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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Loren Grush |Courtney McBride |Sana Pashankar
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dramatic spat on Thursday has gone beyond online vitriol to real-life repercussions: threatening to cut off a vital part of the US space program. Musk said he will decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which ferries cargo and people to the International Space Station for the US.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Loren Grush |Courtney McBride |Sana Pashankar
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dramatic spat on Thursday has gone beyond online vitriol to real-life repercussions: threatening to cut off a vital part of the US space program. Musk said he will decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which ferries cargo and people to the International Space Station for the US.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Courtney McBride |Nacha Cattan
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s push to expel foreign citizens who have protested against Israel, saying the US may have revoked more than 300 visas so far. “Every country in the world has a right to decide who comes in and who doesn’t,” Rubio said at a press conference on a trip to Guyana.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Courtney McBride |Kevin Crowley
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Venezuela that any attempt to invade Guyana or threaten Exxon Mobil Corp.’s operations in the country would be a “very bad move.” Rubio spoke less than a month after a Venezuelan patrol ship entered Guyanese waters and positioned itself near a vessel contracted by Exxon, which is operating the world’s fastest-growing major oil field off the coast of the South American country.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Tony Capaccio |Courtney McBride
President Donald Trump’s vision of protecting the US with a “Golden Dome” missile-defense system drew more than 360 company concept papers that Pentagon analysts are studying as they rush to come up with a workable plan as early as the next fiscal year. Trump has compared the idea in his Jan.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Iain Marlow |Courtney McBride
The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee joined in praising Marco Rubio at the Florida senator’s nomination hearing for secretary of state, signaling he’ll face one of the easiest confirmations of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jenny Leonard |Courtney McBride
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said China would face severe consequences if it launches a cyberattack that causes physical destruction in the US, and deterring such a move should be a priority for the incoming Trump administration. Sullivan said the US has evidence that China is prepositioning for just such an attack at some point in the future, underscoring past concerns from US officials. He spoke in an interview at the Bloomberg News bureau in Washington on Monday.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Yoshiaki Nohara |Courtney McBride |Alastair Gale
It was meant to be a final swing through Tokyo topped with a sushi breakfast to cement closer ties with one of the US’s closest allies. Instead, Secretary of State Antony Blinken got a rebuke from Japan’s foreign minister and ignored reporters’ questions, after President Joe Biden’s decision to label Nippon Steel Corp.’s attempt to buy US Steel Corp. a national security risk soured relations at a stroke.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Courtney McBride
China released three Americans as part of a prisoner swap between the Biden administration and the Chinese government, according to a person familiar with the matter, a rare moment of cooperation between the adversaries.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
gazette.com | Galit Altstein |Courtney McBride
Israel said its military probably killed an American-Turkish citizen last week by accident, prompting the U.S. to call on its close ally to make “fundamental changes” to how it operates in the West Bank. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, raised in Seattle, was shot dead during a protest in the West Bank town of Beita on Friday. Turkey blamed the Israel Defense Forces, which in a social media post at the time said its troops fired toward “a main instigator” of violence.
