The Wall Street Journal.8 hours agoMusk Meets With White House Officials, Congressional RepublicansThe Wall Street Journal. - Natalie Andrews, Alexa CorseWASHINGTON—Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla Inc. and Twitter Inc., met Friday with White House officials as well as top Republicans, amid deep interest on Capitol Hill in both electric-vehicle subsidies and social-media rules. Mr. Musk spoke Friday with John Podesta, a senior energy adviser …
The Wall Street Journal.8 hours agoDOJ Seeks to Ban Bankman-Fried From Contacting FTX EmployeesThe Wall Street Journal. - James FanelliThe Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge to bar FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried from communicating with current and former employees of the collapsed crypto exchange without a lawyer present after prosecutors alleged he recently contacted a potential witness in his criminal case. Mr. …
The Wall Street Journal.10 hours agoJan. 6 Rioter Gets More Than Six Years in Prison for Pepper-Spray Attack on OfficersThe Wall Street Journal. - Jan Wolfe, C. Ryan BarberWASHINGTON—A former Pennsylvania smoothie-shop owner was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for deploying pepper spray on police officers defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including Brian Sicknick, who died the following day of what an official autopsy determined were natural …
The Wall Street Journal.11 hours agoRonna McDaniel Wins RNC Leadership PostThe Wall Street Journal. - John McCormick, Eliza CollinsDANA POINT, Calif.—Ronna McDaniel will become the longest-serving Republican National Committee leader in modern history after winning her re-election bid Friday following disappointing GOP performances in the last three election cycles and a contentious party chair campaign that revealed internal …
The Wall Street Journal.12 hours agoConsumer Spending Fell 0.2% in DecemberThe Wall Street Journal. - Austen HuffordU.S. households turned cautious at the end of last year, cutting spending during the holiday shopping season and increasing savings, adding to signs of an economic slowdown. Consumer spending fell a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in December from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Friday, the …
The Wall Street Journal.12 hours agoVideo of Paul Pelosi Attack Shows Intruder Striking Ex-House Speaker's Husband With HammerThe Wall Street Journal. - Jim CarltonVideo and audio evidence from the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband was released Friday, showing for the first time the sequence of events that ended with 82 year-old Paul Pelosi being knocked unconscious with a hammer as police officers tackled his assailant. Some of the evidence was previously …