Tesla loses title of world's top EV maker to China rival amid customer revolt and stiff competition

Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row. Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from a year ago. Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker. For the fourth quarter, sales totaled 418,227, falling short of the 440,000 that analysts polled by FactSet expected. The sales total were hit hard by the expiration of a $7,500 tax credit that was phased out by the Trump administration at the end of September.

Trump drops push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland

President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. The move comes after legal roadblocks held up the effort. Trump had deployed troops to all three cities against the wishes of state and local Democratic leaders. Troops had already left Los Angeles after the president deployed them earlier this year as part of a broader crackdown on crime and immigration. They had been sent to Chicago and Portland but were never on the streets as legal challenges played out.

Right-wing extremist threats to Australia in the context of the Christchurch terrorist attack

This thesis seeks to examine whether the Christchurch terror attack in New Zealand in 2019 constituted a failure in Australia’s counter-terrorism strategy. A comparative case study analysis was undertaken of the Five Eyes (FVEY) countries’ counter-terrorism strategies to evaluate their effectiveness in mitigating RWE terrorism between 2014 and 2020. The findings revealed that Australia and New Zealand were slower to take action against the RWE threat, in contrast to the UK and Canada, and to a lesser extent, the US. Australia’s slowness was, in part, due to its complacency, given that Australia had not experienced any significant RWE attacks, unlike the US, UK and Canada. Another reason for Australia’s slowness was because of its disproportionate focus on Islamist extremist terrorism, driven by the predominantly anti-Muslim terrorism discourse of some mainstream politicians. The thesis also explores what Australia could do to counter the growing RWE threat.

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