A New Jersey school district faces a lawsuit over its transgender policy allowing students to socially transition without ever notifying their parents.
The Trump administration proposed new regulations to strip the tax-exempt status of private schools if they offer targeted programs supporting specific racial groups.
The U.S. military took down approximately 100 suspected cartel drones at the southern border in August using sophisticated laser systems, officials say.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman warned Chinese and Russian technologies, especially Beijing's '"kill web," present the greatest risks to the U.S.'s space defense capabilities. “The PRC [People's Republic of China] has developed what we’ve kind of, you know, tongue in cheek, called a ‘kill web,’ and it’s nothing more than a series...
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said Thursday cyber criminals stole customer data and demanded a $20 million payment from the company to not publicly release the sensitive information. The group of cyber criminals allegedly persuaded a small group of customer support agents overseas to copy data from its customer support tools in exchange for cash, Coinbase announced...
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday aimed at preventing the smuggling of artificial intelligence (AI) chips to unauthorized locations. The bill comes amid a broader effort in Washington to curb competition with China and prevent U.S.-made tech from ending up in the hands of adversaries. It The legislation, titled the Chips...
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said Thursday she believes senators have reached an agreement on “final language” for Senate stablecoin legislation and expects the bill to head to the floor next week. “It has been an all-week marathon and sprint at the same time, but I believe we’ve got final, final language,” Lummis told The Hill....
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, the South African government announced after Trump declared there’s a “genocide” taking place against Afrikaners. The first group of white South Africans arrived in the U.S. on Monday following the Trump administration’s prioritization of the Afrikaner refugee...
A meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is the “only way” to move forward with talks on ending the war in Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday. Rubio’s remarks come as a highly anticipated meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Turkey was downgraded and moved to Friday, after Putin...
Republicans are proposing cuts to Medicaid to fund tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, but these cuts would harm the vulnerable and raise health care costs for everyone, when Americans want solutions that strengthen our economy and communities.
More than 7,000 soldiers will reportedly be housed in government office buildings for a major military parade next month to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary. The parade, which will also fall on President Trump’s birthday, is expected to feature tanks, military planes and other equipment on the National Mall, according to planning documents obtained by...
A handful of House Republicans are working to make President Trump’s executive order to bar transgender troops from serving openly in the military permanent, introducing legislation to give the directive the full force of law. The Readiness Over Wokeness Act, introduced Wednesday by Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.), deems any service member with a current diagnosis, history...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday signaled that changes will be made to the party’s mega-bill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities in order to win support from conservative and moderate Republicans balking at some of its provisions. Those alterations, he warned, will not only include a larger tax break for blue states that several...
Each U.S. state had its own trendy and popular names in 2024, according to new data released by the Social Security Administration, which tracks every birth in the U.S.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), a leading advocate for American leadership in the field of artificial intelligence, is slamming President Trump’s support for deals to sell advanced U.S. chip technology to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Schumer says that Trump would “green-light the sale of the most sensitive U.S. chip technology in...
The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society tolerate the intolerant without sacrificing its own principles?
Wholesale prices took their largest month-to-month dive in April since the height of the coronavirus pandemic amid Trump’s ongoing trade war. The producer price index (PPI), a measure of wholesale inflation, declined 0.5 percent from March to April, the largest monthly drop since April 2020 immediately following the onset of the pandemic when the global...
