Katti Gray

Opinion | Trump Thought He Was Leading on Trade. No One Is Following.

Trump Thought He Was Leading on Trade. No One Is Following. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

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Opinion | The Trump Choice That’s Uniting Many Economists Against It

Excerpt: Dr. Antoni took the time to publish a report that purported to find that “the American economy has actually been in recession since 2022.” ... problem was his measure effectively double-counted housing inflation, making the inflation rate artificially higher and growth artificially lower.

Opinion | Trump Thinks He Is the C.E.O. of Everything. Awesome.

Excerpt: Mr. Trump’s view ... doesn’t always line up ... He loosens environmental regulations — after companies have already spent billions to meet them. Then there’s his distorted aversion to clean energy even as ... the deep-red state of Texas leads the nation in wind and solar energy production.

What Is Trump’s Net Worth? Here’s What We Know and Can’t Know. Though some aspects of the president’s net worth are murky, it has unmistakably soared in the early months of his second term.

Excerpt: Mr. Trump also controls his own stash of more than 15 billion World Liberty tokens, according to his most recent disclosure ... For now, owning them simply allows holders to vote on some of World Liberty Financial’s business decisions.

Her dogs kept dying, and she got cancer. Then they tested her water. Residents of Elkton, Maryland, worry about the “forever chemicals” in their water but say W.L. Gore & Associates has always been a good neighbor.

Excerpt: Then in 2023 she received a phone call from W.L. Gore & Associates, which makes waterproof membranes such as Gore-Tex and a host of other products. Gore wanted to test Blankenship’s well water for PFOA, a highly toxic “forever chemical” that was used to make PTFE, commonly known as Teflon.

Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

The USDA Wouldn’t Let Her Give Up Her House When She Couldn’t Pay Her Mortgage. Instead, It Crushed Her With Debt. The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional de...

Excerpt: Nearly all of the foreclosures filed by the USDA in recent months have targeted Maine’s poorest rural residents.

Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under T...

Excerpt: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is preparing to shut down seven major investigations and cases concerning alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where the agency already found civil rights violations, according to HUD records ...

George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign. When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may b...

Asked why he agreed to speak out publicly when so many presidents have stayed silent to avoid angering the administration, Washington said the attacks were too personal to avoid. “My philosophy is: Sunlight is disinfectant. We’re going to be transparent with the community throughout the process.”

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaners to U.S. as Refugees Next Week

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaners to U.S. as Refugees Next Week www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under Trump The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk’s allies and employees who hold government positions. Supporters say he has the best ...

Musk Is Positioned to Profit Off Billions in New Government Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

Trump Administration Lifts Ban on Sugar Company Central Romana Over Forced Labor Labor groups said working conditions had not changed enough to warrant the removal. The company is partly owned by donors to President Trump.

Trump Administration Quietly Lifted Ban on Dominican Sugar Company [Domino brand] Over Forced Labor www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/b...

For Google, health equity becomes 'health optimization' as Trump targets DEI Google recently revised its websites and changed a senior executive's title to downplay its commitment to health equity.

For Google, health equity becomes ‘health optimization’ as Trump targets DEI www.statnews.com/2025/03/10/g... via @statnews.com

8 Kids on What They Saved From the L.A. Fires The New York Times for Kids asked young people whose lives changed in an instant about what they kept, and what they lost.

8 Kids on What They Saved From the L.A. Fires www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/m...

Protect NOAA: Our Safety in a Climate-Changed World Depend on It President Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That would eliminate free public access to weather forecasts, hurricane tracking, wildfire a...

President Trump & Elon Musk want to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That would eliminate free public access to weather forecasts, hurricane tracking, and wildfire alerts. Act now to protect NOAA! act.ucsusa.org/3D9MkPy

Musk associates granted access to confidential info about X's competitors With Elon Musk's social media platform X poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about X's competito...

Musk associates granted access to confidential info about X's competitors
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