Derek Saul Forbes Staff I cover and analyze daily happenings in financial markets. TOPLINE Former President Donald Trump’s social media company’s stock market slide continued Monday, as the more than $10 billion valuation scored by Trump’s company’s just two weeks ago looks to be fleeting. KEY FACTS Shares of Trump Media, the majority Trump-owned parent…
In many ways, Nancy Pelosi’s political ascent was no surprise. Decades before Pelosi become the first female House speaker in US history, she was Nancy D’Alesandro, the daughter of the highly influential Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., who served as a Maryland congressman and then as mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. Nancy D’Alesandro was born…
Donald Trump and Joe Biden have now met the delegate threshold to become their parties’ presumptive nominees, bringing the policy battle being waged in November’s presidential election into sharper focus. Mr Biden, 81, and his White House team are attempting to frame the next presidential race as a choice between democracy and decency, and what they claim is Mr Trump’s…
The desperate puppy who melted a nation’s heart by chasing after the owners who dumped her in a trailer park has a new home – and a bright future ahead of her. Now renamed Phoenix – because she has risen from the ashes – the black German Shepherd has already experienced a 2,700-mile cross-country road trip as…
With pop star Taylor Swift’s anti-stance on Donald Trump and his vision for the country being clear, could Travis Kelce’s — her boyfriend’s — choice to like Trump photos on social media reveal the first crack in the power couple’s armor? Probably not, but it’s a possibility. According to TheSpun.com, The Kansas City Chiefs tight end reportedly liked a photo featuring…
Some say Donald Trump is seeking the status of a “king” as he fights for complete and total criminal immunity, but it’s actually much worse than that, according to a history professor at Yale Sunday. Renowned Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder, who previously said Putin wants Trump to win because the former president shows our “system is rotten,” has recently spoken…
The New York City deputy mayor for operations discusses her personal approach to the job and her appointment to the MTA board. Operations doesn’t sound like a very sexy topic, but for Meera Joshi, it’s personal. As New York City’s deputy mayor for operations, Joshi takes the concept of sustaining that vague concept of infrastructure…
President Joe Biden will call on his administration to ratchet up pressure on the Chinese steel industry as he brings his economic competition pitch to Pittsburgh, the heart of the American steel industry, on Wednesday, part of a three-day campaign trail swing through battleground Pennsylvania. The domestic steel industry remains critical to building everything from cars to appliances, to…
Nearly one-third of Donald Trump‘s supporters believe Taylor Swift will vote for the former president in November, according to a new poll. Speculation about who Swift will support in the presidential election has grown as she has remained quiet about the race, though the Fortnight singer has historically supported President Joe Biden and progressive social causes such as LGBTQ+ rights. A new…
Melania Trump’s former friend and aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff has shared the ex-first lady’s alleged reaction to Stormy Daniels, who alleged that she had an affair with Donald Trump 18 years ago. Daniels has alleged that she had a fling with the former president in 2006, a year after he married Melania Trump. The allegations, which Trump has denied, have…
During his keynote address at the 153rd Annual National Rifle Association Meeting in Dallas, Texas, former President Donald Trump claimed that a former White House doctor had opined he was a “better physical specimen” than Barack Obama. Trump, deviating from his scripted speech, shared this anecdote, which garnered laughter from the audience but sparked a…
Donald Trump has weighed in on Iran’s airstrike against Israel on Saturday evening. “ISRAEL IS UNDER ATTACK,” the former president said on his social media platform, Truth Social. “This should never have been allowed to happen – This would NEVER have happened if I were President!” Mr Trump’s comments come after the Israeli Defense Forces announced Iran had launched…
The Republican National Committee last week sent out a scripted call to voters’ phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump saying Democrats committed “massive fraud” in the 2020 election. It’s the latest example of how the RNC under the former president’s daughter-in-law is perpetuating lies about the 2020 election, even as prominent Republicans say the party…
Joe Biden says that Donald Trump currently has a “death grip” on the Republican party and that the former president would be the “primary threat” to US democracy should he be re-elected. In a recent sit-down interview, the president said that Mr Trump would be “a dictator on day one” if he returned to the Oval Office, and that his control over the…
Former President Donald Trump isn’t exactly known for having a sense of generosity. There’s one area in which he’s been extremely giving, however: providing President Joe Biden with a smorgasbord of material to dunk on him with on the campaign trail. “If Trump’s stock in Truth Social — his company — drops any lower, he might do better under…
By Arshad Mohammed, Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden effectively gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum on Thursday: protect Palestinian civilians and foreign aid workers in Gaza or Washington could rein in support for Israel in its war against Hamas militants. The message, after months of U.S. calls for…
Priot to former President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, many of his supporters sounded the alarm about the failures of President Biden’s administration following Iran’s attack on Israel. Fox News reporters spoke to several people ahead of Trump’s rally who expressed grave concern over the attack on Israel. “ISRAEL IS UNDER ATTACK! This should never have…
Four documents with classification markings were discovered in Donald Trump’s private quarters at Mar-a-Lago months after federal agents conducted an exhaustive sweep of the property, something a federal judge described with disbelief as part of a trove of documents newly unsealed on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell seemed to find it dubious that the…
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A senior Toronto cop is being tried for professional misconduct after admitting to helping black officers cheat to get promotions. Superintendent Stacy Clarke is facing several charges after revealing she had provided confidential interview information to six African-Canadian officers. In 2021, Clarke, the highest-ranking black woman in the Toronto Police Service (TPS), sat on a…