Jennifer Jacobs

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Ken Griffin holds hands out

Hedge fund billionaires Ken Griffin and Paul Singer met with Trump about donating to his campaign despite past criticism

By Jennifer Jacobs, Amanda Gordon, and others

Elon Musk

In a striking reversal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk donates to Trump’s reelection bid

By Jennifer Jacobs, Bill Allison, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 9: U.S. President Joe Biden points to WNBA Champion Las Vegas Aces players and other invited guests as he walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on May 9, 2024 in Washington, DC, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Biden is traveling to San Francisco, California for campaign fundraisers. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Biden administration expected to impose sweeping tariffs on China strategic sectors including EVs, batteries and solar cells

By Josh Wingrove, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

TikTok content creators protest ban

TikTok eyes removal of exec in charge of placating U.S. government after House passes divest-or-ban bill

By Jennifer Jacobs, Kurt Wagner, and others

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled ‘Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation’ in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Musk, who was invited to Poland by the European Jewish Association (EJA) has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp earlier that day, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Donald Trump met with Elon Musk as Republican presidential frontrunner looks to woo donors to his cash-strapped political operation

By Nancy Cook, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

Joe Biden

Biden’s Education Department just canceled another $1.2 billion in student debt

By Jennifer Jacobs, Justin Sink, and others

BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded onto a ship are seen stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port in Suzhou, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on February 8, 2024. (Photo by AFP) / China Out (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden administration may restrict imports of Chinese EVs and their parts no matter where they are built

By MacKenzie Hawkins, Josh Wingrove, and others

Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the 2023 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit via video on Nov. 8, 2023. (Photo by Li Xueren/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Why a group of ‘everyday people’ in Iowa have been invited to dinner by Chinese president Xi Jinping: ‘We’re eager to meet with him’

By Jennifer Jacobs and Bloomberg

Joe Biden

Biden forgives another $9 billion of student debt: ‘It’s good for our economy as a whole’

By Akayla Gardner, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

US President Joe Biden

Biden says debt-limit deal reached, urges Congress to pass legislation

By Jennifer Jacobs, Alexis Shanes, and others

TOPSHOT – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro makes a statement for the first time since Sunday’s presidential run-off election, at Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, on November 1, 2022. – Brazil’s Bolsonaro sais will ‘comply’ with constitution after poll loss. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden faces a tough decision over Bolsonaro after yesterday’s insurrection in Brazil: Let him stay in the U.S. or kick him out

By Eric Martin, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

Elon Musk

What if Biden spikes Elon Musk’s Twitter deal at the last minute with a national security review? Shares are falling.

By Jennifer Jacobs, Saleha Mohsin, and others

Los Angeles, California-Oct. 3, 2022-Gas prices are on the rise again in Los Angeles, California on Oct. 3, 2022, this Chevron station in Torrance, CA. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Fed up with Saudi production cut, Biden is moving to unleash at least 10 million to 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve

By Jennifer Jacobs, Ari Natter, and others

Joe Biden at the United Nations.

Biden slams Putin and says his war in Ukraine should make your ‘blood run cold’ in fiery UN speech

By Jordan Fabian, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted by in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The Justice Department says it has uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified records at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. (Department of Justice via AP)

Photo of classified documents piled on Trump carpet adds to Justice Department’s pressure

By Bill Faries, Jennifer Jacobs, and others