In the 5 months since President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, Amazon quietly raised prices on low-cost products such as deodorant, protein shakes and pet care items, a WSJ analysis of nearly 2,500 items found. www.wsj.com/business/ret...

How Sam Altman Outfoxed Elon Musk to Become Trump’s AI Buddy www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-...

Trump told WSJ he was preparing to file a lawsuit if it published an article. “I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” he said. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Major story from @khadeejasafdar.bsky.social & Joe Palazzolo Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

In 2018, Kerr County debated installing flood sirens, but the $1 million pricetag was considered too high. “Trying not to raise taxes,” a commissioner said. And this year, the Texas Legislature didn’t pass a bill to help fund outdoor sirens. Free link: www.wsj.com/us-news/offi...

President Trump ridicules Elon Musk’s “America Party” plan, while the Tesla CEO claims it would restore “freedom” to voters.

My newest: A DOGE Member Pitched an Investment Strategy to Keep Fund Solvent by Using S&P 500 equity. It Went Nowhere. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin Try to Capitalize on Trump-Musk Split w/ Josh Dawsey & @micahmaidenberg.bsky.social www.wsj.com/business/jef...

Exclusive: Jeff Bezos is emerging as a potential winner from President Trump and Elon Musk’s breakup.

Scoop: JD Vance and Susie Wiles called Musk on Friday and encouraged him to repair his relationship with Trump -- after everything went South. www.wsj.com/politics/mus...

New: X’s Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We’ll Sue. How Elon Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform w/ Suzanne Vranica and Jessica Toonkel www.wsj.com/business/med...

UFO myths gripped America for decades, and the Pentagon finally figured out where a lot of them came from. It was the Pentagon. 🔗: https://on.wsj.com/4kz4Cdq

Scoop: Homeland Security and the Justice Department kept tabs on foreign nationals visiting Musk’s properties in 2022 and 2023, reflecting concerns about influence w/ @mhackman.bsky.social‬ Josh Dawsey @emilyglazer.bsky.social & Aruna Viswanatha www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

FTC Seeks Information From Top Advertising Agencies as Part of Ad-Boycott Probe www.wsj.com/business/med...

Some gems in this story. The Day That Trump and Musk Torched Their Partnership www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

“Was it all bullshit?” Trump asked aides about Elon’s vow to cut $1 trillion. Inside Trump and Musk’s complicated relationship, w/lots of scenes inside the White House, w/ Josh Dawsey & Annie Linskey www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Elon Musk wasn't happy about Stargate UAE. On a call w/ G42, Musk warned those assembled: Their plan had no chance of Trump signing off on it unless his company xAI was included in the deal. Scoop w/ @eliotwb.bsky.social + Josh Dawsey www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

Kohl’s CEO Ashley Buchanan and Chandra Holt lived together in Texas but kept their relationship quiet as their interests became intertwined at several retail chains

👀 “In terms of political spending, I’m going to do a lot less in the future,” Elon Musk said in a video interview at the Qatar Economic Forum. “I think I’ve done enough.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Walmart Plans to Raise Prices Because of Tariffs www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs www.wsj.com/tech/apple-i...

“Musk Above the Law” examined Elon Musk’s use of drugs, his secret conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his deep ties with Tesla’s board of directors. The series won the WSJ the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Read the series:

WSJ Scoop: With Tesla’s profits sinking and some investors worried about Elon Musk’s White House focus, the company’s board got serious about looking for a CEO to succeed Musk www.wsj.com/business/aut...

WSJ fronts its Elon/“harem drama” piece: @wsj.com @danamattioli.bsky.social www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

"To reach legion-level before the apocalypse," Musk told one of the mothers in a text viewed by WSJ, "we will need to use surrogates." He also told her to have a C-section so that the baby would have a larger brain and not to circumcize the baby. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

“Musk has said he is concerned about what he called Third World countries having higher birthrates than the U.S. and Europe, a person familiar with the conversation said.”

“Birchall was involved in acquiring the property for a compound in Austin where Musk imagined the women and his growing number of babies would all live among multiple residences, according to a person familiar with the matter.”

Hell of a story here: To "reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” Musk has used his wealth to bully and buy the silence of women who have his kids

New from me: The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

This is like Florida right before a hurricane hits, but instead of bottled water and AA batteries, it's yoga pants and avocados. Gift link ⤵️ www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

Law Firm Kirkland & Ellis in Talks With White House to Avoid Executive Order www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Today’s show: Bezos 2.0 in Trump 2.0. Special thanks to @danamattioli.bsky.social and @davidmaraniss.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/wha...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

A lawyer at Interpublic got a call in December from a lawyer at X. The message: Get your clients to spend more on Musk’s platform, or else. Interpublic interpreted the communications as reminders that its merger could be killed because of Musk's proximity to Trump www.wsj.com/business/med...

Some tax professionals keep crunching numbers at more than 100 years old https://on.wsj.com/3EUyFfE

When Melania Trump sold her documentary, Netflix & Apple passed. Disney offered $14M. After Bezos dined w/ the Trumps, Amazon - a company notorious for frugality - offered 3 times its nearest competitor, an eye-popping $40M. Melania is getting more than 70% of that sum. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

A consortium led by Elon Musk has made an unsolicited bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Huge scoop by @jtoonkel and @berber_jin1 www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

Currently reading The Everything War, by @danamattioli.bsky.social Excellent, so far, as she makes sure to not deliver a character assassination and stick to the premise on the cover. 👏🏼👏🏼

NEW via @wsj.com's @danamattioli.bsky.social, Suzanne Vranica & Jessica Toonkel: "#Amazon Raises Its Ad Spending on Elon #Musk's X, in Major Reversal Shift occurs after many brands cut advertising [there] over hate-speech concerns; #Apple considers a return to site" www.wsj.com/business/med...

“Our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even,” Musk said in an email to staff this month, which was reviewed by WSJ. www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

Holy cow. Executives at CBS’s parent company have discussed settling Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News/60 Minutes, because they need the Trump administration to sign off on a planned corporate merger. www.wsj.com/business/med...

NEW: An increasing number of people are leaving their biggest asset unprotected. Not new: Climate change is a personal finance issue. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

scoop: The Washington Post today is unveiling a new mission statement that has been in the works for months www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...

NEWS: More than 400 WashPost journalists - including some of its most distinguished reporters & editors - have sent plea to owner Jeff Bezos to intervene. This petition was sent last night and disclosed by NPR. While not citing CEO Will Lewis by name, it casts a harsh light on his leadership/more

From my story: 300,000 people canceled digital subscriptions to Wash Post between Oct 24, when NPR revealed Bezos’s decision to kill a planned endorsement of VP Harris, and Election Night

Heard on the Street: Big retailers like Walmart and Amazon already dominate Americans’ lives. Their grasp on consumers is only getting stronger.

More than 50 shootings with at least one victim have occurred in the U.S. during school time each year since 2021, data collected by the K-12 School Shooting Database show. From 2010 to 2019, the annual figure did not exceed 30. nyti.ms/41Eg1lx

From our scoop last night: Before dinner, Zuckerberg did a private demonstration for Trump of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, which he gifted to the president-elect. Zuckerberg also met with White House advisers: Stephen Miller, Vince Haley and James Blair while at M-a-L www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zu...

Scoop: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zu...