If Trump does follow through on his promises, there are a few ways that it could play out. When WIRED reached Steven Metcalf, an attorney who represents several high-profile January 6 rioters, including Lang and Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola, he was contemplating what Trump’s victory could mean for his clients. Metcalf said he was taking […]
Leaders from across Europe and beyond gathered to discuss the war in Ukraine, immigration and plans for a second Trump presidency.
Just as president-elect Donald Trump was being voted in on a platform of higher tariffs for China, US businessmen were striking deals thousands of miles away at Shanghai’s biggest trade fair. Dynamite, a family-run pet food business with 12 stores in Idaho, signed $1mn in orders from Chinese company Pawberry — part of a stream […]
BBC Hours after the polls closed, Donald Trump took the stage in Florida to declare victory, surrounding himself with a huge group of family, allies, campaign advisers – and sports figures. All five of his children were there, some of whom played key roles in his last administration, alongside their four partners, and two of […]
Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, during a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Donald Trump’s election as U.S. President could mark yet another major blow for the struggling German economy. Germany narrowly, and unexpectedly, skirted a technical recession in the third quarter, […]
The re-election of Donald Trump to the White House is focusing minds in Europe, and with dozens of leaders meeting in Budapest, they have the perfect chance to talk it through. Trump’s first term in office saw a dramatic souring of relations. He was angry European countries didn’t pay more towards their own security. He […]
That’s not the only uncertainty at play. Just last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson—a staunch Trump supporter—said that Republicans “probably will” repeal the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which is a Biden initiative to spur domestic semiconductor chip production, among other aims. Trump has previously spoken out against the bill. After getting some pushback on […]
Catholic voters across the country swung massively towards Donald Trump in the 2024 election, contributing to his surprise blowout victory on election night. Catholics were evenly split between President Joe Biden and Trump in 2020, with 50 percent favoring Trump to 49 percent favoring Biden. According to exit polling collected by Fox News on election […]
On the campaign trail, Trump went out of his way to court their favor. In July, speaking to thousands of bitcoiners at a conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump duly sang from the bitcoin hymn sheet, promising to cement the US as the foremost bitcoin mining powerhouse, establish a national “bitcoin stockpile,” and appoint a bitcoin […]
Pro-Palestine demonstrators rally near the News Corp. building in NYC on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo: Jimin Kim/SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Images) I learned that Donald Trump would be president of the United States of America in 2016 while attending a memorial service for my friend, Clark Fitzgeraldwho had died in a car accident on his […]
