New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed executive orders recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and handed one of the pens to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once represented an al-Qaida operative.
The European Union (EU) is putting its retaliatory tariffs on hold for 90 days after President Trump instituted a pause on his sweeping duties for most U.S. trading partners, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled early Thursday. Von der Leyen signaled that the 27-member trading bloc is open to negotiations with the Trump...
Consumer prices fell by 0.1 percent from March to April to a 2.4 percent annual increase, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The deflation from March to April comes in below expectations of economists, who were predicting a 0.1 percent increase in the consumer price index (CPI) across the two months. On an annual basis, they...
23andMe’s debacle should be a major wake-up call, reminding policymakers and all of us of the risks of giving access to our genetic and other health data.
Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian dual national who was detained last year on treason charges, was released from Russia in the latest prisoner exchange, according to the State Department. “American Ksenia Karelina is on a plane back home to the United States. She was wrongfully detained by Russia for over a year and President Trump secured...
Biotechnology will have a transformative impact on defense, supply chains, agriculture, health and computing, all areas that will affect our national security.
The Trump administration's ceasefire negotiations with Russia have failed to stop the killing and dying in Ukraine, as Moscow continues to target Ukrainian civilians with ballistic missiles and drones.
Democrats will hold town halls this month to “call out” House Republicans in target districts, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) said in a Wednesday press release. “As Republicans prepare to vote on a budget resolution that would threaten Social Security and Medicare, cut jobs for veterans, put health care and food assistance on the chopping...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) expressed uncertainty about President Trump’s trade policy to CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday. “I still don’t know exactly what his total strategy is,” Johnson said on Capitol Hill in a clip that aired on CNN’s “The Arena,” in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “We know what his goal was … he...
The Senate confirmed Paul Atkins as the next Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) leader. Atkins, a former Republican SEC commissioner, was greenlighted by the Senate in a 52-44 vote on Wednesday evening. President Trump nominated Atkins, a Wall Street consultant, to the head the independent financial regulator, describing him as a “proven leader for common...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s attorney John Bash is running to succeed Ken Paxton (R) as Texas’s attorney general, becoming the first candidate to throw his hat in the statewide race. Bash, who is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, said he is running because the Texas attorney general’s office is at the...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that negotiations with President Trump on the U.S.-Canada economic and security relationships will start after the Canadian federal election. “The pause on reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump is a welcome reprieve for the global economy,” Carney said in a post on the social platform X. “As President...
