Day: May 30, 2025
CEO of Europe’s largest industrial group says he has been in direct talks with Donald Trump’s administration
Volkswagen, Europe’s largest industrial group, has said it will make a “massive” investment in the US. The group, which includes Porsche, revealed it has been in direct talks with Donald Trump’s administration as it faces damaging tariffs.
Oliver Blume, who heads the group, said the talks were “constructive” and “fair”, in an interview that suggests the company, whose market capital is £44bn, is not willing to leave tariff negotiations to Brussels alone.
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Kerik was hailed as a hero after September 11 before a dramatic fall from grace that ended with him behind bars
Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died. He was 69.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Kash Patel said that Kerik’s death Thursday came after an unspecified “private battle with illness”.