Tag: spends

Trump spends day off from court hosting NFT customers at Mar-a-Lago

Former President Donald Trump will spend his day off from court hosting a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago residence for buyers of his NFT trading cards, according to a source familiar with the planning. NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, are part of a suite of non-campaign-focused ventures that Trump has been balancing with his White House run […]

German vice chancellor spends morning in Kiev air raid shelter

Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck began Friday in a bomb shelter in Kiev because of the threat of incoming Russian missiles and drones. An air raid alarm was triggered at 4:40 am (0140 GMT) in Kiev, forcing Habeck and his entourage to spend about an hour and a half seeking shelter in the underground parking […]

UK Spends Quarter of Foreign Aid Domestically on Refugees

(Bloomberg) — More than a quarter of the UK’s international aid budget is spent domestically on asylum seekers and refugees, putting further pressure on the amount sent overseas for support, a government watchdog said. Most Read from Bloomberg The UK spent £4.3 billion ($5.4 billion) on hosting migrants in 2023, with more than half of […]

EV Startup Spends More Than It Makes on CEO’s Jet

Canoo, like many other electric vehicle startups, is struggling to survive. And as is often the case in the early days of a company, expenditures exceed revenue. But one cost in particular stood out in Canoo’s latest earnings report. TechCrunch spotted an item near the bottom of a 10-K the company recently filed with the […]

European Commission spends €600 million on 12 firefighting planes

The European Commission announced on Monday it is spending €600 million ($650 million) from the EU budget to buy 12 planes to fight fires across the European Union. During the summer when “lives, homes and livelihoods are increasingly under threat to large scale forest fires” these airplanes will provide vital assistance, the commission said in […]