News
Trump’s Anti-Abundance Agenda
Dismissing the legitimate economic concerns of American consumers has never been a winning political strategy. Source link
Section
News
News
Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills.’ They’re the hardest ones to master
At a recent academic conference, I noticed a familiar unease ripple through conversations about “soft skills.” Many participants winced at…
News
How Republicans in Congress Enable Trump’s Tyranny
“This anti-democratic takeover is orchestrated by forum-shopping organizations that repeatedly bring meritless suits, used for fundraising…
News
‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct
Just two years ago, prompt engineering was hailed as a hot new job in tech. Now, it has all but disappeared. At the beginning of the…
News
Trump’s Return to Power Elevates Ever Fringier Conspiracy Theories
People who question whether the Earth is round — a fact understood by the ancient Greeks and taught to American children in elementary…
News
Germany's Merz falls short of majority in vote for chancellor
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Germany's conservative leader has unexpectedly fallen short of the numbers needed to form a majority in…
News
Maybank lowers target price of CSE Global to S$0.58 but remains ‘top pick’
Maybank securities analyst Jarick Seet cut his target price for systems integrator CSE Global to S$0.58 from S$0.67 in the light of fierce…
News
Exclusive: Latvian startup launches autonomous drone killer
Latvian startup Origin Robotics today launched BLAZE, an autonomous interceptor drone designed to destroy enemy drones by ramming into…
News
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s Hollywood Tariff Plan: ‘Next Year, The White Lotus is Gonna Be Set At a Hampton Inn’
Donald Trump‘s confusing — and still not altogether clear — plan for bailing out Hollywood was the subject of many a late night monologue…
News
Abuse victims question if Pope Francis did enough to stop predators
John Sudworth North America correspondent As 135 cardinals meet in Rome to decide the next pope, questions about the legacy of the last…
News
Jon Stewart Slams Trump’s Comments About ‘Toy Rationing’ Pencils and Dolls: ‘A Depression-Era View of What Kids Play With in 2025’
On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart went after Donald Trump for comments suggesting that children may have to settle…
News
US lawmaker targets Nvidia chip smuggling to China with new bill
A US lawmaker plans to introduce legislation in the coming weeks to verify the location of artificial intelligence (AI) chips like those…
News
Ukraine war: Russia closes Moscow airports after drone attack
Russia says Ukraine has launched an overnight drone attack targeting Moscow for the second night in a row. All four of the capital's major…
News
Tariffs Could Wreck What Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Have Gained
It was always going to be a hard year for Bangladesh. Last summer, amid an economic collapse, protesters toppled a tyrant and pushed the…
News
How Trump’s Closing a Tariff Loophole Will Hurt UPS and FedEx
Less than a year ago, executives from FedEx and UPS were talking about how they were handling a flood of packages from China to American…
News
Hong Kong DIY watch brand sets sights on Europe amid Trump tariffs
When Washington announced higher tariffs and the axing of a de minimis rule that allowed for low-value packages from Hong Kong and…
News
New Zealand PM proposes banning under-16s from social media
New Zealand’s prime minister on Tuesday proposed banning children under 16 from social media, stressing the need to protect them from the…
News
Judge orders Trump to admit roughly 12,000 refugees
A judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States under a court order partially…
News
Trump Crypto Deals Provoke Senate Backlash and Calls for Investigation
Senate Democrats are demanding changes to cryptocurrency legislation pending in Congress, responding partly to growing evidence that the…
News
Justice Department plans to investigate prosecutor's office in Minnesota's most populous county
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation of the prosecutor's office in Minnesota's most populous county after its leader…
News
Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication
The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to…
News
Trump shuts off federal funding for gain-of-function virus research in China, Iran
President Trump ended federal funding for gain-of-function virus research in China, Iran and other countries that have "insufficient…
News
Diddy: When is the trial and what are the charges?
The trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, one of the most successful rappers and music moguls in the US, starts in New York with jury selection on…
News
Ford Says Tariffs Will Cost Company $1.5 Billion in 2025
Ford Motor said on Monday that the Trump administration’s tariff policies were likely to lower its 2025 profit, before interest and taxes,…