The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday it would “reconsider” air-quality regulations amid Texas’s diesel price “disaster.” The letter sent by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) responded to concern from officials in the Lone Star State that rules from the Biden and Obama administrations are causing “significant economic harm.” “Texas...
The Treasury Department will automatically enroll millions of children in Trump Accounts under new rules released Tuesday, eliminating the need for parents to sign up for the investment program. The auto enrollment will create accounts for more than 60 million additional children under the age of 18, according to department guidance. The move is intended...
A Staten Island Judge on Tuesday ruled against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) pied-à-terre tax on second homes, arguing the city mishandled the tax’s rollout. Judge Wayne Ozzi, a Democrat on the state’s Supreme Court, wrote in his ruling that Mamdani’s Department of Finance (DOF) violated the plaintiffs’s — a group of NYC...
A transatlantic mystery is capturing attention in the U.S. and Britain. The central question is whether Iran was behind some kind of plot to target a British air base that is vital to the U.S. Air Force. Alternatively, was the initial speculation about an incident that has seen five men arrested, and then released on...
President Trump and Republicans are seeking to reclaim control of the narrative surrounding artificial intelligence as Democrats use the issue to go on offense ahead of the midterms. Numerous tech leaders joined Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at a Tuesday luncheon on “superintelligence” — the president’s new term for AI — where they signed...
President Trump launched America.gov on Tuesday, a website that uses artificial intelligence to help Americans find information across government websites with a single search. Trump said the website has been in the works since the early days of his second term and that it’s still a work in progress. The website's unveiling took place at...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to stop the execution of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted in the 1995 murder of a teenage classmate, clearing the way for the state's first execution of a woman in 200 years. Christa Pike, 50, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 10 a.m. local time Wednesday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in...