President Donald Trump’s tariffs have raised billions of dollars since he implemented them in January. Who pays for those has been hotly debated inside and outside of the Washington D.C. beltway. The latest finding saying American consumers bear that cost has the White House lashing out. White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett on Wednesday criticized […]
After indirect talks in Geneva, Vice President JD Vance issued a blunt warning: Iran has two weeks to meet U.S. demands. He said the negotiations failed to produce a breakthrough and that Tehran has not agreed to what he called the administration’s core requirements. The U.S. is insisting Iran halt uranium enrichment, arguing it gives […]
A senior U.S. arms-control official says seismic data from June 22, 2020, point to a suspected low-yield nuclear test at China’s Lop Nur test site. Speaking at the Hudson Institute, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw pointed to data from a monitoring station in Kazakhstan that detected a magnitude 2.75 event roughly 450 miles from […]
Officials in California confirmed Wednesday that eight people are dead and another is missing and presumed dead after a large-scale avalanche near Lake Tahoe, California. Search-and-rescue crews were able to extract six additional people who were caught in the avalanche Tuesday but not buried. It was the deadliest avalanche in the United States since a […]
MUNICH, Germany — Black BMWs and Audis rolled up to Munich’s Hotel Bayerischer Hof, their tinted windows concealing presidents, prime ministers and military commanders. From nearby rooftops, snipers scanned the streets below, where police sealed off blocks throughout Old Town. This was the scene in the Bavarian capital last Friday, the opening day of the […]
The National Institutes of Health announced its director, Jay Bhattacharya, would also temporarily head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The New York Times reports. Bhattacharya is the third person to lead the CDC since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. Last summer, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy fired […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company in a Los Angeles court as part of a landmark civil trial over social media. The 20-year-old plaintiff says she became addicted to social media as a child, and the algorithms of Instagram and YouTube harmed her mental health. Lawsuit The plaintiff, known as “Kaley,” and her mother […]
Justin Haubrich was born in Oklahoma. But like many first-generation Iranian-Americans, he has kept a watchful eye on the situation unfolding in Iran. “Because of the political situation and the hostility of the Islamic regime toward religious minorities and dissidents, I have never travelled to Iran,” said Haubrich, a U.S.-based software engineer who has Iranian […]
The U.S. Air Force is replacing the long-standing blue-and-white paint scheme on the presidential aircraft fleet with a new design in dark navy, deep red and gold. The change applies to current VIP aircraft and the next generation of Air Force One jets, CBS News was first to report. The robin’s egg blue exterior dates […]
Fulton County officials want their 2020 election materials back. In a new court filing, they argue the FBI left out key facts and relied on old, already-debunked claims to get a search warrant. Federal agents seized hundreds of boxes of ballots, tabulator tapes, digital ballot images and voter rolls from the county’s Elections Hub on […]
