Bill Gates Version 1.0

Before Jeff Bezos could create Amazon, or Mark Zuckerberg could create Facebook, or Larry Page and Sergey Brin could create Google, someone had to build the foundation of modern technology that now dominates every aspect of our lives. And in Source Code: My Beginnings, Bill Gates—one of the Founding Fathers of the software revolution that

What Israel Really Thinks About Trump’s Nuclear Talks With Iran. Plus, Did Keith Ellison Fight Fraud or Feed It?

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Trump at the Intersection of Main Street and Wall Street

Donald Trump has a talent for attracting attention, but even so, the events since Liberation Day have been unusually dramatic and consequential. After Trump used emergency powers to impose a universal tariff and even higher duties on America’s top trading partners, the stock market plunged. At one point, the S&P 500 was down 14 percent.

Israeli Leaders Privately Hope for Failure of Trump Negotiations With Iran

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The Syrian national can still appeal the order Mahmoud Khalil (Free Beacon) Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protest leader in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, can be deported. Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Comans ruled on Friday that the Trump administration met its burden to support its order to remove Khalil, a Syrian national. Khalil’s