China hawks in the United States have made what amounted to a Faustian pact with President Donald Trump. Anxious that Beijing's power was surpassing Washington's and critical of Democrats such as former President Joe Biden for failing to turn it back, Trump seemed to be the best option for a more robust approach to China.
The Republican candidates have prevailed in a pair of special congressional elections in Florida Tuesday, NBC News projects, giving Republicans some more breathing room as they navigate a narrow House majority. NBC News projects that Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis has won the race in the 1st District to replace former GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, while Republican state Sen. Randy Fine won the 6th District race to replace former GOP Rep. Michael Waltz, who is now Trump's national security adviser.
Then new owners jacked up the rent by 365%. Residents of senior living facilities typically expect to live out their remaining years when they buy into a community. But a new dynamic in the industry is altering the deals these residents agreed to.
Today, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander urged the New York City Law Department to pursue securities litigation against Tesla on behalf of the the New York City pension systems. The basis of the potential litigation are the material misstatements from Tesla claiming that CEO Elon Musk spends significant time on the company and is highly active in its management, despite his helming the Trump Administration's DOGE initiative, spending little of his time actually managing Tesla, and promoting policies that are actively harmful to Tesla's business.
ormer first son Hunter Biden has agreed to give up his law license in Washington, D.C., according to an affidavit that was unsealed by the Board on Professional Responsibility on Tuesday. Biden's law license in D.C. was suspended last June after he was convicted of three felonies in Delaware, but he was pardoned for all crimes in December. The former first son has been an attorney in Washington, D.C., since 2007.
Donald Trump's National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has been using his personal Gmail account for government communications, The Washington Post reports.
Waltz, who has recently taken responsibility for accidentally adding a high profile journalist to a Signal group chat discussing sensitive military attack plans in Yemen, shared his schedule and other work documents on Gmail, sources told the Post.
A Waltz staffer also reportedly shared sensitive military data on the email service, including discussions about military positions and weapons systems being deployed in current conflicts, according to records reviewed by the paper.
Newsmax stock (NMAX) soared as high as 173% Tuesday, extending its massive 735% gain on Monday following the conservative cable news outlet's IPO.
The world's billionaires have always been rich and powerful"but never more than now. That's particularly true in the United States, where Donald Trump was sworn in (again) as America's billionaire-in-chief in January. This time around, he's giving the billionaire class more control over the government than ever before. His right-hand man is the planet's richest person. His administration includes at least ten billionaires and billionaire spouses. And scores of billionaire execs"from Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to French luxury goods kingpin Bernard Arnault"have lined up behind Trump. The billionaire bonanza extends beyond the U.S., however. A record 3,028 people around the globe make Forbes' annual World's Billionaires list this year, 247 more than last year. It's the first time the billionaire population has crossed the 3,000 mark. Read more
President Donald Trump's drive to scale down the federal government by unleashing and empowering Elon Musk to indiscriminately fire thousands of federal employees, has wreaked chaos. There have been plenty of demonstrations of the inefficiency of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), from having to rehire workers to being forced to admit claims of vast savings were bogus. That's not particularly surprising for such an indiscriminate effort.
An Idaho Republican has accused a GOP rival of harassment in an op-ed after he reported her farm to federal immigration authorities. In January, Ryan Spoon, vice chair of the Republican Party in Ada County, publicly called for immigration raids on State Representative Stephanie Mickelsen's farm, accusing her of employing undocumented workers. Days later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrived at Mickelsen Farms, escalating political tensions and raising concerns about the impact of immigration enforcement on Idaho's agriculture industry. "Those who speak up with concerns that challenge certain views are quickly labeled as non-conservative and targeted for harassment," Mickelsen wrote in an op-ed published in The Idaho Statesman.
A former North Dakota lawmaker was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Ray Holmberg, 81, was a Grand Forks state senator for 45 years, and received a sentence that is longer than federal sentencing guidelines. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland characterized Holmberg's conduct as "egregious and despicable" and said he didn't think the guideline sentence of more than three years was adequate. "From my perspective, this was not an isolated case and this is not a victimless crime," Hovland said. "It displays a pattern of very vile, sickening criminal behavior." Prosecutors allege Holmberg traveled to Prague in the Czech Republic 14 times between 2011 and 2021 to pay for sex with boys.
Holmberg, a Republican who held the powerful positions of Senate Appropriations Committee chair and head of Legislative Management, resigned from the Legislature in 2022.
A shooting involving a bus driver and passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus left two men dead early Sunday in a suburb north of Miami. "Preliminary investigation revealed the operator from the bus got into a verbal dispute and fired several rounds in the bus, striking and killing two passengers," Miami Gardens police said. The victims were airlifted to Aventura Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead from their wounds. In an average year, 3,038 people die and 6,358 are wounded by guns in Florida which has some of the loosest firearms laws in the US. These are wartime casualty figures. Between 7 Oct 2001 and 30 Aug 2021, the US lost a total of 2,459 military personnel in Afghanistan. The Sunshine State loses more people in one year to gun violence than the total 20 years of fighting the Taliban and HQN in Afghanistan. Read more
China's military kicked off joint exercises involving its army, navy, air force and rocket force around Taiwan as a "stern warning," days after USSECDEF Pete Hellsbreath vowed to counter "China's aggression" on his first visit to Asia. The drills will see China's armed forces "close in" on Taiwan from "multiple directions." An internal analysis by the Taiwan government cited Hellsbreath's visit as the "external reasons" for China's latest drills. The US maintains unofficial relations with Taipei and is bound by law to provide Taiwan with weapons for its defense. Washington has long maintained a policy of strategic ambiguity on whether it would come to Taiwan's defense in the event of an attack from China. Below, the new Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong can travel up to 31 knots and is fitted with 30 aircraft (24 J-15 fighters). Read more
An antisemitism task force will review $8.7 billion in multiyear grants and $255 million in contracts with the university and its affiliates.
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Musk's new mission is likely to create a lot of noise at Capitol Hill soon. A town hall attendee asked Musk whether DOGE had found any evidence of funds being transferred from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). "They'll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], then they'll go through a bunch of them, and then I'm highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of the people you just mentioned," Musk replied.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday aimed at cracking down on ticket scalping and fees that drive up the costs of attending live events for consumers. The order directs the Federal Trade Commission to work with the Department of Justice to ensure that competition laws are enforced in the concert and entertainment industry " including the Better Online Ticket Sales, or BOTS, Act " and pushes state consumer protection authorities on enforcement, according to a fact sheet seen by Bloomberg News. It also seeks to "ensure price transparency at all stages of the ticket-purchase process, including the secondary ticketing market." Attorney General Pam Bondi and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be asked to ensure that ticket resellers are complying with the tax code and other laws. Read more
