President Trump said the U.S. military is attacking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific in response to fentanyl deaths, asserting the vessels come from Venezuela. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the mission as protecting the homeland from drugs. Since the antidrug campaign began in September, the military has destroyed...
James B. Comey’s lawyers will ask a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., to dismiss charges that he lied to and obstructed Congress, arguing the Justice Department bowed to President Trump’s push for political revenge. Led by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, they plan to recount how Mr. Trump, in an angry social...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday rejected U.S. military strikes on cartels, a day after President Donald Trump said he would do whatever we have to do to stop drugs. Her remarks followed a flap at Playa Bagdad, where men arrived by boat and posted Defense Department restricted area signs...
Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana cast the only no vote on a House bill to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, defying Speaker Mike Johnson’s expectation of unanimous Republican support. A senior Oversight Committee member and chair of its federal law enforcement panel, Higgins has backed the...
President Donald Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House with grand ceremony, brushing aside human rights questions and insulting a reporter. Trump formalized approval to sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia, said broader security and a civilian nuclear deal would proceed, and announced Saudi Arabia would...
China is pivoting to electric heavy trucks faster than expected, reshaping fuel demand. Battery-powered models reached 22% of new heavy truck sales in early 2025, up from 9.2% a year earlier, with forecasts of 46% this year and 60% next. Prices are falling, incentives sweeten trade-ins, and charging hubs plus...
“Agentic AI” is touted as the next leap beyond chatbots, but definitions vary as the buzzword surges. An MIT and Boston Consulting Group report, based on a survey of 2,000-plus executives, describes agents that plan, act and learn autonomously—“teammates” executing multistep tasks. Amazon Web Services’ Swami Sivasubramanian says such systems...
A federal judge handed Meta a major win, rejecting the FTC’s bid to unwind its Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled the agency failed to prove Meta holds a social media monopoly, citing a rapidly shifting market where TikTok and YouTube loom large. The FTC said...
Donald Trump called Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey “piggy” during an Air Force One gaggle Friday, after she pressed him on the Jeffrey Epstein files and a likely House vote to release them. The slur drew fresh backlash Tuesday: CNN’s Jake Tapper and former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson called...
Intuit signed a multi-year deal worth more than $100 million with OpenAI to bring TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp into ChatGPT and expand its use of OpenAI models. With user permission, the apps can tap personal financial data to answer questions and complete tasks, from estimating refunds to sending...
