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Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to help Pentagon with warfare initiative, Hegseth says (opens the original)
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The Pentagon is tapping Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, defense technology entrepreneur and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to identify the military capabilities, technologies and weapons the U.S. may need in future wars, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday. The initiative, dubbed Project Meridian, will spend 120 days looking years and decades ahead at how warfare could change and what capabilities the U.S. military will need to maintain a techno
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reports more than $250 million in income last year (opens the original)
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reported at least $250 million in income and other proceeds last year, much of it from the financial businesses he left behind when he joined the Trump administration, according to CNBC's calculations from his newly released 2025 annual financial disclosure. The largest piece was a $192 million distribution from Cantor Fitzgerald, the global financial services firm Lutnick led for decades. His annual financial disclosure describes the payment as a tax distributi
Trump government ads were funded by Homeland Security, WSJ reports (opens the original)
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Taxpayer money from U.S. Customs and Border Protection funded the pro-Trump television ads that have drawn bipartisan scrutiny just weeks before November's midterm election, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. President Donald Trump personally pushed for the ads and was involved in creating them, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The revelation puts a CBP, part of the Department of Homeland Security, behind a campaign that looks far different from its traditiona
Details on U.S.-China trade negotiations coming Monday, USTR Greer says (opens the original)
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U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC on Friday that the U.S. and China have reached agreements covering a subset of goods the two countries can trade on more favorable terms, marking fresh progress in negotiations between the world's two largest economies. "We've actually reached agreement with the Chinese on a number of these things," Greer said on CNBC's "Squawk Box," referring to goods including U.S. agricultural products and medical devices and Chinese consumer goods considered
See which incumbents have the biggest cash advantage in the tightest U.S. House races (opens the original)
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The most competitive races for control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm election may be toss-ups on the political map. But in the most fiercely contested districts, one candidate often holds a massive financial edge. In 11 of the 19 incumbent-versus-challenger matchups rated as "toss ups" by The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, a clear financial divide emerged: One campaign had at least twice as much money available as the other, according to Federal Election Commission
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