which he vehemently denies — are receiving increasing national attention and complicating the race for the once reliably Republican seat while prompting new calls from Democrats for his resignation or investigation.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) moved Friday to drop its criminal prosecution of a former Olympian charged with destroying the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the damage was instead the result of a “rushed and botched installation.”
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By Colin Meyn and Julia Manchester
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President Trump’s announcement Thursday of a “historic” deal to disarm Hamas is drawing more skepticism than fanfare.
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The Trump administration on Friday appealed a ruling from a federal judge in Florida who found the president effectively colluded with his own government in bringing a $10 billion suit against the IRS.
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) pointed to weaknesses in President Trump’s influence in Congress amid opposition from three outgoing Republican senators to the president’s nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to a permanent role overseeing the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.
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FIFA has scrapped plans to cash in on the popularity of the World Cup by selling a share of it to private equity as part of what it said earlier this week was a broader investment strategy, the federation said late Friday.
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Concerns over AI’s cybersecurity risks reached a fever pitch this week following two hacking incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, sparking further debate in Silicon Valley over whether open-source could reduce these threats.
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Amazon said this week that it received hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds from President Trump’s tariffs and pledged to return some of the profits to its customers.
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By Scott Rivkees, opinion contributor
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OPINION | During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health was at the forefront of public conversation and protest.
School board meetings were rankled by individuals calling for vaccines versus no vaccines, masks versus no masks, and calls for personal freedom versus communal protection. There were street demonstrations and oodles of letters written to government and public health officials. National, state and local leaders, and elected officials, spoke forcefully about their viewpoints.
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By Caroline Melear, opinion contributor
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OPINION | Your phone buzzes. A text from an unknown number alerts you to an unpaid toll. Next, a call comes in with the name of your bank, claiming your account is compromised. Later, you see an ad for a celebrity-endorsed crypto investment on social media. The problem is, it’s all fraudulent. The bigger problem is, it’s coming from an increasingly sophisticated trillion-dollar criminal scam industry. And the federal government has largely been negligent in its response.
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By Christopher Flavelle, Andrea Fuller and Nicholas Nehamas
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Late one night last August, Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, was at his summer residence two hours west of Helsinki when his phone rang. On the other end of the line was President Trump, calling with a request.
He wanted to buy a fleet of massive ships designed to cut through Arctic ice.
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OpenAI, the company that sparked the AI boom, fell behind rival Anthropic. Now, it is fighting for a comeback.
Growth of OpenAI’s flagship consumer product, ChatGPT, has slowed. The departure of Fidji Simo, Sam Altman’s heir apparent, prompted a reshuffle of responsibilities among the CEO’s top deputies. And sales staff are locked in a costly battle to win over lucrative business customers by offering volume discounts and other sweeteners.
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President Trump has been losing his own battle to cut interest rates.
The president likes to vilify high rates as an affront to the size and strength of the U.S. economy, saying that America deserves the cheapest borrowing costs in the world. Trump for months publicly pressured the Federal Reserve to slash its benchmark rates, claiming it would be “Rocket Fuel!” for growth and make housing more affordable.
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For 40 years, six days a week, Joe Klima rose before dawn in the same house on Barbara Drive and drove about a mile to the same factory, which produced some of the world’s finest tubas, French horns and sousaphones in a small city northeast of Cleveland.
His routine stayed more or less the same through seven presidents, four recessions and several American wars in the Middle East. The plant’s workforce halved; pay dropped; China flooded the world with cheap goods; politicians came and went, offering unfulfilled promises to reverse the long slide of American industry; and Klima kept going to work.
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