
Electric vehicle startup raises $4 billion in SPAC offering to compete against Tesla
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Luxury electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors went public after a merger with "blank-check" firm Churchill Capital Corp IV, in the largest deal yet between a SPAC and an electric car company.
The deal left the company with a market capitalization of $9.17 billion, as of this writing, and will give more than $4 billion in cash to Lucid Motors. The transaction will be used to expand Lucid's Arizona factory, the company said, which it eventually expects to be capable of producing 365,000 vehicles a year.
Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

Since early December the US Coast Guard and other military branches have boarded and taken control of five oil ships that had previously been sanctioned, all either accused of being in the process of transporting Venezuelan oil or on their way to take on oil that has been subject to US sanctions since President Donald Trump began a pressure campaign against the leadership of the country during his first term.










