Helion Energy, the fusion power startup backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, will benefit from funding released by the Department of Commerce for research and development, which the Financial Times said is the single “largest commitment” by the department for a single company.
Republicans have a deeper war chest than Democrats as the midterm elections approach in the U.S., with GOP-aligned Super PACs having $683 million to disperse on various campaigns, compared to $484 million for PACs aligned with Democrats, according to data compiled by the Financial Times.
President Donald Trump returned to power in 2025 and envisioned Americans his presidency to usher in a “Golden Age,” but a report last week in the Financial Times showed that the president has come up short on many of those promises.
Forty-five percent of Americans identify as independents, which is the highest percentage since 1988, when Gallup first started tracking political attitudes in the U.S.
An American billionaire has his sights set on the assets that belong to the Russian company Lukoil that were set to be sold to the private equity company, the Carlyle Group, and his backers may very well help land him the deal because of their proximity to President Donald Trump, according to a report last week in the Financial Times.
Faced with the prospect of losing both the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections, Republican political committees are prepared to unfurl about $1 billion in advertising from September to the elections, the Financial Times reported last week, citing data collected by AdImpact.
President Donald Trump tried to get past the controversy surrounding a Russian billionaire paying for Donald Trump Jr’s wedding after-party in the Bahamas earlier this year and told reporters at the White House that his son paid back the businessman.
Political observers have found that there is a surge in the number of Americans who are fed up with the status quo in Washington and are ready to take their frustrations out during the midterm elections, which could result in President Donald Trump’s Republican Party losing control of both Houses of Congress.
It is hard to imagine how President Donald Trump’s insane assertions might go beyond the point of being merely demented to something far worse, i.e. catastrophic.
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that the government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully.