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The deal would set the stage for a blockbuster public offering later this year, with SpaceX valued above $1 trillion.

Sources say it would also bring his rockets, Starlink satellites, ex-social media and Grok chatbot under one roof.

And as space reporter Joey Roulette explains, the reason for the amalgamation is ambitious.

Joey says that's easier said than done.

A Minnesota man is accused of making a bizarre attempt to break Luigi Mangione out of jail.

According to prosecutors, the man posed as an FBI agent and turned up at the jail with supposed release papers.

When guards asked for ID, he handed over his driver's license and admitted he had weapons.

Officers then found a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter blade in his bag.

Mangione, who's pleaded not guilty to the killing of United Health Group's CEO, is awaiting trial, for which he faces a possible death penalty.

Iranian security forces have rounded up and arrested thousands of people to deter further protests, sources have told Reuters.

It follows a bloody crackdown on demonstrations in the country, which killed some 5,000 people in recent weeks.

President Donald Trump says he plans to speak with Tehran even as he dispatches another warship to the Middle East.

Sources have also told Reuters that President Trump's threats to attack Iran are designed to inspire protesters to effect regime change in the country.

That strategy, using pressure and the threat of force to try and shape events on the ground, whether in Iran, Venezuela or Greenland, is something Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have been scrutinizing closely.

Our producer Evan Jacoby spoke with the committee's top Democrat, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.

And for today's recommended read, another Reuters exclusive.

The U.S.

Agency for International Development warned the Biden administration in early 2024 that northern Gaza had turned into an apocalyptic wasteland with dire shortages of food and medicine.

But the U.S.

ambassador to Jerusalem and his deputy blocked that cable from wider distribution within the government.