"The Melania thing is a falsehood that will not die... We have denied it. Melania's office has denied it. It's not true. I had nothing to do with that," Bezos told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin about his involvement with the documentary. He added that Melania was not "a way of buying influence" with the current administration: "It's just not correct."
The nationalisation of Sense Bank in 2023 was intended to serve as an example of how, in a wartime context, the state is capable of taking control of a systemically important financial asset swiftly, in a legally sound manner and with institutional accountability. However, just two years later, another question has arisen regarding the bank: has nationalisation shifted from being a tool for financial stability to a mechanism for certain individuals to bolster their political influence for their own interests, exert control over personnel appointments, and undermine corporate governance standards?
Are you going to be the president's human sock puppet?" asked Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. On one level, the question reflects President Donald Trump's intense pressure on the central bank to cut rates, with current Chair Jerome Powell often the target of his ire. But it also points to Warsh's own inconsistency on inflation.
It's President Trump's party, and he'll exact revenge if he wants to. That's really the main takeaway from last night's Indiana Republican primaries, Bash said on Inside Politics on Wednesday.
Musk is not just building a rocket company or a satellite company - but what we see is a vertically integrated ideological stack where he can kind of build an echo chamber from low Earth orbit all the way back to Earth and create a kind of closed loop for the ideology that he wants to push out.
"We saw what happened with Susan," Debra Houry, CDC's former chief medical officer who resigned in protest of Kennedy's political interference, told Stat News. "She couldn't make staffing or policy decisions. What has changed? Kennedy hasn't changed."
I had no choice. I had to do what I had to do. The directive raised concerns far beyond shelving decisions, reflecting a growing effort to transform libraries into arenas for ideological enforcement.
Jesse Armstrong's series about media mogul Logan Roy and his warring children, thought to be based on the Murdochs, was a gripping smash hit, and this documentary is soon excitedly matching the eldest Murdoch siblings—independent Prudence from Rupert's first marriage, dutiful favourite Lachlan, problem child James and brilliant but overlooked Elisabeth—to their Succession counterparts.
He is a GOAT when it comes to Republican primaries. He's a Tom Brady. He is a Babe Ruth. Trump-backed candidates winning 98% of GOP primaries in 2020, 95% in 2022 and 96% in 2024 across congressional and gubernatorial contests. Even when Trump backs challengers running against incumbents, the analyst added, typically a difficult path in party primaries, those candidates win a majority of the time.
Barron Trump is listed as a director of Sollos Yerba Mate Inc., a startup set to launch in April. Business filings show the company is registered to a $16 million, five-bedroom home near Mar-a-Lago owned by Jay Weitzman, a businessman who has donated to Trump and whose parking company has received federal contracts for years.
We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that. The memo comes a day after CBS News owner Paramount Skydance emerged as the likely victor in a takeover fight for Warner Bros Discovery, owner of CNN. CBS is now headed by Bari Weiss, a conservative commentator turned media entrepreneur, whose appointment was seen as a fillip to the Trump administration.
A terrifying moment. We appeal for your support. The need for truthful, grassroots reporting is urgent at this cataclysmic historical moment. Yet, Trump-aligned billionaires and other allies have taken over many legacy media outlets - the culmination of a decades-long campaign to place control of the narrative into the hands of the political right. We refuse to let Trump's blatant propaganda machine go unchecked.
The contrast is striking: In Europe, some people whose names come up in the Epstein files are facing consequences but in the U.S., not so much. European royals, government officials, politicians and others are losing jobs and titles over their connection to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. European law enforcement agencies are opening investigations based on recent troves of documents released by the U.S. government.
Last year, the Super Bowl emanated from the eye of the vibe shift. Donald Trump had just scored his first popular-vote victory, remaking American consensus, and brands far and wide scrambled to meet the tastes of a newly MAGAfied polity. In practice, that mostly resulted in a revival of obnoxious early 2000s machismo-girls in bikinis, Shane Gillis, dewy-eyed tributes to the heartland, and so on. It was a bleak enterprise.
According to Oxfam International's "Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Protecting Freedom from Billionaire Power" report this week, a billionaire boom has coincided with the rise of the richest exerting political influence, with billionaires 4,000 times more likely to hold office than less wealthy people globally. And if those billionaires aren't running for office, they're pouring money into campaigns. Per Oxfam, one in six dollars spent by all U.S. candidates, parties, and committees in the 2024 elections came from 100 billionaire families.
More than three-quarters of Germans reject the idea of buying an electric car from the US manufacturer Tesla, according to a recent survey by the German Economic Institute (IW). Some 60% of respondents said buying a Tesla was "completely out of the question," while another 16% said they would "probably not" purchase a car from US tech billionaire Elon Musk's company, which saw sales fall by 13% worldwide in the first quarter of 2025, by 45% in Europe, and by 62% in Germany.
The grants continue the Trump administration's funding of university programs labeled as civics, civil discourse, Western civilization, great books and other topics that many conservatives back. Earlier this month, the administration announced it awarded nearly $38 million in other grants to civil discourse efforts at universities. Now the NEH, which the Trump administration overhauled last year, says it's further fueling the spread of such initiatives.
Indeed, Meta says that various legal cases in this area have " selectively cited Meta's internal documents to construct a misleading narrative," which suggests that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have harmed teens, and that Meta has prioritized growth over their well-being.
