The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced Friday that the PACT Act has increased enrollment in its health care system by 30 percent in the last year. The department announced that over the last 365 days more than 401,000 veterans have been enrolled in the VA health care system. In its first year, the newly...
A New Mexico judge denied a request by the "Rust" movie set armorer for a new trial Friday, after she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 fatal shooting of the Western film's cinematographer. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer also ordered armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed to remain in custody through her appeals process, according to the...
Pop star Billie Eilish criticized fellow musicians who release multiple vinyl editions in an interview released by Billboard Thursday. “We live in this day and age where, for some reason, it’s very important to some artists to make all sorts of different vinyl and packaging … which ups the sales and ups the numbers and...
Though not everyone gets to work in the rarified world of high finance, many will relate to author Carrie Sun’s anatomy of burnout. In her new memoir, Private Equity, the former quantitative equity analyst charts her time as executive assistant to the founder of one of the world’s most successful hedge funds. Ironically, she chose...
While Biden has been supportive of Harris, his expressions of confidence have hardly been ringing. But in 1956, the relationship between Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon was even more fraught.
Comedian Stephen Colbert on Thursday evening teed up President Biden for a dig at former President Trump about his golf game and lack of campaign events. Colbert, during a fundraiser in New York City, touted the president’s busy travel schedule in recent weeks. adding, “Donald Trump, as far as we can tell, has just been...
Neil Hobday, the former project director for former President Trump's golf course in Scotland, said the country was “hoodwinked” by his claims that he would spend 1 billion pounds to develop the property. Hodbay told the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) that he felt “hoodwinked and ashamed” that he and Scotland fell for Trump’s overestimate. Trump...
Former President Trump urged a state appeals court to review a judge’s decision allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) to remain on Trump’s Georgia 2020 election racketeering case. Judge Scott McAfee earlier this month ruled Willis’s once-romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created an appearance of a conflict but allowed the district...
President Biden told reporters Friday that he will visit Baltimore next week following the partial bridge collapse that killed six people and has temporarily closed the city's port. Biden said his visit will be alongside Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D). Hours after the collapse early Tuesday morning, Biden said he planned to go to the site “as...
French President Emmanuel Macron has embraced jokes social media users made about photos from his recent trip to Brazil of him and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “Some have compared the images of my visit to Brazil to those of a wedding, I tell them: it was one! France loves Brazil and Brazil...
Two of the Democratic Party’s rising stars have been thrust into the national spotlight this week after the bridge collapse in Baltimore. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 45, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 42 — both of whom considered likely candidates for higher office in the future — face a key test with their handling of...
Story at a glance Sexually transmitted disease rates are rising among adults 55 years old and older, according to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Cases of gonorrhea have grown roughly sevenfold since 2010 among American adults older than 55, per the data. Meanwhile, the CDC numbers also show cases of...
The U.S. Trade Representative is changing its definition of barriers to trade in its annual report on international trade estimates, throwing out concepts long cherished by the tech industry and drawing the ire of some of the biggest business lobbies in the U.S. "The NTE Report has received unprecedented attention this year because we are...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday there is “no reason” to think the U.S. economy is close to a recession. “Growth is strong,” Powell said at a conference in San Francisco. “As I mentioned, the economy is in a good place. There is no reason to think the economy is in a recession or...
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton is criticizing former President Trump’s attacks on the judges involved in his criminal cases, most recently his hush money trial, warning that undermining an independent judiciary risks sliding the country toward tyranny. Walton joined CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss Trump’s aggressive remarks about the families of his perceived foes in...
Construction cranes were deployed to Baltimore on Friday to remove the wreckage from Francis Scott Key Bridge, which partially collapsed Tuesday when a cargo ship collided with it. Multiple cranes are placed in the Patapsco River, working on clearing debris and paving the way for the reconstruction and eventual reopening of the Port of Baltimore,...
Anthony Scaramucci, who spent a short amount of time as White House communications director under former President Trump, said more Republicans don’t speak up about their opposition to Trump due to not wanting threats to their life. “Well, they probably don’t like death threats, Nicolle, I think we could probably start there,” Scaramucci told MSNBC’s...
What is clear is that, regardless of who heads the FTC, the Justice Department’s expertise in internet search, its jurisdiction over nonprofit entities, and its adherence to the Sherman and Clayton acts make it the best choice to oversee competition in the AI industry.
The New Hampshire state House advanced a bill Thursday that would require political ads that use deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) disclose use of the technology, adding to growing momentum in states to add AI regulations for election protection. The bill passed without debate in the state House and will advance to the state Senate. The...
Harvard University's annual applications have fallen for the second year in a row after multiple controversies embroiled the school. The school said this week it had 54,008 applicants for the class of 2028, accepting 1,937 students from the pool. Last year, the school had 56,937 applicants, meaning 2024 saw a drop of 5 percent. Harvard...
Congressional leaders are slamming the Russian government's detention of American journalist Evan Gershkovich in a rare joint statement issued Friday, marking a year since his captivity began. "Evan Gershkovich, an American citizen and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has now spent a year wrongfully detained by Putin's government. We continue to condemn his baseless...
Former Vice President Al Gore lamented the rise of “artificial insanity” plaguing U.S. democracy while delivering a eulogy at the funeral of his former presidential running mate, former Sen. Joe Lieberman's (D-Conn.). While offering condolences and comfort in light of Lieberman’s death on Wednesday, Gore on Friday warned about the “rancor” dividing the country and...
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the use of New Jersey’s “county line” ballot, a highly consequential ruling that could significantly reshape the state’s political system. U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi issued the order on Friday, ruling that Kim’s lawsuit arguing the system used in 19 of New Jersey’s 21 counties to...
Lieberman was the first publicly observant Jew to reach the highest level of American politics.
