Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell unveiled plans to donate $6.25 billion to investment accounts for 25 million children Tuesday. The two joined President Trump and Republican officials at the White House to formally announce their donation, which Trump described as “one of the largest private donations in American history.” “It’s an amazing act of just…
The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller, a move that could anger the Trump administration’s allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. The Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday labeled President Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández as “truly disgustingly” as the administration receives bipartisan blowback for the action. Schumer laid into the president over the move, which saw Hernández pardoned mere months into a 45-year sentence after being convicted on drug trafficking…
Right-wing media figures Laura Loomer and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) were among members of the press who sat for a rare briefing with Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson on Tuesday. Gaetz, the lawmaker once floated for attorney general and now a host for the pro-Trump media outlet One America News Network, was called on…
Singer-songwriter Madonna issued a Monday rebuke to the Trump administration for refusing to recognize Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day in recognition of the virus’s impact. Late last month, the State Department ordered employees to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing…
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Tuesday chided the Trump administration for pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández after an American jury convicted him on drug trafficking charges. “That pardon suggests that President Trump has been pardoning people left and right for all sorts of reasons that don‘t serve America‘s core interests,” Coons said during…
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Tuesday that he would “be very surprised” if Navy Adm. Frank Bradley ordered a second strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean “on his own.” “This incident that was just covered by The Washington Post in recent days suggests that a war crime may have been committed,…
The Trump administration plans to take a $150 million stake in xLight, a startup developing laser technology to advance semiconductor manufacturing. The Commerce Department said Monday that it has signed a nonbinding preliminary letter of intent to provide federal incentives to the startup under the CHIPS and Science Act in exchange for equity. The company xLight, which counts former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger…
The research found a link between increased levels of cardiac troponin and more rapid cognitive decline in later years.
A battle among Republican lawmakers over the future of U.S. AI policy is threatening to hold up a must-pass annual Defense bill. Lawmakers are wrestling over whether to halt state AI regulations and other thorny AI provisions in final negotiations over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one of the heaviest legislative lifts in any…