Vice President JD Vance arrived in Switzerland on Sunday to join envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for a critical new round of U.S.-Iran negotiations.
A federal judge said Friday that the Justice Department (DOJ) can release audio recordings and transcripts of former President Biden to the conservative Heritage Foundation but must wait three weeks to allow an appeals court to review Biden’s challenge. Judge Dabney Langhorne Friedrich denied Biden’s attempt to block the release of his decade-old conversations...
President Trump claimed on Saturday that multiple individuals have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as he seeks to deflect blame for ongoing water quality and maintenance problems stemming from a recent multi-million renovation project. “The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Pool,” Trump...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) met with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday for what he described as a “positive interview,” but did not commit to backing his nomination to head the Department of Justice. “I will not make a decision on confirmation until after that briefing and completion of his hearing before the committee,”...
"The View" hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin on Tuesday pressed Vice President Vance on the Trump administration's removal of Black history from sites around the country and the dismantling of majority-Black voting districts. Goldberg asked Vance what Black people did “to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color.” “You...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to ensure the mother of Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha can attend her son’s next FIFA World Cup match. Cape Verde on Monday played to a 0-0 draw in Atlanta against Spain, one of the pre-tournament favorites. That was in part thanks...
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has joined the advisory board of Canadian mineral exploration firm NovaRed Mining, the company announced Tuesday. Noem, who now serves as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas, will work in a strategic advisory role as the company seeks to acquire and advance critical mineral exploration projects using...
Vice President Vance mocked Major League Baseball for issuing a warning to a handful of San Francisco Giants players who wore Bible verses on their Pride Night ball caps during a recent game. The three players, pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker, wore Pride Night hats with Bible verses written on them when...
⚽ Plus: Iran’s World Cup team ordered to quickly leave US, says coach {beacon} It’s Tuesday. The World Cup storyline of Scottish soccer fans taking over Boston has gotten even funnier. The Boston Globe reports that some bars literally ran out of beer last weekend. One bar’s COO says she had never seen anything like it in...
Anthropic took down its newest AI models last week, after the Trump administration slapped the company with an export control order requiring it to block foreign nationals from accessing its latest technology. The order comes amid concerns about the potential capability to bypass the models’ guardrails, sparking yet another dispute between Anthropic and the administration....
Analysts are questioning the sustainability of current market valuations, as concerns about speculative excess have grown amid heightened enthusiasm and potential risks surrounding the AI-driven stock market rally of recent years.
Records show the price tag for the White House ballroom is rising to $600 million, with half of the costs funded by taxpayer dollars, according to a new report from The Washington Post. The news comes months after President Trump said private donors would pay for the $400 million initiative to construct a new ballroom...
The Trump administration is intervening on behalf of Elon Musk’s xAI after the NAACP accused it in court of illegally polluting the air of a Memphis-area community. In April, the civil rights organization alleged that xAI did not get an air pollution permit for its Colossus Gas Plant, which powers its Colossus 2 data center that in...
Some fans, waving pre-revolutionary Iranian flags, booed the Iranian national anthem before the country's opening match against New Zealand in the FIFA World Cup on Monday in Los Angeles, The Athletic reported. They played to a 2-2 draw in the Group G tilt. The Lion and Sun flag, a green, white and red horizontal tricolor, served as...
