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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited the White House on Thursday to discuss Meta's role in helping the Trump administration with America's international tech leadership, the company confirmed. "Mark Zuckerberg was at the White House today to discuss how Meta can help the administration defend and advance American tech leadership abroad," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote...
The NCAA announced Thursday it would no longer allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports and would limit participation to those assigned female at birth. The policy change, approved by the NCAA board of governors, comes one day after President Trump signed an executive order barring transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s...
Questions are swirling about how much access Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has to Americans’ personal data and sensitive federal payment systems. Soon after President Trump took office, Musk deployed members of his cost-cutting panel to the Treasury Department with eyes on the Bureau of Fiscal Service: the agency responsible for...
The Department of Education is investigating two colleges and a state athletic association for allowing transgender athletes to compete on women’s sports teams, probes in accordance with an executive order signed Wednesday by President Trump. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights announced Thursday that it is launching investigations into San José State University, the...
A California utility company said its equipment may have sparked a Los Angeles wildfire on the same day that two additional blazes ravaged the state and killed at least 29 individuals, according to The Associated Press. The Los Angeles Fire Department is investigating Southern California Edison (SCE) for a utility fire that may have caused...
The fight for control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections will be fought on a limited battlefield, a leading nonpartisan political handicapper predicts.
Last year, $10 million in taxpayer money was spent creating transgender animals, according to Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., citing a study by the White Coat Waste Project.
Voters overwhelmingly elected President Donald Trump to carry out his agenda despite Democrats calling him a "threat to democracy." Dems are now delaying key cabinet appointments.