President Trump selected Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia this week as the U.S.'s first chief design officer as part of the administration’s push to update the federal government’s design language to be both “usable and beautiful.” Gebbia, who joined the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earlier this year and is on the board of Tesla, said...
President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said on Saturday that a Florida judge's order to temporarily shut down some of Alligator Alcatraz is “not going to stop” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, indicating that migrants apprehended by federal agents could be sent to other detention facilities. “They're not going to stop us doing what...
Comedian Bill Maher praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) social media strategy of trying to “out-stupid” President Trump. “Gavin Newsom is now trolling Trump. I’ve never seen a Democrat do this. I think it’s very funny… he’s imitating Trump’s exact style,” Maher said Friday during his “Real Time With Bill Maher” show. “This is Newsom:...
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley condemned the Trump administration’s decision to take a 10 percent stake in Intel. “Biden was wrong to subsidize the private sector with the Chips Act using our tax dollars. The counter to Biden is not to lean in and have govt own part of Intel,” Haley, who was the...
California will ask voters this fall to decide whether to redraw this state’s congressional lines after its Democratic-controlled Legislature formally approved a sweeping redistricting plan on Thursday, a response to GOP-led efforts in Texas. The plan, if voters give it the green light, could give Democrats five additional House seats, potentially nullifying the gains Republicans...
Trade negotiations between the U.S. and India are ongoing, although New Delhi has some “red lines” that it will defend, according to India's foreign minister. “I mean, negotiations are still going on in the sense that nobody said the negotiations are off. You know? I mean, and people, people do talk to each other,” Indian...
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta weighed in on the FBI’s raid of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, suggesting Friday night that there’s “some targeting here going on.” “We don‘t know all the facts here because we don‘t know what the Justice Department said to a magistrate judge in order to get...
The U.S. should establish a Public AI Wealth Fund to ensure that the public benefits from the returns of AI, while using competition, data, labor and energy rules to keep the field open and the harms in check.
President Trump is seeing a growing disapproval rating among Americans seven months into his second White House term, according to a Friday survey. . The Economist/YouGov poll found that 40 percent of Americans “strongly or somewhat” approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency. More than half of U.S. adults, 56 percent, said they “strongly or...
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) on Saturday upped her crusade against conditions in the Gaza Strip following a declaration of famine in the region by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. “U.S. taxpayers fund Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. That means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions,” Greene...
Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, signaled Saturday that he could be the next target of President Trump's FBI after ex-national security adviser John Bolton's Washington-area home was raided by agents early Friday. Taylor, who served as a deputy chief of staff at DHS under Trump's first term, was asked by...
The federal government said it would deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined a plea deal, according to court filings. Federal prosecutors on Thursday offered Abrego Garcia the option to “live freely” with refugee or residency status in Costa Rica after serving prison time for federal human smuggling charges in exchange for a...
