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The NAACP on Friday threatened to sue Elon Musk's AI company xAI, claiming that gas turbines powering a company data center are polluting communities in Mississippi and Tennessee. "Our communities are not playgrounds for corporations who are chasing profit over people. xAI's first data center is already creating pollution for Mississippi's neighbors in Memphis —......

Republicans are using the farm bill to take another swing at passing legislation to protect pesticides, something sure to anger their allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. A House Republican iteration of the farm bill released on Friday includes a provision that prevents states and courts from penalizing pesticide makers for failing to......

The chair and CEO of DP World resigned early Friday over his alleged ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after he was named in the files released by the Justice Department (DOJ). The Dubai-based supply chain giant announced the departure of Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem in a statement, saying the resignation is “effective immediately.”......

U.S. businesses and consumers bore about 90 percent of the cost of President Trump's sweeping tariffs, according to a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The study, published Thursday, found that the majority of costs that came from tariffs were passed onto the American public in the first 11 months of......

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, says he will keep holding up President Trump's nominees to the Federal Reserve until the criminal investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell is resolved. This poses a significant obstacle to Trump's plan to appoint Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the nation's......

Consumer prices rose 2.4 percent over the past year and 0.2 percent in January alone, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The latest consumer price index (CPI) report, which was delayed by the brief government shutdown earlier this month, showed inflation coming in below expectations. Economists expected the annual inflation rate to......

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Thursday that Kathy Ruemmler, the investment banking company's top lawyer, will resign after the Department of Justice (DOJ) released its remaining files connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, revealing a close relationship between the two. Ruemmler said she will "step down as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel......

A pro-crypto super PAC said Thursday that it plans to spend $1.5 million opposing Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) in the Democratic primary race. Protect Progress, which is affiliated with the industry's leading super PAC Fairshake, pointed to Green's voting record on crypto legislation. The Texas Democrat has voted against two major crypto bills in the......

A pair of researchers resigned from Anthropic and OpenAI this week, with one warning that the “world is in peril” from a multitude of crises. Mrinank Sharma announced his resignation from Anthropic in an open letter to his colleagues on Monday. Sharma, who has served on the company's technical staff since 2023, first noted that......

The Chicago Bears, playing in Iowa? A bill introduced this week in the Hawkeye State's Senate is attempting to make that a reality. The legislation, introduced by Republican state Sens. Dan Dawson, Scott Webster, Mike Bousselot, Dawn Driscoll, Carrie Koelker, Kerry Gruenhagen, and Cherielynn Westrich, calls for modifying Iowa's major economic growth attraction program to......

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday the housing market has improved in defense of the economy under President Trump. “President Trump is laser-focused on the housing market, and things have gotten better. Last month, we hit a three-year low in mortgage rates. The Fed, subsequent to, I believe the appearance you were talking about, it......

January's delayed jobs report gave President Trump a badly-needed spot of good news on Wednesday, showing the economy gained 130,000 jobs, a number well ahead of expectations. Economists expected the U.S. to have added roughly 70,000 jobs in January, with the unemployment rate staying flat at 4.4 percent, according to consensus projections. After Trump's top......

The federal deficit and national debt are expected to grow by trillions of dollars over the next decade, according to 10-year projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO projected that the U.S. budget deficit will reach $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2026 — around 5.8 percent of GDP — and roughly the......

President Trump on Tuesday said he raised tariffs on Switzerland after a phone call with the country's former president, saying he did not approve of "the way she talked." Trump told Fox Business's Larry Kudlow that he once had an "emergency call from, I believe, the prime minister of Switzerland, and she was very aggressive.......

Moderna said on Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has refused to review its application for an mRNA flu vaccine, with the company claiming this decision is inconsistent with previous communications from the agency. In a press release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) told the company......

The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January but gained far fewer jobs than initially reported in 2025, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The January employment report showed the labor market booming last month, with the jobless rate ticking down slightly to 4.3 percent. Economists expected the U.S. to......

Trump's tariffs amounted to an average tax increase of $1,000 per U.S. household in 2025, according to a new analysis....

It has been a roller coaster ride for outgoing Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman, who is leaving Washington this month after six years as Ottawa's top envoy to the U.S. Hillman, who assumed her post in 2020, recalled “hard” and “volatile” trade talks with the U.S. and Mexico during President Trump's first term,......

Top White House officials are trying to prepare Americans for a lackluster January jobs report this week as President Trump kicks off 2026 under intense economic pressure. Trump's top economic advisers have said in recent days that the January jobs report, scheduled to be released Wednesday, is unlikely to show a strong gain, citing high......

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that he had a “positive” conversation with President Trump after the president threatened to stop a bridge between the U.S. and Canada from being opened. “So, it was a positive conversation, it's a big game today and we're going to win,” Carney told reporters, referencing a U.S.-Canada Olympic......