Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy (D.) slammed the health care industry’s “immoral system” in response to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying “thousands of people” die every day at the “hands of a health care industry that mostly doesn’t give a s—t about people.” “What I see happening in this country is a real
SoftBank, a Japanese telecommunications company, will make a “historic” $100 billion investment in American projects over the next four years, President-elect Donald Trump and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announced Monday. The multibillion dollar investment is expected to create at least 100,000 jobs focused on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, including energy, data centers, and chips,
The prisoner CNN’s Clarissa Ward purportedly discovered and helped free from a secret Syrian facility last week is actually an intelligence agent who served in Bashar al-Assad’s regime and helped the brutal dictator torture and kill civilians, a Syrian news watchdog said Sunday. While searching a secret Damascus prison in the wake of Assad’s fall
The Human Rights Campaign, which lauded Buttigieg as ‘historic,’ suggested Bessent is a ‘threat’ to ‘LGBTQ+ people’ Scott Bessent meets with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. (Getty Images) President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, is about to make history as the nation’s highest-ranking gay official. And yet America’s top LGBT groups, which celebrated
Democratic lawmakers are seeking to hinder a federal watchdog investigation into misconduct within the Biden administration’s $400 billion green energy loan program—a sign Democrats could be growing concerned about what the long-running probe has uncovered. The inspector general for the Department of Energy has spent over a year investigating the Loan Programs Office, which has
The historic defamation settlement that President-elect Donald Trump won from ABC News on Saturday is a major embarrassment for George Stephanopoulos, the former whiz kid Clinton aide and ABC star whose on-air remarks led to the settlement—and whose outsized compensation has long caused disgruntlement at ABC amid an accelerating ratings decline. On Saturday, ABC agreed
In Storming the Ivory Tower: How a Florida College Became Ground Zero in the Struggle to Take Back Our Campuses, Richard Corcoran poses a pivotal (and potentially generational) question: Is higher education in the United States of America at a tipping point? Across a political career spanning multiple decades, Corcoran served as Sen. Marco Rubio’s