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Factbox-Who is speaking at the Republican National Convention?
By Helen Coster
(Reuters) -This week’s Republican National Convention, overshadowed by an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, will feature televised speeches from business leaders, celebrities, officials and everyday Americans culminating with the former president’s formal acceptance of his nomination for president.
The four-day event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, begins on Monday. Nightly themes include crime, the economy and global conflicts, all issues driving the run-up to Trump’s Nov. 5 election rematch with President Joe Biden, his Democratic rival.
Here are some of the expected speakers:
DAVID SACKS
Entrepreneur and investor David Sacks is part of a group of wealthy, high-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalists and investors who have thrown their support behind Trump.
In June, Sacks and his wife Jacqueline hosted a Trump fundraiser at their home in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, raising $12 million. Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance, who has worked in venture capital and is on Trump’s vice president short list, helped organize the fundraiser.
Sacks, a close friend of Elon Musk, was previously the chief operating officer of PayPal (NASDAQ:). He was an early investor in companies including Airbnb, Facebook (NASDAQ:), Palantir (NYSE:), SpaceX and Uber (NYSE:).
TRENT CONAWAY
The mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, will speak on Wednesday, part of a lineup that will include Trump’s pick for vice president and his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. East Palestine, located on the state’s border with Pennsylvania, is the site of a toxic train derailment in February 2023 that sparked a health and environmental crisis.
Trump visited East Palestine about two weeks after the derailment and criticized Biden for not traveling to the working-class community of 4,700 citizens.
The White House noted at the time that federal agents were on the scene almost immediately after the derailment. Biden eventually visited East Palestine in February 2024.
Conaway, a conservative who does not support Biden, extended the invitation to visit to the president, saying it would be good for his community.
AMBER ROSE
Rose, a biracial, millennial model and reality television personality who once dated rapper Kanye West, is making her RNC debut in a speech next week.
In May, Rose, who has more than 24 million followers on Instagram, endorsed Trump, himself a former reality TV star, in a post featuring her standing alongside Trump and his wife Melania, with the comment “Trump 2024.”
On July 2 she posted a photo of herself wearing a red Make America Great Again baseball hat and a white bikini.
Rose called Trump an “idiot” in a 2016 interview with The Cut, adding: “He’s so weird. I really hope he’s not president.”
RON DESANTIS
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, once considered a top contender for the 2024 Republican nomination and a political heir to Trump before his campaign floundered, is scheduled to speak on Tuesday.
DeSantis, who endorsed Trump after dropping out of the primary race, has become a leading figure within the Republican Party for his conservative stance on hot-button social issues involving schools, gender and abortion. He is also a staunch critic of Biden’s immigration policies.
During DeSantis’ presidential primary bid, Trump relentlessly attacked the governor.
DANA WHITE
The chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship will speak ahead of Trump on Thursday. Trump has had a long relationship with White, who also spoke at the 2016 and 2020 Republican conventions in support of Trump’s candidacy.
Trump hosted UFC events at his since-bankrupt Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City decades ago when the sport was spurned by most venues, White said in a 2018 interview with The Hill.
Trump’s alignment with White and UFC helps his appeal with young men in particular.
The Republican presidential candidate attended a UFC match in Newark, New Jersey, on June 1 in his first public appearance after being convicted on 34 felony counts relating to a scheme to a cover up an alleged affair with a porn star. White and clips from that appearance were featured in Trump’s first post on TikTok, a video that has garnered 7.7 million likes.
TRUMP FAMILY MEMBERS
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the former president’s oldest sons, as well as daughter-in-law Lara Trump and Donald Jr.’s fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle, will be speaking at the convention. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump run the Trump Organization; Lara Trump is co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
SEAN O’BRIEN
O’Brien is president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the 1.3 million-member labor union which endorsed Biden in 2020 and has yet to endorse a candidate in this year’s presidential election.
Last month a spokesperson for the union said that O’Brien asked to speak at both the RNC and the Democratic National Convention, which will be held in Chicago in August.
Trump and Biden are both courting votes from rank-and-file members of organized labor, whose support in the Nov. 5 election could be crucial in battleground states that decide elections, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
BOB UNANUE
Unanue is chief executive of Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned U.S. food company and a popular brand among Latino Americans. In 2020 the New Jersey-based company became the target of a boycott campaign on social media sparked by Unanue effusively praising Trump at the White House.
The hashtags #Goyaway and #BoycottGoya began trending on Twitter after Unanue appeared with Trump for the signing of an executive order creating an advisory panel for bolstering Hispanic prosperity. Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump later rallied support for Goya Foods on Twitter.
(Reuters) -Private equity firm Insight Partners is on the brink of closing a new $10 billion-plus fund, roughly half the amount originally targeted, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing five people with knowledge of its plans.
Insight will not formally close its 13th fund until early next year, the report said, adding that the final figure may be closer to $12 billion.
Insight Partners declined to comment on the report.
The report said Insight is using a private equity-style structure to sell more than $1 billion worth of stakes in start-ups and to free up cash to return to investors.
One of the start-ups is Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz, which had called off a $23 billion deal with Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:) in July, the report said.
New York-based Insight raised $20 billion for its 12th flagship fund in 2022, aiming to ramp up investments in software and technology companies.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a “heavy price” on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile on Sunday for the first time.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group struck with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that travelled 2,040 km (1270 miles) in just 11 1/2 minutes.
After initially saying the missile had fallen in an open area, Israel’s military later said it had probably fragmented in the air, and that pieces of interceptors had landed in fields and near a railway station. Nobody was reported hurt.
Air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel moments before the impact at around 6:35 a.m. local time (0335 GMT), sending residents running for shelter. Loud booms were heard.
Reuters saw smoke billowing in an open field in central Israel.
At a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said the Houthis should have known that Israel would exact a “heavy price” for attacks on Israel.
“Whoever needs a reminder of that is invited to visit the Hodeida port,” Netanyahu said, referring to an Israeli retaliatory air strike against Yemen in July for a Houthi drone that hit Tel Aviv.
The Houthis have fired missiles and drones at Israel repeatedly in what they say is solidarity with the Palestinians, since the Gaza war began with a Hamas attack on Israel in October.
The drone that hit Tel Aviv for the first time in July killed a man and wounded four people. Israeli air strikes in response on Houthi military targets near the port of Hodeidah killed six and wounded 80.
Previously, Houthi missiles have not penetrated deep into Israeli air space, with the only one reported to have hit Israeli territory falling in an open area near the Red Sea port of Eilat in March.
Israel should expect more strikes in the future “as we approach the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 operation, including responding to its aggression on the city of Hodeidah,” Sarea said.
The deputy head of the Houthi’s media office, Nasruddin Amer, said in a post on X on Sunday that the missile had reached Israel after “20 missiles failed to intercept” it, describing it as the “beginning”.
The Israeli military also said that 40 projectiles were fired towards Israel from Lebanon on Sunday and were either intercepted or landed in open areas.
“No injuries were reported,” the military said.
PARIS (Reuters) – Eight people have died trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French authorities said on Sunday, confirming earlier media reports.
This latest incident follows the deaths of 12 people earlier this month when their boat capsized in the Channel on its way to Britain and highlights the pressure on the British and French governments to find ways to tackle the boat crossings.
Jacques Billant, the Prefect of the Pas-de-Calais region, said that rescue crews were alerted that a boat with 59 people onboard was in difficulty in waters off the coast of Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais area.
“A new drama took place around one in the morning and we deplore the death of eight people,” he told a news conference, adding that the other 51 onboard were now in the care of rescue and medical crews.
The dead were men from Eritrea, Sudan, Syria, Egypt, Iran and Afghanistan, he added.
The Channel is one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and currents are strong, which makes crossing on small boats dangerous.
The latest incident brings to 46 the number of people who have died trying to cross the Channel from France since the start of the year, Billant said.
On September 14 alone there were eight attempts to cross the Channel from France and some 200 migrants were rescued, he said.
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