60 Minutes Isn’t Backing Down From Trump’s Threats
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John Fetterman Seems Like a Risk to Himself and Everyone Around Him
Senator John Fetterman isn’t in good shape—and could be a danger to himself and those around him. New York magazine reports that Fetterman, who suffered a stroke in 2022 one month before…
Meta Movie Mate, the chatbot that encourages you to use your phone in theaters, has arrived. Are we ready?
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long encouraged people to use their phones, whether through the forsaken Poke on Facebook or uploading Reels on Instagram. But the company’s newest idea for…
Japan’s finance minister says U.S. Treasury holdings could be ‘a card’ in Trump tariff talks
Japan’s massive holdings of U.S. Treasurys can be “a card on the table” in negotiations over tariffs with the Trump administration, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Friday. “It does…
Tips for Navigating the ‘Chaotic System’ of Student Loan Repayments
So you’re about to graduate from college. Congratulations. But now you have to think about finding a job and, sooner than you may prefer, starting to repay your student loans. It’s…
A Supreme Court Justice Finally Just Stood up to Trump
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has had enough of the Trump administration’s unchecked bullying of the nation’s judicial branch. The Supreme Court’s most junior justice condemned Donald…
Green Dreams Made Europe Vulnerable to a Mega Blackout
In Spain and Portugal, the rushed rollout of renewables and an overreliance on solar and wind energy clearly weakened these nations’ electric grids. Source link
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A solid labor market has for months given the Federal Reserve comfort that it could hold off on interest rate cuts until it had more clarity about how President Trump’s policies would…
A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government
According to sources with direct knowledge, Jancso disclosed that AccelerateX had signed a partnership agreement with Palantir in 2024. According to the LinkedIn of someone described as…
What your emoji use says about your personality
Are you guilty of overusing the monkey covering its eyes emoji? Do you find it impossible to send a text without tacking on a laughing-crying face? Much like choosing between a full stop…
U.S. and China Dig In on Trade War, With No Plans for Formal Talks
As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether…
Smartwatches are helping this Indian city survive deadly heat
It’s a little past 10 a.m. and the heat is already blazing on the outskirts of the Western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Sapnaben Chunara, a 30-year-old mother of three, has just finished her…
GTA VI delayed until May 2026 as Take-Two stock drops
Shares in video game giant Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTWO) are plummeting in early morning trading today after the company’s subsidiary, Rockstar Games, announced that…
Can John Fetterman Continue in the Senate?
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a formerly progressive Democrat who has decidedly shifted right in recent years, delivered a hard-line—and honestly bloodthirsty—stance in opposition…
As Trump’s Family Crypto Business Gains Steam, Ethical Concerns Mount
As the leaders of World Liberty Financial, a crypto company part-owned by US president Donald Trump and his family, fan out across the globe to try to win new business, critics have raised…
Republicans Wrestle With Trump’s Demands for Tax Cuts
It was easy to miss, but last weekend President Trump floated a fundamental rewrite of the American tax code. In a social media post, and again in remarks to reporters, Mr. Trump suggested…
Email Mistake Exposes Trump’s Dark Agenda on Child Welfare Programs
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to end research into how to improve child welfare programs like Head Start, according to an email mistakenly sent by an HHS employee to…
Mike Waltz Caught Using App Even Less Secure Than Signal
The move comes after Trump’s first choice for the ambassadorship, Representative Elise Stefanik, withdrew her name from consideration after the Republican majority in the House of…
Could Medicaid Cuts Lead Republicans to Break With Trump?
The move comes after Trump’s first choice for the ambassadorship, Representative Elise Stefanik, withdrew her name from consideration after the Republican majority in the House of…
‘Rust,’ starring Alec Baldwin, is coming to movie theaters this weekend after the on-set tragedy. Here’s why
Many industry insiders and cinephiles alike predicted that Joel Souza’s Rust would simply remain unfinished, that its only legacies would be the tragic death of 42-year-old cinematographer…
Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too
As Musk steps back from DOGE, we’re getting a number of assessments of his “accomplishments.” They’re generally harsh. He vowed to slash $2 trillion in “wasteful” federal spending (the…
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The Trump administration, which has made clear that it aims to slash government spending, is preparing to unveil a budget proposal as soon as next week that includes draconian cuts that…
US: Wall Street opens higher on tariff, jobs data optimism
stock indexes opened higher on Friday (May 2), as signs of a de-escalation in the trade war with China and a stronger-than-expected jobs report calmed concerns around the…
Trump’s Birthday Parade Now Includes Thousands of Soldiers and Tanks
The move comes after Trump’s first choice for the ambassadorship, Representative Elise Stefanik, withdrew her name from consideration after the Republican majority in the House of…