President-elect Donald Trump has selected Frank Bisignano, the CEO of financial services technology company Fiserv, to lead the Social Security Administration.
The full-court press from the political and media establishment to sink the nomination of Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense has reached a fever pitch, and if it is successful, it could doom other nominations as well. President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet-in-waiting includes several nominees who hold heterodox beliefs and policy ideas that run […]
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (R) told Fox News in an interview Thursday morning that she’s not ready to support Pete Hegseth’s nomination to serve as secretary of Defense and wants to thoroughly review his background and allegations of misconduct before making a decision on how to vote. “Well, I did have a very long, lengthy...
Google said Wednesday that its own artificial intelligence (AI) agent outperformed the world’s best weather predictions. In a blog post, Ilan Price and Matthew Willson, researchers with Google’s DeepMind, said its recently-made “AI ensemble model” named GenCast “provides better forecasts of both day-to-day weather and extreme events than the top operational system, the European Centre...
A Democratic senator is pressing the White House to finalize a set of energy efficiency standards, warning that not doing so before President-elect Trump takes office could leave emissions and consumer savings on the table. In a letter Shalanda Young, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, which oversees federal regulations, Sen....
They’re dead wrong that taking a meat axe to the federal government’s workforce will make things better; in fact, that’s more likely to make things worse.
The Memphis Police Department (MPD) regularly uses “excessive force” and unlawfully discriminates against Black people, according to the findings of a Justice Department investigation released Wednesday. The DOJ also alleges MPD conducts unlawful stops, searches and arrests, while raising “serious concerns about MPD’s treatment of children” and accusing the department and the city of Memphis...
China on Thursday sanctioned 13 U.S. defense firms over arms sales to the self-governing island nation of Taiwan. The companies targeted by China are smaller defense tech firms that have worked on drones and other unmanned weapons systems, including ShieldAI, BRINC Drones and Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems. In the sweeping action, China also targeted top...
Human rights group Amnesty International accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza amid its ongoing war against Hamas in the region. In a report released Wednesday, the organization listed facts about the war, which began Oct. 7, 2023, after Hamas invaded Israel with a surprise attack and took more than 250 people captive. In response,...