Mathias Hammer
Foreign Policy Reporter at Semafor
Reporting on foreign policy @Semafor. Alum @TIME @Politics_Oxford, @Dept_of_POLIS 📧 mhammer (at) semafor dot com
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer
US President Donald Trump said Elon Musk is “really not leaving” the White House, as the tech billionaire formally leaves his government role, following clashes with cabinet officials and criticism over his cost-cutting efforts. The two men made a show of unity at a press conference to send Musk off Friday, with Trump praising the Tesla CEO as a great business leader.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Mathias Hammer
The NewsUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a crackdown on foreign visas on Wednesday, with Chinese international students named as a particular target, as well as any foreign officials who are considered “complicit in censoring Americans,” he said. Rubio singled out overseas regulatory actions taken against US tech companies, many of whom have criticized the EU’s digital laws as a threat to freedom of speech.
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer
The US will restrict visas for foreign officials and persons “complicit in censoring Americans,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday. Rubio said, “Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights.” He singled out overseas censorship actions taken against US tech companies, many of whom have criticized the EU’s digital laws as a threat to freedom of speech.
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday. Many countries around the world, including Britain, France, and Germany, already don’t recommend COVID-19 shots for healthy children. While most children are unlikely to have severe symptoms, pregnant women are considered at higher risk of complications from the disease.
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2 weeks ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer
Boeing reached a $1.1 billion deal with the US Justice Department Friday to avoid a criminal trial over its role in two 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people. While the planemaker agreed to plead guilty as part of a deal with the Biden administration last year, this agreement, which is yet to be finalized, would see Boeing “admit to conspiracy to obstruct and impede” federal regulators, without facing criminal prosecution.
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Worth noting US appears open to this model — NATO Amb. Whitaker said the spending pledge will incorporate spending on "mobility, necessary infrastructure, cybersecurity" — and that 3.5% on mil matches spending seen as needed to meet regional plans https://t.co/THKGUGvXsM
RT @YinkaWrites: Behind the scenes, South Africa presses Trump, US on renewing AGOA trade pact https://t.co/yCCK6jyHFT via @SemaforAfrica
"While affirming an openness to a negotiated settlement, Russia has remained largely steadfast in its demands for post-conflict Ukrainian neutrality, authority over the size of Ukraine’s armed forces, and a further partitioning of [Ukraine]," per DIA https://t.co/RfoM50RH3S
