A federal judge on Friday grappled with the way artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the internet, as he weighed what penalties Google will ultimately face for illegally monopolizing search. Google and the Department of Justice (DOJ) presented their closing arguments following a three-week hearing to determine the proper remedies, after the tech giant...
Plus: Dem leader says party faces 'generational change' {beacon} ELON MUSK SPORTED A BLACK EYE as President Trump bid him farewell Friday at an Oval Office press conference to celebrate the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts to cut wasteful spending. Musk is leaving the administration after completing a 130-day term as a special...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Friday that the U.S. needs to get its own act together before worrying about China. “I'm not as worried about China. China is a potential adversary. They're doing a lot of things well, they have a lot of problems. What I really worry about is us,” Dimon said during...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday backed President Trump’s call to abolish the nation’s debt ceiling, pressing for bipartisan action to “get rid of it forever.” In a post on X, Warren wrote that she and Trump agree that the debt limit, which caps how much money the Treasury can owe to pay the country’s...
PBS is suing President Trump's administration on First Amendment grounds, arguing the president is trying to pull funding the from the broadcaster because of editorial coverage he disagrees with. The suit filed Friday in federal court in Washington, D.C., accused the president of trying to "upend public television" and argues the law "forbids" him from...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated advice on the COVID-19 vaccine days after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said the agency would no longer recommend the shot to children and pregnant women. The agency has kept the shot on its vaccine schedule for children between the...
U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer slammed China for not fulfilling their compliance under a trade agreement wagered in early May. Greer says Beijing’s leaders have not pulled back on countermeasures as discussed nor have they released the flow of the country’s rare Earth magnets being used to manufacture futuristic technology. “We moved, as the president...
A new lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade seeks to force the Trump administration to return tariffs it collected under the president’s “Liberation Day” announcement now that the court has ruled them unlawful. Chapter1 LLC, a Las Vegas-based skincare start-up, said it paid nearly $23,000 under the challenged tariffs when it imported...
President Trump will travel Friday afternoon to the Pittsburgh area for a rally and remarks on the "planned partnership" between U.S. Steel and Japan's Nippon Steel, which he announced last month. “I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, US Steel will REMAIN in America, and keep its Headquarters in the Great...
The U.S. military’s top general in Africa said terrorist factions in the Sahel region have increased their presence so much in the past three years that they soon may be able to launch attacks within the United States. The region, which mainly includes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, is “the flash point of prolonged conflict...