By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican former President Donald Trump is planning to fundamentally alter the U.S. relationship with NATO should he win a second four-year term in office. On the campaign trail, he has also floated sending armed forces into Mexico to battle drug cartels and slapping expansive tariffs on friends and foes…
By Caroline Valetkevitch and Isla Binnie NEW YORK (Reuters) -World stock indexes and Treasury yields rose on Monday while the dollar dipped as investors weighed the prospect of Republican Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential race after he survived an assassination attempt over the weekend. The Dow hit a record high early, helped by some…
By Costas Pitas, Susan Heavey (Reuters) -Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump will face each other in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, after a divisive contest that included an assassination attempt on Trump. Several third-party hopefuls are also running. Here is a list of the candidates: REPUBLICAN PARTY DONALD TRUMP…
By James Oliphant and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a country already on edge, the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has enraged his supporters, paused the Democratic campaign and raised fears of further political violence in the run-up to November’s election. Trump’s Republican allies painted him as a hero on Saturday, seizing…
By Hyunjoo Jin and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, publicly endorsed Donald Trump for the first time in the U.S. presidential race, calling the Republican former president “tough.” Musk tweeted the endorsement with a video of Trump pumping his fist after multiple shots rang out at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania,…
(Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman endorsed Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race on Saturday. “I just endorsed him,” Ackman posted on social media platform X after former President Trump was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally earlier Saturday. “But you know me. I write long posts on important…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Meta said on Friday it was rolling back some restrictions that had applied to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. The social media company indefinitely suspended Trump’s accounts following his praise of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The company then reinstated his accounts in early…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a political group working to elect former U.S. President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing sources. The report did not indicate how much Musk donated but added it was “a sizable amount” given to a group called America PAC. Bloomberg reported that the PAC – a…
(This July 11 story has been officially corrected to fix the companies’ production run rate in a bullet and in paragraphs 1-3 and corrects royalty information in paragraph 16) By Ernest Scheyder HOUSTON (Reuters) – International Battery Metals said this week it has launched its version of a novel type of lithium filtration technology, a…
By Niket Nishant and Nupur Anand (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase beat estimates for second-quarter profit on Friday, as its investment banking business benefited from a resurgence in dealmaking and strong capital market activity. More companies are tapping capital markets to raise funds and striking takeover deals as they become confident in the U.S. economy’s ability…
