To put it plainly: As a former weekend “Fox & Friends” anchor, Army National Guard officer and leader of two small nonprofits, Pete Hegseth is unfit to run a nuclear-armed organization with a trillion-dollar budget. Are. that’s the point. Donald Trump doesn’t want anyone to effectively manage the Pentagon; He wants to create disruption in … Read more
Special counsel Jack Smith, who has accused President-elect Donald J. Trump, said in a final report released Tuesday morning that they believed the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Trump. In a case if his success in the 2024 elections would not have made it impossible to continue the prosecution. “The Department’s view that the … Read more
Elon Musk is expected to use office space in the White House complex while launching a so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to cut government spending in the Trump administration, according to two people briefed on the plans. The space Mr Musk is expected to use is in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which … Read more
Special counsel David C. Weiss, who spent years investigating Hunter Biden, criticized President Biden for making “baseless allegations” about his investigation that undermine “the integrity of the entire justice system” in a final report made public Monday. There was danger. “The president’s characterizations are wrong based on the facts in this case, and at a … Read more
The Biden administration on Monday issued sweeping rules on how AI chips and models can be shared with foreign countries, in an effort to establish a global framework that will guide how artificial intelligence spreads around the world in the years to come. . With the power of AI growing rapidly, the Biden administration said … Read more
fear of falling Global fertility is to many on the right what climate change is to the left: the central problem of the era, a slow-moving crisis that is still destabilizing societies. Elon Musk wrote, “Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much greater threat to civilization than global warming.” JD Vance has … Read more
Five current and former presidents arrived together at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday. But photos of the group were later shared on social media by Vice President Kamala Harris and the Carter Center, leaving one of them out of the frame: President-elect Donald J. Trump. Ms Harris, who lost the election … Read more
Scott Besant, billionaire hedge fund manager, whom President-elect Donald J. The woman, whom Trump chose as his Treasury secretary, is planning to divest from dozens of funds, trusts and investments in preparation to become the nation’s top economic policymaker. Those plans were released Saturday with the publication of an ethics agreement and financial disclosures that … Read more
The Biden administration on Friday issued sweeping extensions of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela, prompting President-elect Donald J. It has become nearly impossible for Trump to quickly snatch away the gains once he takes office. The extension of Temporary Protected Status, as the program is called, allows … Read more
The United States announced new sanctions on Friday targeting Russia’s energy sector and its “shadow fleet” of oil tankers, the Biden administration’s final effort to cripple the Russian economy in response to Moscow’s war in Ukraine. It is possible President Biden has been cautious in his approach to sanctions on Russia’s energy sector due to … Read more