PARIS — JD Vance is stepping onto the world stage for the first time as U.S. vice president this week, using a high-profile artificial intelligence summit in France and a gathering of national security leaders in Germany to showcase Donald Trump’s more assertive approach to diplomacy. The 40-year-old vice president, who was just 18 months … Read more
Standing inside the Capitol for the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Trump declared his plans to resurrect an idea he had in his first term: to create a national garden filled with statues of notable Americans. The choice of who would be included would be “the president’s sole opinion,” Mr. Trump said, chuckling. And … Read more
No state’s political order has been more upended by President Trump’s return to power than that of his adopted Florida. Mr. Trump stacked his new administration with Floridians, leaving powerful positions vacant. Ambitious Republicans have jockeyed to fill them through special elections or appointments by the governor. The reshuffling has empowered Gov. Ron DeSantis, a … Read more
The vast farmlands just off the coast of California’s Monterey Bay are usually quiet during the winter, when there are no crops to pick. This winter, a different kind of stillness has taken hold. First, fears of immigration raids paralyzed the immigrant communities that make up the agricultural work force. And now, anxiety has spread … Read more
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has repeatedly challenged Senate Republicans with his Cabinet picks. But his nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer for labor secretary may be proving the hardest for many to accept. Chavez-DeRemer, a former congresswoman from Oregon, hardly cuts the profile of a traditional Republican nominee. She is the daughter of a lifelong Teamsters … Read more
In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the S.S. Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry. He was not a U.S. citizen, they said. Never mind that Mr. Wong had been born in San Francisco’s Chinatown, … Read more
Republican Rep. Mike Turner on Sunday refuted claims that the massive overhaul of the federal government by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) constitutes a federal crisis. “Elon Musk goes about his job, which is a very important job, I mean the fact that we have Elon Musk looking from the private sector into … Read more
The bird flu outbreak has sent the price of eggs to record highs, leading to egg thefts in Seattle and Pennsylvania. Source link
Starting in 2019, Justice Clarence Thomas has repeatedly called for the Supreme Court to reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark First Amendment decision that made it hard for public officials to prevail in libel suits. That project gained momentum in 2021, when Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said the decision “has evolved into an … Read more
The Pipsqueakery in Bloomington, Indiana, cares for 700 small animals at a time. Source link