White House counsel Will Scharf warns House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia against overreaching congressional authority.
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said “you’d have to ask a psychiatrist” about President Trump’s recent clash with Pope Leo XIV over the war in Iran. “It isn’t even worthy of a conversation; it’s really worthy of a diagnosis,” Pelosi said during an event at George Washington University on Monday. Trump accused the pontiff...
Novo Nordisk, the maker of popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, is partnering with OpenAI to deploy the technology across its operations as it looks to keep pace with rapid expansion in the obesity drug market. The Danish company announced in a statement on Tuesday that it would use AI to analyze complex datasets, identify promising drug candidates...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Monday that he expects gasoline prices to peak in the next few weeks. “We're going to see energy prices high and maybe even rising until we get... meaningful ship traffic through the Straits of Hormuz," Wright said during Semafor’s World Economy event in Washington, D.C. "That'll probably hit the peak oil price...
The U.S. military blockade in the Strait of Hormuz “might be helpful” in bringing Iran to the table for peace talks, a former White House national security official in the Biden administration said Tuesday. “I think as a potential diplomatic tactic it might be helpful,” retired Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said on MS Now....
Vice President Vance downplayed concerns about President Trump’s ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV late Monday, suggesting it was not newsworthy. Trump recently clashed with the leader of the Catholic Church over the war in Iran, calling the pope “weak on crime” in a social media post on Sunday. Vance, who is promoting his upcoming...
Right-wing social media and commentary last week was dominated by infighting and outrage over the Dignity Act, a bipartisan immigration reform bill — and it seemed to come out of nowhere. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), the designer of the compromise measure that pairs border security boosts with a new legal status for non-criminal migrants who entered before...
