much of the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood, officials announced Wednesday. Federal law enforcement officials accused 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht of lighting a fire on New Year’s Day that was initially extinguished by fire crews, but continued to smolder underground before reigniting during high winds, acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said during a news conference. Rinderknecht was arrested Tuesday in Florida, where he moved after the fire, and is due to appear in...

Authorities have arrested a 29-year-old Uber driver in connection to the investigation into the deadly January Palisades Fire. Jonathan Rinderknecht, of Melbourne, Florida, was arrested Tuesday near his home on suspicion of destruction of property by means of fire. If convicted as charged, Rinderknecht faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in federal prison. "He is charged with starting a fire on Jan. 1," Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said. "It did take a week to reignite, but he is charged with starting the Palisades Fire." The criminal complaint covers the damages and death...

Responsibility for the attack? Sayfullo Saipov, the 29-year-old Uzbekistan-born ISIS operative who killed eight people after driving a truck down a crowded bicycle path in New York City, worshipped at a mosque around the corner from his and his family’s Paterson, New Jersey residence, Masjid Omar bin al-Khattab. The mosque has been associated with a website that advocates committing violence against others. Because of this fact, the mosque itself should be considered a party to Saipov’s horrific crime. On October 31st, Halloween, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, an Uber driver with known residences in Tampa, Florida and Paterson, New Jersey, drove a...

The sister of truck-driving terrorist Sayfullo Saipov says her brother was “brainwashed” and should be spared death. Umida Saipova said her Uber driver brother had a normal phone conversation with their mother the day before the attack — telling her that he was eating her favorite pastry while driving to the airport to pick up a client. “He was in a good mood. It was a usual, good conversation,” Saipova told Radio Free Europe from her home in Uzbekistan. “We don’t know who has brainwashed him.” Saipova admitted that the family grew concerned when they noticed that Sayfullo Saipov, 29,...

Investigators descended overnight on the New Jersey neighborhood of the terrorist who went on a rampage in a rental truck along a riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center, killing eight people and injuring 11 others. Cops surrounded a block in Paterson, the hometown of Sayfullo Saipov, 29, an Uzbek immigrant who was shot by a cop when he jumped out of the truck brandishing fake but realistic-looking pistols and shouting “Allahu Akbar!” Authorities in Passaic County also cordoned off an area that includes a mosque, some storefronts and several other residences, as well as a parking lot at...

As I write this, a few facts are starting to trickle out about Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, the man who committed the terrorist attack in Manhattan using a rented Home Depot truck on October 31, killing eight and injuring nearly a dozen more innocent people. (See, for instance, here and here.) First, we are told that he is Uzbek, having arrived in the United States from Uzbekistan "legally" in 2010. Second, some outlets have suggested that he may be married with two children, but I haven't seen any multiple verifications of that. Third, he appears to have been a Uber driver...

A Russian Uber driver working illegally in the US was caught on camera head-butting a South Carolina CEO as he held his service dog, leaving the knocked-out rider with a brain injury, according to the victim and a new lawsuit. Charleston-based CEO Bryan Kobel, 45, canceled a ride home from a French restaurant, Maison, in April because the driver refused to take his service dog, Kobel told The Post on Thursday. Disturbing surveillance footage shows the driver — identified as Vadim Uliumdzhiev, 42 — suddenly marching over and knocking out Kobel as he holds his 17-pound golden doodle in the...