Musk endorses Howard Lutnick over Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary; includes a proposal for Musk to moderate an online public debate between the pair. Elon Musk’s growing influence in President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team was on full display on Saturday as he publicly endorsed Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, for Treasury secretary, thrusting the
The U.S. Department of Defense failed its seventh consecutive audit on Friday, with the agency unable to fully account for its $824 billion budget.
In the 26 states that don’t require cursive instruction, the lack of ’set signatures’ by younger voters who never learned penmanship may be a concern. Election workers, attempting to verify ballots in the 2024 presidential election race, ran into difficulties and delays because signatures on mail-in ballots didn’t match those by the same individuals on
If Martha Dodd Stern had been a minimally important or competent Soviet spy, her story would make a rip-roaring Hollywood movie. But despite Brendan McNally’s effort to inflate the damage she did to American interests—Traitor’s Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga of Soviet Espionage—the fact remains that her career as
In the years on either side of General Petraeus’s surge (2008) I spent many a month living in Baghdad covering culture for the Wall Street Journal’s arts section. That meant abiding not in the secure Green Zone but out among the locals—very rare for outsiders—unarmed, unembedded, and frequently exposed to the city’s turbulence in search
Virginia AG Miyares said he looks forward to "common sense" coming out of Washington with President Trump at the helm starting in January.
Key cabinet picks — including Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy Jr. — joined President-elect Trump at UFC 309 at the Madison Square Garden.