Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has tapped a senior State Department official and veteran policy hand under successive Democratic presidents as the Pentagon’s new chief of staff, officials said, as the Biden administration races to lock in key defense priorities ahead of November’s elections. Derek Chollet, who as an aide to Secretary of State Antony Blinken has played a central role ...
Donald Trump has a history of fiery calls urging supporters to rise up, and his most militant fans often have obliged. So it might seem counterintuitive that now, as Trump faces unprecedented legal problems and a close election in November, the nation is experiencing a lull in political unrest — in fact, one of the quietest periods that extremism researchers ...
Paramount Global is hiking the price of its flagship streaming service as the company looks to turn around its business. The company said Monday it will raise the price of the Paramount+ with Showtime plan by $1 to $12.99 a month, and the price of its Paramount+ Essential option will increase by $2 to $7.99 a month for all new subscribers. ...
European Union regulators on Monday said Apple is in breach of sweeping new tech rules because it does not allow customers of its App Store to be steered to alternatives. The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive arm, also said it had opened a new probe into Apple over new contractual terms with developers. The E.U. opened an investigation into Apple, Alphabet ...
A family from Florida is suing NASA after their home was damaged by debris which fell to Earth from the International Space Station. Law firm Cranfill Sumner, acting for the family, said the case against the agency is the first of its kind – and will “form the foundation” for similar claims in the future as space debris had become ...
Jimmy Carter is within sight of making history yet again. Sunday marks 100 days until Carter would become the first president to witness his own 100th birthday. Statistically, Americans have a less than 1 percent chance of living to 100. And Carter faces particularly significant challenges in reaching the milestone. For the past 16 months, he’s been in hospice, end-of-life ...
A defense attorney for defendants charged in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol posted a video on social media this week showing what appeared to be a sleeping guard at the D.C. jail complex, prompting an internal investigation at the long-troubled city detention facility. The 80-second video was posted Tuesday on X by Joseph McBride, a New York-based criminal ...
A super PAC supporting Sen. Ted Cruz’s reelection campaign has received nearly $800,000 in receipts from the company that distributes the Texas Republican’s podcast, an arrangement that is attracting scrutiny from campaign finance experts and Democrats. Federal law prohibits candidates from soliciting or directing money to super PACs, which can raise unlimited amounts of funds, including corporate money, as long ...
PHOENIX — Arizona delegates to the Republican National Convention gathered this month in a Phoenix suburb, showing up to get to know each other and learn about their duties. Part of the presentation included a secret plan to throw the party’s nomination of Donald Trump for president into chaos. The instructions did not come from “Never Trumpers” hoping to stop ...
In a year filled with voter anger toward Washington, Reps. Tom Cole and Gerry Connolly seemed to be perfect targets for stiff primary challenges from their respective right and left ideological flanks. In late April, Cole (R-Okla.) became chair of the House Appropriations Committee, in charge of doling out more than $1.7 trillion to federal agencies. As far as conservative ...