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NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

NEW: World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Has Made It Harder to Fight Crime, Police Say - by me and David Yaffe-Bellany www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."

Was last week's wildfire smoke worse than the orange skies across the Northeastern U.S. in 2023? For lots of places, it was. (Free link) nyti.ms/4fvj9FI

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office. (July 2026) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

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How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency The Commodity Futures Trading Commission purged its ranks, dialed back its enforcement and boosted industries in which President Trump’s family is heavily invested. (May 2026) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected (Sept 2025) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal A small company that has been manufacturing motors domestically for only a few weeks and has Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser won a parts order from the Army. (Oct 2025) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy (Nov 2025) Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

JUST POSTED: A deep investigation by The NYT of shortcuts taken to get President Trump his Qatari-donated plane in time for POTUS to show it off during 250th anniversary events-compromises that leave the plane more vulnerable to potential threats (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

This is part of a running series examining ways that the Trump family is positioned to profit from the policies Trump is pushing as president. Sector, after sector--in a way that has no precedent in American history. Here is another recent piece we did from June www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

From the Aug. 1 BusinessWeek by @timobrien.bsky.social How Trump Became ‘Grifter-in-Chief’: Let Us Count the Ways Donald Trump and his family are setting a new standard for how to profit off a presidency. Cites some of our NYT reporting (Free link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And that is not all. Peter Thiel is in the game--big time. Jared Kusher has ties to key players Tech giants that bankrolled Trump stand to profit too. Nuclear energy may help power the world. But there is $$$$ to be made too A NYT overview of the playing field www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

Today, with my colleague Kate Kelly, we examine how President Trump himself stands to profit from the intense push he is helping orchestrate to expand nuclear power in the U.S. & around the world His sons are in the game too. And the sons of Commerce Sec Lutnick www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

NUCLEAR CASH President Trump, his family and his circle of advisers have monetized crypto, the predictions markets, the data center boom & rare-earths mining. Now they are seeing there's money to be made in a new vector: The nuclear industry. The NYT takes a look www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

In December over 1,000 Chinese fishing boats lined up to form an L shape in the seas north of Taiwan. Over the next few months they coalesced again on four more occasions. Our animated maps visualise the unprecedented activity bit.ly/4wP6qoq

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One thing not in this story is that the Qatari retrofitted plane does not have in-air refueling capacity like the existing Air Force 1 jets do. The new AF1s Boeing is building, as a cost-saving measure, also don't have that capacity. So we did not get that missing feature in this story

The story also points: government spent hundreds of millions of additionaldollars to purchase equipment needed to train pilots to fly the 747-8 plane so quickly. The Pentagon tried to mask the total price tag — including from Congress — by taking $$ from classified budget for nuclear modernization.