PENTAGON — The top U.S. homeland security official was set to get a firsthand look at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, visiting the U.S. naval base in Cuba a day after sending a second flight of “high-threat illegal aliens” to be held there. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the trip Friday in a…
Donald Trump has instructed Elon Musk to retrieve NASA astronauts who have reportedly been stranded in space for more than six months. Since June 2024, NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have been marooned at the space station, unable to commence their return journey to Earth. President Donald Trump has urged Elon…
Chappell Roan has responded to the music industry executive who called her Grammy speech misguided and performative after she urged record labels to better support smaller artists. The 26-year-old pop star challenged Jeff Rabhan, a former artist manager for over 15 years, on Friday to match a $25,000 donation she said she’d make toward artists who…
NEW YORK, Feb 7 – Coinbase (COIN.O), opens new tab must face a lawsuit by customers who accused the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange of illegally selling securities without registering as a broker-dealer, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan rejected Coinbase’s argument it did not qualify as a “statutory seller”…
Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab removed a reference to “inclusion and diversity” in its annual report filed on Thursday, after it told employees in a December memo that it was winding down its programs as part of corporate America’s broader retreat from such policies. Some of America’s biggest businesses have been scaling back diversity initiatives, years after pushing for…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk’s SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract. Changes to the requirements for the classified contract led the inspector general of the…
An arrest has been made in connection with the death of a sports reporter while in New Orleans to cover Super Bowl 59. Kenner, Louisiana, police say that they have arrested Danette Colbert, of nearby Slidell, Louisiana, after Adan Manzano was found unresponsive in his Kenner Comfort Suites hotel room. According to authorities, Colbert was using a credit…
NEW YORK − The man Dr. Gray Ballinger treated Wednesday for high blood pressure delayed care out of fear of immigration enforcement, the Queens primary care physician said. The man, whose wife has stage 4 cancer, isn’t alone in his anxiety, Ballinger said. “People’s blood pressure is much higher than usual on a regular basis,” Ballinger, who…
Israel’s defense minister has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to devise a plan for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for how the devastated territory would be administered. “I have instructed the IDF to prepare a plan to enable voluntary departure for Gaza residents,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday authorized economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on International Criminal Court investigations of U.S. citizens or U.S. allies such as Israel, repeating action he took during his first term. The move coincides with a visit to Washington by Israel’s Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu, who — along with…