Donald J. Trump
Trump says countries that purchase oil from Venezuela will pay 25% tariff on any trade with U.S.
Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States and stranded in Honduras disembark from a Conviasa Airlines plane upon arrival at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela on March 24, 2025. Juan Barreto | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Monday countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela will face a 25% […]
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Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers
A commuter near the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images As President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk work to overhaul the federal government, they’re forcing out thousands of workers with insider knowledge and connections who now need a job. […]
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Republican interim SEC chief Mark Uyeda cast the sole vote against suing Musk
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S. on March 5, 2025. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Days before Republicans took the helm of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January, the agency’s five commissioners held a closed-door vote on whether to sue Elon Musk. Since 2022, the agency had been […]
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Canadian PM Carney calls snap election, says Trump wants to break Canada
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, who “wants to break us so America can own us.” The comments showed the extent to which relations between the U.S. and Canada, […]
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Op-ed: The groupthink mind virus has taken over Wall Street and Washington in the worst way
US President Donald Trump, alongside Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent (L) and Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick (R), signs an executive order to create a US sovereign wealth fund, in the Oval Office of the White House on February 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images What happens when […]
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As Binance works toward redemption, CEO says Trump has been ‘fantastic’ for crypto
Richard Teng, chief executive officer of Binance Holdings Ltd., at an event hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Association in Singapore, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty Images Binance CEO Richard Teng says the Trump administration has been a “fantastic” reset for the cryptocurrency industry. “It’s an extremely different environment that […]
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Trump’s Social Security chief backs down from ‘shutting down’ agency
A sign in front of the entrance of the Security Administration’s main campus on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images The head of the U.S. Social Security Administration has backed down from “shutting down the agency” after a federal judge rebuked him for misinterpreting a court ruling that limited billionaire […]
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Crypto’s long battle with SEC comes to a close with Ripple victory
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 4, 2022. Mike Blake | Reuters The Securities and Exchange Commission’s years-long crusade against the crypto industry appears to be over. The final chapter closed on Wednesday, when Ripple announced that the SEC had officially dropped […]
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After a college football career and 2 failed House races, Bo Hines is helping steer U.S. crypto policy
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Crypto czar David Sacks, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Executive Director of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets Bo Hines attend the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters […]
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Microsoft rallies in last 10 minutes of trading to avoid first eight-week losing streak since 2008
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build AI Day event in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 1, 2024. Chalinee Thirasupa | Reuters With about 10 minutes left until the market’s close, Microsoft’s stock was down for the week. It would’ve been the first eight-week losing streak since 2008. But the shares popped just before […]
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