Author: News Desk

What’s on the front page of the WSJ? The front page of The Wall Street Journal this morning – 25/11/2024 – reports Apple chief executive Tim Cook did something that many other corporate leaders failed to do: He developed a personal relationship with incoming president Donald Trump. Their rapport has been built, in part, by zeroing in on areas of mutual interest between Apple and Trump’s agenda. Now, with Trump’s cabinet taking shape and new circles of power emerging in Washington, executives across the corporate sphere are working to get in the good graces of the new administration. ‘Shoppers feel the pinch’…

Trump Considers Defense Financiers for a Top Spot at Pentagon Two financiers are in the running to be the deputy secretary of defense, a competition that pits a publicity-averse private-equity investor against an outspoken venture capitalist. Trae Stephens, a partner at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund venture-capital firm, is under consideration by President-elect Donald Trump to become the deputy secretary of defense, according to two people familiar with the transition. Billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg, who led the president’s intelligence advisory board in the first Trump administration, is also in the running, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-considers-defense-financiers-for-a-top-spot-at-pentagon-12a77084?mod=hp_lead_pos6

What’s on the front page of the LA Times? The front page of the Los Angeles Times this morning – 25/11/2024 – reports California is making so much solar energy that large commercial operators are increasingly forced to stop production, raising questions about the state’s costly plan to shift entirely to carbon-free sources of electricity. The front splash features an image of the homeless in California. The paper says the Fresno area is about to get hard on homelessness.  Dez Martinez greeted the homeless dwellers of Santa Clara Street on a recent October afternoon with open arms and a warm smile. As…