Vows to rename Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ and assert U.S. dominance over Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal “We’re approaching the dawn of America’s golden age,” President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday in a freewheeling press conference at Mar-a-Lago, his first public remarks since Vice President Kamala Harris certified his victory in the 2024 election.
Ma Huateng has served on the Yale Center Beijing advisory board since 2015 Ma Huateng (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) The founder of Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent—which the Pentagon blacklisted this week over its links to the Chinese military—serves on a prestigious Yale University advisory board and has quietly donated millions of dollars to other Ivy League
‘We may not recognize you, but you sure as hell will recognize what happens when you target America or its allies,’ says Brian Mast L: Speaker Mike Johnson R: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan (Tasos Katopodis; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) The newly installed House, led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.), is set to vote Thursday
Michigan Democrats gave nearly $2 billion in direct subsidies and tax breaks to Ford’s project with CATL Ford Electric Vehicles (Scott Olson/Getty Images) The Department of Defense added Chinese electric vehicle battery maker CATL—which Ford Motor Company has partnered with on a billion-dollar EV project in Michigan—to a list of companies that actively aid China’s
The House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act in a 264-159 vote on Tuesday, with 48 Democrats joining 216 Republicans to make it the first act of the new Congress. The bill, named after a 22-year-old nursing student murdered last February by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in Georgia, requires federal immigration authorities to detain
The Washington Post laid off roughly 4 percent of its workforce Tuesday, amid financial struggles and the departure of senior staff. The cuts will eliminate around 100 jobs in the Post‘s business divisions, including advertising and marketing, the New York Times reported. They will not affect jobs in the newsroom. This is the paper’s latest attempt
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company will no longer rely on “politically biased” fact-checkers to censor content, pledging to restore “free expression” on its Facebook, Instagram, and Threads platforms. “We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.,” the Meta CEO