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Elon Musk has some advice regarding Kanye West‘s 2020 presidential bid: Wait four more years.

In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times published Saturday (July 25), the Tesla and SpaceX founder gave his thoughts on West’s plans to run for president and touched on the rapper and fashion mogul’s recent Twitter rants.

After West tweeted on July 4 that he was running for president, Musk quickly responded, “You have my full support!” Musk believes, however, that 2024 might be a better time for the rapper’s ambitious political run.

“I’ve done my best to convince him that 2024 would be better than 2020,” Musk told The Times, explaining that he wouldn’t want West to be accused of splitting the Black vote for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

During the interview, Musk, who said he’s known West for “at least 10 years,” also noted that he checked up on the rapper following his recent “tweet rampage,” during which Ye accused his wife, Kim Kardashian, of sending a doctor to Wyoming to “lock me up” and claimed that the 2017 horror movie Get Out was about him, among other seemingly unconnected topics.

“When he was about a third of the way through the tweet rampage, just to see if he was doing OK, I sent him a text saying, you know, just checking on you, a lot of people are worried, just wondering if you’re OK,” Musk said. “And he called me back and he actually seemed fine. He video FaceTimed me and he was in Wyoming with a bunch of friends. He seemed fine on the call. But it sounds like things are, you know, not fine. There seem to be a lot of issues.”

Kardashian later came to the defense of her husband, sharing a statement addressing his struggle with bi-polar disorder.

“He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bi-polar disorder,” Kardashian wrote. “Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words some times do not align with his intentions.”

During his first campaign rally in South Carolina on July 19, West spoke about a number of topics — including the healthcare system, supporting the LGBTQ+ community and gun control — before breaking down in tears during a candid discussion about abortion.

On Saturday, West apologized to Kardashian on Twitter for speaking about their personal life on the public stage.

“I would like to apologize to my wife Kim for going public with something that was a private matter. I did not cover her like she has covered me. To Kim I want to say I know I hurt you. Please forgive me. Thank you for always being there for me,” West wrote.

Spaniards urged not to lower their guard as coronavirus state of emergency ends – The Guardian

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has urged people not to lower their guard as the country’s coronavirus state of emergency comes to an end and it prepares to reopen its borders to European visitors.

Speaking on Saturday, Sánchez thanked the nation for its patience, sacrifice and unity over the past 13 weeks, but said there was no room for complacency as the country emerges into “the new normality” of post-pandemic life.

“We are now in a position to advance,” he said. “But we can’t lower our guard. We need to keep it up, and we need to keep on following the hygiene and protection rules with the same sense of personal responsibility we’ve seen up until now. We can all be either a wall against the virus or the means of its transmission. It depends on each and every one of us.”

Sánchez pointed out that the World Health Organization had just said the virus was accelerating. “The warning is quite clear,” he said. “The virus could return and we could be hit by a second wave, which is something we need to avoid at all costs.”

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He said the government was building up a strategic reserve of essential products to help Spain’s health system prepare for any future emergencies. “We’re keeping vigilant but we’re also proud of what we’ve managed to achieve together,” he said.

Spain’s state of emergency, which was declared on 14 March, led to one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe and was intended to prevent the collapse of stressed and overstretched intensive care units across the country. Covid-19 has killed 28,315 people in Spain to date and infected 245,575.

When the state of emergency ends at midnight on Saturday, people will be able to travel between the country’s different regions, but masks will continue to be mandatory in public places when physical distancing of at least 1.5 metres is not possible.

Spain will also reopen its borders to visitors from other EU countries and the Schengen area on Sunday, with the exception of Portugal, which has asked Madrid to delay the opening of the land border until 1 July, when Spain will begin welcoming travellers from the rest of the world.

Although the 14-day quarantine requirement for overseas visitors also expires on Sunday, those arriving at Spanish airports will have their temperatures taken and will need to provide contact details.

The Spanish government said on Saturday evening that visitors from the UK will be able to come to Spain without needing to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival, as had been suggested earlier.

In an interview with the BBC, the foreign minister, Arancha González Laya, confirmed that UK travellers would be allowed to enter the country on the same basis as those from the EU and the Schengen area when Spain’s borders reopen on Sunday.