resident Donald Trump (C), Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (L), and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (R) hold up an agreement signed during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on August 8, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Armenia and Azerbaijan on Aug. 8 signed a U.S.-backed joint declaration aimed at ending decades of
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at Chevening House in Sevenoaks, Kent, Britain, on Aug. 8, 2025. Kin Cheung/Pool via Reuters/File Photo Vice President JD Vance said on Aug. 10 that the Trump administration is working to arrange talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian
Vice Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Michelle W. Bowman moderates a discussion with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (not pictured) during the Federal Reserve’s Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference in Washington on July 22, 2025. Reuters/Ken Cedeno Michelle Bowman, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair of supervision,
Two middle school students pitch their business idea to peers during a recent Middle School MBA program. Courtesy of John Rock Foster, Middle School MBA founder and president. Faith Fiorello dreaded the thought of classrooms during summer recess, but her interest in dollars and cents and a heavier piggy bank quickly took over. The 11-year-old
In an aerial view, an Amazon Web Services data center is seen in Stone Ridge, Va., on July 17, 2024. Nathan Howard/Getty Images The emergence of cloud computing in the early 2000s and generative artificial technology in the 2020s has exponentially increased the U.S. technology industry’s demand for electricity. In the coming decades, the massive
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington on June 10, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending all contracts with unionized employees, a union president said on Friday. Justin Chen, president of the EPA’s chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)—America’s largest federal union—said in a statement that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference, accompanied by Texas Democratic legislators, at the governor’s mansion in Sacramento, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2025. Carlos Barria/Reuters California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the Trump administration on Aug. 8 after the Department of Justice sought a $1 billion settlement against the University of California–Los Angeles, over