Jess Bidgood

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Michael Simon Johnson |Will Jarvis |Jessica Metzger |Jess Bidgood

Plus, a bidding frenzy over David Lynch’s espresso machine. transcriptMore episodes ofThe HeadlinesJune 19, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ETWill JarvisMichael Simon Johnson and Jess Bidgood and Israel Says Iranian Missile Strikes Hospital and Vows to Intensify Attacks, by Adam Rasgon, Ephrat Livni and David E. SangerTrump’s Base in Uproar Over His Openness to Joining Iran Fight, by Jess BidgoodThe Court Upheld a State Ban on Transgender Care for Minors.

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jess Bidgood |Maggie Haberman

Donald Trump's decade-long political journey has deeply changed both him and the country's politics. Photo / Al Drago, Bloomberg via Getty ImagesOPINIONTen years after a self-professed real estate tycoon and reality television star announced he was running for President, the United States and its politics have irrevocably changed, Peter Baker wrote yesterday in the New York Times. The man himself isn’t quite the same, either.

4 weeks ago | afr.com | David Fahrenthold |Eric Lipton |Jess Bidgood

David A. Fahrenthold, Eric Lipton and Jess BidgoodMay 30, 2025 – 4.50pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Just three months ago, Elon Musk stood before a crowd of roaring conservatives and held up a chain saw. He was at the height of his influence, swaggering in a self-designed role with immense power inside and outside the government.

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | David Fahrenthold |Eric Lipton |Jess Bidgood

The world's richest man created disruption and fear before giving up on revamping government. But his companies will now face less oversight. Just three months ago, Elon Musk stood before a crowd of roaring conservatives and held up a chain saw. He was at the height of his influence, swaggering in a self-designed role with immense power inside and outside the government. "We're trying to get good things done," he said, using the chain saw as a metaphor for the deep cuts he was making in government.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jess Bidgood

Before he left office in 1953, President Harry Truman handed out a number of pardons to politically connected convicts - and, perhaps to avoid blowback, he did so entirely in secret. In 2001, Bill Clinton waited until the final day of his presidency to issue a pardon he knew would go off like a political bomb: to Marc Rich, the oil trader and fugitive indicted in a sprawling tax evasion case, whose former wife had made donations to the Clinton presidential library and the Democratic Party.