Every Flight in America Grounded Until Further Notice, Cause Unknown
Every commercial flight in the United States was grounded on Friday afternoon "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety," and as of this writing nobody official can tell you what those circumstances are. The FAA says a communications problem is hitting every...
Planes Fall Out of Sky Briefly, Duffy Asks for $50B, ICE Sits on $61B
A nationwide air traffic control outage grounded flights across the United States, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responded by...
Trump, Putin and Xi Will Talk Nukes, Skip Ukraine, and Bring Elon Musk
The leaders of the three biggest nuclear powers on Earth will sit down together for the first time next week in Shenzhen, and the White...
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Planes Fall Out of Sky Briefly, Duffy Asks for $50B, ICE Sits on $61B
A nationwide air traffic control outage grounded flights across the United States, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responded by demanding $50...
Trump, Putin and Xi Will Talk Nukes, Skip Ukraine, and Bring Elon Musk
The leaders of the three biggest nuclear powers on Earth will sit down together for the first time next week in Shenzhen, and the White House says...
SpaceX's Chopsticks Catch Nothing as $2 Billion Booster Torches Itself
SpaceX built a 124-meter rocket, a launch tower with giant mechanical arms nicknamed chopsticks, and a whole mythology about reusability. Then, on...
Alaska Is Still Counting, and Dan Sullivan Is Still Losing
Every other Senate race in the country has been called. Alaska is the last one still hanging, and the guy who's behind is a two-term Republican...
Every Flight in America Grounded Until Further Notice, Cause Unknown
Every commercial flight in the United States was grounded on Friday afternoon "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety," and as...
Trump: 'We Don't Need a Deal With Iran' While Asking Putin to Broker One
President Trump declared on Thursday that "We don't need a deal with Iran," the same week Iran's chief negotiator told Al Jazeera that U.S. officials...
Netanyahu's Spy Chief Flies to D.C. to Lobby Trump for More Iran War
The head of Israel's foreign intelligence service is in Washington this Friday with one job: help convince the president of the United States to...
What Your Poop Schedule Says About You
Somewhere in Seattle, a team of scientists looked at 1,425 healthy adults and their bathroom schedules and came back with a verdict: one or two a day...
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SpaceX's Chopsticks Catch Nothing as $2 Billion Booster Torches Itself
Alaska Is Still Counting, and Dan Sullivan Is Still Losing
Trump: 'We Don't Need a Deal With Iran' While Asking Putin to Broker One
Netanyahu's Spy Chief Flies to D.C. to Lobby Trump for More Iran War
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Scientists Kill the 'Dead Layer' That Stalled Low-Power AI Chips
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Microsoft's 'Automated Health Checks' Took Down Email for Half the Planet
Microsoft's servers failed their own health checks, and then the whole world got sick. For about 12 hours, Outlook, Teams and Copilot went dark for government...
Nvidia CEO Dated Alleged Chinese Spy; Commerce Chief Lutnick Kept Going Easy on Nvidia
The CEO of the most valuable chip company on Earth was in a relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence agencies believe is a Chinese spy, and she happened to...
Chris Van Hollen Will Challenge Chuck Schumer For Senate Majority Leader
Democrats just flipped eight Senate seats and will walk into January with at least 55 senators, which by any normal standard means everyone gets a parade....
Pence Says GOP Lost Over 'Air of Corruption,' Not the Iran War
Mike Pence, the man who once certified an election while a mob built a gallows outside, has now emerged as the GOP's most unlikely truth-teller about why...
Nvidia CEO Quits After Two Affairs, One With a Suspected Chinese Spy
The man who built the chips that power the entire artificial intelligence economy just resigned as CEO of Nvidia after reports that he had two extramarital...
Tariff Refunds Have Outrun Tariff Revenue Since May, a $15 Billion Net Loss
Since May, the federal government has handed back more in tariff refunds than it has collected in new tariffs. Treasury's own numbers show $134.4 billion refunded against $119.0 billion collected...
Five Shot at a Gym a Mile From the White House, Suspect Holed Up Upstairs
At least five people were shot Thursday morning in Washington's Logan Circle neighborhood, at and outside a Vida Fitness gym roughly one mile north of the...
AOC Fires Her Fundraisers Twice in Months. Chuck Schumer Should Sweat.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just overhauled her political operation for the second time in a few months, and the timing is not subtle. She's deciding whether to...
Trump Calls Wind Turbines 'Major Losers' While Skipping the Climate Summit Entirely
Donald Trump said wind turbines are "a major loser." John Kerry, standing in a Turkish resort city where almost every other country on Earth showed up to...
Heating Oil Could Jump 70% This Winter, Thanks to Your Friendly Iran War
Nearly 5 million American households that heat with oil could see their winter costs jump 70 percent, to about $2,977, and the reason is a war most of them...
Hinojosa Said 'Texas Is Not for Sale.' Two Days After Winning, It's 'Our Terms.'
In October, Gina Hinojosa told Texans that Greg Abbott was "handing over our land to the world's only trillionaire" and that "Texas is not for sale." Two days...