As Amazon's star rises, Elon Musk's political pivot may have cost SpaceX billions in potential Golden Dome contract funding.

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The Trump administration is expanding its search for partners to build the Golden Dome missile defense system, courting Amazon.com's Project Kuiper and big defense contractors as tensions with Elon Musk threaten SpaceX's dominance in the program.

The globe's top defense contractors are already fiercely competing to secure deals for constructing the Trump administration's bold 'Golden Dome' missile defense initiative. American aerospace and defense giant Northrop Grumman has begun conducting ground ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate narrowly voted on Tuesday to begin considering the nomination of former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge, with at least one Republican opposed and Democrats vowing to try to slow his confirmation.

Northrop Grumman has produced a series of both manned and unmanned aircraft, missiles, and defense systems currently deployed by US military branches, chiefly the B-2 Spirit bomber used to damage Iranian nuclear facilities as part of Operation Midnight Hammer.

Northrop Grumman has begun ground-based tests of space-based interceptors that could be used to protect the US from attack

Trump and Musk have, famously, been at loggerheads since the billionaire, who formerly styled himself the “first buddy” to the president, ramped up attacks on Trump’s budget bill, which he called “pork-filled” and an “abomination.”

Faced with controversy over the release of any records related to the late pedophile and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump has again tried the same defenses, but they don't seem to be working as well.

Trump has threatened to sue The Wall Street Journal after it published a report on Thursday describing a sexually suggestive letter bearing his name and a typewritten message in an outline of a naked woman. The newspaper said the letter was included in a 2003 album for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is hoping Manila's status as a key Asian ally will secure a more favorable trade deal.