President-elect Trump announced two more additions to his White House staff on Friday, promoting his campaign spokesman to lead the communications shop. Trump announced that Steven Cheung would return to the White House as assistant to the president and director of communications. Cheung previously served as
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported mixed results for its September quarter, highlighting both opportunities and challenges within China’s e-commerce sector. Net income surged 58% year-over-year to 43.9 billion yuan ($6.07 billion), significantly outperforming the LSEG consensus of 25.83 billion yuan. The robust profit growth stemmed
U.S. stock futures dropped early Friday as the postelection rally showed signs of faltering and the Federal Reserve indicated a cautious stance on further interest rate cuts. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 156 points, or 0.36%, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures declined
President-elect Donald Trump sent shock waves through the national security establishment when he nominated Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary. The plain-speaking former Army National Guard officer would set himself apart from other Defense secretaries with his prolific record of criticism of the institution he has been
Business tycoon Elon Musk excoriated former National Security Adviser John Bolton after Bolton blasted President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to tap Matt Gaetz as attorney general. During an appearance on ‘Meet the Press NOW,’ Bolton said the pick ‘must be the worst nomination for a Cabinet position
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., suggested he has gotten more support than publicly known from fellow House Democrats after speaking out about how the party handles dissent within its ranks. Moulton sparked a progressive firestorm after he made comments to The New York Times expressing concern about
Amid escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel, President-elect Donald Trump has promised to lift all restrictions and delays on the supply of military equipment and ammunition to Israel immediately after his inauguration, Israeli Channel 12 News reports. The assurance from Trump’s team came as Israel is
Warning: This story contains descriptions of self-harm that some readers might find distressing Iranian activist Kianoosh Sanjari, who died by suicide this week in protest at political imprisonments by the
The chief financial officer of Trump Media and two other corporate insiders sold more than $16 million worth of company stock in the week following the presidential election, according to new disclosures. Most of the stock was sold by CFO Phillip Juhan, who in August adopted a trading plan that revealed his
In light of President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming second-term, two federal judges ruled to delay criminal trials for several defendants charged with trespassing on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Politico reported on Thursday that Washington, D.C., circuit court judges Carl Nichols and Rudolph Contreras – Trump