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Kevin Warsh would like to start as Fed chairman yesterday, but his nomination as the head of the central bank remains in limbo. The longer it does, the more the country’s economy is at risk. With all that’s going on in the world, oil prices rising and inflation looming, it’s easy to forget that Warsh […]
Mapmaking, if you do it properly, is a time-consuming and money-consuming business. You have to do field surveys and travel to multiple locations, some of which can’t be accessed in a vehicle. You have to measure distances, angles and elevations using heavy, cumbersome equipment like theodolites, leveling instruments and very long tape measures. And once […]
U.S. airlines started cancelling hundreds of flights on Friday, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the cuts amid the more-than-monthlong government shutdown. The cuts were ordered as air traffic controllers have missed their paychecks due to the government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history. Air traffic control staffing shortages have been disrupting flights […]
Air Canada flight attendants remained on strike on Sunday past the deadline in a government-backed labor board’s order to return to work, causing the country’s biggest airline to delay restarting operations. The Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a statement that members would remain on strike and invited Air Canada back to the table to “negotiate a fair deal,” calling […]
Apple has failed to persuade a US appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge’s order requiring the iPhone maker to immediately open its lucrative App Store to more competition. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected Apple’s request to put the provisions on hold as the tech company appeals the judge’s order, […]
President Donald Trump, joined by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, speaks during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 12, 2025, in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday moved forward with a plan to lower U.S. […]
President Trump’s executive order to defund NPR and PBS was met with fiery pushback on Friday, as the organizations challenged the legality of the move and said it could jeopardize access to vital information. The order issued late Thursday instructed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which receives and distributes over $500 million in taxpayer money […]
WASHINGTON — United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said Sunday that President Trump’s looming 25% tariff on foreign-made cars could swiftly boost American manufacturing jobs. Fain, a prominent anti-Trump campaigner ahead of last year’s election, said that the levies could benefit workers and used remarkably similar language as the White House on how carmakers could […]
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to create a national stockpile of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, an audacious idea that has been widely criticized as a scheme to enrich crypto investors. The basis of the stockpile will be a stash of Bitcoin, estimated to be worth as much as $17 billion, that […]
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans. But over the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was taking effect banning TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. Tech companies […]
