Dana Mattioli

After Pledging to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials While Walmart cut prices on low-cost goods, Amazon raised them.

In the 5 months since President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, Amazon quietly raised prices on low-cost products such as deodorant, protein shakes and pet care items, a WSJ analysis of nearly 2,500 items found. www.wsj.com/business/ret...

How Sam Altman Outfoxed Elon Musk to Become Trump’s AI Buddy With his rival out of the way, OpenAI’s CEO has a clear path to press for the company’s goals. He is leaving the Democratic Party.

How Sam Altman Outfoxed Elon Musk to Become Trump’s AI Buddy www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-...

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Trump told WSJ he was preparing to file a lawsuit if it published an article. “I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” he said. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Major story from @khadeejasafdar.bsky.social &
Joe Palazzolo

Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Officials Pushed for Better Warning System for Years Before Deadly Floods A sheriff in 2016 recalled pulling ‘kids out of trees’ in summer camps as leaders repeatedly discussed installing a siren system, but didn’t do so.

In 2018, Kerr County debated installing flood sirens, but the $1 million pricetag was considered too high. “Trying not to raise taxes,” a commissioner said.

And this year, the Texas Legislature didn’t pass a bill to help fund outdoor sirens.

Free link:

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President Trump ridicules Elon Musk’s “America Party” plan, while the Tesla CEO claims it would restore “freedom” to voters.

Exclusive | Former Social Security Official Pitched an Investment Strategy to Keep Fund Solvent. It Went Nowhere. Scott Coulter got little traction on his idea to avert the trust fund’s insolvency, accelerated by the tax-and-spending bill.

My newest: A DOGE Member Pitched an Investment Strategy to Keep Fund Solvent by Using S&P 500 equity. It Went Nowhere. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Bezos and Blue Origin Try to Capitalize on Trump-Musk Split Jeff Bezos and his space company talked to Trump in recent weeks

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin Try to Capitalize on Trump-Musk Split w/ Josh Dawsey & @micahmaidenberg.bsky.social
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Bezos and Blue Origin Try to Capitalize on Trump-Musk Split Jeff Bezos and his space company talked to Trump in recent weeks

Exclusive: Jeff Bezos is emerging as a potential winner from President Trump and Elon Musk’s breakup.

Musk Retreats on Trump Attacks After Call from JD Vance, Susie Wiles In a call last Friday, the vice president and the White House chief of staff urged Musk to put an end to the feud. Musk de-escalated early Wednesday.

Scoop: JD Vance and Susie Wiles called Musk on Friday and encouraged him to repair his relationship with Trump -- after everything went South.

www.wsj.com/politics/mus...

X’s Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We’ll Sue Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform.

New: X’s Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We’ll Sue. How Elon Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform

w/ Suzanne Vranica and Jessica Toonkel

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UFO myths gripped America for decades, and the Pentagon finally figured out where a lot of them came from.

It was the Pentagon.

🔗: https://on.wsj.com/4kz4Cdq

Exclusive | U.S. Agencies Tracked Foreigners Traveling to See Musk Homeland Security and the Justice Department kept tabs on foreign nationals visiting the billionaire’s properties in 2022 and 2023, reflecting concerns about influence.

Scoop: Homeland Security and the Justice Department kept tabs on foreign nationals visiting Musk’s properties in 2022 and 2023, reflecting concerns about influence w/
@mhackman.bsky.social‬ Josh Dawsey @emilyglazer.bsky.social & Aruna Viswanatha
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Exclusive | FTC Seeks Information From Top Advertising Agencies as Part of Ad-Boycott Probe Among firms that received requests are Omnicom, WPP, Dentsu, Interpublic and Publicis.

FTC Seeks Information From Top Advertising Agencies as Part of Ad-Boycott Probe www.wsj.com/business/med...

The Trump-Musk Relationship Ruptures in Real Time The president says he is “very disappointed” in his former adviser.

Some gems in this story. The Day That Trump and Musk Torched Their Partnership www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

Inside Trump and Musk’s Complicated Relationship The president and his aides have sometimes expressed frustration with Elon Musk, but his advisers say the two remain close.

“Was it all bullshit?” Trump asked aides about Elon’s vow to cut $1 trillion. Inside Trump and Musk’s complicated relationship, w/lots of scenes inside the White House, w/ Josh Dawsey & Annie Linskey www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Elon Musk Tried to Block Sam Altman’s Big AI Deal in the Middle East Musk warned those involved that President Trump wouldn’t bless the OpenAI data-center project in Abu Dhabi unless his xAI company was included in the deal, according to people familiar with the matter...

Elon Musk wasn't happy about Stargate UAE. On a call w/ G42, Musk warned those assembled: Their plan had no chance of Trump signing off on it unless his company xAI was included in the deal. Scoop w/ @eliotwb.bsky.social + Josh Dawsey
www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

How Two CEOs Mixed Romance and Business, Leading to Scandal Kohl’s CEO Ashley Buchanan and Chandra Holt lived together in Texas but kept their relationship quiet as their interests became intertwined at retail chains.

Kohl’s CEO Ashley Buchanan and Chandra Holt lived together in Texas but kept their relationship quiet as their interests became intertwined at several retail chains

Elon Musk to Cut Back Political Spending The world’s richest person, who spent a considerable fortune helping to elect President Trump in 2024, indicated he still could increase spending again if conditions change.

👀 “In terms of political spending, I’m going to do a lot less in the future,” Elon Musk said in a video interview at the Qatar Economic Forum. “I think I’ve done enough.”
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Walmart Plans to Raise Prices Because of Tariffs So far, the retailer has weathered the trade war with strong sales but said the full impact of tariffs on consumers has yet to come.

Walmart Plans to Raise Prices Because of Tariffs www.wsj.com/business/ret...

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Exclusive | Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs The company wants to avoid appearing to attribute price increases to U.S. tariffs on goods from China, where most Apple devices are assembled.

Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs
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Musk Above the Law Elon Musk in 2024 became a singularly powerful force in U.S. politics, business and government. The Wall Street Journal showed how he operates.

“Musk Above the Law” examined Elon Musk’s use of drugs, his secret conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his deep ties with Tesla’s board of directors.

The series won the WSJ the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Read the series:

Exclusive | Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk With profits and the stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at the company.

WSJ Scoop: With Tesla’s profits sinking and some investors worried about Elon Musk’s White House focus, the company’s board got serious about looking for a CEO to succeed Musk www.wsj.com/business/aut...

WSJ fronts its Elon/“harem drama” piece:

@wsj.com @danamattioli.bsky.social
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The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...

"To reach legion-level before the apocalypse," Musk told one of the mothers in a text viewed by WSJ, "we will need to use surrogates." He also told her to have a C-section so that the baby would have a larger brain and not to circumcize the baby.

www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...

“Musk has said he is concerned about what he called Third World countries having higher birthrates than the U.S. and Europe, a person familiar with the conversation said.”

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...

“Birchall was involved in acquiring the property for a compound in Austin where Musk imagined the women and his growing number of babies would all live among multiple residences, according to a person familiar with the matter.”

Hell of a story here: To "reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” Musk has used his wealth to bully and buy the silence of women who have his kids