Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday we look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. It was a bad week for US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, according to some Swiss papers. Hollywood creatives will also be drowning their sorrows – although fans of fare such as Frozen will no doubt be delighted at Disney’s deal with OpenAI, letting them prompt their favourite characters to do whatever they want. Election defeats, internal revolts and lousy polls – the Republicans are unsettled, says the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). “Something remarkable has happened in Indiana,” Swiss public broadcaster SRF wrote on Friday. “The Republicans have denied Donald Trump a wish.” The US president, SRF explained, had wanted the state’s electoral districts to be redrawn so that the Republicans could win additional seats in parliament. Elsewhere, such as in Texas, the ...
