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Trump Mobile Phone Company Announced by President’s Family, but Details Are Murky

The new company says it will manufacture its Android phone in the United States but it has not said how it could do that.

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Eric Trump, left, and other Trump Mobile officials announced the launch of a Trump-branded phone venture on Monday.

‘Trump Inc.’: Filings Show Staff Profited From Being in the President’s Orbit

A constellation of companies and groups paid President Trump’s supporters before they took jobs in his White House, according to new disclosure statements.

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Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, was paid by America First Policy Institute as a consultant through an entity called MSGDMNSM Ventures XXV LLC. She also collected nearly $4.4 million in income from her consulting firm Right Coast Strategies, according to her disclosure.

Trump Was Already a Crypto Czar in 2024

Financial disclosures for 2024 filed by the president on Friday show that digital coins had already become one of his family’s most successful ventures.

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Mr. Trump’s 2024 financial disclosure report previewed the crypto riches he is now poised to reap as president.

Kennedy’s New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety

Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.

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Mr. Kennedy said the new vaccine panelists would “exercise independent judgment” and “review safety and efficacy data for the current schedule” of vaccines.

Party Politics Is Said to Have Played a Role in Kennedy’s Firing of Vaccine Advisers

The health secretary cited financial conflicts, but a White House official and someone familiar with his thinking said he was also concerned about ties to Democrats.

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Robert F. Kennedy. Jr., the health secretary and a longtime critic of vaccines, during a House hearing last month.

Who Will Replace Elon Musk as the Leader of DOGE?

Joe Gebbia, a close friend of Mr. Musk’s, is expected to be a part of a small council of advisers that will oversee the Department of Government Efficiency.

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Joe Gebbia has been among the more visible members of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative.

Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner

The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.

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He Tianying outside the White House on May 23. Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party’s influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society.

Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner

The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.

© Jason Andrew for The New York Times

He Tianying outside the White House on May 23. Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party’s influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society.
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