A federal quarantine order is putting Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the center of a public health and civil liberties fight. The Wall Street Journal reported that Kennedy ordered Florida resident Angela Perryman to remain in federal quarantine in Nebraska after her possible exposure to the Andes strain of hantavirus on a cruise […]
If there’s a will, there’s a way. The United Kingdom is finding that out as children across the nation search for ways to circumvent a potential social media ban for children under 16. The proposed ban aims to protect children online, and research has shown that the overuse of social media and phones negatively affects […]
Twenty years ago, the tech billionaire Peter Thiel and an associate founded Dialog, an invitation-only network of elites from business, academia and politics. Dialog was so secretive that it never had a public-facing website, and its participants were never identified to outsiders. Until now. Data related to Dialog, which Thiel created with the Silicon Valley […]
A company that sells baby monitors around the U.S. continues to face backlash for its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Lorex Technology is a major manufacturer of those monitors, but was previously owned by a Chinese company. The company faces several lawsuits from other states, but the most recent one comes from the […]
It doesn’t matter which political party a person says they belong to; if asked, there’s a good chance that person has a negative opinion of data centers, according to recent surveys. The feeling often stems from the potential environmental effects and the strain the facility might place on local infrastructure. Since 2023, the Federal Data […]
When the Justice Department’s antitrust division announced last week that Paramount Skydance could proceed with its $111 billion bid to acquire rival Warner Bros. Discovery, federal regulators made a bold claim about the future of television. The deal could give billionaire David Ellison — an ally of President Donald Trump — a striking degree of […]
In April, Indiana State Representative Ed Delaney called for accountability from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, a quasi-public nonprofit that distributes grants and tax breaks. Governor Mike Braun had recently signed an executive order calling for more transparency from nonprofits such as IEDC, but DeLaney wanted more. Audits and news reports suggested employees of the […]
President Donald Trump is at the G7 summit Tuesday with two major foreign policy tests front and center: a fragile peace deal with Iran and his push to end the war in Ukraine. World leaders met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks Tuesday, after Britain unveiled a new round of sanctions targeting Russia’s so-called […]
The head coach of Iran’s World Cup team says his players were ordered to leave the United States just hours after their opening game against New Zealand on Monday. Head Coach Amir Ghalenoei says players were told to return to their training base in Tijuana, Mexico, immediately after Monday’s match. “They didn’t even give us time to recover,” Ghalenoei said, according to The Associated Press. “After […]
President Donald Trump arrives at the G7, claiming he helped end one war. Now he’s turning his attention to another. Plus, a routine test flight turns into a deadly fireball in the California desert. All eight people on board a B-52 died moments after takeoff. And Iran’s World Cup team claims it was told to […]
