‘The Necessary Conversation’ Puts Family Political Arguments On Full Display
Every Sunday, the Kultgen-Popp family gathers on Zoom and yells at one another. From California and Texas, the adult siblings ...
Tag: United States Politics and Government
What’s in an Airport Code? In West Palm Beach, It’s the President’s Initials.
Palm Beach International Airport in South Florida is officially no more.The airport’s jaunty logo, with the initials PBI in a ...
Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies
The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to scale back scrutiny of the shadowy shell companies that criminals ...
Judge Awards $250,000 to Musician Who Fled Trump-Led Kennedy Center Gig
A judge ordered the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay a musician more than $250,000 in ...
The Winners of Trump’s A.I. Safety Plan
Andrew here. Is an Iran deal finally at hand? That is the central question in the markets after Treasury Secretary ...
Bessent Declares Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor ‘Dead’
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed the impact of inflation on lower-income Americans, declaring this week that the “K-shaped” economy — ...
Weak Jobs Report Does Not Eliminate Prospects of Interest Rate Rise
July’s jobs report has reduced some of the urgency around the need for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, ...
Trump Restarts Battle to Fire Sitting Fed Governor Lisa Cook
President Trump opened a new front in his battle with Lisa D. Cook, the Federal Reserve official he tried — ...
FIFA Executives Were Given Ultimatum to Approve World Cup Privatization Plan
The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke ...
F.D.A. Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first mRNA flu vaccine, enabling use of a technology that will ...
How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa
When Ernest Mwebaze, a tech developer in Uganda, was building an artificial intelligence system last year tailored for his country’s ...
White House Whipsaws Silicon Valley (and Itself) Over A.I. Rules
Trump administration officials have struggled over the past few weeks with what to do about artificial intelligence.In particular, a group ...
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity
Even as he bowed to Republican demands to pare back the extraordinary benefits the Justice Department offered to President Trump ...
Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways
When the law firm Paul Weiss reached a deal with the White House last year to resolve an executive order ...
An Anthropic Claude AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
A leading A.I. model built by Anthropic has found flaws in a weakened version of a digital encryption standard that ...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee
On his desk at the law firm Paul Weiss, Brad Karp keeps a framed picture of a young girl and ...
U.S. Government Mislabels Map of African Countries at AIDS Conference
A senior health official with the State Department presenting at an international AIDS conference in Brazil this week used a ...
Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
After watching a YouTube video about solar panels that can be plugged into a regular electrical outlet, Melani Jackson plopped ...
Warsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Policy Meetings
Kevin M. Warsh is considering reducing the number of regularly scheduled meetings at which the Federal Reserve sets interest rates, ...
Trump’s Tariff Exemptions Include Diamonds, Oil and Gas, Copper and Other Items
On Friday, as President Trump announced new global tariffs, the European diamond industry breathed a sigh of relief.Natural diamonds had ...
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