Post readers discuss New York AG Letitia James’ aide allegedly ordering staff to target people associated with President Trump — and her Michigan counterpart saying Jews “have a moral...
It’s easy to feel a certain schadenfreude over news of Meta’s $16.7 billion settlement with almost every state attorney general. Sometimes bad things happen to bad corporations. It’s hard not to cheer. For years, Meta has largely gone unchecked as it employed a business model that basically amounted to psychologically manipulating people through Skinnerian principles […]
It’s not often in Washington, D.C. that a special interest group directly contradicts itself, but the Hemp Roundtable did just that. In 2022, the Associated Press exposed how chemists were chemically processing CBD extracted from hemp to produce delta-8 THC, an intoxicating compound. A loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill opened the floodgates to unregulated […]
Nvidia revealed on Tuesday the Trump administration's tighter export controls on computer chips will cost the company $5.5 billion. In a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nvidia said it will take a $5.5 billion charge for the exporting of its H20 graphics processing units to China. Exports of a similar bandwidth...
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) sparred with CNN host Pamela Brown over the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the deportation of a Maryland man who was sent to the CECOT maximum security prison in El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was removed from the United States last month despite his legal residency in Maryland for more than a...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of a small arm within the State Department aimed at countering foreign disinformation campaigns, which Republicans increasingly criticized as silencing conservative voices online. Rubio announced the shuttering of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center...
President Trump’s fight with Harvard University shows how far he is willing to take his crusade against higher education, targeting the oldest and richest university in the nation. The battle will test how far the Trump administration will be able to go after it has already paused funding for numerous other institutions and has...
The WTO has deemed the impact of Trump's tariff overhaul and ongoing uncertainty a "crisis" and warned that if the situation deteriorates, trade flows could be reduced, leading to a 0.2 percent fall in global merchandise trade in 2025.
A record-high share of U.S. adults say they think global warming will pose a “serious threat” to them in their lifetime, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. In the survey, conducted in early March, 48 percent of respondents say they think “global warming will pose a serious threat to you or your way of...
Trump’s tariffs represent a clumsy attempt to replace a global trading system based on stability and deliberation with his unilateral rage- and power-driven trade war.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has invoked the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition to block President Trump’s appointees to serve as U.S. attorneys for two of the most prestigious districts in the country, the Southern District and the Eastern District of New York. Schumer announced Wednesday that he will use his senatorial privilege to block...
A second adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been suspended amid an ongoing probe into leaks of information at the Pentagon. The Defense Department’s deputy chief of staff, Darin Selnick, was placed on administrative leave “pending an investigation,” a U.S. Defense official told The Hill. Selnick’s suspension came as part of the same investigation...
A group of 12 students sued the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) over changes that have been made to curriculum and book removals in its schools. The lawsuit accuses the DODEA of eliminating curriculum that deals with subjects such as slavery, Native American history, and LGBTQ issues, taking books off shelves and canceling events the government says are...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced plans to sue the Trump administration Wednesday, challenging President Trump's authority to enact tariffs they claim will cause “immediate and irreparable harm” to the Golden State. In the lawsuit, expected to be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
