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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 4, 2025, 7:30 AM EDTBy Steve KopackThe humble soybean is the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration’s campaign to reshape global trade.Used in everything from animal feed to fuel, soybeans regularly rank among the most valuable U.S. agricultural exports, towering over higher-profile crops like corn and cotton. More than $30 billion worth of American soybean products were exported in fiscal year 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.For American soybean farmers, their top overseas market has long been China, which bought around a third of the export crop — approximately $12 billion worth of American soybean products — in the last calendar year, USDA data shows.But not anymore.As President Donald Trump’s trade war leaves U.S.-China relations somewhere between frosty and openly hostile, America’s soybean farmers appear to be an early casualty.An embargo in all but nameSo far, China has not purchased any U.S. soybeans during this year’s main harvest period, with sales falling to zero in May. This has pushed many American farmers reliant on soybeans nearly to the breaking point. It has also complicated the Trump administration’s plans to provide billions in foreign economic aid to Argentina. Buenos Aires recently sold more than 2.5 million metric tons of soybeans to Beijing, after briefly suspending its export tax on the soy products. Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday.Greg Baker / AFP – Getty ImagesU.S. officials blame China for the looming crisis facing American soybean producers. “It’s unfortunate the Chinese leadership has decided to use the American farmers, soybean farmers in particular, as a hostage or pawn in the trade negotiations,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday on CNBC.Farmers view the situation differently, however. They want Trump to reach a trade deal with China that ends the unofficial embargo on soybeans. But instead, what they see is the White House preparing to bail out one of their chief rivals for the Chinese export market.“The frustration is overwhelming,” American Soybean Association President Caleb Ragland said in a recent statement.Meanwhile, China — the world’s biggest buyer of soybeans —indicated last week that it won’t resume U.S. purchases unless more Trump tariffs are lifted. “As for soybean trade, the U.S. side should take proactive steps to remove relevant unreasonable tariffs, create conditions for expanding bilateral trade, and inject more stability and certainty into global economic development,” Commerce Ministry spokesperson He Yadong told reporters in Beijing.Emergency relief is comingThe Trump administration will announce new support for farmers, “especially the soybean farmers,” on Tuesday, Bessent said.“We’re also going to be working with the Farm Credit Bureau to make sure that the farmers have what they need for the next planting season,” he added.Bessent personally owns as much as $25 million worth of farmland in North Dakota that produces corn and soybeans, according to his recent financial disclosures.He said soybeans would be a topic of discussion at the upcoming meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum later this month.Mark German loading soybeans into a truck in Dwight, Ill., in August.Scott Olson / Getty Images fileTrump is also aware of the impact his trade policies are having on American farmers, starting with soybean growers.“The Soybean Farmers of our Country are being hurt because China is, for ‘negotiating’ reasons only, not buying,” the president posted Wednesday on Truth Social.“We’ve made so much money on Tariffs, that we are going to take a small portion of that money, and help our Farmers,” Trump added.The question is whether this aid will come soon enough to save this year’s massive harvest of soybeans.At the center of the firestorm is Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who warned this week that “this moment of uncertainty in the farm economy is real.” Speaking on Fox Business Network, she emphasized that Trump has long supported U.S. farmers.Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins outside the White House on Tuesday.Aaron Schwartz / Sipa USA via AP“President Trump and Secretary Rollins are always in touch about the needs of our farmers, who played a crucial role in the President’s November victory,” the White House said in a statement Thursday. “He has made clear his intention to use tariff revenue to help our agricultural sector, but no final decisions on the contours of this plan have been made.”The Argentina factorThe current U.S.-China stalemate over soybean exports is also complicating another American foreign policy conundrum: what to do about Argentina’s faltering economy.As U.S. soybean exports to China screech to a halt, Argentina’s farmers jumped at the opportunity to sell China their own soybeans. From their perspective, a potential U.S. economic aid package has nothing to do with their soybean exports, and everything to do with the personal and political alliance between Trump and libertarian President Javier Milei. Milei was the first foreign leader to visit Trump after his 2024 election victory, and he has become a familiar face at U.S. political events attended by the president’s MAGA supporters.At a Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C. in February, Milei gifted then-Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk a red chainsaw. Musk then waved it around onstage, calling it “the chainsaw for bureaucracy.” Elon Musk holding a chainsaw onstage at a CPAC conference in Oxon Hill, Md., in February.Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesEight months later, Milei’s popularity with voters has plunged, raising doubts about the future of his market-friendly economic reforms and strict austerity measures.Local elections in early September dealt a blow to Milei’s party, triggering massive turmoil in Argentina’s stock and currency markets. A few weeks after the market plunge, Bessent announced on social media that the U.S. was prepared to deploy billions of dollars to support the South American country.A presidential delegation from Buenos Aires is expected to visit the White House next week to finalize the U.S. foreign aid deal.This has infuriated the soybean farmers. “U.S. soybean prices are falling, harvest is underway, and farmers read headlines not about securing a trade agreement with China, but that the U.S. government is extending $20 billion in economic support to Argentina while that country drops its soybean export taxes to sell 20 shiploads of Argentine soybeans to China in just two days,” Ragland said.President-elect Donald Trump with Argentine President Javier Milei at the America First Policy Institute gala at Mar-a-Lago in November.Carlos Barria / Reuters fileMeanwhile, Milei has also secured a currency swap line for Argentina from China, a situation that gives pause to some in Washington. In response, Milei has said Argentina will maintain its mutually beneficial trade and economic relationship with China. Tensions inside the Trump administration over China, Argentina and the soybean farmers broke into the open last week.While attending the U.N. General Assembly, Bessent received a text message from a contact labeled “BR.”“We bailed out Argentina yesterday … and in return, the Argentine’s removed their export tariff on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China at a time when we would normally be selling to China,” read the message, widely presumed to come from Rollins.“Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us,” the message concluded.Spokespeople for Bessent and Rollins did not respond to questions about the text message exchange.
November 12, 2025
Nov. 12, 2025, 12:40 AM ESTBy Josh Cradduck and Dennis RomeroJack Schlossberg, the only grandson of late President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, announced Tuesday night that he’s running for U.S. Congress.The 32-year-old son of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg said he’s running for the New York City seat long held by U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-NY, who in September announced he will retire.”I’m running for Congress to represent my home, New York’s 12th congressional district, where I was born and raised, where I took the bus to school every single day from one side of the district to the other,” Schlossberg said in a video announcing his candidacy.”This is the best part of the greatest city on Earth,” he said.Schlossberg’s politics fall within the family tradition of allegiance to the Democratic Party. He has developed an eccentric social media personality in which he often rails against President Donald Trump, Republicans in general and his first cousin-once-removed, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Schlossberg has been vocally critical of Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist. “He’s trading in on Camelot, celebrity conspiracy theories and conflict for personal gain and fame,” Schlossberg said of Kennedy in 2023 after the latter’s refusal to endorse former President Joe Biden’s reelection bid. Schlossberg completed undergraduate studies in history at Yale and received a law degree and master’s of business administration from Harvard. In July 2024, he joined Vogue as a political correspondent for that year’s presidential election. He indicated his campaign will be about fighting against Trump’s policies.New York’s 12th congressional district composes the geographical heart of Manhattan, including all of Central Park and most of the island north of Greenwhich Village and south of Harlem.”We have the best hospitals and schools, restaurants and museums,” Schlossberg said in his statement Tuesday. “This is the financial and media capital of the world. This district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy and drive of this district and translate that into political power in Washington.” Josh CradduckAssignment Editor, NBC NewsDennis RomeroDennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
October 24, 2025
Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 24, 2025, 5:01 AM EDTBy Andrew Greif and Rohan NadkarniThe arrests of two well-known NBA figures Thursday in a nationwide federal investigation into internal gambling and high-tech scam poker — especially a sitting head coach and former Finals Most Valuable Player — have roiled the league, from players to front offices to agents, sources told NBC News.The arrests, particularly that of Hall of Famer and Portland head coach Chauncey Billups, altered the tenor of this week’s conversations around the NBA, whose new season had started only two days earlier.The mood, a front office executive for one team said, went from fanfare to “fear.”Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups after his federal court appearance in Portland, Ore., on Oct. 23, 2025.Jenny Kane / AP“Who else is involved?” the executive said. “It’s a nightmare for the league.”Reactions to the extraordinary news spread quickly, ranging from surprise to anger at the league itself, according to five people who work inside or closely with the NBA, all of whom were granted anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about the matter.“Surprised they got caught,” a player agent said. “But not surprised, as [gambling] is happening everywhere.”Terry Rozier was indicted as part of an investigation into insider sports betting. A separate investigation into what law enforcement officials described as Mafia-organized rigged poker games led to charges for Billups. Jones was named in both indictments.“Shocking day,” Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle, who is also the president of the National Basketball Coaches Association, said Thursday before a game. Carlisle said he contacted Billups and his representatives to ask how Billups was doing but did not hear back. FBI: Mafia involved in NBA gambling scandal02:52“This is a very serious situation,” Carlisle said. “The irony, I guess, from my perspective, was yesterday was a day when our general counsel came down and read us all the regulations on gambling and warned our coaching staff, our players, our support staff about all these different things.”Billups’ attorney did not respond to a request for comment.Jones, in addition to the rigged poker games, was also accused of disclosing privileged information to bettors about the injury status of a player before a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Milwaukee Bucks in February 2023. That player was LeBron James, according to multiple reports, though he is not named in the indictment or accused of any wrongdoing. Jones was also accused of telling the same bettors on Jan. 15, 2024, that another Lakers player would miss the game because of injury, before that knowledge was public. The only player fitting the indictment’s description is Anthony Davis. Coach Damon Jones looks on during the 2025 G League Elite Camp in Chicago on May 11.Jeff Haynes / NBAE via Getty Images fileBillups, while he is not named in the Rozier indictment, is seemingly implicated, however. The indictment refers to a person named “Co-Conspirator 8,” who is described as an Oregon resident who played in the NBA from 1997 to 2014 and has been a coach since 2021. (Billups was drafted in 1997 and last played in 2014, and he became a head coach in 2021.)Co-Conspirator 8 is accused of giving bettors inside information about a Trail Blazers game in March 2023, when Billups was their head coach. Co-Conspirator 8 is alleged to have told another defendant in the case that Portland would be “tanking” the game and that several of the team’s players would be held out with injuries. Other defendants in the case are alleged to have used the information to place bets against the Trail Blazers.The “fear” from the potential fallout, or expansion, of the investigations came after FBI Director Kash Patel said at a news conference that investigations into gambling continue and Christopher Reya, an FBI assistant director in charge of the New York field office, called the indictments “just the tip of the iceberg.”The league has dealt with gambling scandals before. Jontay Porter of the Toronto Raptors was banned for life last year for violating the league’s gambling rules after a league investigation determined he had disclosed information about his participation to bettors for financial gain. He later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in federal court and is set to be sentenced in December. Last season, the NBA said in a statement that it was aware of an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office related to Rozier.Official: Investigation into alleged gambling scheme dubbed ‘Operation Royal Flush’01:47A culture of gambling has existed in the NBA for years, multiple people said. Inside locker rooms, it is not uncommon to hear discussions of a recent game of poker or bourré, a trick-taking card game similar to spades that is popular among basketball players. A longtime team employee said that wagering and the competition that fueled it were so pervasive that nearly every team flight he was on had multiple high-dollar games taking place at once, often one between players and another between coaches. J.J. Redick, the Los Angeles Lakers’ head coach, who also played in the league for 15 years, once told a story on his podcast about nearly coming to blows with a teammate because of gambling. After he referred to bourré as the “greatest gambling game” because of how the pot can grow “exponentially,” Redick said “the closest I ever came to a teammate punching me” was over a card game on a team flight. In January 2010, former All-Star Gilbert Arenas was arrested in violation of gun control laws after he and a teammate, Javaris Crittenton, took firearms to the Washington Wizards’ locker room as a result of a gambling dispute. Arenas has since said the dispute started over a game of bourré. (Arenas avoided jail time but was sentenced to two years of supervised probation in that case.)A league source told NBC News it is not uncommon for players to separate into different groups based on their salaries. A younger player, for example, may not gamble right away with a superstar on a max contract. But as salaries have increased in the NBA — the league’s highest-paid player will make over $59 million this season — the stakes on team flights have only gotten higher. Outside of flights, players also often set up with or are invited to high-stakes poker games, with cities such as Los Angeles and Houston cited as popular for gamblers, according to a source. (Arenas was arrested in July as part of a separate Justice Department investigation into illegal poker games in the Los Angeles area. He has pleaded not guilty.)Redick, who has coached the Lakers since 2024, told reporters Thursday that the team had gone through meetings that day about the league’s anti-gambling rules. “It’s obviously on the front of everyone’s awareness,” Redick said. Although gambling and the NBA have long been intertwined, Thursday’s arrests put the league on a different type of alert, an agent said, because it involved not lower-level players but Rozier, who has made more than $150 million in his career, and someone with the stature of Billups, a former NBA Finals MVP who was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame only last year and is widely respected around the league. The Trail Blazers deferred comment to the NBA and announced that an assistant coach, Tiago Splitter, would assume head coaching responsibilities. The NBA first investigated Rozier after it was alerted in March 2023 to what a league spokesperson later said was unusual betting activity related to his performance. Such bets on individual occurrences during games, not on the outcomes of the games themselves — called “prop bets” — have become extremely popular. Concerned that such bets could also give players incentives to manipulate their performances for financial gain after Porter was banished last year, the NBA last year persuaded sportsbooks to no longer offer “under” bets for players on 10-day or two-way contracts, who generally make the least amount of money. Rozier’s lawyer, Jim Trusty, told NBC News on Thursday that Rozier had been “cleared by the NBA.” The league never went quite that far publicly, however, saying in January 2024 only that its investigation “did not find a violation of NBA rules.” Asked at a news conference in July about the NBA’s investigation and whether he was comfortable with the findings, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged that federal investigators “have more resources at their disposal than the league office does when we do an investigation.”However, because many interpreted Rozier to have been cleared by the league, only to be arrested later, a high-ranking team executive said Thursday that he was concerned that “people will lose faith in the NBA’s ability to investigate these things.” The executive added that he, too, had become dubious about what the NBA’s investigatory arm would turn up from investigations it handles or outsources to outside law firms, such as the ongoing probe into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the salary cap.“This thing is not about Terry Rozier or Chauncey Billups,” the executive said. “It’s about that we trust the NBA to uphold the integrity of what’s happening on the basketball court.” The NBA said in a statement Thursday that it continues to review federal indictments and allegations, which it took “with the utmost seriousness.” Billups was arrested less than nine hours after Portland’s season-opening season-opening loss at home, a game notably attended by the team’s current owner and a financier in the process of buying the franchise. Billups was asked whether the change in ownership added pressure to his job.“I do the best I can,” he said, “and let the chips fall where they may.”Andrew GreifAndrew Greif is a sports reporter for NBC News Digital. Rohan NadkarniRohan Nadkarni is a sports reporter for NBC News. 
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