Susan Wachter, a professor of real estate and finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, penned an article last week that said the American Dream is becoming harder to achieve for young Americans and is being replaced by the “Great Postponement.”
Two Republican senators are blocking acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General because of President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” which was the result of an IRS settlement stemming from a Trump lawsuit.
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Thursday that he “respects” his predecessor’s pardon of Anthony Fauci, drawing swift criticism.
The Department of Commerce announced last week that it will provide $870 million in federal incentives for private companies that produce semiconductors, which means the federal government will take minority ownership in these companies.
The UN special coordinator for Lebanon said in a statement released Saturday that his office is deeply concerned about the “scale of detonations and demolitions taking place in south Lebanon,” which is being committed by occupying IDF troops under the auspices of rooting out Hezbollah infrastructure.
Major Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies in the United States, including OpenAI, have been spending record amounts on lobbying in Washington to make sure that policies beneficial to the industry are promoted and adopted.
The IDF announced on Saturday and Sunday that it carried out new deadly strikes across Gaza even as the Trump administration announced a new disarmament roadmap for Hamas to bring a lasting peace to the enclave.
India’s so-called “Cockroach Janta Party,” a youth movement with a focus on corruption and the lack of economic opportunities, has inspired new protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the entrenched establishment.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that he spoke to President Donald Trump about weapons production and licenses for Kyiv to begin domestic production of Patriot missiles, which has been a top agenda item for his government.
China has begun mass-producing domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, a technology crucial to manufacturing advanced computer and AI chips, Reuters reported.