Rebecca Ballhaus

RT @pwoodreporter: Read about @BaltimoreBanner’a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the opioid crisis: https://t.co/zAEjW50eUP

Remarkable piece by @AABerwick on last week’s crypto conference in Dubai, featuring the Trump family and this tidbit on Arthur Hayes, the crypto founder convicted on money-laundering charges who was recently pardoned by Trump: https://t.co/YGIvsk7dMh https://t.co/9RPI2oIVYL

RT @intelligencer: John Fetterman insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they onc…

"McDowell 'makes things happen,' said North Carolina GOP state Rep. John Bell, who met McDowell at a milk-chugging contest outside the state General Assembly roughly a decade ago." Amazing @MaggieSeverns @Kristinapet story from earlier this week: https://t.co/wvXX4cWlRn

RT @nytmike: NEW: The Trump admin recently sent a diplomatic note to officials in El Salvador to inquire about releasing Abrego Garcia but…

What a paragraph: https://t.co/7TVbSxWaae

Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus

“I’ll hook you up to a f——-g polygraph!” Pete Hegseth shouted at the acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after word leaked that he was planning a classified briefing on China for Elon Musk. Amazing story: https://t.co/bqDygu6BIj

“I’ll hook you up to a f——-g polygraph!” Pete Hegseth shouted at the acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after word leaked that he was planning a classified briefing on China for Elon Musk. Amazing story: https://t.co/bqDygu6BIj

Paramount is in talks with the FCC over abstaining from particular corporate diversity initiatives to secure the agency's approval of its merger with Skydance, @jtoonkel @jdawsey1 @DrewFitzGerald scoop. https://t.co/HUBC0GYWKk

The price of Trump’s meme coin surged after its official website and X account said the coin’s top 220 holders would be invited to an exclusive gala dinner and White House tour with the president next month. Several senior administration officials said they were unaware that

The general leading U.S. Central Command used a secure U.S. government system to send detailed information about the Yemen operation to Pete Hegseth. Hegseth sent that information to two group chats on Signal, on his personal phone, within 10 minutes. https://t.co/5FLBJVxf75

RT @AnnieLinskey: Questioning Biden’s Capacities Was Taboo a Year Ago. Now It’s Everywhere. Me, with a huge hat tip to the great @siobhane…

Meta, Amazon and YouTube are among those sponsoring activities at the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, per a WH release: https://t.co/T66CGX2CH1

“Musk offered St. Clair $15 million and $100,000 a month in support in exchange for her silence about the child, whom they named Romulus. Similar agreements had been negotiated with other mothers of Musk’s children.” Blockbuster by ⁦@DanaMattioli⁩: https://t.co/6rnfy1ItQH

RT @jdawsey1: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Frenzied and Failed Negotiations to Avoid an FTC Antitrust Trial, w/@DanaMattioli & @rebeccaballhaus…

The Trump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial on its ties to the convicted crypto exchange Binance and its founder, CZ: “We are grateful for CZ’s many contributions to the cryptocurrency industry and perhaps even more for his philanthropic endeavors.”

Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus

Executives from cryptocurrency exchange Binance met with Treasury Department officials last month and discussed loosening U.S. government oversight on the company, while it was also exploring a business deal with a Trump family crypto venture, according to people familiar with