Citadel CEO Ken Griffin announced Wednesday that he has pledged $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, with $2 billion earmarked to establish a new campus in Miami. According to a CMU statement, the commitment includes $1 billion for the university's Pittsburgh campus. Read more
Tony Lyons, the leading organizer of the Make America Healthy Again movement, promised to raise $100 million to support Republicans this year. He's nowhere close.
President Donald Trump posted Sen. Tom Cotton's cell phone number to the world on Saturday, as part of a plea for his Truth Social followers to badger his Republican ally into making daylight saving time permanent. "For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it's very easy to do, it only takes one! It should pass overwhelmingly, in a Bipartisan fashion," Trump posted. "So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE!" A source confirmed that the number the president shared actually belongs to Cotton.
President Donald Trump's new assistant press secretary " a former reporter for Real America's Voice " once posed for a photo with a rifle while wearing a "f*** Joe Biden" T-shirt and was a fan of slain conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Beni Rae Harmony, 24, announced on Friday that she will join Trump's White House press team as the new assistant press secretary. Anti-MAGA accounts on Instagram quickly found the photo of Harmony in her anti-Biden shirt, according to The Daily Beast.
A woman has died of suspected plague in Siberia, triggering a "full range of anti-epidemic measures," according to Russian officials and media reports. Igor Kobzev, the governor of the Russian Irkutsk region, said on Friday he had met with the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Russia's public health agency, about "a suspected case of a regional resident with a particularly dangerous infection." The deceased person was named by the People of Baikal publication, a regional Russian independent outlet, as Daria Shipilova, a 28-year-old lab technician working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute. Shelekhov mayor Maxim Modin said the local hospital had been placed under quarantine. Lab tests have been suspended, with no new patients being released or admitted, he said.
Now, small trucking operators are increasingly filing for bankruptcy, with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association warning more will follow if fuel prices remain elevated. "Small operators, which dominate registered motor carrier companies, can't keep up: More than a dozen have filed for bankruptcy in the past month, and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association warns more will follow if fuel prices don't drop," the Journal reported. The Journal spoke with several truckers at a Flying J Travel Center in Orange, Texas, including Agron Berani, whom the Journal documented paying $944.44 to fill up his 18-wheeler with diesel fuel, which the Journal noted would have cost around $500 a year ago. "We have to do what we have to do," Berani, who voted for Trump in 2024, told the Journal. "I can't sell the truck. What am I going to do if I sell the truck?"
America's military footprint in the Middle East is shrinking, as the U.S. assesses its role in Gulf conflicts following extensive base damage during the Iran war.
Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!
An OpenAI employee focused on AI safety has quit the company and warned that top artificial intelligence firms aren't doing enough to mitigate the technology's risks, joining a growing chorus of employees raising alarms from within the industry.
Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.
An editorial in the Chicago Tribune laments what might have been had "Kenneth C. Griffin not become so frustrated with the state of Illinois as to move himself and much of the financial company he founded, Citadel, to Miami." The Tribune is responding to the news that Mr. Griffin is moving a whole lot more to Florida after departing the expensive dysfunction of Illinois governance.
A bombshell new report has laid bare the extreme lengths Kash Patel has gone to appease the president. Patel remains FBI director in part because he is President Donald Trump's yes-man, repeatedly committing "significant resources" to uncover election fraud even as agents repeatedly find nothing, sources tell The Atlantic. That has reportedly included pulling FBI personnel from regular duties to hunt for fraud in the 2020 election even after investigators find no wrongdoing"an endeavor The Atlantic writes has come "at substantial cost to taxpayers."
Reporting Highlights A Freelance Vigilante: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn't tell police or the FBI. He didn't tell his family or friends.
The Future of Militias: He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors and government attorneys. Experts say that militias could have a renaissance under Donald Trump.
A Secret Trove: He sent ProPublica a massive trove of documents. The conversations that he secretly recorded give a unique, startling window into the militia movement.
When the Empire State conducted barbaric prisoner executions by electric chair until 1963, the terminator was euphemistically titled New York State Electrician. Famous victims of Thomas Edison's rocking chair included railroaded immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti (1927) and atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1953). The first woman electrocuted in New York was Ruth Snyder (1928), whose insurance murder scheme was the genesis of the classic 1944 film Double Indemnity. Besides the inhumanity of executing convicts, when spies or serial murderers are liquidated, their secrets go to the grave with them. Such villains may wish an improvement in their hellish conditions, such as a newer cell, more time in the prison yard under the sun, or an increase in cigarette rations. In exchange, these malefactors would provide information to investigators on a cold case or other national security secrets they purloined. The lives of three of the five NYS "electricians" did not unfold well.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are intensifying military and civilian preparations for a possible Russian attack as uncertainty grows over future U.S. support for NATO, according to an exclusive report by The Atlantic.
The report described military exercises, rising defense spending and broader preparations across the Baltic states, where governments and communities are planning for scenarios ranging from limited Russian incursions to a wider conflict.
The latest sales tax increase in Los Angeles County took effect Thursday after voters approved a half-cent hike in June to support health care and other essential services. The Essential Services Restoration Act, known as Measure ER, increased the county's baseline sales tax rate from 9.75% to 10.25%. The increase is temporary. Measure ER allows the tax to remain in effect through Oct. 1, 2031, and is projected to generate about $1 billion annually. Sales tax exemptions include groceries, prescription medications, and medical equipment. Read more
