Enter Semafor. The world’s first news platform designed to meet the moment we are in.

 

Intelligence for the New World Economy

About Semafor

In this new interconnected world, journalism needs to deliver common facts to divergent audiences. Our biggest stories, and greatest crises, are now global: from climate change to pandemics, rising inequality to supply chain disruption, political instability to the influence of social media. Yet global trust in the media is at an all-time low. A new moment requires new thinking.

Enter Semafor. The world’s first news platform designed to meet the moment we are in. Providing audiences with an unparalleled level of journalistic transparency through innovative new forms, cutting through the noise of the news cycle with smart, distilled views and exploring competing perspectives across borders for a curious, new global audience.

Join us and make sense of a complex world with a news source you can trust.

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Politics

Americans blame Republicans for govt shutdown, poll finds

The survey is a further sign of bubbling frustration with the party, as the government shutdown passes the one-month mark.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

China’s Xi, Trump deploy trade diplomacy in Asia

Trump has dangled tariff relief as part of trade negotiations, while Beijing is upgrading commercial ties with ASEAN.

Uncommon bonds: IRS error notices

Recently passed legislation would force the agency to put more information in the warning letters it sends taxpayers who’ve done their math wrong.

Congress bristles at limited briefings on boat strikes

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee called on the administration to ‘fire somebody’ after officials briefed only Republican senators.

Senate Democrat crosses aisle for nutrition aid funding

Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., didn’t want to wait for a bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program amid the shutdown.

A confident DNC chair defends his party’s prospects

Ken Martin looks toward elections next week and next year. 

Democrats split on shutdown talks’ trajectory

Some Democrats are optimistic about a deal out of the shutdown. Others, not so much.

Republican senators defy Trump over trade policy

A Republican senator yesterday blocked Trump from imposing additional tariffs on imports of coffee, in a rare sign of public dissent among the party.

Trump, Xi agree to temporary trade truce

The US will halve 20% tariffs imposed over China’s alleged fentanyl trafficking, while Xi agreed to a one-year moratorium on rare-earths export curbs.

Fewer Americans say crime is a major problem, poll finds

New Gallup polling shows that 49% of US adults view crime as a serious problem, a marked decrease.

Republican voters back sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

Six in ten Republican voters support selling the missiles to Ukraine, even as more than half oppose approving more aid.

 

 Media

Trump to sit with CBS News in first interview after lawsuit

The US president is set to sit down with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell on Friday afternoon, Semafor has learned.

Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Ken Burns on the future of PBS, the new age of media, and why documentaries will outlast TikTok

Ken Burns has been telling the story of America through his entire career with genre-defining documentaries on the Civil War, the Vietnam War, and now the American Revolution.

The AI boom is turning old content into cash cows for creators

A handful of creators have been paid more than $1 million to license their videos to AI companies.

British newspaper spoke to the wrong de Blasio, not an ‘imposter’

How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.

Right-wing influencers post. Federal force follows.

The White House is increasingly attentive to the concerns of personalities like Nick Shirley.