President Donald Trump has announced that an agreement with Iran has been largely negotiated and now awaits finalization. If the agreement permanently removes the threats that brought the region to the brink of a wider conflict, it would represent a significant achievement. But announcements are not outcomes. The real test is whether the final deal […]
SpaceX is reportedly on track to go public as soon as this June. OpenAI is working with investment bankers on its own path to the public markets. Anthropic is generating the kind of revenue growth investors want to see. As a result, something may be about to happen that has been too rare in recent […]
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Apple CEO Tim Cook are among the business leaders invited to the United Kingdom state dinner for President Trump. The dinner at St. George’s Hall will include 160 guests, and Trump is expected to sit between King Charles III and Kate, Princess of Wales, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio...
More than 100 Democrats on Wednesday signed on to a letter sent to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, calling on the agency to withdraw its proposed elimination of federal emissions standards for vehicles. In July, the EPA proposed rescinding its 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, which grants it the authority to regulate emissions...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said for the first time on Wednesday that Israel is committing “genocide” in its war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Sanders, among the most outspoken critics of Israel's government in Congress, said Israel has the right to defend itself after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, during...
A veteran pleaded not guilty on Wednesday after setting fire to an American flag in a federal park outside the White House last month to protest President Trump’s executive order cracking down on flag burning. Jan Carey, 54, was arraigned on two federal misdemeanor charges, at his first court appearance on Wednesday: igniting a fire...
Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith said Tuesday he has “no problem” with President Trump sending the National Guard to Chicago. “In the city of Chicago, I don't give a damn what they say, I have no problem with sending in the National Guard. They were a problem before [former President] Obama got into office, when...
Just 35 percent of respondents to a Walton Family Foundation-Gallup poll released Tuesday are satisfied with the state of K-12 education in the United States. That marks the lowest satisfaction level since Gallup began conducting the poll in 1999. The poll, conducted over the phone from Aug. 1 to Aug. 20, found that 7 percent...
All Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday asked the panel’s chairman to hold a public hearing “at the earliest opportunity” with Pentagon officials to address the Trump administration’s increasing deployments of military service members to American cities. In a letter to Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the 13 Democratic senators say they’re concerned with the...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is slated to deliver remarks Wednesday afternoon after the nation's central bank cut interest rates for the first time this year, following months of pressure from President Trump. The decision comes as the Fed attempts to ease pressure on the weakening U.S. job market. The move, floated by Powell last...
Senate Republicans cleared a key hurdle on Wednesday toward confirming four dozen of President Trump's lower-level nominees, teeing up a final vote after they changed the chamber's rules last week. The Senate last week invoked the so-called nuclear option to allow the chamber to confirm large numbers of nominees in a single bloc and on...
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) warned of the risk of Hepatitis B infection in infants on Wednesday, ahead of a meeting of a federal vaccine advisory panel during which changes to the current immunization schedule for the virus are expected to be discussed and voted on. Cassidy, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,...
Rudy Giuliani must pay his ex-defense lawyer’s firm $1.36 million plus interest in unpaid legal bills, a New York state judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Arthur Engoron said the firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron was entitled to the amount for partner Robert Costello’s work representing the ex-New York City mayor as he faced investigations over his dealings in Ukraine and...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Wednesday invited the leaders of Discord, Reddit, Twitch and Steam to testify before the full committee next month in the wake of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The hearing will focus on “the radicalization of online forum users, including instances of...
A group consisting of University of California (UC) students, faculty, staff and labor unions is suing the Trump administration, alleging violations of their academic freedom and free speech rights. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in US District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses the Trump administration of attempting to “commandeer this public university...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) got into a heated exchange about vaccines with former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Susan Monarez. During a Wednesday hearing about Monarez’s ouster from the agency, Paul grilled her about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and the need for newborns to get a hepatitis B shot. When Paul...
