President Donald Trump and his family have made a new fortune in the crypto game and he is bringing Steve Witkoff’s adult son along for the ride, according to a report last week in The Wall Street Journal that went into great detail on how World Liberty Financial has been the key money-maker, and is generating “cash far faster than the president’s decades-old real-estate business.”
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, won a snap election on Sunday, drawing praise from the Trump administration because of her hawkish approach to China.
The Washington Post, one of the U.S.’s top papers, fired roughly 300 of its reporting staff to try to get a grip on its expenses as the paper experienced a drop in advertising revenue, which prompted criticism of Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the newspaper, for ignoring calls to save the jobs.
Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of Citadel, offered rare criticism of President Donald Trump from a business leader last week when he raised questions about the Trump family’s business dealings and its pay-to-play tactics.
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social last week to up the ante in his standoff with Harvard and said the Ivy League school must now pay $1 billion to the federal government over its unacceptable tolerance of antisemitism on campus during the spring of 2024.
Gold’s price will average $4,746.50 over this year, according to a January Reuters survey of 30 analysts.
Israeli officials on Sunday took another step towards fully annexing the West Bank by removing hurdles for “settlers” to purchase land inside the territory in direct contradiction to international law.
A newly released poll found that a majority of Americans – by a small margin – say they believe former President Joe Biden ran the country better than his successor, Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has named Kevin Warsh, a governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the George W. Bush administration, to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the central bank. Powell’s term expires in May.
President Donald Trump continues to use his presidential pardon power to free individuals convicted of white-collar crimes and fraud crimes, according to analysis from the Financial Times.