We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that you can’t walk out of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral without passing a large gift zone near the arrow that points to Sortie de secours. And you can’t […]
At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about blackbirds. Namely, two birds, father and son, whose relationship with Clarke began one bitter night in 1962. It was Europe’s coldest winter in 80 years, and, to give the bird a […]
The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations, committing up to $2.2 billion to an effort that could eventually put more than 20 reactors across War Department facilities. It is the latest evidence that President Donald Trump’s revival of American nuclear power could […]
President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland added a new security dimension to Iceland's EU referendum, with 275,000 eligible voters weighing in.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer touted that native-born employment increased in the latest dismal jobs report, which showed the U.S. added only 73,000 jobs in July. While calling for the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates, Chavez-Deremer argued that businesses need to be able to borrow money at a lower rate so they...
President Trump, who has waffled back-and-forth in recent weeks over whether he would move to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, signaled Friday that the move was unlikely. In an interview with Newsmax's Rob Finnerty, Trump said he is not likely to fire Powell before his term is up in May 2026, despite criticizing the...
President Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) are making slow progress toward a deal to clear some of the Senate’s backlog of executive branch nominees to allow weary senators to leave Washington for the four-week August recess. Walking off the darkened Senate floor at 10 pm Friday,...
Dark clouds formed over President Trump’s economy Friday after the July jobs report showed the labor market only gaining 106,000 jobs over the last three months. The report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggested the economy and labor market are much weaker than previously thought, and will raise questions about whether the president’s...
Republican senators are getting ready to leave Washington without advancing a major sanctions bill against Russia, giving President Trump sole discretion over whether to follow through on his threats against Russian President Vladimir Putin if he refuses to halt his war against Ukraine. Trump has given an Aug. 8 deadline for Putin to stop fighting...
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Friday slammed the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for a series of reports on job growth he deemed inaccurate. The longtime Trump adviser said the BLS had an “unsettling pattern” of presenting the public with the wrong information. “The BLS doesn't seem to be able to get that...
The Trump administration revoked a Biden era abortion rule on Friday that allows veterans to receive abortions under their medical package. The Department of Veteran Affairs is reversing a 2022 rule that provided access to abortion counseling and abortions to certain pregnant veterans in addition to VA beneficiaries. “We take this action to ensure that...
The Senate on Friday passed its first tranche of government funding bills for fiscal year 2026 ahead of its upcoming August recess, but Congress is bracing for a potentially messy fight to prevent a shutdown when they return in September. The chamber approved three bills that provide more than $180 billion in discretionary funding for...
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary on Friday criticized President Trump for proposing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head be fired after reporting a decline in job growth. Hours before his comments, Trump slammed Commissioner Erika McEntarfer in a Truth Social post alleging she altered job reports to favor former Vice President Harris during the...
Charlamagne tha God shared a soft endorsement for Jon Stewart in an interview set to be published Saturday after discouraging former Vice President Kamala Harris from launching another White House bid in 2028. “I would love to see Jon Stewart run in 2028,” Charlamagne told Fox News’s Lara Trump. “If we’re talking about like a...
