The news that President Trump has taken the unusual step of calling a full Cabinet meeting Wednesday suggests that, among other things, he’s exploring ways to jump-start the maddeningly...
President Trump fired a board member of a transportation regulator that is weighing a merger between Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific, part of the latest shake-up in the federal government. The administration terminated Robert Primus, a member of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), on Wednesday. Primus, a Democrat, was nominated to serve on the five-member...
The White House on Thursday admonished Democrats who criticized the notion of sending "thoughts and prayers" in the wake of a shooting in Minnesota that left two children dead. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about comments from former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who were critical...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) have sent a letter to Republican leaders calling on them to schedule a meeting “immediately” to discuss the path to a funding deal to avoid a government shutdown after Sept. 30. Schumer and Jeffries want a “four corners” negotiation of the top...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said the Pentagon would no longer allow Chinese nationals to work as coders on Department of Defense (DOD) cloud systems. A program previously allowed Chinese developers to work as “digital escorts” in a role modeled by Microsoft, where foreign nationals remain under the supervision of remote U.S. contractors. Hegseth...
A perfect storm of factors is brewing in Washington, making a government shutdown on Sept. 30 likely, with both parties risking economic consequences and public backlash.
Entry-level jobs for workers between 22 and 25 years old have declined by 13 percent since the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a Stanford University study. “While our main estimates may be influenced by factors other than generative AI, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that generative AI has begun...
Ford Motor Company is recalling over 355,000 trucks due to an error with the instrument panel display, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall encompasses 2025 and 2026 models, including F-550 SD, F-450 SD, F-350 SD, F-250 SD and 2025 F-150 vehicles. “An instrument panel display that does not show critical...
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday after he suggested psychiatric drugs given to children could partly be to blame for school shootings. "I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do," Smith wrote on the...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday he thinks his agency’s forthcoming report on autism will reveal an “aggregation of causes” that lead to the neurological disorder. “This is a crisis,” Kennedy said in a “Fox & Friends” interview. “There is not a single cause. There are many, many — there's...
The father of a child who survived Wednesday's school shooting in Minneapolis says his daughter is in a "state of complete fear" and "traumatized," adding that stronger gun regulations are needed in the wake of the deadly incident. “She's in a state of complete fear right now, traumatized. And we just don't know right now....
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday lamented the resignations of four senior leaders at the Center for Disease Control (CDC), warning of major concerns for public health. "I worked alongside the three leading scientists at the CDC who resigned tonight," Becerra, who served in the Biden administration, wrote in a...
