WASHINGTON — Allies of former Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., have approached the White House on his behalf multiple times since the fall to see if President Joe Biden might be willing to pardon him, according to four people familiar with the discussions. Left with the impression that he won’t receive a pardon from Biden, Menendez…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump expressed hope for “a good start” to Sino-U.S. relations during the new U.S. presidency in their telephone talks Friday ahead of Trump’s inauguration next week, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Trump said in a social media post that the teleconference was “a very good one”…
Bill Gates and President-elect Donald Trump may seem like an unlikely duo, but their recent three-hour dinner proved to be an engaging and unexpected meeting of minds. Gates, who had previously backed Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, opened up about their private conversation, which covered everything from global health issues to driving innovation. Bill Gates…
The urgent radio calls by the air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration office in Puerto Rico started to go out on Thursday evening as a SpaceX test flight exploded and debris began to rain toward the Caribbean. Flights near Puerto Rico needed to avoid passing through the area — or risk being hit…
Bill Gates — a prominent donor for Kamala Harris’ election campaign last year — recently detailed a three-hour dinner he had with Donald Trump. Sitting with The Washington Post in an interview published Friday, the tech billionaire and global health innovator shared the ways in which the Republican president-elect surprised him in his enthusiasm to…
In huge pre-inauguration news, tech titan Elon Musk is slated to be the highest bidder on D.C.’s trendy Line hotel. The recently inducted member of President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire boys club plans to turn the desirable Northwest digs with 220 rooms into a “private social club” of sorts, according to multiple sources familiar with the…
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images Last year was a banner one for celebrity engagements. Everybody from Selena Gomez to Zendaya to Kaley Cuoco has a new diamond ring to wear to awards shows now (and, by the way, five carats seems to be the going size these days). Typically, engagements lead to weddings,…
CNN — On the last day of federal court before Donald Trump takes office, the judge who presided over the president-elect’s now-dismissed criminal January 6, 2021, case told a defendant who admitted to disorderly conduct that day that he may be the last US Capitol rioter she’ll sentence. If Trump grants blanket pardons, as expected…
Starship lifts off from it’s pad in Boca Chica, Tex. on January 16. Minutes after launching, it exploded, spreading debris across the Caribbean. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Flights across the Caribbean were hastily diverted on Thursday following the explosion of a rocket built by Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX. The chaos was…
Trumpland OLIGARCHS ASSEMBLE Is the early Silicon Valley tech billionaire become one of the “oligarchs” Biden warned about in his farewell address? Joey McFadden Reporter Published Jan. 17 2025 3:43PM EST Drew Angerer/Getty Images Joey McFadden Reporter Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here. Source link