When President Trump sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner at the White House next week, he will be flanked by the architects of America's tech economy.
“I am a Jew.” Those four words should be an ordinary declaration of identity. At a prayer vigil outside the New York mayor’s office on Sept. 18, they became a statement of resolve. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan, built his remarks around “Ivri Anochi,” עברי אנכי, drawing on the […]
Students and educators across the country are heading back to school this month with a fresh set of challenges for the academic year, as well as some lingering from the last one. Educators face new laws to obey and varying instructions on how to do so. Students plan to get back to protesting the Gaza...
The cascade of bad headlines for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is threatening to completely derail his presidential campaign less than three months out from Election Day. The latest scandal is over a piece in The New Yorker that reported the environmental lawyer threw a dead baby bear into Central Park and tried to make it look like...
This November, 16 million young Americans will be able to vote in their very first presidential election. Baby boomers still hold the greatest political clout, but Gen Z — which is often at ideological odds with its elders — could be a deciding factor come Election Day. So, what does Gen Z care about? What...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made fun of former President Trump’s pick of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate on Sunday, laughing it off. “It was a great choice,” Pelosi said in a CBS “Sunday Morning” interview, laughing, when asked if the pick was a mistake. Some Republicans have criticized the choice of...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN on Monday that she has not spoken to President Biden since he left the presidential race last month, signaling a potential falling out between the two Democratic veterans. Pelosi told CNN’s Dana Bash that while she hasn’t spoken to the president since he ended his campaign, she hoped...
The social media site X will close its San Francisco office and move workers elsewhere in the Bay Area, it announced internally Monday, according to The New York Times. Employees will move to company offices in Palo Alto and San Jose, CEO Linda Yaccarino said in the memo. The Palo Alto office already has staff...
A Republican mayor in Arizona who bucked his party to endorse Vice President Harris was invited to attend the Democratic National Convention in Chicago later this month, he told The Arizona Republic on Monday. John Giles, mayor of Mesa, didn’t commit to attending but said he “did appreciate the invitation.” He also said he will...
Afghan sprinter Kimia Yousofi competed in her Olympic 100-meter race with a message about women’s rights on the back of her bib. After Yousofi finished last in her heat on Friday, she lifted up her bib to reveal a message written on the back of it that appeared to read, “Education,” “Sport,” “Our Rights,” according to...
Authorities in Michigan and North Carolina are investigating a political action committee backed by Elon Musk over the group’s data collection methods, multiple outlets reported Monday. America PAC, which Musk helped found earlier this year, may be violating the states’ laws by collecting address information from users while claiming it is registering them to vote....
Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway has registered to lobby on behalf of a Ukrainian oligarch, according to a new foreign agent disclosure filing. Conway registered Friday to represent Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk’s foundation as a lobbyist, according to a filing uploaded by the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The filing suggests that...
Forecasters are warning that Tropical Storm Debby could bring “catastrophic flooding” to the Southeast this week after the storm ripped through Florida on Monday. The storm made landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane in the Florida Big Bend at about 7 a.m. on Monday, reaching maximum winds of about 80 mph. The storm brought severe...
Excitement and rumor are at their apex just hours before Vice President Harris is expected to announce her choice of running mate. Harris and her vice presidential nominee will soon begin a rapid tour of six of the seven states that are likely to determine the election. The first event on that itinerary is in...
Adin Ross, an online streamer with ties to white nationalists, gifted former President Trump a new Tesla Cybertruck and a Rolex watch during Trump’s guest appearance on his show Monday, raising questions over campaign finance law. The Cybertruck was wrapped with a photo from just after Trump was shot in an attempted assassination last month...
