Insight: Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies

President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering artificial-intelligence models developed by Chinese companies the U.S. administration has flagged for national security concerns.

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Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies

President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering artificial-intelligence models developed by Chinese companies the U.S. administration has...

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Trump invested crypto gains in stocks and bonds, filings show

Trump’s financial disclosures show that even as he and his two eldest sons were encouraging investors to plow their money into crypto projects — which resulted in steep losses for retail ​buyers — his...

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Forget the DOJ. For a Trump pardon, call “Bobby” and other influencers

A Reuters investigation found nearly all clemency decisions made by Trump this term flouted longstanding Justice Department guidelines. In place of traditional rules, the White House relies on influen...

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Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t

Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they've wooed have taken a ...

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Reuters wins beat reporting Pulitzer for Meta investigations

Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting on Monday for a series of stories revealing how social-media behemoth Meta knowingly exposed users, including children, to harmful artificial intelligence chatbots and made ​billions of dollars from fraudulent ads on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.

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Musk scorned “shady” loopholes, yet offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions

When Tesla released its annual report for U.S. regulators in January, the Texas-based automaker, led by the world’s richest man, reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025.

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Band of brothers: how the war crushed a cohort of young Ukrainians

Reuters followed the fortunes of a group of raw recruits who enlisted in the spring as part of Ukraine’s drive to refresh its depleted ranks. None of them are still fighting.

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Bombshell report reveals Trump family earned more than $800m from crypto assets

A shocking new report alleges Donald Trump's family earned more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone. Much of this cash came from foreign sources as Trump's ad...

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Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine

The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.

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Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital

Israeli troops say they targeted a Hamas camera in an August strike, but a Reuters investigation found the device belonged to one of the news agency’s journalists. An Israeli official now says troops fired without required approval. The five journalists who died in the strike are among 200 killed by Israel that it has yet to fully explain.

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Trump crypto backer Justin Sun says his World Liberty tokens frozen

Justin Sun, one of the biggest known backers of President Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial crypto venture, said on Friday that his tokens had been frozen, without giving further details.

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Top U.S. leaders and their unexplored family connections to slavery

Reuters examined how many political elites descend from slaveholders, and asked them what it means to learn the facts behind their own family’s part in slavery.

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Trump reports tens of millions in income from crypto ventures

U.S. President Donald Trump filed his first public financial disclosure report of his term on Friday, providing what he said was the latest information about his holdings, including income from his family's foray into cryptocurrencies.

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Many SFS alumni become journalists, driven by a shared call to inform. We spoke with several about their paths, lessons and lasting SFS impact.

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How Trump’s crypto business partners left their old clients in the lurch

Two co-founders of Dough Finance, a defi startup that was targeted by hackers last summer, are now playing a key role in the fastest-growing part of Trump family's crypto business, which has funneled $400 million to the first family.

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Democrats ask SEC to preserve records related to Trump’s crypto business, probing conflicts

A pair of top Democratic lawmakers asked the U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday to preserve records related to President Donald Trump’s crypto venture World Liberty Financial and posed questions about potential conflicts of interest.

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Trump's SEC starts shifting agency's focus as job cut threat spooks staff

The Securities and Exchange Commission is reducing crypto enforcement and centralizing control.

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Exclusive: Trump's meme coin made nearly $100 million in trading fees, as small traders lost money

Entities behind President Donald Trump’s crypto coin have accumulated close to $100 million in trading fees in less than two weeks, according to estimates from three blockchain analysis firms, a large windfall from a venture that has seen tens of thousands of small traders lose money.

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Trump faces a powerful check on his power: bond vigilantes

When Bill Clinton began his first term as president in 1993, he faced a challenge to his authority from an unexpected adversary: bond traders.

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Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway operates the dirtiest set of coal-fired power plants in the US

A Reuters analysis shows that Berkshire coal plants emit more nitrogen oxide gases than any other coal-fired fleet in the country. Despite big investments in renewable energy, the company has resisted efforts by regulators to make coal plants cleaner.

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Trump's SEC pick Atkins marks victory for establishment expertise

While Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief at President-elect Donald Trump's pick of respected Washington lawyer Paul Atkins to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, critics worry his light-touch philosophy and crypto-friendly stance will hurt investors.

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Trump taps team geared toward retribution and remaking of government

Less than a month after his victory, President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team ready to carry out two of his biggest priorities: retribution against his political adversaries and a wholesale reshaping of the U.S. government.

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