Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory in his first comment on the U.S. vote and said, "I don't know what will happen now. I have no idea."
Elon Musk -- the most influential backer of President-elect Trump, thanks to his money, time and X factor -- now sits at the pinnacle of power in business, government influence and global information (and misinformation) flow. read more
Climate change was not a prominent issue during the presidential election, but successful ballot initiatives showed that voters in many places want to improve climate resilience and conservation. "The presidential vote -- I don't think there are many people who would call that a referendum on the clean energy or climate agenda," said Justin Balik of Evergreen Action. "The reasons why people vote the way they do are multifaceted," but people tend to favor green policies when the issues are isolated, he said.
The Democrats banked on women, youth and people of color propelling Kamala Harris to the presidency, but some key Democrat demographics shifted enough towards Donald Trump to return him to the presidency. read more
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 0.25 percentage points Thursday, the second consecutive cut after a two-year rate-hike run to curb postpandemic inflation. read more
"Why are we losing these people? Why are we losing firefighters? Why are we losing cops? Why are we losing blue collar working men? ... Because we're very consistent in our messaging away from them -- away from their traditional family values, away from their personal economic concerns and their family's economic concerns," said Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, the highest-ranking Latino elected official in this heavily Latino state. "And that is a hard political pill for Democrats to swallow." read more
Business leaders and local officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, puzzled for years over how to fill the hole created when young people left for big coastal cities. What, they wondered, could keep professionals rooted in the heartland? read more
A grain facility in Hamilton, Missouri, owned by the cooperative MFA Inc. could have prevented an employee's fatal engulfment in a storage bin in May 2024 had it followed federal workplace safety requirements, the U.S. Department of Labor said on Tuesday after completing its investigation into the death of 25-year-old Austin Daniels. read more
The fortunes of the ten richest people in the world surged by a daily record as Donald Trump won a second term as president. read more
Oliver Willis: When Trump last held the presidency, his top team was in near-constant rotation, because they either ran into Trump's ego and he let them go or they quit in disgust. ... Trump's chaos had very real effects on ordinary Americans. He mishandled the COVID-19 outbreak and hundreds of thousands died. During his time in office, more jobs were lost than under any president in decades. He doesn't hire the best people and even the ones he does put in power don't stay there for long, because he's very bad at this.
Rebecca Solnit: They appear to be deeply damaged people and they have come to damage everything else, including the climate; human rights, especially women's rights, trans rights and immigrants' rights; and the US economy. The rest of us and the rest of the world will be the cleanup crew because men like this never clean up after themselves.
President-elect Trump's stated plan of putting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of federal health policy would endanger Americans because he's an anti-vaxxer and anti-science conspiracy theorist, warns Molly Olmstead: "[E]levation of Kennedy to executive power -- even hypothetical -- signals the further erosion of any kind of facts-based decision-making, and points to Trump's embrace not just of falsehoods that benefit him politically but nonsense in general." read more
Testing out products across four categories, the outfit discovered that all three air fryers it looked at wanted permission to record audio on the user's phone, for no specified reason. read more
The 1,000 residents of the town of Geary, about 50 miles northwest of Oklahoma City are left wondering who to call in an emergency following the resignation of the town's entire four-person police department and two city council members. read more
Chat.com sells for $15M plus for the third time in two years. The chat.com domain name has changed hands for the third time in two years. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and perhaps the most ideal company to own the domain name, has acquired it. read more
Trump is a 78-year-old convicted felon who has been found liable for sexual assault and is currently under indictment in a number of jurisdictions. He refused to leave office peacefully when voters elected President Joe Biden in 2020, instead launching an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes, and said during his campaign that he would be a "dictator" on his first day in office. read more
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