
NBC News - 2 hours 24 min ago
A U.S. retiree held in Saudi Arabia over critical tweets has been freed months ahead of schedule, his son said, a day after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appeared hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump at the White House."Our family is overjoyed that, after four long years, our father, Saad Almadi, is finally on his way home," his family said in a statement posted Wednesday by his son Ibrahim on X. Riyadh authorities jailed and then banned Saad Almadi, 75, from leaving the country two...

New York Times - 3 hours 26 min ago
President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House on Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times - 3 hours 33 min ago
The CIA concluded that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside Saudi Arabia's embassy in Istanbul in 2018. President Trump dismissed the killing as just one of those "things" that happens sometimes. And, true to form, attacked the press for asking about it.

Fox News - 4 hours 18 min ago
Saudi Arabia releases U.S. citizen Saad Almadi after four years for social media posts criticizing the royal family, following Trump's meeting with Crown Prince.

Celebrity Insider - 11 hours 12 min ago
Recently, Saudi Arabia's influential media chairman Turki Alalshikh invited the tennis elite to an extravagant meeting, taking the six biggest stars of the sport in a very diplomatic way to show the world that sport is a global playground. The meeting during the exhibition event in Riyadh included Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Alexander […]...

The Guardian - 11 hours 31 min ago
This live blog is now closed. Trump news at a glance: president signs bill to release more Epstein documents One quick note, there haven't been any changes to Donald Trump's schedule today, per the press pool . Which means, as of now, the president doesn't have any time allotted to sign the bill forcing the justice department to release the full batch of Jeffrey Epstein files. We'll keep you updated if things change throughout the day. Continue reading...

New York Times - 12 hours 14 min ago
President Trump posing next to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia for a group photo at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

PBS Newshour - 14 hours 42 min ago
President Trump and Mohammed bin Salman concluded the Saudi crown prince's visit to the United States by speaking to more than 400 business leaders. Beyond a defense agreement and talk of the kingdom's human rights record, the visit focused on joint U.S.-Saudi ventures, including minerals and helping Saudi Arabia build a civilian nuclear program. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

NY Post - 14 hours 51 min ago
Trump gave Musk not one, but three, shout-outs during a business-focused speech before Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

New York Times - 15 hours 16 min ago
President Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to the White House on Tuesday.

Tech Meme - 15 hours 43 min ago
Wall Street Journal : Sources: the US Commerce Department plans to approve the sale of up to 35K of Nvidia's GB300 servers or their equivalents to G42 and Humain each — The deal follows talks between President Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — The Commerce Department approved …...

New York Times - 15 hours 46 min ago
President Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to the White House on Tuesday.

NY Post - 16 hours 50 min ago
The US on Wednesday appeared to clear the way for Saudi Arabia to buy American semiconductors during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's trip to Washington.

CNBC - 16 hours 58 min ago
Nvidia and xAI said a data center being built in Saudi Arabia and equipped with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips will count xAI as its first customer.

The Guardian - 17 hours 12 min ago
Saad Almadi's family thanks Trump and state department as announcement comes after meeting with crown prince Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow US citizen Saad Almadi to return home to Florida, five months ahead of the scheduled lifting of travel restrictions and a day after Saudi crown prince and prime minister Mohammed bin Salman met Donald Trump at the White House . Almadi, 75, was sentenced to 19 years of incarceration in the kingdom in 2021 after he wrote 14 tweets critical of the Riyadh...

The Hill - 17 hours 31 min ago
Saudi Arabia is releasing a U.S. citizen who was jailed over social media posts critical of the royal family, returning home after President Trump's bilateral meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Washington, D.C. Saad Almadi, 75, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1976, was arrested in 2021 during a family visit over his...

Forbes - 18 hours 2 min ago
The sale of F-35 fighter jets is a huge win for Saudi Arabia, which seeks to gain greater global influence and power...

NBC News - 20 hours 2 min ago
LONDON A former United Nations investigator who wrote the authoritative report on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi told NBC News on Wednesday that she was "shocked and angry" at President Donald Trump's dismissal of intelligence saying Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing...

Tech Meme - 20 hours 13 min ago
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times : AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia — The firm's Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated …...

New York Times - 20 hours 32 min ago
David Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent, describes how the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, a pariah after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, has become a dealmaker in Washington.

CNBC - 20 hours 40 min ago
Luma AI, a video startup, has raised a $900 million funding round led by Saudi AI company Humain to to build a supercluster in Saudi Arabia.

The Hill - 20 hours 59 min ago
President Trump's deal to allow the sale of F-35 advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia has the potential to alter the military balance of power in the Middle East. The package of fifth-generation stealth fighters has prompted concerns among Israeli and some U.S. officials as it risks toppling Israel's so-called Qualitative Military Edge (QME), a...

NBC News - 21 hours 10 min ago
Elon Musk, CEO of xAI, announced a massive new data center project in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as part of Mohammad bin Salman's visit to the United States.

Tech Meme - 21 hours 28 min ago
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips — Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia …...