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Creators demand EU 'meaningfully implement' AI Act<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//01//23//as-the-brutalist-and-emilia-perez-face-criticism-for-ai-use-what-is-the-future-of-ai-in-fi/">As 'The Brutalist' and 'Emilia P\u00e9rez' face criticism for AI use, what is the future of AI in film?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As copyrights are the intellectual property right designed to protect people\u2019s creative works, the report \u201canalyses the type and level of human contribution sufficient to bring these outputs within the scope of copyright protection in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current IP law dictates that \u201cmaterial generated wholly by AI is not copyrightable\u201d and that of the 10,000 comments received to create the report, the majority agreed with this position. <\/p>\n<p>Where opinions differed was with \u201cgenerative AI outputs that involve some form of human contribution.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, director of the US Copyright Office, said that their approach was keeping the \u201ccentrality of human creativity\u201d in protections for works. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection,\u201d Perlmutter said.<\/p>\n<h2>Whose art is it anyway?<\/h2><p>An AI-assisted work could be copyrightable if an artist's handiwork is perceptible. A human adapting an AI-generated output with \u201ccreative arrangements or modifications\u201d could also make it fall under copyright protections.<\/p>\n<p>On the flipside, the report shows the copyright office will continue to reject copyright claims for fully machine-generated content. A person simply prompting a chatbot or AI image generator to produce a work doesn't give that person the ability to copyright that work, according to the report. \u201cExtending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine ... would undermine rather than further the constitutional goals of copyright,\u201d Perlmutter said.<\/p>\n<p>Not addressed in the report is the debate over copyrighted human works that are being pulled from the internet and other sources and ingested to train AI systems, often without permission or compensation. <\/p>\n<p>This is one of the main points of contention for many creative unions in the US. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//11//09//hollywood-actors-strike-ends-as-sag-aftra-and-studios-reach-tentative-deal/">won protections for their members<\/strong><\/a> over studios using AI to write films and TV through 2023 strikes. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the WGA is raising concerns about the ways AI uses copyright protected material in their machine learning models. The union fought hard to create the copyright protections for writers\u2019 works, yet companies that are outside of the Hollywood system scrape that data wholesale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see this as a massive theft of our writers' work,\u201d <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//01//23//as-the-brutalist-and-emilia-perez-face-criticism-for-ai-use-what-is-the-future-of-ai-in-fi/">Erica Knox<\/strong><\/a>, senior research and policy analyst at the WGA, says. \u201cJust generally speaking too, human creativity is a key ingredient of all the film and TV projects that we all love. Undermining that or removing human creativity means it's less meaningful and enjoyable for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visual artists, authors, news organizations and others have sued AI companies for copyright theft in cases that are still working through US courts. The copyright office doesn't weigh in on those legal cases but says it is working on another report that \u201cwill turn to the training of AI models on copyrighted works, licensing considerations, and allocation of any liability.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738247980,"updatedAt":1738262948,"publishedAt":1738262942,"firstPublishedAt":1738262942,"lastPublishedAt":1738262942,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/74\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_762dab13-90a3-5e88-85c5-2092d7e2f770-9017458.jpg","altText":"The Library of Congress, which houses the US Copyright Office, stands on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 18, 2021","caption":"The Library of Congress, which houses the US Copyright Office, stands on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 18, 2021","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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SoftBank","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"SoftBank set to invest billions more in Stargate co-partner OpenAI","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"SoftBank set to invest billions more in Stargate co-partner OpenAI","titleListing2":"SoftBank set to invest billions more in Stargate co-partner OpenAI","leadin":"The Japanese investment holding company could potentially increase its investment in OpenAI, following the two companies already partnering up for The Stargate Project, which includes other investors such as Oracle and Emirati investment firm MGX.","summary":"The Japanese investment holding company could potentially increase its investment in OpenAI, following the two companies already partnering up for The Stargate Project, which includes other investors such as Oracle and Emirati investment firm MGX.","keySentence":"","url":"softbank-set-to-invest-billions-extra-in-stargate-co-partner-openai","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/01\/30\/softbank-set-to-invest-billions-extra-in-stargate-co-partner-openai","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Japanese investment holding company SoftBank is reportedly in talks to invest between $15 billion (\u20ac14.42bn) and $25bn (\u20ac24.03bn) in OpenAI, according to the Financial Times, which would be in addition to SoftBank's commitment to The Stargate Project announced recently.\u00a0\n\nThis potential deal would make SoftBank OpenAI's largest investor, dethroning Microsoft, which is the start-up's current biggest investor. OpenAI is the producer of the chatbot ChatGPT.\u00a0\n\nBoth companies revealed earlier this month that they would be the lead partners for The Stargate Project joint venture, a large data centre project, which is expected to go a long way in helping solidify the US artificial intelligence (AI) industry.\u00a0\n\nOther initial equity funders for this are Emirati investment firm MGX and tech giant Oracle, while key initial technology partners include Microsoft, Arm and Nvidia.\u00a0\n\nOpenAI will have operational responsibility for this venture, with SoftBank having financial responsibility. Mashayoshi Son, the chief executive officer (CEO) of SoftBank will be the chairman of The Stargate Project.\u00a0\n\nThe project was announced by US President Donald Trump, dubbing it \u201cthe largest AI infrastructure project by far in history.\u201d\n\nCurrently, about $100bn (\u20ac96.15bn) will be invested into The Stargate Project, however, this figure is expected to soar to up to approximately $500bn (\u20ac480.73bn) in the next four years.\u00a0\n\nSoftBank will be investing over $15bn in Stargate, with OpenAI also likely to invest approximately $15bn in the project.\u00a0\n\nHowever, the latest investment of up to $25bn, potentially, has not been finalised yet, and could likely cover OpenAI\u2019s Stargate share. This is being seen as an ambitious bid by SoftBank to further establish itself as a leading tech and artificial intelligence investor, while also strengthening ties with OpenAI\u2019s CEO Sam Altman.\u00a0\n\nSoftBank's CEO, Masayoshi Son, has pointed out that securing a bigger stake in OpenAI could be crucial in furthering his aim of developing superintelligence, a futuristic artificial intelligence theory, which may outpace human cognitive ability.\u00a0\n\nEuronews has contacted SoftBank and OpenAI for comment. \n\nElon Musk voices concerns about Stargate\n\nAlthough The Stargate Project is expected to be a landmark US artificial intelligence venture, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has pointed out concerns about its financial backing, saying that SoftBank did not have the required funds for such an ambitious project.\u00a0\n\nMusk said on Twitter: \u201cSoftBank has well under $10bn secured. I have that on good authority.\u201d\n\nThe Tesla CEO did not provide further details about where this significantly smaller number had come from.\u00a0\n\nHowever, Sam Altman was quick to refute this statement with another tweet.\u00a0\n\nA previous report by the Financial Times has highlighted other concerns pointed out by people familiar with the project, regarding structure and financing, as Stargate will not be getting any government financial support. There are also increasing worries about the data centre only serving OpenAI once functional, instead of the whole world.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Japanese investment holding company SoftBank is reportedly in talks to invest between $15 billion (\u20ac14.42bn) and $25bn (\u20ac24.03bn) in OpenAI, according to the Financial Times, which would be in addition to SoftBank's commitment to The Stargate Project announced recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This potential deal would make SoftBank OpenAI's largest investor, dethroning Microsoft, which is the start-up's current biggest investor. OpenAI is the producer of the chatbot ChatGPT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both companies revealed earlier this month that they would be the lead partners for The Stargate Project joint venture, a large data centre project, which is expected to go a long way in helping solidify the US artificial intelligence (AI) industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other initial equity funders for this are Emirati investment firm MGX and tech giant Oracle, while key initial technology partners include Microsoft, Arm and Nvidia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI will have operational responsibility for this venture, with SoftBank having financial responsibility. Mashayoshi Son, the chief executive officer (CEO) of SoftBank will be the chairman of The Stargate Project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The project was announced by US President Donald Trump, dubbing it \u201cthe largest AI infrastructure project by far in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, about $100bn (\u20ac96.15bn) will be invested into The Stargate Project, however, this figure is expected to soar to up to approximately $500bn (\u20ac480.73bn) in the next four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9012448,9013786\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//29//ai-showdown-alibaba-claims-its-new-model-beats-deepseek-and-chatgpt/">AI showdown! Alibaba claims its new model beats DeepSeek and ChatGPT<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//29//asml-reports-boost-in-full-year-sales-as-it-shares-outlook-for-2025/">ASML reports boost in full-year sales as it shares outlook for 2025<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>SoftBank will be investing over $15bn in Stargate, with OpenAI also likely to invest approximately $15bn in the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the latest investment of up to $25bn, potentially, has not been finalised yet, and could likely cover OpenAI\u2019s Stargate share. This is being seen as an ambitious bid by SoftBank to further establish itself as a leading tech and artificial intelligence investor, while also strengthening ties with OpenAI\u2019s CEO Sam Altman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SoftBank's CEO, Masayoshi Son, has pointed out that securing a bigger stake in OpenAI could be crucial in furthering his aim of developing superintelligence, a futuristic artificial intelligence theory, which may outpace human cognitive ability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Euronews has contacted SoftBank and OpenAI for comment. <\/p>\n<h2>Elon Musk voices concerns about Stargate<\/h2><p>Although The Stargate Project is expected to be a landmark US artificial intelligence venture, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has pointed out concerns about its financial backing, saying that SoftBank did not have the required funds for such an ambitious project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk said on Twitter: \u201cSoftBank has well under $10bn secured. I have that on good authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1881944244480565497\"><\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Elon Musk's Tweet regarding SoftBank<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Tesla CEO did not provide further details about where this significantly smaller number had come from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Sam Altman was quick to refute this statement with another tweet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1882106524090482701\"><\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sam Altman's reply to Elon Musk's tweet about SoftBank<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A previous report by the Financial Times has highlighted other concerns pointed out by people familiar with the project, regarding structure and financing, as Stargate will not be getting any government financial support. There are also increasing worries about the data centre only serving OpenAI once functional, instead of the whole world.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738228091,"updatedAt":1738253398,"publishedAt":1738251694,"firstPublishedAt":1738251694,"lastPublishedAt":1738251737,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Shuji Kajiyama","altText":"A SoftBank logo is seen at its shop in Tokyo, Feb. 21, 2023. ","callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"A SoftBank logo is seen at its shop in Tokyo, Feb. 21, 2023. ","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/58\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6468c769-cb24-551f-b2e8-28a18ea77b10-9015872.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1280}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"urlSafeValue":"lahiri","twitter":null,"id":2872,"title":"Indrabati Lahiri"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"open-ai","titleRaw":"Open AI","id":29194,"title":"Open AI","slug":"open-ai"},{"urlSafeValue":"artificial-intelligence","titleRaw":"Artificial intelligence","id":12661,"title":"Artificial intelligence","slug":"artificial-intelligence"},{"urlSafeValue":"investment","titleRaw":"Investment","id":11071,"title":"Investment","slug":"investment"},{"urlSafeValue":"usa","titleRaw":"USA","id":447,"title":"USA","slug":"usa"}],"widgets":[{"count":2,"slug":"twitter"},{"count":1,"slug":"related"}],"related":[{"id":2742696},{"id":2742048}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"business","urlSafeValue":"business","title":"Business","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/business\/business"},"vertical":"business","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"business","id":11,"title":"Business","slug":"business"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":11,"slug":"business","urlSafeValue":"business","title":"Business"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"business","id":"business","title":"Business","url":"\/business\/business"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":7,"urlSafeValue":"business","title":"Business"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84021001","84022011","84111001","84112001","84121001","84122001","84191001","84192001","84211001","84212001","84241001","84242012"],"slugs":["automotive","automotive_electric_vehicle","law_government_and_politics","law_government_and_politics_general","news","news_general","science","science_general","society","society_general","tech_and_computing_data_centers","technology_and_computing"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/business\/2025\/01\/30\/softbank-set-to-invest-billions-extra-in-stargate-co-partner-openai","lastModified":1738251737},{"id":2742846,"cid":9016330,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"250130_C2SU_57638883","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Culture - Harvey Weinstein begs judge to bring retrial forward over health concerns","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein begs trial date change due to health concerns","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Harvey Weinstein begs judge to bring forward retrial over ill health ","titleListing2":"Harvey Weinstein begs judge to bring retrial forward over health concerns","leadin":"A judge has ordered Harvey Weinstein to be retried on 15 April after the disgraced film producer urged the court to bring forward the process as he is suffering with poor health in jail.","summary":"A judge has ordered Harvey Weinstein to be retried on 15 April after the disgraced film producer urged the court to bring forward the process as he is suffering with poor health in jail.","keySentence":"","url":"disgraced-movie-mogul-harvey-weinstein-begs-trial-date-change-due-to-health-concerns","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/01\/30\/disgraced-movie-mogul-harvey-weinstein-begs-trial-date-change-due-to-health-concerns","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Harvey Weinstein yesterday begged a judge to hold his trial as soon as possible. \u201cI don\u2019t know how much longer I can hold on,\u201d the disgraced media mogul said, regarding his cancer, heart issues and harsh conditions at New York City\u2019s Rikers Island jail complex.\n\nJudge Curtis Farber set the date for Weinstein\u2019s retrial at 15 April this year, prompting the movie producer\u2019s plea to swap for another unrelated trial the judge has in March. \n\n\u201cEveryday I\u2019m at Rikers Island, it\u2019s a mystery to me how I\u2019m still walking,\u201d Weinstein said at a hearing in state court in Manhattan. \u201cI\u2019m holding on because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over with\u201d. \n\nWeinstein, 72, is being treated for numerous health conditions, including chronic myeloid leukaemia, heart issues and diabetes. He complained to Farber that jail officers gave him the wrong pills Wednesday morning and failed to pick him up for court in a timely fashion.\n\nWeinstein arrived in court in a wheelchair more than a half-hour after the hearing's scheduled start time. At times as he addressed Farber, he sounded more like the imperious studio boss he once was. \n\n\u201cI\u2019m asking and begging you, your honour, to move your trial,\u201d Weinstein said, suggesting that even a week's head start would be helpful.\n\nWeinstein has been in city custody since early 2024 after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction in the state. The case is set to be retried next year. Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nThe decision, decided by a 4-3 vote, was anchored on the premise that the presiding judge in the watershed #MeToo trial had unfairly prejudiced the disgraced former movie mogul with what the court described as \u201cegregious\u201d improper rulings.\n\nHis 2020 rape conviction was considered the culmination of the #MeToo movement started in 2017. In October that year, reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed that dozens of women had accused film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse spanning over three decades, with over 80 women eventually coming forward. \n\nWeinstein denied any non-consensual sex but was quickly dismissed from The Weinstein Company, expelled from professional associations, and retreated from public life.\n\nCriminal investigations ensued in Los Angeles, New York City, and London. In May 2018, Weinstein was arrested in New York, leading to charges of rape and other offences. \n\nIn February 2020, he was convicted of rape in the third degree and a criminal sexual act, resulting in a 23-year prison sentence. Additionally, in 2022 he was convicted in Los Angeles, receiving a 16-year sentence for rape and sexual assault. Weinstein has remained imprisoned because of his 2022 conviction. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Harvey Weinstein yesterday begged a judge to hold his trial as soon as possible. \u201cI don\u2019t know how much longer I can hold on,\u201d the disgraced media mogul said, regarding his cancer, heart issues and harsh conditions at New York City\u2019s Rikers Island jail complex.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Curtis Farber set the date for Weinstein\u2019s retrial at 15 April this year, prompting the movie producer\u2019s plea to swap for another unrelated trial the judge has in March. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryday I\u2019m at Rikers Island, it\u2019s a mystery to me how I\u2019m still walking,\u201d Weinstein said at a hearing in state court in Manhattan. \u201cI\u2019m holding on because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over with\u201d. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8224792,8383818\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//19//what-is-the-metoostandup-campaign-and-how-is-it-shaking-up-the-french-comedy-scene/">What is the #MeTooStandUp campaign and how is it shaking up the French comedy scene?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//02//08//an-end-to-the-culture-of-silence-spains-first-metoo-breaks-through-in-the-film-industry/">An end to the culture of silence? Spain's first MeToo breaks through in the film industry<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Weinstein, 72, is being treated for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//03//harvey-weinstein-hospitalized-after-alarming-blood-test/">numerous health conditions<\/strong><\/a>, including chronic myeloid leukaemia, heart issues and diabetes. He complained to Farber that jail officers gave him the wrong pills Wednesday morning and failed to pick him up for court in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein arrived in court in a wheelchair more than a half-hour after the hearing's scheduled start time. At times as he addressed Farber, he sounded more like the imperious studio boss he once was. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m asking and begging you, your honour, to move your trial,\u201d Weinstein said, suggesting that even a week's head start would be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein has been in city custody since early 2024 after the New York Court of Appeals <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//25//harvey-weinsteins-2020-rape-conviction-overturned-from-landmark-metoo-trial/">overturned his 2020 rape conviction<\/strong><\/a> in the state. The case is set to be retried next year. Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//01//63//30//808x454_cmsv2_ea9fd53b-b44e-530b-950c-1135d1e08a71-9016330.jpg/" alt=\"Former film producer Harvey Weinstein attends a hearing ahead of his retrial at State Supreme Court in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/63\/30\/384x216_cmsv2_ea9fd53b-b44e-530b-950c-1135d1e08a71-9016330.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/63\/30\/640x360_cmsv2_ea9fd53b-b44e-530b-950c-1135d1e08a71-9016330.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/63\/30\/750x422_cmsv2_ea9fd53b-b44e-530b-950c-1135d1e08a71-9016330.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/63\/30\/828x466_cmsv2_ea9fd53b-b44e-530b-950c-1135d1e08a71-9016330.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/63\/30\/1080x608_cmsv2_ea9fd53b-b44e-530b-950c-1135d1e08a71-9016330.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/63\/30\/1200x675_cmsv2_ea9fd53b-b44e-530b-950c-1135d1e08a71-9016330.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/63\/30\/1920x1080_cmsv2_ea9fd53b-b44e-530b-950c-1135d1e08a71-9016330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Former film producer Harvey Weinstein attends a hearing ahead of his retrial at State Supreme Court in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Timothy A. Clary\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The decision, decided by a 4-3 vote, was anchored on the premise that the presiding judge in the watershed #MeToo trial had unfairly prejudiced the disgraced former movie mogul with what the court described as \u201cegregious\u201d improper rulings.<\/p>\n<p>His 2020 rape conviction was considered the culmination of the #MeToo movement started in 2017. In October that year, reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed that dozens of women had accused film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse spanning over three decades, with over 80 women eventually coming forward. <\/p>\n<p>Weinstein denied any non-consensual sex but was quickly dismissed from The Weinstein Company, expelled from professional associations, and retreated from public life.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal investigations ensued in Los Angeles, New York City, and London. In May 2018, Weinstein was arrested in New York, leading to charges of rape and other offences. <\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, he was convicted of rape in the third degree and a criminal sexual act, resulting in a 23-year prison sentence. Additionally, in 2022 he was convicted in Los Angeles, receiving a 16-year sentence for rape and sexual assault. Weinstein has remained imprisoned because of his 2022 conviction. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738232082,"updatedAt":1738234952,"publishedAt":1738234013,"firstPublishedAt":1738234013,"lastPublishedAt":1738234013,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/63\/30\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_17b532ff-f303-563b-a852-50d5f0bf88a7-9016330.jpg","altText":"Harvey Weinstein appears in State Supreme Court for a hearing in his sexual assault case on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 in New York","caption":"Harvey Weinstein appears in State Supreme Court for a hearing in his sexual assault case on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 in New York","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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Tesla, Microsoft, and Meta report mixed earnings results","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"US tech giants Tesla, Microsoft and Meta report mixed earnings results","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"US tech giants Tesla, Microsoft and Meta report mixed earnings results","titleListing2":"US tech giants Tesla, Microsoft and Meta report mixed earnings results","leadin":"Results for the US tech giants were mixed, as Tesla and Microsoft fell short of market expectations in the growth of their core businesses, while Meta Platforms exceeded analysts' estimates across all metrics, despite ongoing legal challenges.","summary":"Results for the US tech giants were mixed, as Tesla and Microsoft fell short of market expectations in the growth of their core businesses, while Meta Platforms exceeded analysts' estimates across all metrics, despite ongoing legal challenges.","keySentence":"","url":"tesla-microsoft-and-meta-report-mixed-earnings-results","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/01\/30\/tesla-microsoft-and-meta-report-mixed-earnings-results","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Magnificent Seven kicked off earnings season on Wednesday with Tesla, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms. The results were mixed, as Tesla and Microsoft fell short of market expectations in the growth of their core businesses, while Meta Platforms exceeded analysts' estimates across all metrics, despite ongoing legal challenges.\n\nTesla's shares jumped more than 4% after an initial drop, Microsoft's shares fell by 4.6%, and Meta climbed 2.3% in after-hours trading. Why did investors react differently to these tech giants' results? Here are the key reasons.\n\nTesla: Optimism in autonomous vehicles\n\nTesla missed market expectations for both earnings per share and revenue in the fourth quarter, with its shares initially dipping before sharply rebounding. Investors looked beyond the weak earnings report and focused instead on Tesla's growth prospects in 2025 and beyond.\n\nThe company stated in its earnings report that new vehicles, including more affordable models, remain on track for production to begin in the first half of 2025. It noted that the process will be more \"capex efficient\" and expects a maximum production capacity of close to three million vehicles, allowing for more than 60% year-on-year growth. \n\nAdditionally, its highly anticipated autonomous vehicle, the Robotaxi product Cybercab, is scheduled for volume production in 2026. \"We expect the vehicle business to return to growth in 2025\", Tesla said in the earnings statement.\n\nIn the fourth quarter, Tesla's overall revenue rose by 2% year on year, down from 8% growth in the previous quarter. The core business, total automotive sales, fell by 8% year on year. Its gross margin declined to 16.3%, compared to 17.6% in the same period in 2023, marking the lowest level in the past four quarters.\n\nHowever, the bright spot remained in its energy storage unit, where revenue grew by 113%, achieving record deployments and a record gross profit for the quarter. The company expects its energy business to expand by at least 50% this year.\n\nTesla's share price is down 0.26% year to date as of market close on 29 January, as the so-called Trump Trade faded since mid-December. The company also disappointed investors with its annual vehicle delivery figures.\n\nMicrosoft: Cloud growth slows on ongoing capacity constraints\n\nMicrosoft disappointed investors with slower growth in its core business, Azure Cloud, despite exceeding market expectations for profit and revenue. \n\nThe artificial intelligence\u2013focused segment saw revenue growth of 31%, down from 33% in the previous quarter. CFO Amy Hood said in an interview that the company does not have sufficient data centre capacity to meet customer demand, which affected growth. She expects Azure Cloud to grow at a rate of between 31% and 32% in the current quarter, indicating flat growth.\n\nIn other metrics, overall revenue rose by 12.3% year on year in the fiscal second quarter of 2025, marking the slowest growth since June 2023. Earnings per share came in at $3.23 (\u20ac3.10), compared with the estimated $3.12 (\u20ac2.99).\n\nThe company\u2019s expenditure exceeded analysts' expectations, signalling continued heavy investment in AI infrastructure. Hood stated: \"We remain committed to balancing operational discipline with continued investments in our cloud and AI infrastructure.\"\n\nCEO Satya Nadella commented: \"We are innovating across our tech stack and helping customers unlock the full ROI of AI to capture the massive opportunity ahead.\" He noted that Microsoft's AI business had reached an annual revenue run rate of $13 billion (\u20ac12.5bn), up 175% year on year.\n\nMicrosoft's shares are up nearly 4% this year as of market close on Wednesday.\n\nMeta Platforms: Conservative outlook despite robust results\n\nMeta Platforms reported revenue of $48.39 billion (\u20ac46.42 billion) in the final quarter of 2024, a 21% year-on-year increase, up from 19% in the previous quarter. Profit came in at $8.02 (\u20ac7.69) per share, well above the estimated $6.77 (\u20ac6.49). \n\nWhile advertising revenue remained its core business, the social media giant emphasised the rapid growth of its Meta AI chatbot, which reached 600 million users in December. CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects its AI app to reach one billion users in 2025.\n\nThe company provided revenue guidance for the current quarter that fell short of market expectations. It did not give an outlook for 2025, stating: \"We expect the investments we are making in our core business this year will give us an opportunity to continue delivering strong revenue growth throughout 2025.\"\n\nMeta also warned that regulatory challenges in the EU and the US could \"significantly impact our business and financial results\". Just before the earnings release, The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta had reached a $25bn (\u20ac24bn) settlement with President Trump. Zuckerberg expects 2025 to be a pivotal year in redefining the company's relationship with governments.\n\nZuckerberg also referenced the recent unveiling of DeepSeek, an open-source Chinese AI model similar to Meta's Llama 3. He indicated that open-source models will be widely adopted globally, competing with rivals, and stated: \"For our own national advantage, it's important that it's an American standard.\u201d\n\nMeta's stock has been the top performer among the Magnificent Seven so far this year, up 14.71% as of market close on 29 January.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Magnificent Seven kicked off earnings season on Wednesday with Tesla, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms. The results were mixed, as Tesla and Microsoft fell short of market expectations in the growth of their core businesses, while Meta Platforms exceeded analysts' estimates across all metrics, despite ongoing legal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla's shares jumped more than 4% after an initial drop, Microsoft's shares fell by 4.6%, and Meta climbed 2.3% in after-hours trading. Why did investors react differently to these tech giants' results? Here are the key reasons.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tesla: Optimism in autonomous vehicles<\/strong><\/h2><p>Tesla missed market expectations for both earnings per share and revenue in the fourth quarter, with its shares initially dipping before sharply rebounding. Investors looked beyond the weak earnings report and focused instead on Tesla's growth prospects in 2025 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The company stated in its earnings report that new vehicles, including more affordable models, remain on track for production to begin in the first half of 2025. It noted that the process will be more \"capex efficient\" and expects a maximum production capacity of close to three million vehicles, allowing for more than 60% year-on-year growth. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, its highly anticipated autonomous vehicle, the Robotaxi product Cybercab, is scheduled for volume production in 2026. \"We expect the vehicle business to return to growth in 2025\", Tesla said in the earnings statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9009932,9000120\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//28//tesla-and-bmw-sue-eu-as-discontent-over-chinese-ev-tariffs-mounts/">Tesla and BMW sue EU as discontent over Chinese EV tariffs mounts<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//24//tesla-unveils-new-premium-model-y-in-europe-the-us-and-canada/"> Tesla unveils new premium model Y in Europe, the US and Canada<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the fourth quarter, Tesla's overall revenue rose by 2% year on year, down from 8% growth in the previous quarter. The core business, total automotive sales, fell by 8% year on year. Its gross margin declined to 16.3%, compared to 17.6% in the same period in 2023, marking the lowest level in the past four quarters.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bright spot remained in its energy storage unit, where revenue grew by 113%, achieving record deployments and a record gross profit for the quarter. The company expects its energy business to expand by at least 50% this year.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla's share price is down 0.26% year to date as of market close on 29 January, as the so-called Trump Trade faded since mid-December. The company also disappointed investors with its annual vehicle delivery figures.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Microsoft: Cloud growth slows on ongoing capacity constraints<\/strong><\/h2><p>Microsoft disappointed investors with slower growth in its core business, Azure Cloud, despite exceeding market expectations for profit and revenue. <\/p>\n<p>The artificial intelligence\u2013focused segment saw revenue growth of 31%, down from 33% in the previous quarter. CFO Amy Hood said in an interview that the company does not have sufficient data centre capacity to meet customer demand, which affected growth. She expects Azure Cloud to grow at a rate of between 31% and 32% in the current quarter, indicating flat growth.<\/p>\n<p>In other metrics, overall revenue rose by 12.3% year on year in the fiscal second quarter of 2025, marking the slowest growth since June 2023. Earnings per share came in at $3.23 (\u20ac3.10), compared with the estimated $3.12 (\u20ac2.99).<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9010788,8863498\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//28//microsoft-is-eyeing-a-potential-bid-to-buy-tiktok-says-donald-trump/">Microsoft is eyeing a potential bid to buy TikTok, says Donald Trump<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//11//20//ai-voice-translator-agents-and-a-cloud-computer-the-microsoft-announcements-you-may-have-m/">AI voice translator, agents, and a cloud computer: The Microsoft announcements you may have missed<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The company\u2019s expenditure exceeded analysts' expectations, signalling continued heavy investment in AI infrastructure. Hood stated: \"We remain committed to balancing operational discipline with continued investments in our cloud and AI infrastructure.\"<\/p>\n<p>CEO Satya Nadella commented: \"We are innovating across our tech stack and helping customers unlock the full ROI of AI to capture the massive opportunity ahead.\" He noted that Microsoft's AI business had reached an annual revenue run rate of $13 billion (\u20ac12.5bn), up 175% year on year.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft's shares are up nearly 4% this year as of market close on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Meta Platforms: Conservative outlook despite robust results<\/strong><\/h2><p>Meta Platforms reported revenue of $48.39 billion (\u20ac46.42 billion) in the final quarter of 2024, a 21% year-on-year increase, up from 19% in the previous quarter. Profit came in at $8.02 (\u20ac7.69) per share, well above the estimated $6.77 (\u20ac6.49). <\/p>\n<p>While advertising revenue remained its core business, the social media giant emphasised the rapid growth of its Meta AI chatbot, which reached 600 million users in December. CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects its AI app to reach one billion users in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The company provided revenue guidance for the current quarter that fell short of market expectations. It did not give an outlook for 2025, stating: \"We expect the investments we are making in our core business this year will give us an opportunity to continue delivering strong revenue growth throughout 2025.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9015344,8997116\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//23//metas-new-pay-or-consent-policy-still-breaches-eu-law-consumer-advocates-claim/">Meta's new pay-or-consent policy still breaches EU law, consumer advocates claim<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//30//meta-agrees-to-pay-24-million-to-settle-lawsuit-with-donald-trump-over-account-suspension/">Meta agrees to pay \u20ac24 million to settle lawsuit with Donald Trump over account suspension<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Meta also warned that regulatory challenges in the EU and the US could \"significantly impact our business and financial results\". Just before the earnings release, The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta had reached a $25bn (\u20ac24bn) settlement with President Trump. Zuckerberg expects 2025 to be a pivotal year in redefining the company's relationship with governments.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg also referenced the recent unveiling of DeepSeek, an open-source Chinese AI model similar to Meta's Llama 3. He indicated that open-source models will be widely adopted globally, competing with rivals, and stated: \"For our own national advantage, it's important that it's an American standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meta's stock has been the top performer among the Magnificent Seven so far this year, up 14.71% as of market close on 29 January.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738222068,"updatedAt":1738252089,"publishedAt":1738223410,"firstPublishedAt":1738223410,"lastPublishedAt":1738252089,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Markus Schreiber\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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Funds will support Trump's presidential library.","summary":"Meta has agreed to settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump over account suspensions following the January 6 riots. Funds will support Trump's presidential library.","keySentence":"","url":"meta-agrees-to-pay-24-million-to-settle-lawsuit-with-donald-trump-over-account-suspension","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2025\/01\/30\/meta-agrees-to-pay-24-million-to-settle-lawsuit-with-donald-trump-over-account-suspension","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Tech giant Meta has agreed to pay $25 million (nearly \u20ac24 million) to settle a legal dispute with US president Donald Trump after he sued the company for suspending his accounts following the January 6 riots at the US Capitol, according to three people familiar with the matter.\n\nIt's the latest instance of a large corporation settling litigation with the new president, who has threatened retribution on his critics and rivals. \n\nIt also comes as Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have joined other large technology companies trying to ingratiate themselves with the new Trump administration.\n\nThe people familiar with the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday to discuss the agreement. \n\nTwo of the people said terms of the agreement include $22 million (\u20ac21 million) going to the non-profit that will become Trump's future presidential library. The balance will go to legal fees and other litigants, they said.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the settlement.\n\nZuckerberg visited Trump in November at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to try to mend fences with the incoming president, something other technology, business, and government officials have also done. \n\nAt the dinner, Trump brought up the litigation and suggested they try to resolve it, kick-starting two months of negotiations between the parties, the people said.\n\nTrump's dispute over Meta 'censorship'\n\nMeta also made a $1 million (\u20ac959,000) donation to Trump\u2019s inaugural committee, and Zuckerberg was among several billionaires granted prime seating during Trump\u2019s swearing-in last week in the Capitol Rotunda, along with Google\u2019s Sundar Pichai, Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who now owns the platform X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nBefore Trump's inauguration, Meta announced it was dropping fact-checking on its platform - a longtime priority of Trump and his allies.\n\nTrump filed the lawsuit months after his first term ended, calling the action by the social media companies \"illegal, shameful censorship of the American people\".\n\nTwitter, Facebook, and Google are all private companies, and users must agree to their terms of service to use their products. \n\nUnder Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, social media platforms are allowed to moderate their services by removing posts that, for instance, are obscene or violate the services\u2019 own standards, so long as they are acting in \"good faith\". \n\nThe law also generally exempts internet companies from liability for the material that users post.\n\nBut Trump and some other politicians have long argued that X, Facebook, and other social media platforms have abused that protection and should lose their immunity - or at least have it curtailed.\n\nTrump's legal battles\n\nThe Meta settlement comes after ABC News agreed last month to pay $15 million (\u20ac14.3 million) toward Trump\u2019s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos\u2019 inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.\n\nThe network also agreed to pay $1 million (\u20ac959,000) in legal fees to the law firm of Trump\u2019s attorney, Alejandro Brito.\n\nThe settlement agreement describes ABC\u2019s presidential library payment as a \"charitable contribution,\" with the money earmarked for a non-profit organisation that is being established in connection with the yet-to-be-built library.\n\nThe president has been litigious in arguing that he has been targeted with unfair coverage by legacy media companies.\n\nTrump has filed a lawsuit against CBS News over claims that the network aired a misleading interview with his 2024 opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, on the program '60 Minutes' that amounted to \"partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference\" intended to \"mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales.\" \n\nThe programme denied the claims.\n\nAnd he has a lawsuit against The Des Moines Register, the news outlet's parent company, Gannett, and the Iowa newspaper's pollster Ann Selzer, alleging they violated the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act by releasing a poll days before the November election that significantly understated his support in the state. \n\nThe newspaper and Selzer have denied wrongdoing.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Tech giant Meta has agreed to pay $25 million (nearly \u20ac24 million) to settle a legal dispute with US president <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//26//donald-trumps-first-week-these-are-all-the-executive-orders-he-signed-that-impact-tech/">Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> after he sued the company for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//01//25//meta-platforms-trump-facebook/">suspending his accounts<\/strong><\/a> following the January 6 riots at the US Capitol, according to three people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>It's the latest instance of a large corporation settling litigation with the new president, who has threatened retribution on his critics and rivals. <\/p>\n<p>It also comes as Meta and its CEO, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//15//trump-inauguration-meta-ceo-to-co-host-meeting-with-republican-billionaires/">Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong><\/a>, have joined other large technology companies trying to ingratiate themselves with the new Trump administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9001918\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2025//01//26//donald-trumps-first-week-these-are-all-the-executive-orders-he-signed-that-impact-tech/">Donald Trump's first week: These are all the executive orders he signed that impact tech<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The people familiar with the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday to discuss the agreement. <\/p>\n<p>Two of the people said terms of the agreement include $22 million (\u20ac21 million) going to the non-profit that will become Trump's future presidential library. The balance will go to legal fees and other litigants, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg visited Trump in November at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to try to mend fences with the incoming president, something other technology, business, and government officials have also done. <\/p>\n<p>At the dinner, Trump brought up the litigation and suggested they try to resolve it, kick-starting two months of negotiations between the parties, the people said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8954754\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//07//meta-to-replace-fact-checkers-with-community-notes-system-similar-to-x/">Meta to replace fact-checkers with 'community notes' system similar to X<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Trump's dispute over Meta 'censorship'<\/h2><p>Meta also made a $1 million (\u20ac959,000) donation to Trump\u2019s inaugural committee, and Zuckerberg was among several <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//18//donald-trumps-inauguration-which-tech-leaders-will-be-attending-and-who-will-skip-it/">billionaires granted prime seating<\/strong><\/a> during Trump\u2019s swearing-in last week in the Capitol Rotunda, along with Google\u2019s Sundar Pichai, Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who now owns the platform X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Before Trump's inauguration, Meta announced it was <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//07//meta-to-replace-fact-checkers-with-community-notes-system-similar-to-x/">dropping fact-checking<\/strong><\/a> on its platform - a longtime priority of Trump and his allies.<\/p>\n<p>Trump filed the lawsuit months after his first term ended, calling the action by the social media companies \"illegal, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//03//11//donald-trump-calls-metas-facebook-enemy-of-the-people-as-he-reverses-his-stance-on-a-tikto/">shameful censorship<\/strong><\/a> of the American people\".<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, Facebook, and Google are all private companies, and users must agree to their terms of service to use their products. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8997116\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//23//metas-new-pay-or-consent-policy-still-breaches-eu-law-consumer-advocates-claim/">Meta's new pay-or-consent policy still breaches EU law, consumer advocates claim<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Under Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, social media platforms are allowed to moderate their services by removing posts that, for instance, are obscene or violate the services\u2019 own standards, so long as they are acting in \"good faith\". <\/p>\n<p>The law also generally exempts internet companies from liability for the material that users post.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump and some other politicians have long argued that X, Facebook, and other social media platforms have abused that protection and should lose their immunity - or at least have it curtailed.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump's legal battles<\/h2><p>The Meta settlement comes after ABC News agreed last month to pay $15 million (\u20ac14.3 million) toward Trump\u2019s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos\u2019 inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>The network also agreed to pay $1 million (\u20ac959,000) in legal fees to the law firm of Trump\u2019s attorney, Alejandro Brito.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9011002\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//28//google-maps-will-rename-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america-in-the-us-after-trump-order/">Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as 'Gulf of America' in the US after Trump order<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The settlement agreement describes ABC\u2019s presidential library payment as a \"charitable contribution,\" with the money earmarked for a non-profit organisation that is being established in connection with the yet-to-be-built library.<\/p>\n<p>The president has been litigious in arguing that he has been targeted with unfair coverage by legacy media companies.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has filed a lawsuit against CBS News over claims that the network aired a misleading interview with his 2024 opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, on the program '60 Minutes' that amounted to \"partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference\" intended to \"mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales.\" <\/p>\n<p>The programme denied the claims.<\/p>\n<p>And he has a lawsuit against The Des Moines Register, the news outlet's parent company, Gannett, and the Iowa newspaper's pollster Ann Selzer, alleging they violated the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act by releasing a poll days before the November election that significantly understated his support in the state. <\/p>\n<p>The newspaper and Selzer have denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738202691,"updatedAt":1738219023,"publishedAt":1738215054,"firstPublishedAt":1738215054,"lastPublishedAt":1738215104,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/53\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8fa0fe92-aafb-5050-93bd-7235fb09b6c5-9015344.jpg","altText":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been working to mend fences with Donald Trump, including resolving a lawsuit over Trump's suspended accounts.","caption":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been working to mend fences with Donald Trump, including resolving a lawsuit over Trump's suspended accounts.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Associated Press\/Alex Brandon\/David 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DC AEROPLANE CRASH","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"No survivors expected after passenger jet collides with army helicopter while landing in Washington","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"No survivors in Washington passenger jet and helicopter crash","titleListing2":"US passenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Washington airport","leadin":"A plane and an army helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport in the US capital, halting all flights and launching a major rescue operation in the Potomac River.","summary":"A plane and an army helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport in the US capital, halting all flights and launching a major rescue operation in the Potomac River.","keySentence":"","url":"us-passenger-jet-collides-with-helicopter-while-landing-near-washington-airport","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/30\/us-passenger-jet-collides-with-helicopter-while-landing-near-washington-airport","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An American Airlines aeroplane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members has collided with an army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.\n\nHowever, the authorities on the scene have reasons to conclude no one on the two aircraft survived the crash, they said at a second press conference in Washington on Thursday morning local time.\n\n\"We don't believe there are any survivors from this accident,\" DC fire chief John Donnelly said.\n\n\"All of us are working together to search the area and find all victims,\" Donnelly added.\n\nSo far, 27 bodies were recovered from the plane, while one body was 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The army Black Hawk helicopter was on a training flight at the time, carrying a crew of three soldiers, according to officials.\n\nThe body of the plane was found upside down in three sections in waist-deep water. The wreckage of the helicopter was also found. The icy weather conditions were complicating recovery operations, which were still ongoing on Thursday.\n\nBoth aircraft were in standard flight patterns on a clear night with good visibility, authorities said.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the incident, all take-offs and landings from Reagan \u2014 one of the three major airports near Washington \u2014 were halted as helicopters from law enforcement agencies across the region flew over the scene in search of survivors. The airport was scheduled to reopen at 11 am local time (5 pm CET).\n\n'Bad situation that should have been prevented'\n\nSeveral US figure skaters were on board the American Airlines flight, returning from a training camp, according to authorities. Two Russian figure skaters and coaches were also among the passengers.\n\nHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she would be deploying all available resources from the US Coast Guard for search and rescue efforts.\n\n\u201cWe are actively monitoring the situation and stand ready to support local responders,\u201d Noem said in a post on X.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said he had been \u201cfully briefed on this terrible accident\" and, referring to the passengers, added, \u201cMay God bless their souls.\u201d \n\nPosting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said: \"This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. Not good.\"\n\nVice President JD Vance encouraged followers on the social media platform X to \u201csay a prayer for everyone involved.\u201d\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration said the mid-air crash occurred around 9 pm local time (3 am CET) when a regional jet that had departed from Wichita in Kansas collided with a military helicopter on a training flight while on approach to an airport runway.\n\nThe crash occurred in some of the most tightly controlled and monitored airspace in the world, just some five kilometres south of the White House and the Capitol.\n\nVideo from an observation camera at the nearby Kennedy Centre shows two sets of lights consistent with aircraft appearing to join in a fireball.\n\nThe airport said emergency personnel were responding to \u201can aircraft incident on the airfield.\u201d\n\nThe incident recalled the crash of an Air Florida flight that plummeted into the Potomac on 13 January 1982, killing 78 people. That crash was attributed to bad weather.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An American Airlines aeroplane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members has collided with an army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.<\/p>\n<p>However, the authorities on the scene have reasons to conclude no one on the two aircraft survived the crash, they said at a second press conference in Washington on Thursday morning local time.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't believe there are any survivors from this accident,\" DC fire chief John Donnelly said.<\/p>\n<p>\"All of us are working together to search the area and find all victims,\" Donnelly added.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 27 bodies were recovered from the plane, while one body was recovered from the helicopter. The army Black Hawk helicopter was on a training flight at the time, carrying a crew of three soldiers, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the plane was found upside down in three sections in waist-deep water. The wreckage of the helicopter was also found. The icy weather conditions were complicating recovery operations, which were still ongoing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Both aircraft were in standard flight patterns on a clear night with good visibility, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>In the immediate aftermath of the incident, all take-offs and landings from Reagan \u2014 one of the three major airports near Washington \u2014 were halted as helicopters from law enforcement agencies across the region flew over the scene in search of survivors. The airport was scheduled to reopen at 11 am local time (5 pm CET).<\/p>\n<h2>'Bad situation that should have been prevented'<\/h2><p>Several US figure skaters were on board the American Airlines flight, returning from a training camp, according to authorities. Two Russian figure skaters and coaches were also among the passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she would be deploying all available resources from the US Coast Guard for search and rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are actively monitoring the situation and stand ready to support local responders,\u201d Noem said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said he had been \u201cfully briefed on this terrible accident\" and, referring to the passengers, added, \u201cMay God bless their souls.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said: \"This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. 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The measures seek to fulfil some of the Republican president's core campaign promises around education, though it's unclear how much power he has to enact the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>His order on K-12 schools declares that federal money cannot be used on the \u201cindoctrination\u201d of children, including \u201cradical gender ideology and critical race theory.\u201d It says civil rights laws barring discrimination based on sex and race would be used to enforce the order, calling critical race theory an \u201cinherently racist policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//01//52//80//808x454_cmsv2_3b321339-3dc0-5cb0-b641-dfd508fbed31-9015280.jpg/" alt=\"Students attend a pro-Palestine rally and march on Temple University campus in Philadelphia in August 2024.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/80\/384x216_cmsv2_3b321339-3dc0-5cb0-b641-dfd508fbed31-9015280.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/80\/640x360_cmsv2_3b321339-3dc0-5cb0-b641-dfd508fbed31-9015280.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/80\/750x422_cmsv2_3b321339-3dc0-5cb0-b641-dfd508fbed31-9015280.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/80\/828x466_cmsv2_3b321339-3dc0-5cb0-b641-dfd508fbed31-9015280.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/80\/1080x608_cmsv2_3b321339-3dc0-5cb0-b641-dfd508fbed31-9015280.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/80\/1200x675_cmsv2_3b321339-3dc0-5cb0-b641-dfd508fbed31-9015280.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/80\/1920x1080_cmsv2_3b321339-3dc0-5cb0-b641-dfd508fbed31-9015280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Students attend a pro-Palestine rally and march on Temple University campus in Philadelphia in August 2024.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Chris Szagola<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Trump has also directed the education secretary to craft a strategy within 90 days to \u201cend indoctrination in K-12 education.\u201d He has appointed billionaire professional wrestling mogul Lina McMahon as his education chief, but her Senate confirmation hearing has not been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>During his campaign, Trump said he would sign an order \u201con day one\u201d to cut federal money for schools that push critical race theory or other \u201cinappropriate\u201d content. <\/p>\n<p>The federal government provides billions of dollars to schools every year, though the vast majority of their money comes from state and local sources.<\/p>\n<h2>White House rescinds memo freezing federal grants<\/h2><p>It comes after Trump's White House administration rescinded a previous memo which froze spending on federal grants and loans following widespread confusion and legal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The memo, which was issued on Monday evening, sparked anxiety across the country as the White House struggled to explain what would and wouldn't be subject to a pause in funding.<\/p>\n<p>The freeze was scheduled to go into effect on Tuesday afternoon but was blocked by a federal judge until at least Monday after an emergency hearing requested by non-profit groups that receive federal grants. 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concerned.","keySentence":"","url":"who-is-trumps-intelligence-nominee-tulsi-gabbard-and-why-is-she-so-controversial","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/29\/who-is-trumps-intelligence-nominee-tulsi-gabbard-and-why-is-she-so-controversial","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As Donald Trump's second presidency gets under way, many of his cabinet nominees are drawing outrage from his political opponents.\n\nPete Hegseth, now confirmed as secretary of defence, still faces concerns over his inexperience as well as further allegations of spousal abuse. Robert F Kennedy Jr, intended for the Department of Health and Human Services, is a known anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist.\n\nTrump's nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, has repeatedly suggested using federal law enforcement mechanisms to pursue Trump's enemies.\n\nBut among them all, one name has raised the alarm not just domestically but across the Western world: Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.\n\nA former congresswoman from Hawaii, Gabbard identified as a progressive Democrat for many years and even ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019-2020. \n\nHowever, since failing in that race, she has gravitated toward the hard right of the US political spectrum, frequently appearing on pro-Trump network Fox News and becoming one of Trump's top supporters on the 2024 campaign trail.\n\nAnd with Gabbard, it's not about Trump. Her previous sympathy towards Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and defence of Vladimir Putin's foreign policy have set the national security community against her \u2014 to the point where nearly 100 former officials jointly signed an open letter warning about \"her ability to deliver unbiased intelligence briefings to the president, Congress, and to the entire national security apparatus.\"\n\n\"The Senate must carefully evaluate whether ... Gabbard is equipped to effectively oversee an organisational structure as unique and large as the National Intelligence Program and also the effect of her holding this position on the willingness of our closest allies to share intelligence with the US,\" the letter said.\n\nGabbard's pro-Russian tilt is particularly striking. She has long propagated Russian-sympathetic and anti-Western views on Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, often cited by Russian state TV which sometimes described her as \"our friend Tulsi.\" \n\nAccording to Scott Lucas, a professor of international politics at University College Dublin, it is not simply a matter of whether or not Gabbard is in the Kremlin's pay.\n\n\"Gabbard's not a Russian asset in the sense that she's bought and paid for by the Russians,\" he explains. \"Gabbard is doing this because of a particular worldview, which has been reinforced by the way that social media and disinformation on it consolidates that worldview, which you could loosely call anti-imperialism.\"\n\n\"The Russians will exploit people like her. They'll promote her because she's saying things that echo their propaganda lines. She's not taking money; it's not like they've got leverage on her to make her do this, not that we know of. She is a Russian asset in the sense that she amplifies and reinforces their propaganda lines.\"\n\nSo how did Gabbard get to this point, and what are the chances that despite her history, she could soon be appointed as one of the US' most senior intelligence officials?\n\nThe political horseshoe\n\nHaving previously served in the US military, Gabbard has long positioned herself as an anti-war crusader and a staunch critic of US foreign policy. As part of this identity, she has sometimes taken the side of governments whom most in her former party would have considered well beyond the pale.\n\nMost notoriously, she was perhaps the most prominent US politician to show solidarity with al-Assad after his brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests escalated into a catastrophic civil war, one marked by allegations of crimes against humanity committed by his regime with the backing of Russian forces.\n\nGabbard repeatedly voiced doubts about well-documented evidence of these crimes. In one infamous incident on a congressional visit to Syria in 2015, she suggested to victims of an airstrike that it may not have been launched by the Syrian military but by the so-called Islamic State group, which has never had an air force.\n\nShe also paid an unsanctioned solo visit to al-Assad in January 2017, several years into the conflict and well after his forces had attacked Syrian civilians with chemical weapons \u2014 incidents thoroughly investigated and corroborated by evidence by the likes of the US and the UN. At the time, Gabbard said she met with him in the interest of ending the war.\n\n\"When the opportunity arose to meet with (al-Assad), I did so, because I felt it's important that if we profess to truly care about the Syrian people, about their suffering, then we've got to be able to meet with anyone that we need to if there is a possibility that we could achieve peace,\" she said.\n\nGabbard was not a senior member of Congress at the time and did not hold a diplomatic office. Nonetheless, she introduced legislation to end the US support for certain Syrian rebel groups \u2014 in her words, to \"end our war to overthrow the Syrian government.\"\n\nThe congresswoman's one-person mission to Damascus and her other statements about the conflict were so divergent from that of Washington that in 2018, there were serious concerns that she might leak closed-door testimony given to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Syrian dissidents. \n\nThe briefing went ahead with Gabbard on the panel but with the Syrian witness disguised.\n\nSympathy for the Kremlin\n\nSpeaking after her visit in 2017 and after the first Trump administration had confirmed the US' assessment that al-Assad had used banned chemical weapons in a recent strike, Gabbard said she was \"sceptical\" of the claims.\n\n\"There are a number of theories of exactly what happened that day,\u201d she told CNN. \u201cStanding here pointing fingers does not accomplish peace for the Syrian people. It will not bring about an end to this war.\u201d\n\nBy framing the war in the terms she did, Gabbard moved into the same territory as a number of prominent Western conspiracy theorists, distributed across the hard left and hard right of the political spectrum, who sought to depict the conflict as the result of a brazen Western-led regime change operation.\n\nMany of them cast doubt on the motives and identity of Syrian volunteer medics, claimed the al-Assad government's notorious chemical attacks had been staged, and vigorously defended Russia's often-brutal involvement in the conflict.\n\nWhile her views in Syria drew criticism for their perceived moral relativism when it came to al-Assad's actions, her increasingly bold defences of Russia's involvement and remarks about Washington's policy toward the Kremlin in general quickly earned Gabbard a reputation as a reckless influence on the left.\n\nA further shift to the right\n\nHaving resigned from the House of Representatives and finished her last term in January 2021, Gabbard began her post-congressional career with increasingly incendiary comments about her former colleagues.\n\nShortly after the 6 January attack on the US Capitol, she equated Democratic members of Congress to \"domestic terrorists\", accusing them of \"trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style 'surveillance'\" \u2014 and calling them \"much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob which stormed the Capitol\".\n\nCome the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Gabbard was among those arguing that the conflict was in fact the West's fault. \n\n\"This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden admin\/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia\u2019s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine\u2019s becoming a member of NATO, which would mean US\/NATO forces right on Russia\u2019s border,\" she tweeted as the invasion began.\n\n\"NATO troops on Ukrainian soil\" was one of the tropes the Kremlin used to justify its all-out war against its western neighbour, now nearing its third year. Moscow has failed to produce any evidence to back these claims since.\n\nGabbard's full-on political transition only accelerated as the Biden administration wore on. With increasingly frequent appearances on Fox News and star turns at the highly conservative CPAC conference, she steadily drew more support from the anti-Biden right while continuing to advocate for US withdrawal from overseas conflicts \u2014 including the relaxing of sanctions on Russia.\n\nBy the end of 2022, Gabbard left the Democratic Party altogether. In a statement posted to X, she made clear that what repelled her about the Democrats was no longer just the party's stance on international affairs, but its position in what the right views as a \"culture war\".\n\n\u201cI can no longer remain in today\u2019s Democratic Party that is under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racialising every issue and stoking anti-white racism,\u201d she wrote.\n\nBy the time Trump's re-election campaign reached its final stage in the summer of 2024, Gabbard was one of his main advocates, helping prep him for his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris and sometimes headlining rallies in her own right.\n\nAnd not long after Trump was re-elected, he announced he would appoint Gabbard to the top intelligence role she now stands at the brink of attaining.\n\nThe nightmare scenario\n\nWhile the Republicans are in control of the Senate and publicly appear fully behind Trump's agenda, Gabbard's confirmation is far from guaranteed, especially with the party's majority in the chamber being so thin. \n\nFor Europe, the main question is whether Gabbard's worldviews could negatively impact the already precarious security situation on the continent, further exacerbated by the ongoing war.\n\nAccording to Matthew Savill, military sciences director at the UK think tank RUSI, the US and its closest intelligence allies \u2014 the so-called Five Eyes \u2014 share too much mutual benefit for information flows to be too tightly controlled because of one appointee.\n\n\"The UK benefits enormously from being part of the Five Eyes because our contribution results in access to the huge intelligence insights and set of capabilities that only the US provides,\" Savill told Euronews.\n\n\"However, that sharing of intelligence does not necessarily lead to the same assessment and judgements on the scale of the threat, for example, several European countries were sceptical as to the likelihood of Russia invading Ukraine again in 2022, even after UK and US briefings,\" he explained.\n\n\"There is always an element of politics in how intelligence is acted upon, even if collection and assessment try to remain apolitical.\"\n\nJamie Gaskarth, a professor of foreign policy and international relations at the Open University whose work focuses on accountability in the intelligence services, explained to Euronews that the US is so central to the global security order that even with Gabbard in place, other countries would have little choice but to continue dealing with it on much the same basis as they currently do.\n\n\"The US has the most advanced intelligence collection machinery in the world so allies cannot afford to sever links or risk losing access to these resources,\" he said.\n\n\"Raw intelligence is collated, analysed and synthesised before it is presented to senior policymakers, so this process should preserve its integrity.\"\n\n\"If Gabbard sought to view and use raw intelligence, this could be a problem as it would violate the 'control principle' that whoever acquired the intelligence retains a say over how it is used,\" Gaskarth added. \n\n\"And if this became a pattern, it is possible that US intelligence agencies would themselves be careful about how much they revealed to their own leadership, creating serious problems of trust and democratic accountability.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>As Donald Trump's second presidency gets under way, many of his cabinet nominees are drawing outrage from his political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Hegseth, now confirmed as secretary of defence, still faces concerns over his inexperience as well as further allegations of spousal abuse. Robert F Kennedy Jr, intended for the Department of Health and Human Services, is a known anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n<p>Trump's nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, has repeatedly suggested using federal law enforcement mechanisms to pursue Trump's enemies.<\/p>\n<p>But among them all, one name has raised the alarm not just domestically but across the Western world: Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.<\/p>\n<p>A former congresswoman from Hawaii, Gabbard identified as a progressive Democrat for many years and even ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019-2020. <\/p>\n<p>However, since failing in that race, she has gravitated toward the hard right of the US political spectrum, frequently appearing on pro-Trump network Fox News and becoming one of Trump's top supporters on the 2024 campaign trail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9013364,9013480\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//29//trumps-pause-on-foreign-aid-raises-hiv-risks-for-millions-world-health-organization-warns/">Trump/u2019s pause on foreign aid raises HIV risks for millions, World Health Organization warns<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//29//netanyahu-to-become-first-foreign-leader-to-visit-trump-in-white-house/">Netanyahu to become first foreign leader to visit Trump in White House<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And with Gabbard, it's not about Trump. Her previous sympathy towards Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and defence of Vladimir Putin's foreign policy have set the national security community against her \u2014 to the point where nearly 100 former officials jointly signed an open letter warning about \"her ability to deliver unbiased intelligence briefings to the president, Congress, and to the entire national security apparatus.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"The Senate must carefully evaluate whether ... Gabbard is equipped to effectively oversee an organisational structure as unique and large as the National Intelligence Program and also the effect of her holding this position on the willingness of our closest allies to share intelligence with the US,\" the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard's pro-Russian tilt is particularly striking. She has long propagated Russian-sympathetic and anti-Western views on Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, often cited by Russian state TV which sometimes described her as \"our friend Tulsi.\" <\/p>\n<p>According to Scott Lucas, a professor of international politics at University College Dublin, it is not simply a matter of whether or not Gabbard is in the Kremlin's pay.<\/p>\n<p>\"Gabbard's not a Russian asset in the sense that she's bought and paid for by the Russians,\" he explains. \"Gabbard is doing this because of a particular worldview, which has been reinforced by the way that social media and disinformation on it consolidates that worldview, which you could loosely call anti-imperialism.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"The Russians will exploit people like her. They'll promote her because she's saying things that echo their propaganda lines. She's not taking money; it's not like they've got leverage on her to make her do this, not that we know of. She is a Russian asset in the sense that she amplifies and reinforces their propaganda lines.\"<\/p>\n<p>So how did Gabbard get to this point, and what are the chances that despite her history, she could soon be appointed as one of the US' most senior intelligence officials?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The political horseshoe<\/strong><\/h2><p>Having previously served in the US military, Gabbard has long positioned herself as an anti-war crusader and a staunch critic of US foreign policy. As part of this identity, she has sometimes taken the side of governments whom most in her former party would have considered well beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<p>Most notoriously, she was perhaps the most prominent US politician to show solidarity with al-Assad after his brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests escalated into a catastrophic civil war, one marked by allegations of crimes against humanity committed by his regime with the backing of Russian forces.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard repeatedly voiced doubts about well-documented evidence of these crimes. In one infamous incident on a congressional visit to Syria in 2015, she suggested to victims of an airstrike that it may not have been launched by the Syrian military but by the so-called Islamic State group, which has never had an air force.<\/p>\n<p>She also paid an unsanctioned solo visit to al-Assad in January 2017, several years into the conflict and well after his forces had attacked Syrian civilians with chemical weapons \u2014 incidents thoroughly investigated and corroborated by evidence by the likes of the US and the UN. At the time, Gabbard said she met with him in the interest of ending the war.<\/p>\n<p>\"When the opportunity arose to meet with (al-Assad), I did so, because I felt it's important that if we profess to truly care about the Syrian people, about their suffering, then we've got to be able to meet with anyone that we need to if there is a possibility that we could achieve peace,\" she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1087009325107867653\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gabbard was not a senior member of Congress at the time and did not hold a diplomatic office. Nonetheless, she introduced legislation to end the US support for certain Syrian rebel groups \u2014 in her words, to \"end our war to overthrow the Syrian government.\"<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman's one-person mission to Damascus and her other statements about the conflict were so divergent from that of Washington that in 2018, there were serious concerns that she might leak closed-door testimony given to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Syrian dissidents. <\/p>\n<p>The briefing went ahead with Gabbard on the panel but with the Syrian witness disguised.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sympathy for the Kremlin<\/strong><\/h2><p>Speaking after her visit in 2017 and after the first Trump administration had confirmed the US' assessment that al-Assad had used banned chemical weapons in a recent strike, Gabbard said she was \"sceptical\" of the claims.<\/p>\n<p>\"There are a number of theories of exactly what happened that day,\u201d she told CNN. \u201cStanding here pointing fingers does not accomplish peace for the Syrian people. It will not bring about an end to this war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By framing the war in the terms she did, Gabbard moved into the same territory as a number of prominent Western conspiracy theorists, distributed across the hard left and hard right of the political spectrum, who sought to depict the conflict as the result of a brazen Western-led regime change operation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6708984375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//02//72//808x542_cmsv2_6e0563f8-2aab-5385-9615-e27438a7d587-9000272.jpg/" alt=\"Tulsi Gabbard campaigns for president in 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/384x258_cmsv2_6e0563f8-2aab-5385-9615-e27438a7d587-9000272.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/640x429_cmsv2_6e0563f8-2aab-5385-9615-e27438a7d587-9000272.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/750x503_cmsv2_6e0563f8-2aab-5385-9615-e27438a7d587-9000272.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/828x556_cmsv2_6e0563f8-2aab-5385-9615-e27438a7d587-9000272.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/1080x725_cmsv2_6e0563f8-2aab-5385-9615-e27438a7d587-9000272.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/1200x805_cmsv2_6e0563f8-2aab-5385-9615-e27438a7d587-9000272.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/1920x1288_cmsv2_6e0563f8-2aab-5385-9615-e27438a7d587-9000272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Tulsi Gabbard campaigns for president in 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Steven Senne\/Copyright 2019 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many of them cast doubt on the motives and identity of Syrian volunteer medics, claimed the al-Assad government's notorious chemical attacks had been staged, and vigorously defended Russia's often-brutal involvement in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>While her views in Syria drew criticism for their perceived moral relativism when it came to al-Assad's actions, her increasingly bold defences of Russia's involvement and remarks about Washington's policy toward the Kremlin in general quickly earned Gabbard a reputation as a reckless influence on the left.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A further shift to the right<\/strong><\/h2><p>Having resigned from the House of Representatives and finished her last term in January 2021, Gabbard began her post-congressional career with increasingly incendiary comments about her former colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the 6 January attack on the US Capitol, she equated Democratic members of Congress to \"domestic terrorists\", accusing them of \"trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style 'surveillance'\" \u2014 and calling them \"much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob which stormed the Capitol\".<\/p>\n<p>Come the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Gabbard was among those arguing that the conflict was in fact the West's fault. <\/p>\n<p>\"This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden admin\/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia\u2019s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine\u2019s becoming a member of NATO, which would mean US\/NATO forces right on Russia\u2019s border,\" she tweeted as the invasion began.<\/p>\n<p>\"NATO troops on Ukrainian soil\" was one of the tropes the Kremlin used to justify its all-out war against its western neighbour, now nearing its third year. Moscow has failed to produce any evidence to back these claims since.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66796875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//02//72//808x539_cmsv2_2275de3d-5f04-52cc-9045-cda55e8923d5-9000272.jpg/" alt=\"Tulsi Gabbard embraces Donald Trump alongside far-right pundit Tucker Carlson.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/384x257_cmsv2_2275de3d-5f04-52cc-9045-cda55e8923d5-9000272.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/640x428_cmsv2_2275de3d-5f04-52cc-9045-cda55e8923d5-9000272.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/750x501_cmsv2_2275de3d-5f04-52cc-9045-cda55e8923d5-9000272.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/828x553_cmsv2_2275de3d-5f04-52cc-9045-cda55e8923d5-9000272.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/1080x721_cmsv2_2275de3d-5f04-52cc-9045-cda55e8923d5-9000272.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/1200x802_cmsv2_2275de3d-5f04-52cc-9045-cda55e8923d5-9000272.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/1920x1283_cmsv2_2275de3d-5f04-52cc-9045-cda55e8923d5-9000272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Tulsi Gabbard embraces Donald Trump alongside far-right pundit Tucker Carlson.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Alex Brandon\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gabbard's full-on political transition only accelerated as the Biden administration wore on. With increasingly frequent appearances on Fox News and star turns at the highly conservative CPAC conference, she steadily drew more support from the anti-Biden right while continuing to advocate for US withdrawal from overseas conflicts \u2014 including the relaxing of sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2022, Gabbard left the Democratic Party altogether. In a statement posted to X, she made clear that what repelled her about the Democrats was no longer just the party's stance on international affairs, but its position in what the right views as a \"culture war\".<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can no longer remain in today\u2019s Democratic Party that is under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racialising every issue and stoking anti-white racism,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Trump's re-election campaign reached its final stage in the summer of 2024, Gabbard was one of his main advocates, helping prep him for his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris and sometimes headlining rallies in her own right.<\/p>\n<p>And not long after Trump was re-elected, he announced he would appoint Gabbard to the top intelligence role she now stands at the brink of attaining.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The nightmare scenario<\/strong><\/h2><p>While the Republicans are in control of the Senate and publicly appear fully behind Trump's agenda, Gabbard's confirmation is far from guaranteed, especially with the party's majority in the chamber being so thin. <\/p>\n<p>For Europe, the main question is whether Gabbard's worldviews could negatively impact the already precarious security situation on the continent, further exacerbated by the ongoing war.<\/p>\n<p>According to Matthew Savill, military sciences director at the UK think tank RUSI, the US and its closest intelligence allies \u2014 the so-called Five Eyes \u2014 share too much mutual benefit for information flows to be too tightly controlled because of one appointee.<\/p>\n<p>\"The UK benefits enormously from being part of the Five Eyes because our contribution results in access to the huge intelligence insights and set of capabilities that only the US provides,\" Savill told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"However, that sharing of intelligence does not necessarily lead to the same assessment and judgements on the scale of the threat, for example, several European countries were sceptical as to the likelihood of Russia invading Ukraine again in 2022, even after UK and US briefings,\" he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is always an element of politics in how intelligence is acted upon, even if collection and assessment try to remain apolitical.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8996430,9012030\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//01//28//putin-says-russia-is-open-to-negotiations-with-ukraine-but-accuses-kyiv-of-being-uncoopera/">Putin says Russia is 'open' to peace talks, shifting blame to Ukraine<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2025//01//23//france-issues-new-war-crimes-arrest-warrant-for-syrias-al-assad/">France issues new war crimes arrest warrant for Syria's al-Assad <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jamie Gaskarth, a professor of foreign policy and international relations at the Open University whose work focuses on accountability in the intelligence services, explained to Euronews that the US is so central to the global security order that even with Gabbard in place, other countries would have little choice but to continue dealing with it on much the same basis as they currently do.<\/p>\n<p>\"The US has the most advanced intelligence collection machinery in the world so allies cannot afford to sever links or risk losing access to these resources,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Raw intelligence is collated, analysed and synthesised before it is presented to senior policymakers, so this process should preserve its integrity.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"If Gabbard sought to view and use raw intelligence, this could be a problem as it would violate the 'control principle' that whoever acquired the intelligence retains a say over how it is used,\" Gaskarth added. <\/p>\n<p>\"And if this became a pattern, it is possible that US intelligence agencies would themselves be careful about how much they revealed to their own leadership, creating serious problems of trust and democratic accountability.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737714159,"updatedAt":1738168521,"publishedAt":1738168501,"firstPublishedAt":1738168501,"lastPublishedAt":1738168520,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/02\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a6ee53ba-3bec-581b-966d-be895bd8e924-9000272.jpg","altText":"Tulsi Gabbard on the campaign trail with Donald Trump. 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Is it safe to visit the national park?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is erupting again. Is it safe to travel?","titleListing2":"Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is spewing lava once again","leadin":"The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is home to the summits of two of the world\u2019s most active volcanoes: Kilauea and Mauna Loa.","summary":"The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is home to the summits of two of the world\u2019s most active volcanoes: Kilauea and Mauna Loa.","keySentence":"","url":"hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-is-erupting-again-is-it-safe-to-visit-the-national-park","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/01\/29\/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-is-erupting-again-is-it-safe-to-visit-the-national-park","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Kilauea volcano - one of the most active in the world - is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.\n\nIt lies in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, a popular nature tourism destination. \n\nThe park is home to two of the world\u2019s most active volcano summits: Kilauea and Mauna Loa.\n\nHere's what you need to know if you are planning on travelling to or from the affected area. \n\nHawaii: One of the world's most active volcanoes is erupting\n\nThe eruption that began on 23 December 2024 in a crater at Kilauea's summit in Hawaii has been intermittently active in recent weeks. \n\nAfter a brief pause, it resumed on Monday, preceded by small, sporadic spatter fountains that continued to increase in intensity to reach \u201csustained fountaining,\u201d the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.\n\nFountains on the north side are 30 to 40 metres high and are feeding multiple lava streams, the observatory said. A small fountain can be seen on the south side with a small lava flow emerging.\n\nEach episode since 23 December has continued for 13 hours to eight days, the observatory said. The pauses have lasted less than 24 hours to 12 days.\n\nThe current episode will probably last 10 to 20 hours, the observatory added.\n\nIs it safe to travel to Hawaii during the Kilauea volcanic eruption? \n\nThe Kilauea Volcano is very active - this is the sixth episode of eruptions in the past four years. \n\nVisitors flock to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - to witness the dramatic events.\n\nCurrently, it is safe to visit the park and experience the spectacle. The lava is not posing a hazard to homes or infrastructure.\n\nThe National Park Service cautions, however, that visitors should be aware the eruption at Kilauea Volcano \"is a reminder of the sacredness of this land and the creative forces of Hawaii\".\n\n\"Watching the eruption is a privilege, and it\u2019s important to approach it with respect. Visitors are encouraged to stay silent while observing and take the time to learn about the strong cultural connections between the land and Native Hawaiians\".\n\nBest places to view the Kilauea volcanic eruption \n\nThe eruption is visible from many public viewpoints in the park. When the volcano is active, the National Park Service says you can observe bright eruptions, flowing lava, and a strong glow, especially at night.\n\nThe current eruption within Halema'uma'u Crater can be seen from various viewpoints along Crater Rim Drive. \n\nVisibility may be affected by weather conditions such as fog or rain. You should also expect long waits and crowds at overlooks. \n\nIf you intend to visit, the National Park Service warns to stay out of closed areas as toxic volcanic gas and strands of volcanic glass are among the hazards. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Kilauea volcano - one of the most active in the world - is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It lies in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, a popular nature tourism destination. <\/p>\n<p>The park is home to two of the world\u2019s most active volcano summits: Kilauea and Mauna Loa.<\/p>\n<p>Here's what you need to know if you are planning on travelling to or from the affected area. <\/p>\n<h2>Hawaii: One of the world's most active volcanoes is erupting<\/h2><p>The eruption that began on 23 December 2024 in a crater at Kilauea's summit in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//02//20//a-small-price-to-pay-to-preserve-paradise-hawaii-wants-to-charge-tourists-a-23-climate-fee/">Hawaii has been intermittently active in recent weeks. <\/p>\n<p>After a brief pause, it resumed on Monday, preceded by small, sporadic spatter fountains that continued to increase in intensity to reach \u201csustained fountaining,\u201d the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.<\/p>\n<p>Fountains on the north side are 30 to 40 metres high and are feeding multiple lava streams, the observatory said. A small fountain can be seen on the south side with a small lava flow emerging.<\/p>\n<p>Each episode since 23 December has continued for 13 hours to eight days, the observatory said. The pauses have lasted less than 24 hours to 12 days.<\/p>\n<p>The current episode will probably last 10 to 20 hours, the observatory added.<\/p>\n<h2>Is it safe to travel to Hawaii during the Kilauea volcanic eruption?<\/h2><p>The Kilauea <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//11//22//lava-hotlines-and-captivating-infernos-inside-the-volatile-world-of-volcano-tourism-in-ice/">Volcano is very active - this is the sixth episode of eruptions in the past four years. <\/p>\n<p>Visitors flock to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - to witness the dramatic events.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, it is <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//11//13//mount-etna-is-europes-most-active-volcano-can-you-still-visit-during-an-eruption/">safe to visit<\/strong><\/a> the park and experience the spectacle. The lava is not posing a hazard to homes or infrastructure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8520034,8252852\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//02//20//a-small-price-to-pay-to-preserve-paradise-hawaii-wants-to-charge-tourists-a-23-climate-fee/">/u2018A small price to pay to preserve paradise\u2019: Hawaii wants to charge tourists a \u20ac23 climate fee<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//06//21//hawaii-promises-to-curb-pollution-from-transport-after-young-activists-win-climate-lawsuit/">Hawaii promises to curb pollution from transport after young activists win climate lawsuit<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The National Park Service cautions, however, that visitors should be aware the eruption at Kilauea Volcano \"is a reminder of the sacredness of this land and the creative forces of Hawaii\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Watching the eruption is a privilege, and it\u2019s important to approach it with respect. Visitors are encouraged to stay silent while observing and take the time to learn about the strong cultural connections between the land and Native Hawaiians\".<\/p>\n<h2>Best places to view the Kilauea volcanic eruption<\/h2><p>The eruption is visible from many public viewpoints in the park. When the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//05//12//plan-a-summer-adventure-around-europes-most-exciting-extinct-volcanoes/">volcano is active, the National Park Service says you can observe bright eruptions, flowing lava, and a strong glow, especially at night.<\/p>\n<p>The current eruption within Halema'uma'u Crater can be seen from various viewpoints along Crater Rim Drive. <\/p>\n<p>Visibility may be affected by weather conditions such as fog or rain. You should also expect long waits and crowds at overlooks. <\/p>\n<p>If you intend to visit, the National Park Service warns to stay out of closed areas as toxic volcanic gas and strands of volcanic glass are among the hazards. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738075740,"updatedAt":1738162902,"publishedAt":1738162858,"firstPublishedAt":1738162858,"lastPublishedAt":1738162900,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/36\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_91aec77b-400a-5277-99eb-b0b07881d4ce-8983602.jpg","altText":"The eruption that began on 23 December in a crater at Kilauea's summit has been active intermittently in recent weeks. ","caption":"The eruption that began on 23 December in a crater at Kilauea's summit has been active intermittently in recent weeks. 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So was its tumble Monday, which caused $595 billion (\u20ac572 billion) in wealth to vanish. That's about as much as the combined worth PepsiCo, McDonalds, Starbucks and Target. \n\nMostly known only in gaming and crypto circles a few years ago, Nvidia burst into the zeitgeist after seeing its sales surge because customers wanted its chips to train their chatbots and other artificial intelligence products.\n\nNvidia became a household name as its stock more than tripled in 2023 and then more than doubled in 2024. Investors and analysts lauded CEO Jensen Huang as the \"Godfather of AI\" as Nvidia grew into a $3 trillion-plus (\u20ac2.9tn) behemoth and traded places with titans like Apple to become the most valuable company on Wall Street.\n\nBut that all came to a screeching halt on Monday, at least for a moment, after a Chinese upstart called DeepSeek said it had developed a large-language model that could perform like ChatGPT and other US rivals, but by using far less computing power.\n\nHow it all got to this point - Nvidia's roots began in gaming \n\nThe Santa Clara, California-based tech company's invention of the graphics processor unit, or GPU, in 1999 helped spark the growth of the PC gaming market and redefined computer graphics. \n\nNow, Nvidiass specialised chips are key components that help power different forms of artificial intelligence, including the latest generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.\n\nHuang has dubbed AI \"the next industrial revolution\", and Nvidia's GPUs are designed to perform artificial intelligence tasks faster and more efficiently than general-purpose chips like CPUs. Tech giants are snapping up Nvidia chips as they wade deeper into AI - a movement that's enabling cars to drive by themselves, and generating stories, art and music.\n\nSoaring demand led to eye-popping earnings\n\nThe demand helped Nvidia's revenue grow by eye-popping levels, quarter after quarter. On 23 Feb 2023, after Nvidia breezed past analysts' expectations for quarterly profit, Huang said that \"AI is at an inflection point, setting up for broad adoption reaching into every industry\". The company's quarterly revenue at the time was $6.05bn (\u20ac5.8bn).\n\nThat ramped up to $7.19bn (\u20ac6.2bn) just three months later and then nearly doubled to $13.51 billion three months after that. Revenue has since vaulted to $35.08bn (\u20ac33.8bn) in the three months through October 2024.\n\nThe company's stock price has similarly soared, and its total market value quickly passed rivals like Intel, Microsoft and others. Nvidia alone accounted for more than a fifth of all of the S&P 500 index's total return last year. No other stock came close, and it had more than triple Apple's impact.\n\nBuy an S&P 500 index fund today, and nearly 6 cents out of every $1 will go only into Nvidia. That leaves 94 cents for all the other 499 companies.\n\nIs Nvidia still a darling?\n\nUnlike the dot-com boom, real money was behind Nvidia's surge, and its stock price rose on expectations of ever more to come. Those expectations came into question on Monday.\n\nDeepSeek and its seemingly lower-cost operations raised worries about whether companies would need to spend as many dollars on Nvidia chips as previously thought. \n\nThe concerns dragged down stocks across the AI industry, including suppliers to the chip industry and the power companies hoping to electrify the vast data centers that were expected to get built to run those chips. But Nvidia was in the spotlight because its stock has become the brightest symbol of the AI bonanza.\n\nSome on Wall Street saw Monday's nearly 17% plunge for Nvidia's stock as an opportunity rather than a signal of pending doom, saying the stock became more affordable. If AI does become cheaper to run, it could open the door to new kinds of customers and software innovations that could ultimately help the industry in the long term.\n\n\"As for Nvidia itself, this isn\u2019t the first time a major tech stock has faced existential questions,\" said John Belton, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds. \"We've seen similar situations with Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, Amazon, and Netflix - companies that were once doubted but ultimately rebounded.\"\n\nWhat's in store for the AI ecosystem?\n\nDeepSeek's entrance certainly adds uncertainty to the entire AI ecosystem, but it doesn't change the overwhelming momentum behind the movement, according to Brian Colello, strategist at Morningstar.\n\n\"We believe that AI GPU demand still exceeds supply,\" he wrote in a report. \"So, while slimmer models may enable greater development for the same number of chips, we still think tech firms will continue to buy all the GPUs they can as part of this AI 'gold rush'.\"\n\nFor its part, Nvidia's stock wobbled between gains and losses early on Tuesday following its worst plunge since the Covid crash, and then rallied to end the day nearly 9% higher.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The superstar run for Nvidia's stock the last few years has been astonishing. So was its tumble Monday, which caused $595 billion (\u20ac572 billion) in wealth to vanish. That's about as much as the combined worth PepsiCo, McDonalds, Starbucks and Target. <\/p>\n<p>Mostly known only in gaming and crypto circles a few years ago, Nvidia burst into the zeitgeist after seeing its sales surge because customers wanted its chips to train their chatbots and other artificial intelligence products.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia became a household name as its stock more than tripled in 2023 and then more than doubled in 2024. Investors and analysts lauded CEO Jensen Huang as the \"Godfather of AI\" as Nvidia grew into a $3 trillion-plus (\u20ac2.9tn) behemoth and traded places with titans like Apple to become the most valuable company on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>But that all came to a screeching halt on Monday, at least for a moment, after a Chinese upstart called DeepSeek said it had developed a large-language model that could perform like ChatGPT and other US rivals, but by using far less computing power.<\/p>\n<h2>How it all got to this point - Nvidia's roots began in gaming<\/h2><p>The Santa Clara, California-based tech company's invention of the graphics processor unit, or GPU, in 1999 helped spark the growth of the PC gaming market and redefined computer graphics. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9009024,8955990\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//28//chinese-startup-deepseek-rattles-global-markets-as-nvidia-shares-plunge/">Chinese startup DeepSeek rattles global markets as Nvidia shares plunge <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//08//nvidia-shares-slide-after-hitting-a-record-following-new-ai-chip-debut/">Nvidia shares slide after hitting a record following new AI chip debut<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now, Nvidiass specialised chips are key components that help power different forms of artificial intelligence, including the latest generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.<\/p>\n<p>Huang has dubbed AI \"the next industrial revolution\", and Nvidia's GPUs are designed to perform artificial intelligence tasks faster and more efficiently than general-purpose chips like CPUs. Tech giants are snapping up Nvidia chips as they wade deeper into AI - a movement that's enabling cars to drive by themselves, and generating stories, art and music.<\/p>\n<h2>Soaring demand led to eye-popping earnings<\/h2><p>The demand helped Nvidia's revenue grow by eye-popping levels, quarter after quarter. On 23 Feb 2023, after Nvidia breezed past analysts' expectations for quarterly profit, Huang said that \"AI is at an inflection point, setting up for broad adoption reaching into every industry\". The company's quarterly revenue at the time was $6.05bn (\u20ac5.8bn).<\/p>\n<p>That ramped up to $7.19bn (\u20ac6.2bn) just three months later and then nearly doubled to $13.51 billion three months after that. Revenue has since vaulted to $35.08bn (\u20ac33.8bn) in the three months through October 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8953212,8901052\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//10//nvidia-faces-chinese-investigation-amid-retaliation-for-us-trade-restrictions/">Nvidia faces Chinese investigation amid retaliation for US trade restrictions<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//07//the-top-ai-takeaways-from-nvidias-ces-2025-keynote-to-know-about/">The top AI takeaways to know about from Nvidia's CES 2025 keynote<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The company's stock price has similarly soared, and its total market value quickly passed rivals like Intel, Microsoft and others. Nvidia alone accounted for more than a fifth of all of the S&P 500 index's total return last year. No other stock came close, and it had more than triple Apple's impact.<\/p>\n<p>Buy an S&P 500 index fund today, and nearly 6 cents out of every $1 will go only into Nvidia. That leaves 94 cents for all the other 499 companies.<\/p>\n<h2>Is Nvidia still a darling?<\/h2><p>Unlike the dot-com boom, real money was behind Nvidia's surge, and its stock price rose on expectations of ever more to come. Those expectations came into question on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DeepSeek and its seemingly lower-cost operations raised worries about whether companies would need to spend as many dollars on Nvidia chips as previously thought. <\/p>\n<p>The concerns dragged down stocks across the AI industry, including suppliers to the chip industry and the power companies hoping to electrify the vast data centers that were expected to get built to run those chips. But Nvidia was in the spotlight because its stock has become the brightest symbol of the AI bonanza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9011914,9008484\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//28//what-is-deepseek-the-ai-chatbot-from-china-that-is-sending-shockwaves-through-the-tech-wor/">What is DeepSeek, the AI chatbot from China that is sending shockwaves through the tech world?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//28//chinese-ai-deepseek-censors-sensitive-questions-on-china-when-compared-to-rivals-like-chat/">Chinese AI DeepSeek 'censors' sensitive questions on China when compared to rivals like ChatGP<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Some on Wall Street saw Monday's nearly 17% plunge for Nvidia's stock as an opportunity rather than a signal of pending doom, saying the stock became more affordable. If AI does become cheaper to run, it could open the door to new kinds of customers and software innovations that could ultimately help the industry in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>\"As for Nvidia itself, this isn\u2019t the first time a major tech stock has faced existential questions,\" said John Belton, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds. \"We've seen similar situations with Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, Amazon, and Netflix - companies that were once doubted but ultimately rebounded.\"<\/p>\n<h2>What's in store for the AI ecosystem?<\/h2><p>DeepSeek's entrance certainly adds uncertainty to the entire AI ecosystem, but it doesn't change the overwhelming momentum behind the movement, according to Brian Colello, strategist at Morningstar.<\/p>\n<p>\"We believe that AI GPU demand still exceeds supply,\" he wrote in a report. \"So, while slimmer models may enable greater development for the same number of chips, we still think tech firms will continue to buy all the GPUs they can as part of this AI 'gold rush'.\"<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Nvidia's stock wobbled between gains and losses early on Tuesday following its worst plunge since the Covid crash, and then rallied to end the day nearly 9% higher.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738144116,"updatedAt":1738156281,"publishedAt":1738156163,"firstPublishedAt":1738156163,"lastPublishedAt":1738156163,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/29\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ec64e7c9-c29c-556f-9d6c-517ef82d63bd-9012928.jpg","altText":"A Solomon Multi Arm Bin Picking machine with Nvidia Isaac robotics is displayed at a Solomon booth during January's CES tech show in Las Vegas","caption":"A Solomon Multi Arm Bin Picking machine with Nvidia Isaac robotics is displayed at a Solomon booth during January's CES tech show in Las Vegas","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Abbie Parr\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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In the ensuing war, Israel has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry. \n\nA fragile ceasefire which began on 19 January is currently still holding in Gaza, but Trump has previously said he is \"not confident\" that it will last. \n\nThe US president recently sparked outrage when he suggested that Egypt and Jordan should take take in Palestinians from Gaza, a proposal both countries quickly rejected.\n\nIn the first six weeks of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages, while Israel is set to free nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Both sides have already begun this process.\n\nThe pause in fighting has allowed more than 375,000 Palestinians to cross back into northern Gaza to what remains of their homes, the United Nations said on Tuesday. \n\nHumanitarian aid flows into Gaza have increased under the ceasefire agreement, which requires 600 aid trucks to enter the territory each day.\n\n\u201cIn the past week alone, approximately 4,200 trucks carrying aid have entered the Gaza Strip following inspections,\u201d Israel\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said.\n\nThe second phase of the ceasefire will soon be discussed, including proposals for a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. \n\nNetanyahu has already made it clear that Israel will resume its military campaign if Hamas does not meet its demands. \n\nDuring his visit to Washington, Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, is expected to urge Trump to take a harder stance on Iran. \n\nThe Israeli leader is also likely to call for renewed efforts towards achieving a historic normalisation agreement between his country and Saudi Arabia.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will become the first foreign leader to visit the White House during Donald Trump's second presidential term, it has emerged. <\/p>\n<p>The pair will hold talks in Washington next week, according to a White House letter that was shared by Netanyahu's office. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to discussing how we can bring peace to Israel and its neighbours, and efforts to counter our shared adversaries,\" the US president wrote to his Israeli counterpart. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be my honour to host you as my first foreign leader during my second term,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>The visit comes as the Trump administration hopes to exert influence on Israel to bring a permanent end to its war in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>The conflict began 15 months ago after Hamas killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others in its deadly 7 October attacks. In the ensuing war, Israel has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry. <\/p>\n<p>A fragile ceasefire which began on 19 January is currently still holding in Gaza, but Trump has previously said he is \"not confident\" that it will last. <\/p>\n<p>The US president recently sparked outrage when he suggested that Egypt and Jordan should take take in Palestinians from Gaza, a proposal both countries quickly rejected.<\/p>\n<p>In the first six weeks of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages, while Israel is set to free nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Both sides have already begun this process.<\/p>\n<p>The pause in fighting has allowed more than 375,000 Palestinians to cross back into northern Gaza to what remains of their homes, the United Nations said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Humanitarian aid flows into Gaza have increased under the ceasefire agreement, which requires 600 aid trucks to enter the territory each day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past week alone, approximately 4,200 trucks carrying aid have entered the Gaza Strip following inspections,\u201d Israel\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said.<\/p>\n<p>The second phase of the ceasefire will soon be discussed, including proposals for a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has already made it clear that Israel will resume its military campaign if Hamas does not meet its demands. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9011440,9005270\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b 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efforts towards achieving a historic normalisation agreement between his country and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738148803,"updatedAt":1738159396,"publishedAt":1738155933,"firstPublishedAt":1738155933,"lastPublishedAt":1738155933,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/33\/64\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_addce6a7-f557-5049-ad81-b0455590541d-9013364.jpg","altText":"FILE - President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, 23 May 2017.","caption":"FILE - President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, 23 May 2017.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Sebastian Scheiner, File","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3252,"urlSafeValue":"al-yahyai","title":"Oman Al 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AID FREEZE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"US freeze on foreign aid funding is a 'death sentence' for people in need, NGOs warn","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"US foreign aid freeze a 'death sentence' for people in need, NGOs warn","titleListing2":"US freeze on foreign aid funding is a 'death sentence' for people in need, NGOs warn","leadin":"US President Donald Trump has ordered most foreign assistance to be halted for 90 days pending a review, causing alarm among aid agencies worldwide.","summary":"US President Donald Trump has ordered most foreign assistance to be halted for 90 days pending a review, causing alarm among aid agencies worldwide.","keySentence":"","url":"us-freeze-on-foreign-aid-funding-is-a-death-sentence-for-people-in-need-ngos-warn","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/29\/us-freeze-on-foreign-aid-funding-is-a-death-sentence-for-people-in-need-ngos-warn","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"From life-saving HIV treatment to shelter for refugees to food for malnourished children, US-funded aid projects around the world are being paused, downsized or scrapped due to the Trump administration's unprecedented freeze on almost all foreign assistance.\n\nUS President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order suspending development assistance funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for 90 days, during which time his administration will review which of the thousands of humanitarian, development and security projects will keep getting money.\n\nThe US State Department said the move was to ensure that all foreign aid programmes \"are efficient and consistent with US foreign policy under the America First agenda\".\n\nEmergency food programmes were exempted from the initial order, and amid growing clamour from aid agencies worldwide, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday issued further exemptions for \"life-saving humanitarian assistance\" \u2014 including the provision of medicine, medical services, food and shelter \u2014 on a temporary basis. \n\nWhile some aid groups expressed hope Rubio's move would maintain programmes that keep alive tens of millions of people in need around the globe, US-funded operations of all types stepped up the pace of layoffs, furloughs and project pauses or shutdowns.\n\n\"The aid community is grappling with just how existential this aid suspension is,\" said Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America, one of the few aid officials willing to speak publicly about the impact of the freeze amid Trump administration warnings to stay quiet.\n\nThe decision \"could have life or death consequences\" for children and families worldwide, Maxman said.\n\nThe US is the world's top source of foreign assistance by far, although other nations give a bigger share of their budgets. In the 2023 financial year, it spent $68 billion (\u20ac65.4 billion) on foreign aid \u2014 most of it through USAID \u2014 the latest government data shows. \n\nIn terms of humanitarian aid specifically, the US provided nearly $14 billion last year (\u20ac13.5 billion), accounting for 42% of all such assistance recorded by the UN for 2024.\n\nOn Monday, the Trump administration placed more than 50 senior officials at USAID on leave due to suspicions that they had been resisting the order and helping aid groups to cope with the freeze. The agency's staff have been told not to communicate with partners apart from to let them know that funding has been halted. \n\n'Life or death'\n\nOne of the biggest projects affected by the aid freeze is the President\u2019s Emergency Relief Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). \n\nThe groundbreaking HIV programme is credited with saving 25 million lives \u2014 including those of 5.5 million children \u2014 in more than 50 countries since it was started by Republican President George W Bush in 2003.\n\n\"This is a matter of life or death,\" said Beatriz Grinsztejn, president of the International AIDS Society. If funding stops, \"people are going to die and HIV will resurge,\" she warned.\n\nIn Zimbabwe, Gumisayi Bonzo, the director of a health NGO, said she was worried for her organisation \u2014 and for herself.\n\nBonzo said she had yet to hear whether funding would be cut for her NGO, Trans Smart Trust, which promotes health services for intersex and transgender people in a country where discrimination and stigma discourage many people from seeking treatment.\n\nRubio\u2019s waiver for \"life-saving humanitarian assistance\" does not include projects that deal with abortion, family planning, conferences or anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion or gender reassignment.\n\n\"Everyone is just confused right now,\" Bonzo said.\n\nThe 54-year-old has been taking HIV treatment for 23 years thanks to PEPFAR support that has made the medication affordable.\n\n\"I have been religiously taking medicines for over two decades, I am living a normal life again, and suddenly we have to stop. That\u2019s a death sentence for many people,\" she said.\n\nGyude Moore, a former cabinet minister in Liberia who is now a fellow at the US-based Center for Global Development, said the aid freeze would affect projects across Africa \u2014 from supporting girls' education and helping farmers to strengthening health systems.\n\nThe move would hurt the US because \"it makes no distinction between ally, partner and adversary,\" according to Moore. \n\nFor decades, Washington's policy maintained that foreign aid pays for itself through better national security, by stabilising regions and economies, and improving relations with partners. \n\nYet the Trump administration and many Republican politicians argue that foreign aid is often wasted by partners abroad and that the money should be instead spent at home.\n\nUS rivals such as China could capitalise on the aid freeze by moving into areas of Africa and gaining influence and business contracts in resource-rich nations, Moore and other analysts have warned.\n\n\"Feeding hungry children in Liberia or malnourished children in Kenya, providing life-saving anti-retroviral drugs in Uganda \u2014 none of these things undermine American interests,\" Moore added.\n\nPain for Ukraine\n\nWhile the foreign assistance freeze does not affect vital US military aid to Ukraine \u2014 as confirmed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday \u2014 the move risks hampering country's war effort in other ways, according to analysts and activists.\n\nFor example, the US provides salary support to keep Ukraine\u2019s government running amid the damage done to the economy following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, and USAID has funded several wartime civilian programmes. \n\nOne such programme is Veteran Hub, an NGO that runs a crisis hotline receiving up to 1,300 calls a month from Ukrainian veterans who need social and psychological support.\n\nIvona Kostyna, head of the NGO, said she could lose half of her 31 staff due to the order.\n\n\"If we had a month, say, warning, even two-week warning, it would have been a lot easier on us,\" she said. \"We could have managed to somehow secure ourselves for this time. But there just wasn\u2019t any warning.\"\n\nDays before the US freeze, Veteran Hub received a call from someone on the verge of hurting themselves, Kostyna said. A hotline staffer texted the person through the night.\n\n\"Now what we have is a line that isn\u2019t working and basically no answer, which is terrifying for us,\" she said.\n\nUN agencies tighten belts\n\nOn a global scale, major UN aid organisations including the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have also been forced to scale back or reconsider their operations following Trump's executive order.\n\nThe head of UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, sent an email to all of the agency's staff on Monday night informing them of a spending pause on international air travel, workshops and events, and a 90-day hiring and contract freeze, among other belt-tightening measures.\n\n\"We must proceed very carefully over the next few weeks to mitigate the impact of this funding uncertainty on refugees and displaced people, on our operations, and on our teams,\" read the email, a copy of which was provided to Euronews by a source. \n\n\"These steps will help us manage resources while we navigate this challenging period.\"\n\nThe US is UNHCR's biggest donor by some distance, having contributed $2 billion (\u20ac1.9 billion) to the agency last year. That represented about 40% of the nearly $4.9 billion received by UNHCR in 2024, according to the agency's latest available data.\n\nWhether the aid freeze will last beyond 90 days remains to be seen, but pessimism and panic has set in at countless foreign aid organisations the world over in recent days.\n\n\"It's an incredibly distressing time, it's a frightening time, and many organisations are fearful to speak out and talk about what is going on,\" said Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and ex-USAID official under the administrations of former US Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama. \n\n\"It is no exaggeration whatsoever to say that following through on this policy will kill a lot of people,\" Konyndyk wrote on X.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>From life-saving HIV treatment to shelter for refugees to food for malnourished children, US-funded aid projects around the world are being paused, downsized or scrapped due to the Trump administration's unprecedented freeze on almost all foreign assistance.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order suspending development assistance funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for 90 days, during which time his administration will review which of the thousands of humanitarian, development and security projects will keep getting money.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department said the move was to ensure that all foreign aid programmes \"are efficient and consistent with US foreign policy under the America First agenda\".<\/p>\n<p>Emergency food programmes were exempted from the initial order, and amid growing clamour from aid agencies worldwide, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday issued further exemptions for \"life-saving humanitarian assistance\" \u2014 including the provision of medicine, medical services, food and shelter \u2014 on a temporary basis. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66796875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//99//06//56//808x539_cmsv2_a897ccac-ba8a-5567-8780-7c8d873797a3-8990656.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: US President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/06\/56\/384x257_cmsv2_a897ccac-ba8a-5567-8780-7c8d873797a3-8990656.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/06\/56\/640x428_cmsv2_a897ccac-ba8a-5567-8780-7c8d873797a3-8990656.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/06\/56\/750x501_cmsv2_a897ccac-ba8a-5567-8780-7c8d873797a3-8990656.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/06\/56\/828x553_cmsv2_a897ccac-ba8a-5567-8780-7c8d873797a3-8990656.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/06\/56\/1080x721_cmsv2_a897ccac-ba8a-5567-8780-7c8d873797a3-8990656.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/06\/56\/1200x802_cmsv2_a897ccac-ba8a-5567-8780-7c8d873797a3-8990656.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/06\/56\/1920x1283_cmsv2_a897ccac-ba8a-5567-8780-7c8d873797a3-8990656.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: US President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While some aid groups expressed hope Rubio's move would maintain programmes that keep alive tens of millions of people in need around the globe, US-funded operations of all types stepped up the pace of layoffs, furloughs and project pauses or shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\"The aid community is grappling with just how existential this aid suspension is,\" said Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America, one of the few aid officials willing to speak publicly about the impact of the freeze amid Trump administration warnings to stay quiet.<\/p>\n<p>The decision \"could have life or death consequences\" for children and families worldwide, Maxman said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8455884,8905512\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li 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In the 2023 financial year, it spent $68 billion (\u20ac65.4 billion) on foreign aid \u2014 most of it through USAID \u2014 the latest government <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////foreignassistance.gov///">data shows. <\/p>\n<p>In terms of humanitarian aid specifically, the US provided nearly $14 billion last year (\u20ac13.5 billion), accounting for 42% of all such assistance <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////fts.unocha.org//home//2024//donors/">recorded by the UN<\/a> for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Trump administration placed more than 50 senior officials at USAID on leave due to suspicions that they had been resisting the order and helping aid groups to cope with the freeze. The agency's staff have been told not to communicate with partners apart from to let them know that funding has been halted. <\/p>\n<h2>'Life or death'<\/h2><p>One of the biggest projects affected by the aid freeze is the President\u2019s Emergency Relief Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). <\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking HIV programme is credited with saving 25 million lives \u2014 including those of 5.5 million children \u2014 in more than 50 countries since it was started by Republican President George W Bush in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is a matter of life or death,\" said Beatriz Grinsztejn, president of the International AIDS Society. If funding stops, \"people are going to die and HIV will resurge,\" she warned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//01//26//34//808x539_cmsv2_b2d27a83-096c-5bcc-aa93-7582e5a61aa5-9012634.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: A doctor takes an AIDS\/HIV blood test from citizens in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/384x256_cmsv2_b2d27a83-096c-5bcc-aa93-7582e5a61aa5-9012634.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/640x427_cmsv2_b2d27a83-096c-5bcc-aa93-7582e5a61aa5-9012634.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/750x500_cmsv2_b2d27a83-096c-5bcc-aa93-7582e5a61aa5-9012634.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/828x552_cmsv2_b2d27a83-096c-5bcc-aa93-7582e5a61aa5-9012634.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/1080x720_cmsv2_b2d27a83-096c-5bcc-aa93-7582e5a61aa5-9012634.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/1200x800_cmsv2_b2d27a83-096c-5bcc-aa93-7582e5a61aa5-9012634.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/1920x1281_cmsv2_b2d27a83-096c-5bcc-aa93-7582e5a61aa5-9012634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: A doctor takes an AIDS\/HIV blood test from citizens in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Zimbabwe, Gumisayi Bonzo, the director of a health NGO, said she was worried for her organisation \u2014 and for herself.<\/p>\n<p>Bonzo said she had yet to hear whether funding would be cut for her NGO, Trans Smart Trust, which promotes health services for intersex and transgender people in a country where discrimination and stigma discourage many people from seeking treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio\u2019s waiver for \"life-saving humanitarian assistance\" does not include projects that deal with abortion, family planning, conferences or anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion or gender reassignment.<\/p>\n<p>\"Everyone is just confused right now,\" Bonzo said.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old has been taking HIV treatment for 23 years thanks to PEPFAR support that has made the medication affordable.<\/p>\n<p>\"I have been religiously taking medicines for over two decades, I am living a normal life again, and suddenly we have to stop. 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against HIV infection<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gyude Moore, a former cabinet minister in Liberia who is now a fellow at the US-based Center for Global Development, said the aid freeze would affect projects across Africa \u2014 from supporting girls' education and helping farmers to strengthening health systems.<\/p>\n<p>The move would hurt the US because \"it makes no distinction between ally, partner and adversary,\" according to Moore. <\/p>\n<p>For decades, Washington's policy maintained that foreign aid pays for itself through better national security, by stabilising regions and economies, and improving relations with partners. <\/p>\n<p>Yet the Trump administration and many Republican politicians argue that foreign aid is often wasted by partners abroad and that the money should be instead spent at home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Following through on this policy will kill a lot of people<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Jeremy Konyndyk\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n President of Refugees International\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>US rivals such as China could capitalise on the aid freeze by moving into areas of Africa and gaining influence and business contracts in resource-rich nations, Moore and other analysts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>\"Feeding hungry children in Liberia or malnourished children in Kenya, providing life-saving anti-retroviral drugs in Uganda \u2014 none of these things undermine American interests,\" Moore added.<\/p>\n<h2>Pain for Ukraine<\/h2><p>While the foreign assistance freeze does not affect vital US military aid to Ukraine \u2014 as confirmed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday \u2014 the move risks hampering country's war effort in other ways, according to analysts and activists.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the US provides salary support to keep Ukraine\u2019s government running amid the damage done to the economy following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, and USAID has funded several wartime civilian programmes. <\/p>\n<p>One such programme is Veteran Hub, an NGO that runs a crisis hotline receiving up to 1,300 calls a month from Ukrainian veterans who need social and psychological support.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/1080x720_cmsv2_1257718c-bdaf-53bc-8522-480bda69c5f5-9012634.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/1200x800_cmsv2_1257718c-bdaf-53bc-8522-480bda69c5f5-9012634.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/26\/34\/1920x1281_cmsv2_1257718c-bdaf-53bc-8522-480bda69c5f5-9012634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: A war veteran, who lost his leg in the Russia-Ukraine war, and his son look at fragments of the Russian rocket at an exhibition in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 10, 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ivona Kostyna, head of the NGO, said she could lose half of her 31 staff due to the order.<\/p>\n<p>\"If we had a month, say, warning, even two-week warning, it would have been a lot easier on us,\" she said. \"We could have managed to somehow secure ourselves for this time. But there just wasn\u2019t any warning.\"<\/p>\n<p>Days before the US freeze, Veteran Hub received a call from someone on the verge of hurting themselves, Kostyna said. A hotline staffer texted the person through the night.<\/p>\n<p>\"Now what we have is a line that isn\u2019t working and basically no answer, which is terrifying for us,\" she said.<\/p>\n<h2>UN agencies tighten belts<\/h2><p>On a global scale, major UN aid organisations including the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have also been forced to scale back or reconsider their operations following Trump's executive order.<\/p>\n<p>The head of UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, sent an email to all of the agency's staff on Monday night informing them of a spending pause on international air travel, workshops and events, and a 90-day hiring and contract freeze, among other belt-tightening measures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8889510,8868146\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//12//04//un-agency-vows-to-be-ruthless-on-aid-spending-as-funding-shrinks/">UN agency vows to be 'ruthless' on aid spending as funding shrinks<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//11//22//record-number-of-aid-workers-killed-worldwide-in-2024-un-says/">Record number of aid workers killed worldwide in 2024, UN says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"We must proceed very carefully over the next few weeks to mitigate the impact of this funding uncertainty on refugees and displaced people, on our operations, and on our teams,\" read the email, a copy of which was provided to Euronews by a source. <\/p>\n<p>\"These steps will help us manage resources while we navigate this challenging period.\"<\/p>\n<p>The US is UNHCR's biggest donor by some distance, having contributed $2 billion (\u20ac1.9 billion) to the agency last year. That represented about 40% of the nearly $4.9 billion received by UNHCR in 2024, according to the agency's latest available <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////reporting.unhcr.org//global-funding-overview-2024/">data./n
US freeze on foreign aid funding is a 'death sentence' for people in need, NGOs warn<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As of 2023, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.kff.org//global-health-policy//fact-sheet//the-u-s-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-pepfar///">39.9 million people<\/strong><\/a> were living with HIV, with about two-thirds of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>It remains a leading cause of death globally, with about 630,000 AIDS-related deaths that year \u2013 but that\u2019s down from <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.unaids.org//en//resources//fact-sheet/">2.1 million<\/strong><\/a> in 2004 thanks largely to the introduction of new medicines that curb transmission and prevent HIV from progressing to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).<\/p>\n<p>The US funding freeze\u2019s biggest hit will be to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which is credited with saving more than 26 million lives since being launched by then-President George W. Bush in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the programme provided antiviral HIV treatments for 20.6 million people in 55 countries, according to the US government.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8998022\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//23//as-the-us-exits-the-who-can-the-eu-fill-the-gap-in-global-health-leadership/">As the US exits the WHO, can the EU fill the gap in global health leadership? <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It also got 2.5 million started on PrEP, which prevents HIV infection and got 83.8 million people tested.<\/p>\n<p>PEPFAR supports 342,000 health workers whose jobs will be affected by the funding pause, which also applies to other foreign aid programmes that collectively cover HIV treatment for 30 million people.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>US pulling back from global health leadership<\/strong><\/h2><p>The pause isn\u2019t Trump\u2019s only move to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//28//us-health-officials-ordered-to-stop-working-with-who-immediately-speeding-up-impact-of-wit/">pull back<\/strong><\/a> from global health leadership since assuming office last week.<\/p>\n<p>He started the process of withdrawing the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//21//trump-will-pull-the-us-out-of-the-world-health-organization-again-heres-what-it-means/">US from the WHO<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//25//how-trumps-ban-on-funding-for-overseas-abortion-groups-will-transform-global-health/">reinstated the Mexico City Policy<\/strong><\/a>, which bars the US from giving money to foreign groups that perform or offer information on abortions.<\/p>\n<p>The new US president\u2019s chief complaints include criticism of the WHO\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the US\u2019s outsized role in funding the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO said it\u2019s been working with countries where PEPFAR operates to take more ownership of the programme and reduce their reliance on donors such as the US by 2030.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8978704\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//20//these-are-the-most-critical-health-crises-facing-the-world-in-2025/">These are the most critical health crises facing the world in 2025<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But Trump\u2019s \u201csudden\u201d funding pause could upend those efforts, making it harder to coordinate the transition and putting \u201cthe lives of millions at risk,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation wants \u201cexemptions to ensure the delivery of lifesaving HIV treatment and care\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They might get some after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.washingtonpost.com//national-security//2025//01//28//state-department-foreign-aid-trump-waiver///">reportedly issued a humanitarian waiver<\/strong><\/a> on Tuesday for critical health services affected by the funding freeze.<\/p>\n<p>The waiver applies to \u201ccore lifesaving medicine, medical services, food, shelter, and subsistence assistance, as well as supplies and reasonable administrative costs as necessary to deliver such assistance,\u201d The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>But it is still unclear whether the exception will apply to PEPFAR.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738150763,"updatedAt":1738152958,"publishedAt":1738152060,"firstPublishedAt":1738152060,"lastPublishedAt":1738152817,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Brian Inganga\/AP Photo","altText":"A teenager in Kenya takes her PEPFAR-supplied HIV medication in August 2023.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"A teenager in Kenya takes her PEPFAR-supplied HIV medication in August 2023.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/18\/46\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_41a0addf-383b-55a7-b41b-192b786a0641-8184650.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":695}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"urlSafeValue":"galvin","twitter":"@mg_galvin","id":3108,"title":"Gabriela 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reports better-than-expected quarterly sales as turnaround efforts begin","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Starbucks sees improved quarterly sales as turnaround efforts begin","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Starbucks sees improved quarterly sales as turnaround efforts begin","titleListing2":"Starbucks sees improved quarterly sales as turnaround efforts begin","leadin":"Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in September, said customer-focused changes - such as a decision to stop charging extra for non-dairy milk and a streamlining of the menu - were helping to improve service and drive store traffic.","summary":"Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in September, said customer-focused changes - such as a decision to stop charging extra for non-dairy milk and a streamlining of the menu - were helping to improve service and drive store traffic.","keySentence":"","url":"starbucks-sees-improved-quarterly-sales-as-turnaround-efforts-begin","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/01\/29\/starbucks-sees-improved-quarterly-sales-as-turnaround-efforts-begin","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Starbucks has reported better-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter as some of its turnaround efforts start to deliver results.\n\nThe Seattle coffee giant said its revenue was flat at $9.4 billion (\u20ac9 billion) for the 13-week period ending 29 December. That was better than Wall Street's forecast of $9.3bn (\u20ac8.9bn), according to analysts polled by FactSet.\n\nChairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in September, said customer-focused changes - such as a decision to stop charging extra for non-dairy milk and a streamlining of the menu - were helping to improve service and drive store traffic.\n\nIn a conference call with investors on Tuesday, Niccol said Starbucks is planning to cut its food and beverage offerings by 30% over the course of this year to simplify operations and speed service. Starbucks will also add digital menus to all of its company-owned US stores over the next 18 months to make ordering options clearer and make it easier to shift its offerings depending on the time of day.\n\nCompany looking to get customers to stay for a while\n\nNiccol said the company is also adding staff to some stores and experimenting with ordering algorithms that prioritise in-store customers and manage the pace of mobile orders.\n\n\"The place where we run into problems, frankly, is the fact that there is just no gating on the mobile orders,\" Niccol said. \"All these orders come flooding in faster than even our customer can get there. So all these drinks are sitting on the counter, and it's at the expense of providing any other experience for a customer that's right in the store.\"\n\nStarbucks is trying to reestablish itself as a gathering place, and this week announced that it will start using ceramic mugs and offering in-store customers free refills of coffee or tea. The company is also trying to appeal to customers with a new rule that requires people to buy something if they want to stay in the coffee bar or use the lavatories.\n\n\"This is back to the core of what makes Starbucks a unique experience,\" Niccol said.\n\nTransactions down but more spends per visit\n\nStarbucks' same-store sales - or sales at locations open at least a year - fell 4% compared to the same period last year. The decline was less than the 5.5% analysts anticipated, according to FactSet. It was also better than the previous quarter, when global same-store sales were down 7%.\n\nUS same-store sales also fell 4% in the first quarter. Starbucks said transactions were down 8% but customers spent more per visit. Starbucks also pulled back on discounts during the quarter, Niccol said.\n\nNiccol said he recently visited China, Starbucks' second-largest market, where sales have been hampered by lower-cost competitors. China's same-store sales fell 6% in the fiscal first quarter.\n\nLooking for increased growth in China\n\nNiccol said Starbucks is continuing to explore a strategic partnership that would help it continue to grow in China.\n\nNiccol has also been reshaping Starbucks' corporate staff. Earlier Tuesday, he announced the departure of two senior executives and a reshuffling of their job responsibilities.\n\nMike Grams, who most recently served as president of Taco Bell, will become Starbucks\u2019 chief stores officer for North America. Meredith Sandland, the CEO of Empower Delivery and the former chief development officer at Taco Bell, will become Starbucks' chief store development officer. Niccol led Taco Bell until 2018, when he left to run Chipotle.\n\nNiccol also announced earlier this month that Starbucks plans an unspecified number of corporate layoffs by early March.\n\nStarbucks' shares rose less than 1% in after-hours trading Tuesday.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Starbucks has reported better-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter as some of its turnaround efforts start to deliver results.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle coffee giant said its revenue was flat at $9.4 billion (\u20ac9 billion) for the 13-week period ending 29 December. That was better than Wall Street's forecast of $9.3bn (\u20ac8.9bn), according to analysts polled by FactSet.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in September, said customer-focused changes - such as a decision to stop charging extra for non-dairy milk and a streamlining of the menu - were helping to improve service and drive store traffic.<\/p>\n<p>In a conference call with investors on Tuesday, Niccol said Starbucks is planning to cut its food and beverage offerings by 30% over the course of this year to simplify operations and speed service. Starbucks will also add digital menus to all of its company-owned US stores over the next 18 months to make ordering options clearer and make it easier to shift its offerings depending on the time of day.<\/p>\n<h2>Company looking to get customers to stay for a while<\/h2><p>Niccol said the company is also adding staff to some stores and experimenting with ordering algorithms that prioritise in-store customers and manage the pace of mobile orders.<\/p>\n<p>\"The place where we run into problems, frankly, is the fact that there is just no gating on the mobile orders,\" Niccol said. \"All these orders come flooding in faster than even our customer can get there. So all these drinks are sitting on the counter, and it's at the expense of providing any other experience for a customer that's right in the store.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8929826,8824300\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//10//31//starbucks-ceo-sets-four-minute-service-goal-to-reinvigorate-sales/">Starbucks CEO sets four-minute service goal to reinvigorate sales<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//24//us-starbucks-workers-strike-expands-to-more-cities-shutting-down-almost-60-stores/">US Starbucks workers' strike expands to more cities shutting down almost 60 stores<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Starbucks is trying to reestablish itself as a gathering place, and this week announced that it will start using ceramic mugs and offering in-store customers free refills of coffee or tea. The company is also trying to appeal to customers with a new rule that requires people to buy something if they want to stay in the coffee bar or use the lavatories.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is back to the core of what makes Starbucks a unique experience,\" Niccol said.<\/p>\n<h2>Transactions down but more spends per visit<\/h2><p>Starbucks' same-store sales - or sales at locations open at least a year - fell 4% compared to the same period last year. The decline was less than the 5.5% analysts anticipated, according to FactSet. It was also better than the previous quarter, when global same-store sales were down 7%.<\/p>\n<p>US same-store sales also fell 4% in the first quarter. Starbucks said transactions were down 8% but customers spent more per visit. Starbucks also pulled back on discounts during the quarter, Niccol said.<\/p>\n<p>Niccol said he recently visited China, Starbucks' second-largest market, where sales have been hampered by lower-cost competitors. China's same-store sales fell 6% in the fiscal first quarter.<\/p>\n<h2>Looking for increased growth in China<\/h2><p>Niccol said Starbucks is continuing to explore a strategic partnership that would help it continue to grow in China.<\/p>\n<p>Niccol has also been reshaping Starbucks' corporate staff. Earlier Tuesday, he announced the departure of two senior executives and a reshuffling of their job responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Grams, who most recently served as president of Taco Bell, will become Starbucks\u2019 chief stores officer for North America. Meredith Sandland, the CEO of Empower Delivery and the former chief development officer at Taco Bell, will become Starbucks' chief store development officer. Niccol led Taco Bell until 2018, when he left to run Chipotle.<\/p>\n<p>Niccol also announced earlier this month that Starbucks plans an unspecified number of corporate layoffs by early March.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks' shares rose less than 1% in after-hours trading Tuesday.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738144206,"updatedAt":1738155444,"publishedAt":1738150381,"firstPublishedAt":1738150381,"lastPublishedAt":1738153529,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ashley Landis\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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Fanned by powerful Santa Ana mountain winds and burning through tinder-dry vegetation, the fires rapidly spread into urban areas. \n\nThey eventually killed at least 28 people, more than 10,000 homes have been destroyed, and millions are still being affected by toxic smoke. The fires are the most destructive in LA\u2019s history and potentially the costliest in US history. \n\nThe study found that the hot, dry and windy conditions that fuelled the LA fires were about 35 per cent (1.35 times) more likely due to climate change. \n\nThese fire-prone conditions will intensify if countries keep burning fossil fuels, the researchers warn. \n\nAt 2.6\u00b0C of warming, which is expected by 2100 under current scenarios, similar fire-weather in January will become a further 35 per cent more likely, making similar extremes about 80 per cent (1.8 times) more likely compared to the 1.3\u00b0C cooler preindustrial climate. \n\n\u201cWithout a faster transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels, California will continue to get hotter, drier, and more flammable,\u201d said Dr Clair Barnes, World Weather Attribution researcher at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London. \n\nClimate change has extended fire-prone conditions in LA by 23 extra days a year\n\nThe researchers also found the LA wildfire season is becoming longer and more dangerous as fossil fuel emissions heat the climate.\n\nHighly flammable drought conditions now last about 23 more days each year on average than in the preindustrial climate, an analysis of historical weather data found. \n\nDue to highly variable rainfall, drought conditions can last much longer in some years, the scientists say. \n\nOctober to December rainfall has historically brought an end to the wildfire season. But in recent decades, these rains have decreased. \n\nToday, low rainfall across the three months is about 2.4 times more likely in neutral El Ni\u00f1o conditions, and a further 1.8 times more likely in La Ni\u00f1a conditions compared to the preindustrial climate.\n\nThe two weather phenomena influence the temperatures of the Pacific Ocean which can affect weather patterns around the globe. \n\nHotter air temperatures are also evaporating more moisture from plants, making them easier to burn. \n\n\u201cDrought conditions are more frequently pushing into winter, increasing the chance a fire will break out during strong Santa Ana winds that can turn small ignitions into deadly infernos,\u201d explained Barnes.\n\nLA wildfires: Climate change created a \u2018perfect storm\u2019 \n\nThe researchers note that while the individual results of these analyses show some degree of uncertainty, they point in the same direction, indicating that climate change increased the likelihood of the fires. \n\n\u201cThis was a perfect storm of climate-enabled and weather-driven fires impacting the built environment,\u201d said John Abatzoglou, Professor of Climatology at the University of California Merced.\n\n\u201cWhile Southern California is no stranger to high impact wildfires, the impact of these fires and the timing of these fires in the core of what should be the wet season differentiate this event as an extreme outlier.\u201d\n\nCalifornia needs better early warning and evacuation systems\n\nThe simultaneous occurrence of two major fires, driven by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds into urban areas, created chaotic and unpredictable conditions that overwhelmed more than 300 predeployed firefighters, the study highlights. \n\nImproving the water system's ability to support large-scale firefighting efforts and making sure homes in high-risk zones adhere to defensible space buffer zone requirements will help to reduce the risk of repeat disasters, the researchers say. \n\nThey also emphasise the importance of early warning and evacuation systems as 17 of the 28 deaths occurred in West Altadena, a neighbourhood where warnings were delayed compared to other affected areas. \n\n\u201cThese fires have highlighted just how vulnerable California is to winter wildfires, underscoring the need for better preparation for a more dangerous future,\u201d said Roop Singh, Head of Urban and Attribution at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Human-caused climate change worsened the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, a new study has found. <\/p>\n<p>Fossil fuel burning reduced rainfall, dried out vegetation, and increased the overlap between flammable drought conditions and strong Santa Ana winds, aggravating the blazes. <\/p>\n<p>The study was carried out by 32 researchers, including leading wildfire scientists from the US and Europe. <\/p>\n<p>They form part of World Weather Attribution, an academic group that has studied the influence of climate change on more than 90 extreme events around the world. <\/p>\n<p>The scientists also warn that LA will get drier and more flammable with continued fossil fuel burning.<\/p>\n<h2>Climate change made LA wildfires 35% more likely<\/h2><p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//09//california-wildfires-why-are-they-happening-and-is-climate-change-to-blame/">Extreme fires<\/strong><\/a> broke out around Los Angeles, California, on 7 January. Fanned by powerful Santa Ana mountain winds and burning through tinder-dry vegetation, the fires rapidly spread into urban areas. <\/p>\n<p>They eventually killed at least 28 people, more than <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//13//la-fires-1000s-had-insurance-cancelled-in-the-months-before-the-disaster-whats-the-climate/">10,000 homes<\/strong><\/a> have been destroyed, and millions are still being affected by toxic smoke. The fires are the most destructive in LA\u2019s history and potentially the costliest in US history. <\/p>\n<p>The study found that the hot, dry and windy conditions that fuelled the LA fires were about 35 per cent (1.35 times) more likely due to climate change. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8974976,8978230\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//01//15//is-it-safe-to-travel-to-la-everything-you-need-to-know-about-flights-hotels-and-transport/">Is it safe to travel to LA? Everything you need to know about flights, hotels and transport<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//16//this-2021-documentary-on-wildfires-raised-tough-questions-are-people-now-more-inclined-to-/">This 2021 documentary on wildfires raised tough questions. Are people now more inclined to listen?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>These fire-prone conditions will intensify if countries keep burning fossil fuels, the researchers warn. <\/p>\n<p>At 2.6\u00b0C of warming, which is expected by 2100 under current scenarios, similar fire-weather in January will become a further 35 per cent more likely, making similar extremes about 80 per cent (1.8 times) more likely compared to the 1.3\u00b0C cooler preindustrial climate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a faster transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//19//from-flames-over-sunset-boulevard-to-insurance-calls-a-week-in-the-life-of-la-wildfire-vic/">California will continue to get hotter, drier, and more flammable,\u201d said Dr Clair Barnes, World Weather Attribution researcher at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London. <\/p>\n<h2>Climate change has extended fire-prone conditions in LA by 23 extra days a year<\/h2><p>The researchers also found the LA wildfire season is becoming longer and more dangerous as fossil fuel emissions heat the climate.<\/p>\n<p>Highly flammable drought conditions now last about 23 more days each year on average than in the preindustrial climate, an analysis of historical weather data found. <\/p>\n<p>Due to highly variable rainfall, drought conditions can last much longer in some years, the scientists say. <\/p>\n<p>October to December rainfall has historically brought an end to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//30//amazon-wildfires-and-droughts-are-ominous-indicators-of-a-long-feared-tipping-point/">wildfire season. But in recent decades, these rains have decreased. <\/p>\n<p>Today, low rainfall across the three months is about 2.4 times more likely in neutral El Ni\u00f1o conditions, and a further 1.8 times more likely in La Ni\u00f1a conditions compared to the preindustrial climate.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//31//fact-check-what-are-el-nino-and-la-nina-and-could-they-impact-the-climate-in-2025/">two weather phenomena<\/strong><\/a> influence the temperatures of the Pacific Ocean which can affect weather patterns around the globe. <\/p>\n<p>Hotter air temperatures are also evaporating more moisture from plants, making them easier to burn. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrought conditions are more frequently pushing into winter, increasing the chance a fire will break out during strong Santa Ana winds that can turn small ignitions into deadly infernos,\u201d explained Barnes.<\/p>\n<h2>LA wildfires: Climate change created a \u2018perfect storm\u2019<\/h2><p>The researchers note that while the individual results of these analyses show some degree of uncertainty, they point in the same direction, indicating that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//27//climate-change-could-cause-23-million-more-temperature-related-deaths-in-europe-by-2099-st/">climate change<\/strong><\/a> increased the likelihood of the fires. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a perfect storm of climate-enabled and weather-driven fires impacting the built environment,\u201d said John Abatzoglou, Professor of Climatology at the University of California Merced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Southern California is no stranger to high impact <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//11//22//europes-forests-are-being-destroyed-by-wildfires-and-illegal-logging-satellites-could-save/">wildfires, the impact of these fires and the timing of these fires in the core of what should be the wet season differentiate this event as an extreme outlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>California needs better early warning and evacuation systems<\/h2><p>The simultaneous occurrence of two major fires, driven by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds into urban areas, created chaotic and unpredictable conditions that overwhelmed more than 300 predeployed firefighters, the study highlights. <\/p>\n<p>Improving the water system's ability to support large-scale firefighting efforts and making sure homes in high-risk zones adhere to defensible space buffer zone requirements will help to reduce the risk of repeat disasters, the researchers say. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9001972,8982508\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//19//from-flames-over-sunset-boulevard-to-insurance-calls-a-week-in-the-life-of-la-wildfire-vic/">From flames over Sunset Boulevard to insurance calls: A week in the life of LA wildfire victims <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//24//los-angeles-wildfires-residents-sue-over-lack-of-water-but-did-this-cause-the-devastation/">Los Angeles wildfires: Residents sue over lack of water, but did this cause the devastation?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>They also emphasise the importance of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//14//strong-winds-and-dry-vegetation-how-hydroclimate-whiplash-turned-la-into-a-tinderbox/">early warning<\/strong><\/a> and evacuation systems as 17 of the 28 deaths occurred in West Altadena, a neighbourhood where warnings were delayed compared to other affected areas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese fires have highlighted just how vulnerable California is to winter <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//01//16//this-2021-documentary-on-wildfires-raised-tough-questions-are-people-now-more-inclined-to-/">wildfires, underscoring the need for better preparation for a more dangerous future,\u201d said Roop Singh, Head of Urban and Attribution at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738078746,"updatedAt":1738128629,"publishedAt":1738128607,"firstPublishedAt":1738128607,"lastPublishedAt":1738128628,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/13\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2498760a-5c91-5c5b-9f7b-f465e30cd86c-9011380.jpg","altText":"32 researchers from around the world looked at what caused LA\u2019s worst ever wildfires. 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UN General Assembly President Philemon Yang echoed Guterres' concerns, emphasizing the dangers of hatred and propaganda. \n\nIsraeli President Isaac Herzog also called for international action to free hostages, highlighting the case of Israeli-American soldier Omer Nutra. The ceremony included music by the Lebensmelodien, or \u201cMelodies of Life\u201d ensemble project.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Guterres condemned the spread of Holocaust denial and distortion of historical facts. UN General Assembly President Philemon Yang echoed Guterres' concerns, emphasizing the dangers of hatred and propaganda. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog also called for international action to free hostages, highlighting the case of Israeli-American soldier Omer Nutra. The ceremony included music by the Lebensmelodien, or \u201cMelodies of Life\u201d ensemble project.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738071812,"updatedAt":1738083964,"publishedAt":1738083659,"firstPublishedAt":1738083659,"lastPublishedAt":1738083659,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/06\/74\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ff9e4ee6-b904-5d5a-a2be-c929e52bf4e9-9010674.jpg","altText":"UN minute of silence, to honors Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day","caption":"UN minute of silence, to honors Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[{"id":192,"urlSafeValue":"marcaud","title":"Jean-Christophe 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GOOGLE MAPS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as 'Gulf of America' in the US after Trump order","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as 'Gulf of America' in US","titleListing2":"Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the US after Trump order","leadin":"Google has said it will make the change in line with US President Donald Trump's executive order, but users in Mexico will still see the Gulf of Mexico.","summary":"Google has said it will make the change in line with US President Donald Trump's executive order, but users in Mexico will still see the Gulf of Mexico.","keySentence":"","url":"google-maps-will-rename-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america-in-the-us-after-trump-order","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2025\/01\/28\/google-maps-will-rename-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america-in-the-us-after-trump-order","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Google has said it will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US, following an executive order by US President Donald Trump. \n\nOne of Trump's first orders after taking office last week was to officially change the name of the body of water which stretches from Florida to Cancun, and to rename the Alaskan peak Denali \u2014 the tallest mountain in North America \u2014 to Mount McKinley.\n\nGoogle said on Monday that the body of water will appear as Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the US, but remain the Gulf of Mexico in Mexico. Users in the rest of the world will see both names. The company also said that Mount Denali would appear as Mount McKinley for its US users. \n\n\"We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government,\" Google said in a post on X. \n\n\"When official names vary between countries, (Google) Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too.\"\n\nThe changes will happen once the US government updates its official listings for the body of water and the mountain, according to the company.\n\nEarlier this month \u2014 before his 20 January inauguration \u2014 Trump outlined his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico and said the Gulf of America had \"a beautiful ring (to it)\". \n\nDuring his inaugural address last week, Trump brought up the plan once again. \n\n\"America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world,\" he said at the time.\n\nMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mocked Trump's vow in early January and suggested sarcastically that North America should be renamed \"Am\u00e9rica Mexicana\" or \u201cMexican America\" because a founding document dating from 1814 that preceded Mexico's constitution referred to it in that manner.\n\nTrump said he would change Mount Denali's name to its previous name, Mount McKinley, as a tribute to former US President William McKinley. Denali is the mountain's preferred name among Native Americans in Alaska, and it was given that title in 2015 by then-US President Barack Obama's administration as a gesture of recognition.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Google has said it will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US, following an executive order by US President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>One of Trump's first orders after taking office last week was to officially change the name of the body of water which stretches from Florida to Cancun, and to rename the Alaskan peak Denali \u2014 the tallest mountain in North America \u2014 to Mount McKinley.<\/p>\n<p>Google said on Monday that the body of water will appear as Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the US, but remain the Gulf of Mexico in Mexico. Users in the rest of the world will see both names. The company also said that Mount Denali would appear as Mount McKinley for its US users. <\/p>\n<p>\"We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government,\" Google said in a post on X. <\/p>\n<p>\"When official names vary between countries, (Google) Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too.\"<\/p>\n<p>The changes will happen once the US government updates its official listings for the body of water and the mountain, according to the company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8975340,8920010\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//19//google-maps-clue-helps-solve-crime-in-spanish-village/">Google Maps clue helps solve crime in Spanish village<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//23//google-is-facing-a-competition-investigation-in-the-uk-where-else-does-it-face-antitrust-c/">Google is facing a competition investigation in the UK. Where else does it face antitrust cases?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month \u2014 before his 20 January inauguration \u2014 Trump outlined his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico and said the Gulf of America had \"a beautiful ring (to it)\". <\/p>\n<p>During his inaugural address last week, Trump brought up the plan once again. <\/p>\n<p>\"America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world,\" he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//09//mexican-america-mexicos-sheinbaum-mocks-trump-over-his-gulf-of-america-idea/">mocked Trump's vow<\/a> in early January and suggested sarcastically that North America should be renamed \"Am\u00e9rica Mexicana\" or \u201cMexican America\" because a founding document dating from 1814 that preceded Mexico's constitution referred to it in that manner.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he would change Mount Denali's name to its previous name, Mount McKinley, as a tribute to former US President William McKinley. Denali is the mountain's preferred name among Native Americans in Alaska, and it was given that title in 2015 by then-US President Barack Obama's administration as a gesture of recognition.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738075127,"updatedAt":1738078851,"publishedAt":1738077973,"firstPublishedAt":1738077973,"lastPublishedAt":1738077973,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/10\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_671b0fe6-a60c-55a4-bbe2-95ce58bc3c95-9011002.jpg","altText":"FILE: The Google Maps app is seen on a smartphone, March 22, 2017","caption":"FILE: The Google Maps app is seen on a smartphone, March 22, 2017","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Patrick Sison\/Patrick Sison","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":966,"height":543}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3238,"urlSafeValue":"guilbert","title":"Kieran 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GM","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"General Motors revenue outshines hefty charges tied to China","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"General Motors revenue outshines hefty charges tied to China","titleListing2":"General Motors revenue outshines hefty charges tied to China","leadin":"General Motors swung to a loss in the fourth quarter on huge charges related to China, but still topped profit and revenue expectations on Wall Street.","summary":"General Motors swung to a loss in the fourth quarter on huge charges related to China, but still topped profit and revenue expectations on Wall Street.","keySentence":"","url":"general-motors-revenue-outshines-hefty-charges-tied-to-china","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/01\/28\/general-motors-revenue-outshines-hefty-charges-tied-to-china","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The automaker is also taking a proactive approach with the United States government on regulations and doling out generous profit-sharing payouts to thousands of workers.\n\nLast month, GM cautioned that the poor performance of its Chinese joint ventures would force it to write down assets and take a restructuring charge totalling more than $5 billion (\u20ac4.8bn) in the fourth quarter.\n\nChina has become an increasingly difficult market for foreign automakers, with BYD and other domestic companies raising the quality of their vehicles and reducing costs. The country has subsidised its automakers.\n\nFor the three months to 31 December, GM lost $2.96bn (\u20ac2.84bn), or $1.64 per share (\u20ac1.57). A year earlier the company earned $2.1bn (\u20ac2.01bn), or $1.59 per share (\u20ac1.52).\n\nStripping out the charges and other items, GM earned $1.92 per share in the quarter (\u20ac1.84). That topped the $1.85 per share (\u20ac1.77) that analysts surveyed by FactSet predicted.\n\nRevenue climbed to $47.7bn (\u20ac45.72bn) from $42.98bn (\u20ac41.12bn), beating Wall Street's estimate of $44.98bn (\u20ac43.12bn).\n\nIn a letter to shareholders, CEO Mary Barra, said that GM doubled its electric vehicle market share over the course of 2024 as it scaled production. She noted that China had positive equity income in the fourth quarter before restructuring costs and that GM is taking steps with its partner to improve from there.\n\nIn the US, Barra said that hourly employees once again earned the industry\u2019s highest profit sharing, totalling more than $640 million (\u20ac613.53mn).\n\nWorkers will receive a payout of up to $14,500 (\u20ac13,899) per person, which Barra said is equal to more than two months of extra pay on average for its United Auto Workers-represented employees.\n\nBarra said that while there's uncertainty over trade, tax, and environmental regulations in the United States, GM has been proactive with Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump.\n\n\u201cIn our conversations, we have stressed the importance of a strong manufacturing sector and American leadership in advanced technologies,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that we share a lot of common ground, and we appreciate the dialogue.\u201d\n\nWedbush's Dan Ives said in a note to clients that GM delivered a strong end to 2024 and is continuing to see major benefits from its investments.\n\n\u201cWe believe this was another major step in the right direction as management continues to navigate the choppy waters in this EV macro while the turnaround story for GM continues with management successfully balancing production and profitability to generate durable profitable growth over the coming years,\u201d Ives wrote.\n\nThis year, GM will offer three new Cadillac EVs, the Escalade IQ, Optiq and Vistiq.\n\nBarra said that the automaker will also see the full-year impact of new gas-powered SUVs launched in 2024, which includes the Chevrolet Equinox, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia.\n\nBarra noted that regardless of what happens in the US, GM has \u201ca broad and deep portfolio of ICE vehicles and EVs that are both growing market share, and we\u2019ll be agile and execute as efficiently as possible\".\n\nLooking ahead, GM anticipates 2025 adjusted earnings in a range of $11 to $12 per share (\u20ac10.54 to \u20ac11.50).\n\nAnalysts surveyed by FactSet are calling for full-year earnings of $10.86 (\u20ac10.41) per share.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The automaker is also taking a proactive approach with the United States government on regulations and doling out generous profit-sharing payouts to thousands of workers.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, GM cautioned that the poor performance of its Chinese joint ventures would force it to write down assets and take a restructuring charge totalling more than $5 billion (\u20ac4.8bn) in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>China has become an increasingly difficult market for foreign automakers, with BYD and other domestic companies raising the quality of their vehicles and reducing costs. The country has subsidised its automakers.<\/p>\n<p>For the three months to 31 December, GM lost $2.96bn (\u20ac2.84bn), or $1.64 per share (\u20ac1.57). A year earlier the company earned $2.1bn (\u20ac2.01bn), or $1.59 per share (\u20ac1.52).<\/p>\n<p>Stripping out the charges and other items, GM earned $1.92 per share in the quarter (\u20ac1.84). That topped the $1.85 per share (\u20ac1.77) that analysts surveyed by FactSet predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue climbed to $47.7bn (\u20ac45.72bn) from $42.98bn (\u20ac41.12bn), beating Wall Street's estimate of $44.98bn (\u20ac43.12bn).<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to shareholders, CEO Mary Barra, said that GM doubled its electric vehicle market share over the course of 2024 as it scaled production. She noted that China had positive equity income in the fourth quarter before restructuring costs and that GM is taking steps with its partner to improve from there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8890180,8854344\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//04//general-motors-takes-billion-dollar-hit-over-losses-in-china/">General Motors takes billion-dollar hit over losses in China<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//11//15//general-motors-lays-off-about-1000-workers-to-compete-in-crowded-automobile-market/">General Motors lays off about 1,000 workers to compete in crowded automobile market<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the US, Barra said that hourly employees once again earned the industry\u2019s highest profit sharing, totalling more than $640 million (\u20ac613.53mn).<\/p>\n<p>Workers will receive a payout of up to $14,500 (\u20ac13,899) per person, which Barra said is equal to more than two months of extra pay on average for its United Auto Workers-represented employees.<\/p>\n<p>Barra said that while there's uncertainty over trade, tax, and environmental regulations in the United States, GM has been proactive with Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our conversations, we have stressed the importance of a strong manufacturing sector and American leadership in advanced technologies,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that we share a lot of common ground, and we appreciate the dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wedbush's Dan Ives said in a note to clients that GM delivered a strong end to 2024 and is continuing to see major benefits from its investments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe this was another major step in the right direction as management continues to navigate the choppy waters in this EV macro while the turnaround story for GM continues with management successfully balancing production and profitability to generate durable profitable growth over the coming years,\u201d Ives wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This year, GM will offer three new Cadillac EVs, the Escalade IQ, Optiq and Vistiq.<\/p>\n<p>Barra said that the automaker will also see the full-year impact of new gas-powered SUVs launched in 2024, which includes the Chevrolet Equinox, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia.<\/p>\n<p>Barra noted that regardless of what happens in the US, GM has \u201ca broad and deep portfolio of ICE vehicles and EVs that are both growing market share, and we\u2019ll be agile and execute as efficiently as possible\".<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, GM anticipates 2025 adjusted earnings in a range of $11 to $12 per share (\u20ac10.54 to \u20ac11.50).<\/p>\n<p>Analysts surveyed by FactSet are calling for full-year earnings of $10.86 (\u20ac10.41) per share.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738074923,"updatedAt":1738077100,"publishedAt":1738077096,"firstPublishedAt":1738077096,"lastPublishedAt":1738077096,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/09\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_70daa126-08c9-5f00-8e3f-35815cd60758-9010972.jpg","altText":"A 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD Custom truck is shown at the Pittsburgh International Auto Show in Pittsburgh. 15 Feb 2024.","caption":"A 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD Custom truck is shown at the Pittsburgh International Auto Show in Pittsburgh. 15 Feb 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Gene J. 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Microsoft TikTok","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Microsoft is eyeing a potential bid to buy TikTok, says Donald Trump","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Microsoft is a potential buyer for TikTok, claims Trump","titleListing2":"Microsoft is a potential buyer for TikTok, according to Donald Trump","leadin":"The new US president told journalists onboard Air Force One on Monday that the Big Tech giant was eyeing a bid for the popular entertainment app.","summary":"The new US president told journalists onboard Air Force One on Monday that the Big Tech giant was eyeing a bid for the popular entertainment app.","keySentence":"","url":"microsoft-is-eyeing-a-potential-bid-to-buy-tiktok-says-donald-trump","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2025\/01\/28\/microsoft-is-eyeing-a-potential-bid-to-buy-tiktok-says-donald-trump","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Microsoft is among the US companies looking to take control of TikTok to help the popular app avert an effective ban that could kick-in in April, US president Donald Trump said on Monday evening.\n\n\"I would say yes,\" Trump told journalists when asked if Microsoft was one of the companies interested in helping to bring about a new ownership of TikTok, a requirement set by Congress to keep the app functioning in the US.\n\nTrump added that other companies were also interested in purchasing TikTok, but wouldn\u2019t provide a list.\n\n\"I like bidding wars because you make your best deals,\" Trump said as he spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying back to Washington DC from Miami, where Republican House members were holding a conference.\n\nMicrosoft declined to comment. \n\nRepresentatives for TikTok also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nTikTok law extension\n\nIn one of his first acts in office last week, Trump extended the deadline for TikTok to find new ownership that satisfies the government by 75 days, to April 4 from January 19.\n\nThe president has said that he\u2019s looking for the ultimate purchaser to give the US a 50 per cent stake in the company, which China-based ByteDance owns. But the details remain murky, and it's unclear whether he's proposing control of the app by the government or another US entity.\n\nLast week, the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Perplexity AI presented a new proposal to ByteDance that would allow the US government to own up to 50 per cent of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok\u2019s US business, according to a person familiar with the matter.\n\nSeveral other investors - including billionaire Frank McCourt and Trump's former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin - have spoken publicly about their desire to purchase TikTok's US platform. \n\nTrump has also said he\u2019s spoken to \"many people\" privately about the company.\n\nAfter the bipartisan law was signed by former president Joe Biden in April, ByteDance said it did not have plans to sell the platform and fought the statute in court for months.\n\nTrump's U-turn on a TikTok ban\n\nChina also rebuked Washington over the divestment push, though more recently it appears to be softening its stance.\n\nIn media interviews last week, Bill Ford, the chairman of the global investing firm General Atlantic and a ByteDance board member, said the company is prepared to engage with the Trump administration and Chinese officials to find a solution that keeps TikTok available. \n\nHe also floated the idea that there could be a solution short of a full divesture by ByteDance.\n\nLawmakers and officials in both parties have raised national security concerns about Chinese ownership and potential manipulation on the immensely popular platform, which is used by more than 170 million US users.\n\nTrump was in favour of a TikTok ban before he reversed his position last year. He credits the platform with helping him win more young voters during the recent presidential election.\n\nMicrosoft, along with Walmart, made a failed bid for TikTok during Trump\u2019s first term after Trump tried to ban the app. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella later described it as the \"strangest thing I\u2019ve ever worked on\".\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Microsoft is among the US companies looking to take control of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//17//which-countries-have-banned-tiktok-cybersecurity-data-privacy-espionage-fears/">TikTok to help the popular app avert an effective ban that could kick-in in April, US president Donald Trump said on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\"I would say yes,\" Trump told journalists when asked if Microsoft was one of the companies interested in helping to bring about a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//28//from-mrbeast-to-elon-musk-who-is-in-the-running-to-buy-tiktok/">new ownership of TikTok<\/strong><\/a>, a requirement set by Congress to keep the app functioning in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Trump added that other companies were also interested in purchasing TikTok, but wouldn\u2019t provide a list.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9001946\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2025//01//28//from-mrbeast-to-elon-musk-who-is-in-the-running-to-buy-tiktok/">From MrBeast to Elon Musk, who is in the running to buy TikTok?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I like bidding wars because you make your best deals,\" Trump said as he spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying back to Washington DC from Miami, where Republican House members were holding a conference.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft declined to comment. <\/p>\n<p>Representatives for TikTok also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<h2>TikTok law extension<\/h2><p>In one of his first acts in office last week, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//19//trump-says-hell-issue-an-executive-order-on-monday-to-get-tiktok-back-up/">Trump extended the deadline<\/strong><\/a> for TikTok to find new ownership that satisfies the government by 75 days, to April 4 from January 19.<\/p>\n<p>The president has said that he\u2019s looking for the ultimate purchaser to give the US a 50 per cent stake in the company, which China-based ByteDance owns. But the details remain murky, and it's unclear whether he's proposing control of the app by the government or another US entity.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//27//us-owned-perplexity-ai-offers-new-plan-to-take-a-half-share-in-tiktok/">Perplexity AI<\/strong><\/a> presented a new proposal to ByteDance that would allow the US government to own up to 50 per cent of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok\u2019s US business, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9006134\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//27//people-post-tiktok-loaded-phones-for-thousands-on-ebay-facebook/">People post TikTok-loaded phones for thousands on eBay, Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Several other investors - including billionaire Frank McCourt and Trump's former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin - have spoken publicly about <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//19//inappropriate-and-dangerous-what-will-happen-if-tiktok-is-bought-by-tech-billionaires/">their desire to purchase TikTok's US platform<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has also said he\u2019s spoken to \"many people\" privately about the company.<\/p>\n<p>After the bipartisan law was signed by former president Joe Biden in April, ByteDance said it did not have plans to sell the platform and fought the statute in court for months.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump's U-turn on a TikTok ban<\/h2><p>China also rebuked Washington over the divestment push, though more recently it appears to be softening its stance.<\/p>\n<p>In media interviews last week, Bill Ford, the chairman of the global investing firm General Atlantic and a ByteDance board member, said the company is prepared to engage with the Trump administration and Chinese officials to find a solution that keeps TikTok available. <\/p>\n<p>He also floated the idea that there could be a solution short of a full divesture by ByteDance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8984664\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//19//inappropriate-and-dangerous-what-will-happen-if-tiktok-is-bought-by-tech-billionaires/">'Inappropriate and dangerous': What will happen if TikTok is bought by tech billionaires?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lawmakers and officials in both parties have raised national security concerns about Chinese ownership and potential manipulation on the immensely popular platform, which is used by more than 170 million US users.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was in favour of a TikTok ban before <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//20//donald-trumps-tiktok-shift-from-backing-a-ban-to-being-hailed-a-saviour/">he reversed his position<\/strong><\/a> last year. He credits the platform with helping him win more young voters during the recent presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, along with Walmart, made a failed bid for TikTok during Trump\u2019s first term after Trump tried to ban the app. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella later described it as the \"strangest thing I\u2019ve ever worked on\".<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738073160,"updatedAt":1738075645,"publishedAt":1738075311,"firstPublishedAt":1738075311,"lastPublishedAt":1738075311,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/07\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_99bdc0ad-6737-5b0d-9fd3-f2d5ad81c840-9010788.jpg","altText":"The TikTok logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen which displays the TikTok home screen, on March 18, 2023.","caption":"The TikTok logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen which displays the TikTok home screen, on March 18, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Michael Dwyer\/AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1599,"height":929}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":18960,"slug":"tiktok","urlSafeValue":"tiktok","title":"TikTok","titleRaw":"TikTok"},{"id":28570,"slug":"tiktok-ban","urlSafeValue":"tiktok-ban","title":"TikTok ban ","titleRaw":"TikTok ban "},{"id":12052,"slug":"social-media","urlSafeValue":"social-media","title":"Social Media","titleRaw":"Social Media"},{"id":389,"slug":"technology","urlSafeValue":"technology","title":"Technology","titleRaw":"Technology"},{"id":11900,"slug":"donald-trump","urlSafeValue":"donald-trump","title":"Donald Trump","titleRaw":"Donald Trump"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":3}],"related":[{"id":2737952},{"id":2730870},{"id":2737926}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews with AP","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/tech-news\/tech-news"},"vertical":"next","verticals":[{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"},"themes":[{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","url":"\/next\/tech-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":40,"urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84111001","84112005","84211001","84212001","84241001","84242001"],"slugs":["law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_politics","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general","technology_and_computing","technology_and_computing_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/next\/2025\/01\/28\/microsoft-is-eyeing-a-potential-bid-to-buy-tiktok-says-donald-trump","lastModified":1738075311},{"id":2740972,"cid":9009836,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"250128_NWSU_57618955","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"What are tariffs and how do they work?","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"The US is threatening global tariffs: What are they and how do they work?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"What are tariffs and how do they work?","titleListing2":"What are tariffs and how do they work?","leadin":"The United States in recent years has gradually retreated from its post-World War II role of promoting global free trade and lower tariffs. That shift has been a response to the loss of US manufacturing jobs, widely attributed to unfettered tree trade and an increasingly powerful China.","summary":"The United States in recent years has gradually retreated from its post-World War II role of promoting global free trade and lower tariffs. That shift has been a response to the loss of US manufacturing jobs, widely attributed to unfettered tree trade and an increasingly powerful China.","keySentence":"","url":"the-us-is-threatening-global-tariffs-what-are-they-and-how-do-they-work","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/01\/28\/the-us-is-threatening-global-tariffs-what-are-they-and-how-do-they-work","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Tariffs are in the news at the moment, as President Trump puts them at the top of his list of potential punishments. Here's what they are and what you need to know about them:\n\nTariffs are a tax on imports\n\nTariffs are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer pays a foreign seller. In the United States, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border Protection agents at 328 ports of entry across the country.\n\nUS tariff rates vary: They are generally 2.5% on passenger cars, for instance, and 6% on golf shoes. Tariffs can be lower for countries with which the United States has trade agreements. For example, most goods can move among the US, Mexico and Canada, tariff-free because of Trump's US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.\n\nMainstream economists are generally skeptical of tariffs, considering them a mostly inefficient way for governments to raise money and promote prosperity.\n\nThe misinformation about who actually pays tariffs\n\nPresident Donald Trump, a proponent of tariffs, insists that they are paid for by foreign countries. In fact, its is importers - American companies - that pay tariffs, and the money goes to the US Treasury. Those companies, in turn, typically pass their higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. That's why economists say consumers usually end up footing the bill for tariffs.\n\nStill, tariffs can hurt foreign countries by making their products pricier and harder to sell abroad. Foreign companies might have to cut prices - and sacrifice profits - to offset the tariffs and try to maintain their market share in the United States. Yang Zhou, an economist at Shanghai's Fudan University, concluded in a study that Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods inflicted more than three times as much damage to the Chinese economy as they did to the US economy.\n\nWhat has Trump said about tariffs?\n\nTrump has said tariffs will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to subsidise childcare.\n\n\"Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented\", Trump said at a rally in Flint, Michigan, during his presidential campaign.\n\nAs president, Trump imposed tariffs with a flourish - targeting imported solar panels, steel, aluminium and pretty much everything from China.\n\n\"Tariff Man\", he called himself.\n\nTrump promised even more and higher tariffs in second term\n\nThe United States in recent years has gradually retreated from its post-World War II role of promoting global free trade and lower tariffs. That shift has been a response to the loss of US manufacturing jobs, widely attributed to unfettered tree trade and an increasingly powerful China.\n\nTariffs are intended mainly to protect domestic industries\n\nBy raising the price of imports, tariffs can protect home-grown manufacturers. They may also serve to punish foreign countries for committing unfair trade practices, like subsidising their exporters or dumping products at unfairly low prices.\n\nBefore the federal income tax was established in 1913, tariffs were a major revenue driver for the government. From 1790 to 1860, tariffs accounted for 90% of federal revenue, according to Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth College economist who has studied the history of trade policy.\n\nTariffs fell out of favour as global trade grew after World War II. The government needed vastly bigger revenue streams to finance its operations.\n\nIn the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the government collected around $80 billion (\u20ac76 billion) in tariffs and fees. That\u2019s a trifle next to the $2.5 trillion (\u20ac2.4 trillion) that comes from individual income taxes and the $1.7 trillion (\u20ac1.6 trillion) from Social Security and Medicare taxes.\n\nStill, Trump wants to enact a budget policy that resembles what was in place in the 19th century.\n\nTariffs can also be used to pressure other countries on issues that may or may not be related to trade. In 2019, for example, Trump used the threat of tariffs as leverage to persuade Mexico to crack down on waves of Central American migrants crossing Mexican territory on their way to the United States.\n\nTrump even sees tariffs as a way to prevent wars\n\n\"I can do it with a phone call\", he said at an August rally in North Carolina.\n\nIf another country tries to start a war, he said he\u2019d issue a threat: \"We're going to charge you 100% tariffs. And all of a sudden, the president or prime minister or dictator or whoever the hell is running the country says to me: 'Sir, we won't go to war'.\"\n\nEconomists generally consider tariffs self-defeating\n\nTariffs raise costs for companies and consumers that rely on imports. They're also likely to provoke retaliation.\n\nThe European Union, for example, punched back against Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium by taxing US products, from bourbon to Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Likewise, China responded to Trump's trade war by slapping tariffs on American goods, including soybeans and pork in a calculated drive to hurt his supporters in farm country.\n\nA study by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, Harvard and the World Bank concluded that Trump's tariffs failed to restore jobs to the American heartland. The tariffs \"neither raised nor lowered US employment\" where they were supposed to protect jobs, the study found.\n\nDespite Trump's 2018 taxes on imported steel, for example, the number of jobs at US steel plants barely budged: They remained right around 140,000. By comparison, Walmart alone employs 1.6 million people in the United States.\n\nWorse, the retaliatory taxes imposed by China and other nations on US goods had \"negative employment impacts\", especially for farmers, the study found. These retaliatory tariffs were only partly offset by billions in government aid that Trump doled out to farmers. The Trump tariffs also damaged companies that relied on targeted imports.\n\nIf Trump's trade war fizzled as policy, though, it succeeded as politics. The study found that support for Trump and Republican congressional candidates rose in areas most exposed to the import tariffs - the industrial Midwest and manufacturing-heavy Southern states like North Carolina and Tennessee.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Tariffs are in the news at the moment, as President Trump puts them at the top of his list of potential punishments. Here's what they are and what you need to know about them:<\/p>\n<h2>Tariffs are a tax on imports<\/h2><p>Tariffs are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer pays a foreign seller. In the United States, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border Protection agents at 328 ports of entry across the country.<\/p>\n<p>US tariff rates vary: They are generally 2.5% on passenger cars, for instance, and 6% on golf shoes. Tariffs can be lower for countries with which the United States has trade agreements. For example, most goods can move among the US, Mexico and Canada, tariff-free because of Trump's US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream economists are generally skeptical of tariffs, considering them a mostly inefficient way for governments to raise money and promote prosperity.<\/p>\n<h2>The misinformation about who actually pays tariffs<\/h2><p>President Donald Trump, a proponent of tariffs, insists that they are paid for by foreign countries. In fact, its is importers - American companies - that pay tariffs, and the money goes to the US Treasury. Those companies, in turn, typically pass their higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. That's why economists say consumers usually end up footing the bill for tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Still, tariffs can hurt foreign countries by making their products pricier and harder to sell abroad. Foreign companies might have to cut prices - and sacrifice profits - to offset the tariffs and try to maintain their market share in the United States. Yang Zhou, an economist at Shanghai's Fudan University, concluded in a study that Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods inflicted more than three times as much damage to the Chinese economy as they did to the US economy.<\/p>\n<h2>What has Trump said about tariffs?<\/h2><p>Trump has said tariffs will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to subsidise childcare.<\/p>\n<p>\"Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented\", Trump said at a rally in Flint, Michigan, during his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>As president, Trump imposed tariffs with a flourish - targeting imported solar panels, steel, aluminium and pretty much everything from China.<\/p>\n<p>\"Tariff Man\", he called himself.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump promised even more and higher tariffs in second term<\/h2><p>The United States in recent years has gradually retreated from its post-World War II role of promoting global free trade and lower tariffs. That shift has been a response to the loss of US manufacturing jobs, widely attributed to unfettered tree trade and an increasingly powerful China.<\/p>\n<h2>Tariffs are intended mainly to protect domestic industries<\/h2><p>By raising the price of imports, tariffs can protect home-grown manufacturers. They may also serve to punish foreign countries for committing unfair trade practices, like subsidising their exporters or dumping products at unfairly low prices.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8998628,9001094\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//25//trumps-davos-speech-debunked-should-europe-really-fear-the-tariff-announcements/">Donald Trump\u2019s Davos speech: Should Europe really fear tariffs? <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//23//invest-in-us-or-face-tariffs-trump-tells-davos/">Invest in US or face tariffs, Trump tells Davos<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Before the federal income tax was established in 1913, tariffs were a major revenue driver for the government. From 1790 to 1860, tariffs accounted for 90% of federal revenue, according to Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth College economist who has studied the history of trade policy.<\/p>\n<p>Tariffs fell out of favour as global trade grew after World War II. The government needed vastly bigger revenue streams to finance its operations.<\/p>\n<p>In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the government collected around $80 billion (\u20ac76 billion) in tariffs and fees. That\u2019s a trifle next to the $2.5 trillion (\u20ac2.4 trillion) that comes from individual income taxes and the $1.7 trillion (\u20ac1.6 trillion) from Social Security and Medicare taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump wants to enact a budget policy that resembles what was in place in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>Tariffs can also be used to pressure other countries on issues that may or may not be related to trade. In 2019, for example, Trump used the threat of tariffs as leverage to persuade Mexico to crack down on waves of Central American migrants crossing Mexican territory on their way to the United States.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump even sees tariffs as a way to prevent wars<\/h2><p>\"I can do it with a phone call\", he said at an August rally in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>If another country tries to start a war, he said he\u2019d issue a threat: \"We're going to charge you 100% tariffs. And all of a sudden, the president or prime minister or dictator or whoever the hell is running the country says to me: 'Sir, we won't go to war'.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Economists generally consider tariffs self-defeating<\/h2><p>Tariffs raise costs for companies and consumers that rely on imports. They're also likely to provoke retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union, for example, punched back against Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium by taxing US products, from bourbon to Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Likewise, China responded to Trump's trade war by slapping tariffs on American goods, including soybeans and pork in a calculated drive to hurt his supporters in farm country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"3191397\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2018//06//25//harley-davidson-hit-by-eu-tariffs/">Harley-Davidson hit by EU tariffs<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A study by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, Harvard and the World Bank concluded that Trump's tariffs failed to restore jobs to the American heartland. The tariffs \"neither raised nor lowered US employment\" where they were supposed to protect jobs, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump's 2018 taxes on imported steel, for example, the number of jobs at US steel plants barely budged: They remained right around 140,000. By comparison, Walmart alone employs 1.6 million people in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, the retaliatory taxes imposed by China and other nations on US goods had \"negative employment impacts\", especially for farmers, the study found. These retaliatory tariffs were only partly offset by billions in government aid that Trump doled out to farmers. The Trump tariffs also damaged companies that relied on targeted imports.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump's trade war fizzled as policy, though, it succeeded as politics. The study found that support for Trump and Republican congressional candidates rose in areas most exposed to the import tariffs - the industrial Midwest and manufacturing-heavy Southern states like North Carolina and Tennessee.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738061951,"updatedAt":1738070719,"publishedAt":1738070347,"firstPublishedAt":1738070347,"lastPublishedAt":1738070347,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/98\/36\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_13a6e099-ad5f-5221-a691-2df298444153-9009836.jpg","altText":"File picture of the US and EU flags being adjusted ahead of a visit to the EU by a leading US politician ","caption":"File picture of the US and EU flags being adjusted ahead of a visit to the EU by a leading US politician ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Virginia Mayo\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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This has really caught everyone with their pants down,\" said Dr Jeffrey Klausner, a University of Southern California public health expert who collaborates with WHO on work against sexually transmitted infections.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump's retreat from global health initiatives<\/h2><p>It also comes as US President Donald Trump takes other steps to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//11//02//a-trump-win-could-reshape-global-health-is-europe-ready-to-step-up/">retreat from the global health sphere.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has also <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//25//how-trumps-ban-on-funding-for-overseas-abortion-groups-will-transform-global-health/">reinstated the Mexico City Policy<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 which bans the US from funding foreign groups that perform or offer information on abortions \u2013 and frozen funding for PEPFAR (the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), which provides 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TIKTOK BUYERS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"From MrBeast to Elon Musk, who is in the running to buy TikTok?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"From MrBeast to Elon Musk, who is in the running to buy TikTok?","titleListing2":"From MrBeast to Elon Musk, who is in the running to buy TikTok?","leadin":"The countdown is on again for a US-based buyer to take on TikTok, as it faces a ban. Euronews Next takes a look at the contenders to take over the app.","summary":"The countdown is on again for a US-based buyer to take on TikTok, as it faces a ban. Euronews Next takes a look at the contenders to take over the app.","keySentence":"","url":"from-mrbeast-to-elon-musk-who-is-in-the-running-to-buy-tiktok","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2025\/01\/28\/from-mrbeast-to-elon-musk-who-is-in-the-running-to-buy-tiktok","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The clock is ticking - again - to find a buyer for TikTok, the popular short-form video app.\u00a0\n\nByteDance, the Chinese parent company behind the immensely popular app, is required to sell the app to a US-based buyer or face a nationwide ban, according to a law voted last year by the US Congress.\u00a0\n\nPresident Donald Trump has now pushed back the sale of the app by 75 days, after it went offline for a few hours on January 19th.\n\nThe new US president proposed a 50-50 partnership between ByteDance and an American stakeholder.\u00a0\n\nByteDance has repeatedly said it refuses to sell, but that has not stopped potential buyers from coming forward.\u00a0\n\nNow the field of interested people vying for a say in the app is widening.\n\nCalifornia-based Perplexity AI recently submitted a bid to merge with TikTok\u2019s US business and give the government up to 50 per cent shares in that new entity, the Associated Press reported.\u00a0\n\nOther contenders for the platform are politicians, tech billionaires, and a YouTube star.\u00a0\n\nMrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson\n\nOne of the names on the list to invest in TikTok is YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast online.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nHe\u2019s part of a \u201csyndicate of investors\u201d led by Jesse Tinsley, the founder of Recruiter.com, that are proposing an \u201call-cash offer,\u201d according to a statement from US law firm Paul Hastings LLP last week and a post on X.\n\nMatthew Hiltzik, a spokesperson for MrBeast, told the Associated Press that Donaldson is having several ongoing discussions with several buyers, and there are no exclusive agreements with any of them yet.\u00a0\n\nDonaldson first wrote on X that he would consider buying TikTok earlier this month, a few days ahead of the initial ban\u2019s coming into force.\n\nHe claimed in a follow-up post that \u201cso many billionaires\u201d had reached out to him to make the deal happen.\u00a0\n\nIn a follow-up TikTok video on Wednesday, Donaldson said that he \u201cmeans business\u201d and that he has an offer ready for the platform.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe want to buy the platform, America deserves TikTok,\u201d Donaldson said in the video. \u201cGive me a seat at the table, let me save this platform\u201d.\u00a0\n\nDonaldson has since changed his biography on the platform to \u201cfuture CEO of TikTok?\u201d\u00a0\n\nMrBeast is one of the world\u2019s most successful internet creators with over 500 million followers across his various social media platforms.\n\nHe earned about $85 million (\u20ac81.3 million) in 2024, according to an estimate from Forbes.\u00a0\n\nFrank McCourt and The People\u2019s Bid\u00a0\n\nThe first to enter the most recent race for TikTok was billionaire Frank McCourt, a US real estate mogul and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.\u00a0\n\nMcCourt started \u201cThe People\u2019s Bid,\u201d a consortium of law firms, technologists, academics and citizens that want to acquire TikTok with the goal of \u201cplacing people and data empowerment at the centre of the platform\u2019s design and purpose,\u201d in 2024 according to their website reads.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe foundation of our digital infrastructure is broken, and it\u2019s time to fix it,\u201d McCourt said in a May 2024 press release.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe see this potential acquisition as an incredible opportunity to catalyse an alternative to the current tech model that has colonised the internet\u201d.\u00a0\n\nThe group said in December it had secured commitments from investors - which it did not disclose - totalling more than $20 billion (\u20ac19.1 billion) in capital, according to the AP.\u00a0\n\nTrump weighs in on TikTok\n\nIf it was up to President Trump, TikTok would go to Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison.\u00a0\n\nTrump told reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday, shortly after his inauguration, that he would be \u201copen\u201d to Musk or Ellison buying the platform if either of them wants it, according to CNBC.\u00a0\n\nMusk\u2019s name was first floated after Bloomberg reported that Chinese officials were in talks to sell part of the app\u2019s operations in the US to Musk.\u00a0\n\nMusk said on his social media platform X that he\u2019s been against a TikTok ban \u201cfor a long time\u201d because the ban goes against \u201cfreedom of speech\u201d.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThat said, the current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in America, but X is not allowed to operate in China is unbalanced,\" Musk wrote.\u00a0\n\nEllison on the other hand has not publicly commented on a TikTok acquisition this time around, but the company won a bid in 2020 to become the app\u2019s cloud technology provider.\n\nOne condition of the deal was that Oracle became a minority investor in TikTok Global, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said in a press release at the time.\u00a0\n\nCatz added that they were confident they could give a \u201chighly secure environment to TikTok and ensure data privacy to TikTok\u2019s American users\u201d.\n\nOther possible buyers\u00a0\n\nOther potential buyers include Steven Mnuchin, a former US Treasury Secretary, who reaffirmed his desire to invest in the app on CNBC recently.\n\nBobby Kotick, the former chief executive of Activision, could also be in the running, according to reports.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reported last year that Kotick approached OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other investors during a conference dinner to express his interest in acquiring the app.\u00a0\n\nEuronews Next has reached out to TikTok representatives and all the prospective buyers mentioned in this article but did not receive immediate replies.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The clock is ticking - again - to find a buyer for TikTok, the popular short-form video app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ByteDance, the Chinese parent company behind the immensely popular app, is required to sell the app to a US-based buyer or face a nationwide ban, according to a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//04//24//us-senate-passes-legislation-to-force-sale-of-tiktok-under-threat-of-ban/">law voted last year by the US Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has now pushed back the sale of the app by 75 days, after it went offline for a few hours on January 19th.<\/p>\n<p>The new US president proposed a 50-50 partnership between ByteDance and an American stakeholder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9005484\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//27//us-owned-perplexity-ai-offers-new-plan-to-take-a-half-share-in-tiktok/">US-owned Perplexity AI offers new plan to take a half-share in TikTok<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>ByteDance has repeatedly said it refuses to sell, but that has not stopped potential buyers from coming forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now the field of interested people vying for a say in the app is widening.<\/p>\n<p>California-based Perplexity AI recently submitted a bid to merge with TikTok\u2019s US business and give the government up to 50 per cent shares in that new entity, the Associated Press reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders for the platform are politicians, tech billionaires, and a YouTube star.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson<\/h2><p>One of the names on the list to invest in TikTok is YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast online.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s part of a \u201csyndicate of investors\u201d led by Jesse Tinsley, the founder of Recruiter.com, that are proposing an \u201call-cash offer,\u201d according to a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.paulhastings.com//news//paul-hastings-advises-investor-group-on-all-cash-bid-for-tiktoks-u-s-operations/">statement from US law firm Paul Hastings LLP last week and a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Hiltzik, a spokesperson for MrBeast, told the Associated <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//article//mrbeast-buying-tiktok-ban-trump-b4dff88315f192dd6a6f7289fa8db2bc/">Press that Donaldson is having several ongoing discussions with several buyers, and there are no exclusive agreements with any of them yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donaldson first <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////x.com//MrBeast//status//1878995330731299006/">wrote on X that he would consider buying TikTok earlier this month, a few days ahead of the initial ban\u2019s coming into force.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1878995330731299006\"><\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, talks about a possible TikTok acquisition<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He claimed in a follow-up post that \u201cso many billionaires\u201d had reached out to him to make the deal happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up TikTok <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//@mrbeast//video//7460191038293069102?lang=en\%22>video<\/strong><\/a> on Wednesday, Donaldson said that he \u201cmeans business\u201d and that he has an offer ready for the platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to buy the platform, America deserves TikTok,\u201d Donaldson said in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//@mrbeast//video//7460191038293069102?lang=en\%22>video<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cGive me a seat at the table, let me save this platform\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9006134\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//01//27//people-post-tiktok-loaded-phones-for-thousands-on-ebay-facebook/">People post TikTok-loaded phones for thousands on eBay, Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Donaldson has since changed his biography on the platform to \u201cfuture CEO of TikTok?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MrBeast is one of the world\u2019s most successful internet creators with over 500 million followers across his various social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>He earned about $85 million (\u20ac81.3 million) in 2024, according to an estimate from <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.forbes.com//sites//stevenbertoni//2024//10//28//top-creators-2024-the-influencers-turning-buzz-into-billions///">Forbes./u00a0/n
Frank McCourt and The People\u2019s Bid<\/h2><p>The first to enter the most recent race for TikTok was billionaire Frank McCourt, a US real estate mogul and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCourt started \u201cThe People\u2019s Bid,\u201d a consortium of law firms, technologists, academics and citizens that want to acquire TikTok with the goal of \u201cplacing people and data empowerment at the centre of the platform\u2019s design and purpose,\u201d in 2024 according to their website <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.projectliberty.io//peoples-bid-for-tiktok///">reads./u00a0/n
release./u00a0/n
/u201cWe see this potential acquisition as an incredible opportunity to catalyse an alternative to the current tech model that has colonised the internet\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group said in December it had secured commitments from investors - which it did not disclose - totalling more than $20 billion (\u20ac19.1 billion) in capital, according to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//article//tiktok-buyers-divestment-ban-8429dfb422c4cefb6b0807aeb2c5cd56/">AP./u00a0/n
Trump weighs in on TikTok<\/h2><p>If it was up to President Trump, TikTok would go to Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters at a press <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.cnbc.com//2025//01//21//trump-says-hes-open-to-tiktok-sale-to-elon-musk-or-larry-ellison-.html/">briefing on Tuesday, shortly after his inauguration, that he would be \u201copen\u201d to Musk or Ellison buying the platform if either of them wants it, according to CNBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s name was first floated after <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.bloomberg.com//news//articles//2025-01-14//china-discusses-sale-of-tiktok-us-to-musk-as-one-possible-option/">Bloomberg <\/a>reported that Chinese officials were in talks to sell part of the app\u2019s operations in the US to Musk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk said on his social media platform <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////x.com//elonmusk//status//1880975630646612254/">X that he\u2019s been against a TikTok ban \u201cfor a long time\u201d because the ban goes against \u201cfreedom of speech\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1880975630646612254\"><\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Elon Musk on a potential TikTok ban<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat said, the current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in America, but X is not allowed to operate in China is unbalanced,\" Musk wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ellison on the other hand has not publicly commented on a TikTok acquisition this time around, but the company won a bid in 2020 to become the app\u2019s cloud technology <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.oracle.com//news//announcement//oracle-chosen-as-tiktok-secure-cloud-provider-091920///">provider./n
'Inappropriate and dangerous': What will happen if TikTok is bought by tech billionaires?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One condition of the deal was that Oracle became a minority investor in TikTok Global, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said in a press release at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Catz added that they were confident they could give a \u201chighly secure environment to TikTok and ensure data privacy to TikTok\u2019s American users\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>Other possible buyers<\/h2><p>Other potential buyers include Steven Mnuchin, a former US Treasury Secretary, who reaffirmed his desire to invest in the app on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.cnbc.com//video//2025//01//21//steven-mnuchin-on-tiktok-wed-be-very-interested-in-investing-the-business.html/">CNBC recently.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Kotick, the former chief executive of Activision, could also be in the running, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a 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transgender men and women who have volunteered to serve their country. \n\nThe number of transgender service members is a tiny fraction of the 2.1 million in the military, even though it\u2019s become an outsized rallying point for Trump\u2019s second term, as well as Hegseth.\n\nBefore he was named to the post, Hegseth wrote in his book War on Warriors that \u201cfor the recruits, for the military, and primarily for the security of the country, transgender people should never be allowed to serve. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d \n\nIn July 2017, Trump announced via a post on social media he was not going to allow transgender people to serve in the military \u201cin any capacity\u201d. \n\nOver the next two years, his administration worked through the complex details of who would be affected by the ban based on where they were in their surgical transitions and how they identified while facing multiple legal challenges. \n\nIn 2019, the US Supreme Court allowed the administration's ban to stand in part while the legal challenges worked their way through the court system. \n\nOnce Biden took office in 2021, one of his early acts was to overturn the ban, with the Pentagon announcing it would also cover transition medical expenses for troops. \n\nThe number of transgender men and women known to be serving is possibly from around 9,000 to potentially as many as 14,000. The Department of Defence referred queries on the number of transgender service members to the individual services. \n\nLawyers who fought the ban the first time around said they are prepared to rechallenge any prohibition.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon\u2019s policy on transgender men and women in the military, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military service. <\/p>\n<p>The order does not impose an immediate ban but directs the Pentagon to come up with a policy on their service in the armed forces based on military readiness.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had tried to impose a ban on transgender troops during his first term, but it was tangled up in the courts for years before being overturned by former President Joe Biden shortly after he took office.<\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth pendulum swing between the Trump and Biden administrations has left in the balance the transgender men and women who have volunteered to serve their country. <\/p>\n<p>The number of transgender service members is a tiny fraction of the 2.1 million in the military, even though it\u2019s become an outsized rallying point for Trump\u2019s second term, as well as Hegseth.<\/p>\n<p>Before he was named to the post, Hegseth wrote in his book War on Warriors that \u201cfor the recruits, for the military, and primarily for the security of the country, transgender people should never be allowed to serve. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In July 2017, Trump announced via a post on social media he was not going to allow transgender people to serve in the military \u201cin any capacity\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Over the next two years, his administration worked through the complex details of who would be affected by the ban based on where they were in their surgical transitions and how they identified while facing multiple legal challenges. <\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the US Supreme Court allowed the administration's ban to stand in part while the legal challenges worked their way through the court system. <\/p>\n<p>Once Biden took office in 2021, one of his early acts was to overturn the ban, with the Pentagon announcing it would also cover transition medical expenses for troops. <\/p>\n<p>The number of transgender men and women known to be serving is possibly from around 9,000 to potentially as many as 14,000. 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FIRES JAN 6 EMPLOYEES","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Trump Justice Department fires employees involved in criminal investigation against President","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"US Justice Department fires employees that investigated Trump","titleListing2":"Trump Justice Department fires employees involved in criminal investigation against President","leadin":"The action was the latest effort to turn the table on criminal investigations that for years shadowed Trump, resulting in separate indictments that never went to trial and were ultimately abandoned.","summary":"The action was the latest effort to turn the table on criminal investigations that for years shadowed Trump, resulting in separate indictments that never went to trial and were ultimately abandoned.","keySentence":"","url":"trump-justice-department-fires-employees-involved-in-criminal-investigation-against-presid","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-justice-department-fires-employees-involved-in-criminal-investigation-against-presid","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The US Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signalling an early willingness to take action favourable to the president's personal interests.\n\nThe abrupt termination targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department and is consistent with the administration's determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president.\n\nThe move, which follows the reassignment of multiple senior career officials across divisions, was made even though rank-and-file prosecutors by tradition remain with the department across presidential administrations and are not punished by virtue of their involvement in sensitive investigations. The firings are effective immediately.\n\n\u201cToday, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,\u201d said a statement from a Justice Department official. \"In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President\u2019s agenda. This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponisation of government.\u201d\n\nIt was not immediately clear which prosecutors were affected by the order, or how many who worked on the investigations into Trump remained with the department as Trump took office last week. It was also not immediately known how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the terminations by arguing that the department had cast aside civil service protections afforded to federal employees.\n\nOn his first day in office, he issued sweeping pardons and sentence commutations to the more than 1,500 supporters charged in the 6 January riot at the US Capitol, a massive clemency grant that benefited even those found guilty of violent attacks on police, as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of failed plots to keep the Republican in power.\n\nTrump has long sought to exert control over a Justice Department that investigated him both during his first term as well as during the last four years under former Attorney General Merrick Garland. He has repeatedly said he expects loyalty from a law enforcement community trained to put facts, evidence and the law ahead of politics. He's moved to put close allies in high-level positions, including replacing his first FBI director, Christopher Wray, with loyalist Kash Patel.\n\nTrump\u2019s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, said at her confirmation hearing this month that she would not play politics but did not rule out the potential for investigations into Trump adversaries like Smith.\n\nSmith resigned from the department earlier this month after submitting a two-volume report on the twin investigations into Trump's efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election and his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. At least one other key member of the team, Jay Bratt, also retired from the department this month after serving as a lead prosecutor in the classified documents case.\n\nBoth the election interference case and the classified documents prosecution were withdrawn by Smith's team following Trump's presidential win in November, in keeping with longstanding Justice Department policy.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The US Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signalling an early willingness to take action favourable to the president's personal interests.<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt termination targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department and is consistent with the administration's determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which follows the reassignment of multiple senior career officials across divisions, was made even though rank-and-file prosecutors by tradition remain with the department across presidential administrations and are not punished by virtue of their involvement in sensitive investigations. The firings are effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,\u201d said a statement from a Justice Department official. \"In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President\u2019s agenda. This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponisation of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear which prosecutors were affected by the order, or how many who worked on the investigations into Trump remained with the department as Trump took office last week. It was also not immediately known how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the terminations by arguing that the department had cast aside civil service protections afforded to federal employees.<\/p>\n<p>On his first day in office, he issued sweeping pardons and sentence commutations to the more than 1,500 supporters charged in the 6 January riot at the US Capitol, a massive clemency grant that benefited even those found guilty of violent attacks on police, as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of failed plots to keep the Republican in power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//87//32//808x454_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\/John Minchillo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/384x216_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/640x360_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/750x422_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/828x466_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/1080x608_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/1200x675_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/1920x1080_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">AP Photo\/John Minchillo<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Protesters, loyal to then-President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol on 6 January 2021.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Trump has long sought to exert control over a Justice Department that investigated him both during his first term as well as during the last four years under former Attorney General Merrick Garland. He has repeatedly said he expects loyalty from a law enforcement community trained to put facts, evidence and the law ahead of politics. He's moved to put close allies in high-level positions, including replacing his first FBI director, Christopher Wray, with loyalist Kash Patel.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, said at her confirmation hearing this month that she would not play politics but did not rule out the potential for investigations into Trump adversaries like Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Smith resigned from the department earlier this month after submitting a two-volume report on the twin investigations into Trump's efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election and his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. At least one other key member of the team, Jay Bratt, also retired from the department this month after serving as a lead prosecutor in the classified documents case.<\/p>\n<p>Both the election interference case and the classified documents prosecution were withdrawn by Smith's team following Trump's presidential win in November, in keeping with longstanding Justice Department policy.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738030768,"updatedAt":1738031324,"publishedAt":1738031321,"firstPublishedAt":1738031321,"lastPublishedAt":1738031321,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c9021f15-1527-546d-beb5-beb794fc14e2-9008732.jpg","altText":"President Donald Trump speaks at the 2025 House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral..","caption":"President Donald Trump speaks at the 2025 House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral..","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/87\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9a099ceb-8c8c-58f6-a832-d8166a529616-9008732.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":447,"slug":"usa","urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","titleRaw":"USA"},{"id":24660,"slug":"capitol-riots","urlSafeValue":"capitol-riots","title":"Capitol Riots","titleRaw":"Capitol Riots"},{"id":11900,"slug":"donald-trump","urlSafeValue":"donald-trump","title":"Donald Trump","titleRaw":"Donald Trump"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2739534},{"id":2737926},{"id":2736662}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80022004","80023001","84041001","84042001","84111001","84112004","84112005","84211001","84212001"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","careers","careers_general","celebrity_gossip","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_issues","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_politics","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-justice-department-fires-employees-involved-in-criminal-investigation-against-presid","lastModified":1738031321}]" data-api-url="">
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