But before Bocelli, first, Elon Musk vs Donald Trump.  This  public squabble between them seems to be escalating, mostly spurred by Musk .    A day after using his vast social media reach to brand the bill a “disgusting abomination,” he posted more than two dozen messages on X on Wednesday attacking the legislation, as well as urging his followers to call Congress and “KILL the BILL. ” All of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office studies support Musk.  Said Senator Rand Paul: “I think Congress is sort of like a bad behaving teenager when it comes to spending,” Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, one of the Republicans threatening to vote against the bill, told TIME on Wednesday. “If you had a teenager that you were giving $100 a week and they wasted all of it on gambling or on booze, would you give them $200?” What seems to be bothering Musk is the effect some of these Trump cuts will have on his solar and battery enterprises.  This feud is also affecting Tes...

  It was a discrepant, rainy and magical night in Paris for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics. A 3.5 mile flotilla on the River Seine, carrying 10,500 athletes on 94 boats.  Lady Gaga and  Aya Nakamura  performed.  The whole spectacle ended on a high, with the  lighting of a floating cauldron  and a courageous tour de force of  Celine Dione  singing Edith Piaff's  L'Hymne a L'amour . There is a lot of history. It was in Paris way back in 1783 that the very first flight took place, on a hot air balloon before King Louis XVI.  On board were a sheep, a duck and a young rooster.  They survived. A few days later, Jacques Charles used a hydrogen-filled balloon from the same spot in the Jardin des Tuileries in front of 400,000 people. The ballon is filled with hydrogen, but the cauldron is not a fossil-fuel flame.  Electricity is fed to 40 LED spotlights to illuminate a cloud of water using 200 high-pressure mist...