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 […]
The U.K.'s 10 Downing Street has hit back at Elon Musk's comments over violent unrest in Northern England and pushed back on his statement that "civil war is inevitable." Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesperson responded to the comment Monday, saying that there was "no justification" for those remarks. The U.K. has been rocked by violence...
A larger conflagration means no return of the hostages, no return of the 100,000 evacuees to northern of Israel, no Israeli cease-fire with Hamas or Hezbollah and heightened anxiety everywhere.
Shares in several major technology companies plunged Monday morning amid a wider sell-off in the market. Nvidia saw the biggest drop out of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks, opening 14.2 percent down compared to market close on Friday. Tesla opened 10.9 percent down, while Apple slid 9.6 percent, and Amazon fell 8.2 percent at the start...
The United Nations has fired nine staff members from its agency responsible for Palestinian refugees over their possible roles in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The United Nations said in a press release Monday that its Office of Internal Oversight Services completed its investigation into 19 staff members, finding that evidence it collected indicated that...
Former President Trump on Monday offered rare praise for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), telling an online streamer the congresswoman has "a good spark." Trump sat for an interview with internet personality Adin Ross on the platform Kick, where Ross displayed photos of various celebrities and lawmakers and asked Trump for his reaction to each person....
Bloomberg News has disciplined several staffers after the outlet prematurely published a story last week on a prisoner swap between the U.S. government and Russia, which brought home Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, among others. The story, published early Thursday before the deal had been announced, "could have endangered the negotiated swap that set...
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Utah officials denied clemency to Taberon Honie, who is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 8 for the stabbing death of his girlfriend's mother in 1998, as the Death Penalty Information Center found that clemency in capital cases is most often granted where there is evidence of disproportionate sentencing of different offenders who commit the same crime and of possible innocence.
Venezuela's opposition candidate trounced President Nicolás Maduro in last week's election, according to election tallies that show the opposition's Edmundo González received more than double the votes of Maduro. A Washington Post review, published Sunday, analyzed more than 23,000 precinct-level tally sheets collected by the opposition. It found Maduro received about 30 percent of the...
The children of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) endorsed former Houston, Texas, Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) for her House seat on Monday. The late congresswoman’s children, Jason Lee and Erica Lee Carter, said in a statement they are endorsing Turner to succeed their mother in the seat. Jackson Lee’s family announced the congresswoman’s...
A Virginia man is facing charges for threatening online to kill Vice President Harris, on top of threats to other public officials. Frank Lucio Carillo was arrested Friday after a search of his account on the alternative social media platform GETTR by law enforcement yielded a series of violent threats against the vice president. ...
President Biden and Vice President Harris will meet with national security officials in the White House Situation Room on Monday, as Iran reiterates its intention to punish Israel for the apparent assassination of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. The meeting will focus on developments in the Middle East, the White House said. Concerns about...
Goldman Sachs increased their odds of a recession in the next year Monday following consecutive days of an equity market selloff, though the investment bank sees the risk of a serious downturn as “limited.” The bank boosted its year-ahead recession probability by 10 percentage points to 25 percent while noting that it expects the Federal...
