Category: Economy

For decades, Repub­li­can pop­ulists have been hand­i­capped by the so-called “prin­ci­pled con­ser­v­a­tive” wing of the GOP. The Demo­c­ra­t­ic suc­cess with Virginia’s redis­trict­ing teach­es a les­son that the old hats can no longer ignore. The writ­ing was on the wall in late 2025 that Democ­rats would attempt to redraw their U.S. House dis­trict m …

AI start­up Anthrop­ic is inves­ti­gat­ing reports that a group of users gained unau­tho­rized access to its Claude Mythos mod­el, a pow­er­ful AI sys­tem that was delib­er­ate­ly released to only a small cir­cle of trust­ed com­pa­nies due to its advanced cyber­se­cu­ri­ty capa­bil­i­ties. A report from Bloomberg reveals that Anthrop­ic dis­closed on Tues­day that it was exam­in­ing […]

Twen­­ty-three state Repub­li­can attor­neys gen­er­al sent a let­ter to Fitch, S&P, and Moody’s for down­grad­ing fos­sil fuel com­pa­nies over what they believe are flawed envi­ron­men­tal, social, and gov­er­nance (ESG) met­rics. The Repub­li­can attor­neys gen­er­al sent their let­ter as the three rat­ings agen­cies down­grad­ed fos­sil fuel com­pa­nies based on what they believe are “high­ly spec­u­lati …

The Gates Foun­da­tion is plan­ning to reduce its work­force by about 20 per­cent of its total staff while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly com­mis­sion­ing an out­side review of Bill Gates’ con­nec­tions to con­vict­ed sex offend­er Jef­frey Epstein. The Wall Street Jour­nal reports that an inter­nal email sent to employ­ees reveals that the phil­an­thropic orga­ni­za­tion is under­tak­ing sig­nif­i­cant orga­ni­za­tion­al changes amid ongo­ing con­tro­ver­sy […]

New York City Coun­cil­man Chi Osse was arrest­ed Wednes­day while protest­ing the evic­tion of one of his con­stituents, block­ing city mar­shals from exe­cut­ing the tenant’s removal.A social­ist and sup­port­er of May­or Zohran Mam­dani, Osse said he was there to pre­vent “deed theft evic­tion” and was arrest­ed after a con­fronta­tion with police dur­ing the protest.In a […]

Ukraine has turned to an unortho­dox method in a bid to win Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s sup­port in nego­ti­a­tions with Rus­sia, report­ed­ly propos­ing to name a strip of the Don­bas still under its con­trol “Donnyland.”The pro­posed name com­bines Trump’s first name with Don­bas, and invokes the fan­tas­ti­cal amuse­ment park Dis­ney­land, four peo­ple famil­iar with the mat­ter […]

Dur­ing Tuesday’s Katy Tur Reports, the MS NOW host was in a feisty matchup with Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Mike Lawler of New York about the suc­cess of the war in Iran as she con­stant­ly jumped in with points against the strat­e­gy of the war and Pres­i­dent Trump’s actions. Amid inter­rup­tions, Lawler con­tin­ued with his defense of the war as h …

Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er chief polit­i­cal cor­re­spon­dent Byron York said Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has botched some of the cease­fire nego­ti­a­tions with Iran. “I have to say, I think he has mis­han­dled some of this in the sense that he’s been so eager to get an agree­ment that he jumped on the last sort of report­ed agree­ment that real­ly […]

The Cab­i­net offi­cial was sum­moned by the pan­el to answer ques­tions about Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s fis­cal 2027 bud­get request. The bud­get is extra­or­di­nar­i­ly high, with about $1.5 tril­lion ded­i­cat­ed to fund­ing mil­i­tary and defense capa­bil­i­ties. The Com­merce Depart­ment is allo­cat­ed about $9.2 bil­lion in dis­cre­tionary fund­ing through the lat­est bud­get request, which needs approval from […]

After Vir­ginia, Democ­rats have gained 10 seats nation­al­ly through redis­trict­ing and Repub­li­cans nine, giv­ing Democ­rats a +1 advan­tage. Repub­li­cans could respond with a redis­trict­ing ini­tia­tive in Flori­da, with Gov. Ron DeSan­tis (R‑FL) call­ing a spe­cial ses­sion next week.Here are the states that have suc­cess­ful­ly passed new elec­toral maps since August: Cal­i­for­nia: Democr …