The Issue: The failed assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pa., one year ago. I’m not surprised at the lack of information on the assassination attempt in Butler. Pa. (“We Still Need Answers on Butler,” Editorial, July 12). When I read that we should be given “a full tick-tock timeline of exactly who decided Read More…
Elon Musk’s X suffered an outage that has prevented scores of users from accessing the social media platform. By approximately 12 p.m. ET, nearly 400 users reported issues with their accounts, with the majority unable to log in to their profiles, according to DownDetector.com. About 1,000 users complained they were unable to access their X Read More…
Google will invest $25 billion in data centers across the nation’s largest electric grid over the next two years to help power its big bet on artificial intelligence, the company said Tuesday. The tech giant’s president and chief investment officer, Ruth Porat, was expected to join President Trump at an AI summit in Pennsylvania to Read More…
Tesla’s top sales executive in North America, Troy Jones, has left the electric vehicle maker in the latest senior departure at the company, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The vice president of sales, service and delivery in North America – Tesla’s biggest market – Jones has been with the Read More…
Mark Zuckerberg is slated to make yet another high-stakes courtroom appearance this week as shareholders seek to hold him accountable for the more than $8 billion that Meta has spent to settle lawsuits over privacy violations. The trial, set to begin Wednesday in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, aims to hold Zuckerberg, former Meta COO Sheryl Read More…
Apple has inked a $500 million deal with the operator of a Texas-based mine producing rare earth materials used to build iPhones and other hardware – a move that comes as CEO Tim Cook’s firm looks to reduce its reliance on China. The Cupertino, Calif.-based firm is partnering on the multiyear deal with MP Materials, Read More…
A new survey has found that one in five are secretly using AI at work, even when there’s no official policy for it. And for many, it’s paying off. According to the poll of 1,000 American business owners, marketers, and salespeople, 77% believe the more they use AI tools for work, the more confident they Read More…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that a “formal process” to find a successor for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has already started — as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure for the top central banker to step aside before his term ends. “There are a lot of great candidates and we’ll see how rapidly Read More…
Add Mark Cuban to the list of business titans who are throwing cold water on Zohran Mamdani’s left-wing platform of rent freezes and cheap groceries at municipally-run supermarkets. The billionaire entrepreneur and former Dallas Mavericks owner criticized the New York City mayoral candidate, saying that his campaign promises appear too good to be true. “We’re Read More…
Add Mark Cuban to the list of business titans who are throwing cold water on Zohran Mamdani’s left-wing platform of rent freezes and cheap groceries at municipally-run supermarkets. The billionaire entrepreneur and former Dallas Mavericks owner criticized the New York City mayoral candidate, saying that his campaign promises appear too good to be true. “We’re Read More…
Importers are rushing to bring goods into the US ahead of looming tariff deadlines, driving a surge in shipping activity that port officials say reflects uncertainties surrounding President Trump’s trade policy. The Port of Los Angeles recorded its busiest June in history, handling 892,340 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), an 8% increase over the same month Read More…
Importers are rushing to bring goods into the US ahead of looming tariff deadlines, driving a surge in shipping activity that port officials say reflects uncertainties surrounding President Trump’s trade policy. The Port of Los Angeles recorded its busiest June in history, handling 892,340 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), an 8% increase over the same month Read More…
US inflation ticked up in June in a possible sign that President Trump’s tariffs are starting to sting. The Consumer Price Index rose 2.7% in June from the year before, matching economists’ expectations but coming in above the previous month’s 2.4% reading, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and Read More…
Big Bird deserves to lose this time. In the past, whenever Republicans have tried to cut federal funding for public broadcasting, the eight-foot-two-inch-tall yellow bird has been trotted out as an exemplar of all that is good and necessary about PBS, and the federal dollars have been preserved. Perhaps our Jim Henson-created feathered friend will Read More…
Telling world’s wicked tales Another Bill O’Reilly book is coming out. Such a big-time heavy-duty deep-down real surprise even to readers in the lowest tar pits. Title: “Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst.” A St. Martin’s advance proof says evil began in Genesis when Cain zonked Abel. O’Reilly then gives the shiv to Genghis Khan, Read More…
Hooray! President Donald Trump’s decision to send “billions of dollars” worth of weapons to Ukraine via NATO could prove a game-changer in Kyiv’s 40-month-old war against Russian aggression. The prez on Monday also announced 100% “secondary tariffs” targeting Moscow if it fails to agree to a cease-fire within 50 days. It’s a terrific combination. Russia’s Read More…
Love him or hate him, Mayor Eric Adams is New York’s City Council firewall. Over the last three years, his veto threats have prevented some of the body’s most disastrous proposals from seeing the light of day, and forced moderate concessions on several bills that became law. That could all change after November’s mayoral election. Read More…
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced plans to lay off 9,000 employees, joining the ranks of tech companies cutting headcounts while touting the productivity gains enabled by artificial intelligence. According to CEO Satya Nadella, up to 30% of the company’s code is now being written by AI. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff one-upped him after his own Read More…
The time for talk is over. President Donald Trump issued a major deadline to Russia on Monday. If Moscow does not “make a deal” with Kyiv within 50 days, countries that do business with Russia will face a whopping 100 percent tariff when their companies trade with the United States. To end the war in Read More…
Nothing says pro-family like heckling a man at an amusement park with his wife and small children. But when you’re a shape-shifting political opportunist like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, it’s tough to see through the cloud of your own hypocrisy. On Saturday, Vice-President JD Vance visited Disneyland in Anaheim with his kids and wife, Usha, Read More…