The Supreme Court’s approval rating is now above 50 percent for the first time since early 2022, according to a survey published Thursday. The new Marquette Law School national poll found that 51 percent of U.S. adults approve of the job the nation’s highest court is doing while the other 49 percent said otherwise. The...
OpenAI’s board of directors has turned down Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls the artificial intelligence company. “OpenAI is not for sale, and the board has unanimously rejected Mr. Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition,” OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor said in a post on the social platform X on...
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) amid a larger push to effectively dismantle the agency. The Trump administration is barred from firing CFPB employees without cause or issuing any reduction-in-force notice, as part of an agreement reached between the Department of Justice...
Presented by American Medical Association — President Trump signed an executive order Friday stripping funding from schools and other educational organizations that require students and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19. {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump pushes to defund schools requiring COVID-19 vaccination President Trump signed an executive order Friday...
The Black Hawk pilots who collided with an American Airlines plane last month may not have heard vital information given by air traffic control to fly behind the passenger jet seconds before the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed Friday. Seventeen seconds before impact, a radio transmission from the control tower directed the...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally asked a federal district court to drop its corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) after federal prosecutors in Manhattan resigned rather than dismiss the case. “The United States respectfully submits this motion seeking dismissal without prejudice of the charges in this case, with leave...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to explain the department’s plan to purchase $400 million in armored Tesla Cybertruck vehicles, calling out tech billionaire Elon Musk's "glaring conflict of interests." In a letter to Rubio Thursday, Blumenthal sought information on the steps the State Department has taken to address concerns surrounding...
A federal judge in New York on Friday extended a temporary order blocking the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department payment systems.