Michael Learmonth
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Enterprise editor at Reuters. Priors: Telemundo Studios, Vice News, Advertising Age, BI, Variety, etc.
Exclusive: OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation - www.reuters.com/business/ope...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Exclusive: OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation - www.reuters.com/business/ope...
Not sure we've fully processed the fact that Trump Org's business is now 90% crypto. Here's how Trump Org income breaks down so far in 2025:
- $466M - World Liberty Financial
- $336M - $Trump meme coin
- $33M - golf/resorts
- $23M - licensing
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- $466M - World Liberty Financial
- $336M - $Trump meme coin
- $33M - golf/resorts
- $23M - licensing
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Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Not sure we've fully processed the fact that Trump Org's business is now 90% crypto. Here's how Trump Org income breaks down so far in 2025:
- $466M - World Liberty Financial
- $336M - $Trump meme coin
- $33M - golf/resorts
- $23M - licensing
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- $466M - World Liberty Financial
- $336M - $Trump meme coin
- $33M - golf/resorts
- $23M - licensing
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Appreciation post for Ervin, working a double shift keeping 3 Times Square safe
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Appreciation post for Ervin, working a double shift keeping 3 Times Square safe
Federal drug prosecutions have dropped to their lowest level in decades as Trump focuses the FBI, DEA and ATF on immigration cases. Reuters used AI to parse 2 million dockets dating back to 1997. The numbers: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
September 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Federal drug prosecutions have dropped to their lowest level in decades as Trump focuses the FBI, DEA and ATF on immigration cases. Reuters used AI to parse 2 million dockets dating back to 1997. The numbers: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers - www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers - www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission. www.reuters.com/business/met...
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission. www.reuters.com/business/met...
De minimus comes for LEGO bricks!
August 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
De minimus comes for LEGO bricks!
Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family. www.reuters.com/business/med...
Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire in Gaza
Hussam al-Masri reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family. www.reuters.com/business/med...
The second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike
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Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 15 people, including journalists
Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike
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Bravo to the caption writer: 'The fact that "Mrs. Meyer" is a Mississippi alligator doesn't bother either of them.' www.reuters.com/pictures/pet...
Pet alligator joins her human family in the pool
Weather permitting, Krystian Kaulis likes to go swimming with his pet Mississippi alligator.
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August 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Bravo to the caption writer: 'The fact that "Mrs. Meyer" is a Mississippi alligator doesn't bother either of them.' www.reuters.com/pictures/pet...
SCOOP: Confused US diplomats in South Africa asked the Trump admin if non-white minorities could apply for refugee status
Trump official: it's intended for whites only
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Trump official: it's intended for whites only
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Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans
In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?
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July 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
SCOOP: Confused US diplomats in South Africa asked the Trump admin if non-white minorities could apply for refugee status
Trump official: it's intended for whites only
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Trump official: it's intended for whites only
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U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say
U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
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July 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
By my count Rupe is pretty undefeated in media knife fights www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show
The issue has caused a rare fracture within Trump's base of support.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
By my count Rupe is pretty undefeated in media knife fights www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
His attorney argued his pardon by Trump for Jan. 6 offenses should also cover his child porn case ... apple.news/AUeUmzvjJQsO...
Sacramento County man in Jan. 6 riot pardoned by Trump convicted for child porn — The Sacramento Bee
Kyle Travis Colton of Sacramento County, convicted in Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot and pardoned by President Donald Trump, was found guilty in child porn case.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
His attorney argued his pardon by Trump for Jan. 6 offenses should also cover his child porn case ... apple.news/AUeUmzvjJQsO...
14 states and the District of Columbia provide coverage for eligible children regardless of immigration status, and seven states and DC do so for adults. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US health department hands over Medicaid personal data to ICE
The U.S. health department is giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials access to the personal data of 79 million Medicaid enrollees to help them track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the country, it said on Thursday.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
14 states and the District of Columbia provide coverage for eligible children regardless of immigration status, and seven states and DC do so for adults. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
More than a quarter of Chinatown/Lower East Side residents receive SNAP benefits - the OBBB will kick many off the roles for citizenship and work requirements documentedny.com/2025/07/16/c...
Chinatown Could Be Hit Hard by Trump’s Cuts to SNAP
With stricter work requirements and tighter eligibility rules for applicants, the changes to SNAP already have communities like Chinatown feeling the bill’s emotional toll.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
More than a quarter of Chinatown/Lower East Side residents receive SNAP benefits - the OBBB will kick many off the roles for citizenship and work requirements documentedny.com/2025/07/16/c...
They were “pushing the boundaries of the law,” one official said. “Everyone at IRS felt the same way.”
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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
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July 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
They were “pushing the boundaries of the law,” one official said. “Everyone at IRS felt the same way.”
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The origin story of the Nazi documents discovered in the basement of Argentina's Supreme Court is probably wrong - www.reuters.com/world/americ...
A Nazi document trove raises questions for Argentina
The Supreme Court official had a secret to share when he called Eliahu Hamra, the rabbi of Argentina's main Jewish community center, one night around the turn of the year.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The origin story of the Nazi documents discovered in the basement of Argentina's Supreme Court is probably wrong - www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Perhaps the 3rd or 4rth most amusing thing about this story is apparently the Trump Phone ($47.45, get it?, for unlimited talk, text and data) also includes "telehealth access" .... www.404media.co/trump-mobile...
Trump Mobile Keeps Charging My Credit Card And I Have No Idea Why
I didn’t sign up for the Trump Mobile cellphone plan. I still haven’t received my gold plated Trump phone. But the company just charged my credit card again.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Perhaps the 3rd or 4rth most amusing thing about this story is apparently the Trump Phone ($47.45, get it?, for unlimited talk, text and data) also includes "telehealth access" .... www.404media.co/trump-mobile...
A mysterious person who calls himself Dave Lee gave Trump's World Liberty Financial $100 million. Reuters could not determine if Lee's a real person or if his UAE-based venture firm is anything more than a website reuters.com/business/fin...
Insight: Trump's $100 million crypto mystery man
Of all the riddles wrapped in the digital wallets sending funds to President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto business, a little-known entity last month became the biggest.
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July 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A mysterious person who calls himself Dave Lee gave Trump's World Liberty Financial $100 million. Reuters could not determine if Lee's a real person or if his UAE-based venture firm is anything more than a website reuters.com/business/fin...
OpenAI is a consumer products company now www.reuters.com/business/med...
Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
OpenAI is a consumer products company now www.reuters.com/business/med...
Gov Abbott sits on the committee Trump appointed to figure out how to dissolve FEMA in favor of direct grants to states. So the same people calling on FEMA for help in Texas are going to play a big role in eliminating it
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Texas is relying on FEMA. State leaders said it should be cut
The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Gov Abbott sits on the committee Trump appointed to figure out how to dissolve FEMA in favor of direct grants to states. So the same people calling on FEMA for help in Texas are going to play a big role in eliminating it
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High-school freshman Austin Smith sank into depression from the merciless teasing and bullying he endured from his classmates over his weight.
Reuters spoke to 4 of the estimated 100,000 teens who are taking Wegovy, which was approved for use among children over 12 in December 2022
Reuters spoke to 4 of the estimated 100,000 teens who are taking Wegovy, which was approved for use among children over 12 in December 2022
The Wegovy effect: A new drug reshapes the lives of teens wih obesity
Reuters delves into the experiences of four American teenagers with obesity who were among the first wave to take Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug.
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June 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
High-school freshman Austin Smith sank into depression from the merciless teasing and bullying he endured from his classmates over his weight.
Reuters spoke to 4 of the estimated 100,000 teens who are taking Wegovy, which was approved for use among children over 12 in December 2022
Reuters spoke to 4 of the estimated 100,000 teens who are taking Wegovy, which was approved for use among children over 12 in December 2022
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
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June 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...