SpaceX stock dropped below its initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company. Shares dipped below their IPO price of $135 on Wednesday morning for the first time since listing, a humbling loss for the stock, which had skyrocketed more than 50% in its first days of trading last month. The shares regained some ground later in the day, closing at $135.27.
In a move that will place hundreds of thousands of green card applicants under broader scrutiny each year, the Trump administration is allowing immigration officers to consider whether some applicants have used taxpayer-funded benefits " including Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance " when determining whether they qualify for permanent legal status. The Department of Homeland Security is poised to rescind a 2022 Biden-era regulation narrowing how officers apply a long-standing "public charge" test " an immigration screening tool used to determine whether applicants are likely to rely on government support " according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.
Revised plan aims to keep something going' amid fears Netanyahu may gamble on new all-out offensive before Israeli elections.v Read more
In a hearing exchange with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Kevin Warsh, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed), refused to disclose to whom he sold over $100 million worth of shares in private investment vehicles just days before taking office at the Fed.
The investigation into a US strike that hit a school in Iran has sat for months with a military command while leaders have held off on ordering a critical, standard intelligence review to help determine what happened, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Read more
During negotiations with the U.S. in Switzerland last month, the Iranian government reportedly warned Vice President JD Vance that President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner were undermining the chances of a peace deal. Drop Site News reports, citing an unnamed Iranian official, that Iranian negotiators believed Witkoff and Kushner were more interested in trying to profit off the talks in financial markets than reaching a lasting agreement. The Iranians were also worried about Kushner and Witkoff leaking information to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Iranians sent a private message to Vance through an intermediary following earlier communication through Pakistani mediators. Those earlier communications reportedly included written documentation that "individuals close to President Trump" were using the war and diplomatic talks to manipulate markets. Read more
VPOTUS JD Vance wasted three hours on multi-millionaire Joe Rogan's imbecilic podcast where he blew off the insult made at the 14 June White House UFC cage match that Michele Obama was really a man. The VPOTUS has nothing better to do with his American taxpayer-funded salary while a treasury-depleting war rages on against Iran on Israel's behalf, the US Senate is in session, ICE murders are piling up, and a US Senator is about to be buried or lie in state.
UFC thug Josh Hokit is not a good human being. Neither are JD Vance and Joe Rogaine
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel established a hasty war room in the West Wing lasting seven hours to feverishly determine who leaked information about the security deficiencies on the Qatari-gifted airplane meant to be used as Air Force One. D/FBI Patel was diverted at the last minute from a trip to Chicago and some officials were asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds.
"Bribe Force One" is a disaster
Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL-3rd CD): "The thing that people need to recognize is that as we sit here, the Chinese government has already deployed digital twins of every member of Congress and has been using the data that they've harvested." The Florida Republican bleated that foreign adversaries can influence policy in Washington, DC without "firing a single shot," but rather infiltrating the minds of citizens nationwide.
Batchit UFO voodoo blither-blather from this incumbent who is ahead in her race for re-election
Dozens of people held at a sprawling Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten, according to a new report issued by legal and human rights advocates.
Are you right-handed? Left-handed? Or even ambidextrous? For most of your life, you've probably heard that this has something to do with the way your brain is hardwired: that preference seems to show up even before you are born, after all.
Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using Yemen's Houthi allies to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world's most vital energy arteries at risk.
U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in June, posting their biggest decline in 14 months amid a pullback in the cost of energy products, further evidence that inflation was subsiding before the recent escalation in the Middle East conflict.
China is now viewed more positively than the US in many countries around the world, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. It is the first time the organisation has recorded such results.
The findings from the non-partisan, US-based think tank indicate that favourable views of China have reached record highs in many countries, while perceptions of the United States have worsened. Read more
On Saturday nights in Hiltons, Virginia, the Carter Family Fold continues a tradition that has endured for generations. During a recent visit, I watched dancers fill the old wooden floor while Daniel Grindstaff and The Uptown Troubadours, along with other musicians, played music that you couldn't hardly resist getting up and dancing to. This music venue felt less like a concert and more like stepping into another era. Experienced dancers took to the floor with an ease that comes only from years of knowing the steps. Before long, many of the audience members joined them and children eagerly followed, learning the dances simply by watching and doing, just as generations before them had. Read more
