Jeff Bezos is returning to a chief executive role for the first time since leaving Amazon in 2021, launching a new artificial intelligence venture called Project Prometheus — a start-up already reported to have secured $6.2 billion in early-stage funding. According to The New York Times, the new company will be co-led by Bezos and Vik Bajaj, a former senior ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the U.S. will designate Saudi Arabia a major non-NATO ally, unveiling a defense and economic partnership with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a White House dinner marking 80 years of U.S.–Saudi relations. Trump welcomed guests at the official dinner and thanked bin Salman for his visit and investment in the U.S. The ...
A House Freedom Caucus-led bid to strip a member of the House Democratic Caucus of her role on a high-profile committee after her ties to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed earlier this month failed on Tuesday night. Lawmakers voted against censuring Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., the Virgin Islands’ nonvoting delegate in the House of Representatives, over newly surfaced text messages between ...
President Donald Trump has demanded an end to excessive state-level regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and warned that state rules will end up threatening the U.S. economy. In a post shared to Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump also slammed ‘Woke AI’ and referred to a ‘patchwork’ of state regulations in the AI space. ‘Investment in AI is helping to make ...
Rapper Nicki Minaj brought her star power to the United Nations to draw global attention to the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Minaj, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, teamed up with President Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz to speak at an event hosted by the United States Mission to the United Nations that ...
President Donald Trump made a point to shake the hand of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House Tuesday in a warm welcome — in contrast to former President Joe Biden, who came under scrutiny for fist-bumping the Saudi prince in 2022. Biden’s fist bump occurred during a trip to Saudi Arabia in July 2022, and attracted ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo US Sen. Tim Scott (R‑SC). In September 2024, Senator Tim Scott (R‑SC) introduced a 50-page bill called the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream to Housing Act of 2025 (the ROAD to Housing Act). In 2025, as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he reintroduced the bill after adding 266 pages of policies that he ...
Neal McCluskey This afternoon the Trump administration announced its latest move to dismantle the US Department of Education. As I have explained for decades, the department is unconstitutional, unhelpful, and needs to go. How close does today’s action get us to where we need to go? It goes in the right direction. Basically, it sends day-to-day work in six areas ...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz called the recent killings of Christians in Nigeria ‘genocide wearing the mask of chaos.’ Waltz made the remarks Tuesday at an event hosted by the United States Mission to the United Nations that spotlighted religious violence and the killings of Christians in the most populous African nation. ‘There is a body of ...
Nearly two dozen House Democrats defied their party leaders’ wishes Tuesday to vote in favor of rebuking a progressive lawmaker for what critics called an unfair move to tip the scales in his district’s next election. The House voted to pass a resolution of disapproval against Rep. Jesús ‘Chuy’ García, a measure that was led by one of his fellow ...