The White House announced that US President Donald Trump intends to honor Elon Musk and other directors of major technology companies with the highest scientific award in a ceremony to be held on Thursday.
Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Musk during the “Science: A New Golden Age” summit, and to Sergey Brin, who helped found Google, Jensen Huang, director of NVIDIA, and Lisa Su, director of AMD.
As for Michael Dell (Dell Technologies) and Satya Nadella (Microsoft), they will be honored with the National Medal for Technology and Innovation, the highest award in this field.
White House spokeswoman Liz Houston said in a statement, “The Trump administration is grateful for the contributions of these wonderful leaders in the field of science and technology. Thanks to them, America remains at the forefront of innovation.”
Musk, who owns SpaceX, Tesla, and
He was also among a group of technology giants' managers who attended a meeting at the White House with the president last week about ways to control artificial intelligence technology.
Musk was invited, along with Huang and others, to the dinner that Trump hosted in honor of his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, during his official visit last month.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but acknowledged that there are doubts about his chances of winning it.
Regarding the 2026 prize that the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce on Friday, Trump said, “I don’t know what their decision will be.” “They have a reputation that they might not give to people like me.”
Trump has repeatedly repeated since his return to the White House last year that he deserves what can be described as the highest status award in the world.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “The time has come... but I was very honored to receive it indirectly last time from the winner, who said that no one in history deserves it more than President Trump.”
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado handed over the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump in January, as part of her effort to obtain US support for her efforts in Venezuela.
Trump believes that he deserves the award after his involvement in efforts to resolve eight conflicts since he took office.
The leaders of Cambodia, Israel and Pakistan said they nominated Trump, but there is no way to verify this.
Parties in some of the conflicts that Trump says he has resolved are skeptical about the US president's diplomatic role, and clashes have broken out again in some of those regions, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on the border between Cambodia and Thailand.
Trump was unable to reach a solution to the Russian war in Ukraine, even though he promised to end it on the first day of his second term in the White House. US-Israeli strikes on Iran sparked a seven-month conflict, disrupting global energy supplies and rising gas prices ahead of the midterm elections in November.
It should be noted that Pope Leo, the International Criminal Court, and the Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories are among the most likely candidates to win the award this year.
The US Department of Homeland Security has proposed imposing training fees of no less than $70,000 on international students wishing to work within the United States, in a step that comes as part of President Donald Trump’s administration tightening its procedures towards foreign visa holders.
The proposal, according to a government notice published today, Wednesday, stipulates that international students holding F-1 visas must pay $70,000 to an accredited institution to participate in an optional practical training program that allows them to gain practical experience in the United States, in addition to $30,000 for any additional practical training programs.
The Department of Homeland Security said that the new rules aim to “combat fraud, enhance the integrity of the immigration system, and protect American workers.”
Under the optional practical training system, foreign students can participate in practical training for up to 20 hours per week while studying, as well as for a limited period after graduation, with an additional allowance for those who hold degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Those registered in this program are currently expected to pay about $500.
