The disconnect between hard data and soft data is creating challenges for market participants and Federal Reserve officials, with households and firms turning pessimistic despite the economic slowdown not yet fully materializing, and traditional recession indicators misfiring.
The Trump administration is currently probing the impact of imported commercial jets, engines and other aircraft parts on national security, according to a copy of the federal notice made public on Friday. The Commerce Department started the investigation on May 1, per the notice. The department is seeking public comments on the current and projected...
Comedian Bill Maher shook hands with Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair David Hogg on Friday, after the operative delivered his take on why the Democratic Party lost a chunk of young voters in the 2024 presidential election. “What I think happened last election is younger men, they would rather vote for somebody ... who...
Meta's new AI glasses, which are capable of recognizing faces, interpreting language, overlaying information, and collecting vast swaths of data, will create a world of layered realities, with nearly half of the world's population already wired into the Meta ecosystem.
Comedian Bill Maher poked fun at President Trump's use of dolls to illustrate the need for families to avoid overconsumption as the administration navigates an uneven economic climate fueled by his trade war. "He’s obsessed with how many dolls we get to have," Maher said Friday on an episode of his "Real Time" show, adding...
Republicans typically love President Trump — no matter what he does. But a growing chorus of those supporters has quietly been expressing dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of tariffs, including his most recent threat on foreign-made films. They’re increasingly uncomfortable with the tariff talk and the market fluctuations, and they see through the spin coming from...
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) on Friday reflected on being arrested outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility earlier in the day, arguing he was being targeted after visiting the New Jersey detention center with three Democratic members of Congress. “Nothing happened for a long, long time, you know, for at least...
The Trump administration can truly Make America Great Again and bring the country back to its manufacturing heyday if he invests appropriately in the robots of the future — and the Americans who power them.
It will take more than a Shakespearean flourish to erase the hypocrisy of lawyers, law schools, and bar groups that spent years hounding lawyers who took Trump or other conservative or Republican causes as clients.
Robby Starbuck, a conservative author and activist, took a swing at Meta on Friday, just a week after an executive apologized for the company's artificial intelligence (AI) search engine spreading false information about him. "I think it's one of the first times I've ever seen a company come out in the middle of active litigation...
Ukraine and its allies in Europe are upping their pressure on Russia to accept terms for a 30-day ceasefire that would begin as early as Monday. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Saturday that leaders of France, Germany, the UK and Poland — a partnership dubbed the “Coalition of the Willing” — met in Kyiv...
The results of a 2025 study from J.D. Power shows that airlines are seeing an overall improvement in customer satisfaction — but some carriers fared better than others with passengers.
