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Kennedy Center board OKs new way of adding Trump’s name to building
The Kennedy Center board voted Thursday to add President Trump’s name to the performing arts building months after a judge blocked an effort to rename the center after him, according to multiple reports. The Trump-aligned board approved an inscription underneath the Kennedy Center’s name, reading: “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.” The new…
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Why I’ve no regrets about throwing my shoes at George W Bush and would do it again
The article centres on the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then US President George W Bush and says he has no regrets about the act. He presents it as a protest against the Iraq war and US policy, arguing that he would repeat it because he believes the underlying grievances remain unresolved. The…
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Cassidy: New CDC Director Schwartz ‘will do the right thing’ on vaccine order
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he has confidence that new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Erica Schwartz will stand up for science and won’t enforce President Trump’s executive order calling for major changes to the childhood vaccine schedule. “I anticipate Erica Schwartz will do the right thing,” Cassidy, chair of the Senate…
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Nicola Sturgeon’s ex-adviser ‘bewildered’ by former First Minister’s attack on John Swinney
Nicola Sturgeon has faced fresh criticism from a former special adviser, Kate Higgins, over her paperback book tour and her recent attack on First Minister John Swinney’s election strategy. Higgins, who worked as a SPAD under Sturgeon from 2015 until stepping down recently, argued that Sturgeon’s public interventions are making it harder for the SNP…
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Baier pushes back on Trump’s Strait of Hormuz claim: ‘Traffic has slowed … to a trickle’
Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday pushed back on President Trump’s claim that the U.S. “totally” controls the Strait of Hormuz, saying that traffic through the waterway has slowed down “to a trickle.” “Usually, about one-fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas trade moves through there as well,” Baier said on Wednesday’s episode of…
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OpenAI is losing its second executive this week
OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser has said she will leave the company in the coming weeks, becoming the second senior executive to announce a departure this week. Her exit adds to a run of leadership changes as OpenAI prepares for its next stage of commercial growth and a possible public listing. Dresser joined OpenAI…
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What we know about the Air Force One ruse
President Trump departed the NATO summit in Turkey last month aboard an alternate aircraft at the behest of the Secret Service amid what intelligence officials said was a credible assassination threat from Iran. The Washington Post first reported on Monday that Trump hid aboard a catering truck, which typically carries meals and other supplies preflight,…
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The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks
The Trump administration is introducing a programme that would allow approved private cybersecurity firms to carry out cyber operations against foreign criminal networks under federal direction and supervision. Supporters argue that it would bring private-sector capabilities into the fight against cybercrime, but critics warn it could blur legal and geopolitical boundaries and risk harming innocent…
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US government to allow private companies to carry out cyberattacks on its behalf
President Donald Trump has signed a national security memorandum allowing vetted private companies to conduct cyberattacks against transnational criminal organisations on the US government’s behalf. The move is intended to broaden the response to ransomware, sextortion, fraud and phishing, but it raises legal and operational questions because the practical rules and potential overseas consequences remain…
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Top Republican says El-Sayed may be ‘full-blown communist’ despite socialist denial
Michigan’s top House Republican, Lisa McClain, has accused Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of being a “full-blown communist” despite his denials of being a socialist. The dispute follows El-Sayed’s upset primary win over establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens, part of a broader wave of victories for candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America across several…