Space company has booked rapid growth under this administration, after founder spent president’s first term being "hated", write Dana Mattioli, Josh Dawsey, and Shane Shifflett, The Wall Street Journal.
In departing remarks, Warren Buffett marvelled at the success of the US over its 250-year history and cited a secret sauce unique to Uncle Sam. But as America celebrates its anniversary this weekend, such nationalism is proving itself to be lazy of thought and bloody of effect.
The billionaire’s private friendship with the president has helped Oracle’s business and his son’s media conglomerate, write Emily Glazer, Annie Linskey and Jessica Toonkel, The Wall Street Journal.
I was in New York City for much of this past week, where the news cycle follows you into the subway and into the back of the yellow cab and generally is much harder to avoid than in other parts of the world.
The movement started by Michael Gove’s public call to ditch the experts has ended with Donald Trump stuck at the Strait of Hormuz. The consequences are, at last, sinking in.
Video shows renderings of the building with golden escalators and a golden statue of the president raising his fist in the air, write Lindsay Ellis and Vera Bergengruen, The Wall Street Journal.
The president backtracked on his threat to strike Iran’s power plants after a series of closed-door discussions led by Middle Eastern intermediaries, write Summer Said, Alexander Ward, Benoit Faucon and Laurence Norman, The Wall Street Journal.
Damaged infrastructure likely to take years to come back online, but price surge helps offset some of the lost production for now, write Collin Eaton and Matthew Dalton, The Wall Street Journal.
During a fireside chat in Dublin on Wednesday, the former Trump communications chief offered advice for the Taoiseach's visit, criticised the US president's attacks on Iran, and derided his former taskmaster as an "ageing dowager".
The current chair wields deep bipartisan support and personal independence, but Trump has a closer relationship to his successor and three years to tighten his grip, writes Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal.
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