Government ownership of publicly traded companies is a slippery slope for Wall Street and investors. Though 2025 got off to a rocky start on Wall Street, it’s shaping up to be another banner year for the stock market. Recently, the widely followed S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.53%), growth-fueled Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0.52%), and iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI 0.52%) all …
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How Joe Biden handed Donald Trump and conservatives a powerful propaganda tool.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. President Donald Trump’s friends are trying to take control of TikTok’s algorithm—and with his help, they’re close to doing it. On Sept. 25, Trump announced a “deal” between TikTok parent ByteDance and a group of American investors, which Trump …
Read More »President Donald J. Trump Announces Actions to Lower Costs and Expand Access to In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and High-Quality Fertility Care – The White House
BRINGING MOST-FAVORED-NATION DRUG PRICING TO WOMEN: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the third agreement with a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer to bring American drug prices in line with the lowest prices paid by other developed nations (known as the most-favored-nation, or MFN, price). This agreement is with one of the world’s leading manufacturers of fertility medications, EMD Serono, and will …
Read More »Waving his flag all over the place: Trump adds ‘Arc de Trump’ to presidential renovations | Donald Trump
More than two centuries have passed since France celebrated the emperor Napoleon’s birthday by laying the foundation stone of the Arc de Triomphe. Now Donald Trump has imperial ambitions of his own. On Wednesday, the US president unveiled plans for a grand arch in Washington that has already been dubbed the “Arc de Trump”. The project, likely to be seen …
Read More »Trump approves CIA operations in Venezuela: What we know, and what’s next | Donald Trump News
United States President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he has authorised the CIA to carry out secret operations in Venezuela. The New York Times first disclosed the directive, quoting US officials who privately said the administration’s strategy is focused on removing President Nicolas Maduro from power. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Trump also said his administration …
Read More »Tim Curry Spills Cringey Moments With Donald And Ivana Trump During ‘Home Alone 2’
British actor Tim Curry has recalled lying to Ivana Trump while staying at the then Donald Trump-owned Plaza Hotel during the filming of the 1992 Christmas classic “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York,” in which Donald Trump made a cameo. In a new interview with The Guardian published Tuesday, Curry said Ivana, who died in 2022 at age 73, …
Read More »US revokes six visas over Charlie Kirk death amid social media crackdown | Donald Trump News
The State Department says the US has ‘no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans’ after revoking visas over critical social media posts. The US Department of State says it has revoked the visas of six foreigners over remarks they made on social media about Charlie Kirk, the conservative political activist who was shot dead at a rally …
Read More »Trump says Hamas will be forced to disarm or ‘we will disarm them’ | Donald Trump
Donald Trump has said that Hamas will be forced to disarm after questions swirled around the group’s status following the signing of a peace deal meant to bring an end to the war in Gaza. Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Trump said: “If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently. “But they …
Read More »Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom | Donald Trump
Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at the White House on Tuesday. Kirk, who was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in September, was among the most significant rightwing activists in the modern political era, galvanizing a younger generation of …
Read More »‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit | Donald Trump
The chief interest at Monday’s largely pointless Gaza summit in Sharm el-Sheikh lay in whether Donald Trump insulted or feted his fellow global leaders as they approached the self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker to shake hands and pose for a thumbs-up photograph. As the host of the party, the US president had arrived – unapologetically – more than two hours late, …
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