Category: Semafor

Yinka’s view For decades, the debate around Africa’s natural resources has largely been over who gets the value from what the continent digs up and ships out. But at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion summit in New York this week, the recurring theme was more nuanced. The question was what ...

A progressive economic group is kicking off an ad and organizing campaign targeting nearly two dozen purple congressional races by going after Trump’s unpopular idea to give voters $5,000. Economic Security Project Action, the political arm of the group that previously backed guaranteed income schemes, is zeroing in on the ...

The Scoop The Trump administration is backing off its initial plan for an executive order that would give the president greater influence over decisionmaking on National Institutes of Health grants, according to three people familiar with the process. The move comes after Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, pressured the ...

Tim’s view For developing countries, more green tech capital doesn’t always translate to a cheaper and cleaner energy system. There’s more money than ever available from private and public financial institutions for investments in clean tech in emerging economies: nearly $400 billion in 2025, according to the Climate Policy Initiative, ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives in Washington today for talks with US President Donald Trump that are expected to be more pomp than progress. Trump will personally greet Xi, with a state dinner to follow tomorrow. Both appear wary of ending their uneasy truce: Beijing has widened controls on the ...

Republican lawmakers are increasingly challenging US President Donald Trump in public, underlining growing frustration in the party ahead of midterm elections. One senator called for an investigation into Trump’s business dealings while in office, another criticized him for organizing a “lavish” state visit for China’s leader, and still others are ...

The heads of Anthropic and OpenAI will brief the UN Security Council today, as their calls for a slowdown in development compete with the interests of superpowers more concerned with winning the AI race. Though analysts say Washington and Beijing are unlikely to reach any wide-ranging pact to constrain the ...

Oil prices dipped to near two-week lows, but increasing costs of fuel raised fears of broader economic fallout. US President Donald Trump voiced support for a diesel export ban to tame record prices, and has reportedly pressed Ukraine’s leader to stop attacks against Russian refineries. Some 90 countries have implemented ...

Massad Boulos, President Donald Trump’s senior Africa adviser and the father of one of Trump’s sons-in-law, on Tuesday pushed back on claims that a US plan for Libya would hand control of the country to a powerful military commander and his family. “It’s not a dictatorship in any way,” Boulos ...

President Donald Trump hailed “productive” talks between US and Iranian officials on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Tuesday, hours after he threatened to “annihilate” Iran unless it agreed to end the war. Oil prices fell as Trump said talks would continue, after earlier suggesting that a deal could ...