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Billionaire Jared Isaacman is set to appear Wednesday morning to field questions from Congress before he could become the next NASA administrator. SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts perform first commercial spacewalk Billionaire Jared Issacman and SpaceX employee Sarah Gillis exited the aircraft and performed suit mobility checks. Isaacman has been to space twice, both times on … Read more
China vows to ‘fight to the end’ on President Trump’s tariffs President Donald Trump threatened China with more tariffs after they put a 34% tariff on U.S. imports. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff blitz rolled out Wednesday with a flurry of reciprocal levies on trading partners, including one sky-high fee: a tax on Chinese goods … Read more
Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh | Reuters WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has frozen over $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern University while it investigates both schools over civil rights violations, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The funding being paused includes mostly grants and contracts … Read more
Timothy Martin, a member of Declare Emergency, a climate activist group known for eye-catching protests, was found guilty of defacing a glass case protecting a timeless Degas sculpture Just Stop Oil protesters throw soup at Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Just Stop Oil protesters threw cans of tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting at … Read more
Elon Musk snaps at Peter Navarro over CNBC tariff comments Elon Musk hit back at Peter Navarro after President Trump’s trade advisor commented on Tesla during a CNBC interview on tariffs. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will soon impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals coming from foreign countries, predicting drug companies will move their … Read more
Thousands of IRS employees laid off as tax refund season gets underway Thousands of IRS employees were laid off, primarily affecting President Biden’s expansion hires aimed at tax enforcement on wealthy taxpayers. Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause is expected to resign, according to two administration officials, continuing turmoil is the agency’s top leadership. Krause is … Read more
President Trump calls tariffs ‘medicine’ as stock market plunges President Donald Trump spent the weekend at a golf tournament in Florida as the stock market continued to plunge. A conservative advocacy organization financed by billionaire Republican mega-donor Charles Koch is representing a Florida company that is suing President Donald Trump for imposing tariffs on all … Read more
Trump pays respects to Carter, first Capitol Hill visit since Jan 6 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump visited the Capitol Rotunda on to pay respects to the late President Jimmy Carter. The Army’s caisson detatchment was worn down by too many funerals, underinvestment and poor care. The Army euthanized two horses, Mickey and Tony, and in … Read more
