news2shortsAs China and the U.S. are locked in an intensifying trade war, China is responding to President Donald Trump’s tariffs by reportedly telling Chinese airlines not to order jets from Boeing, the United States’ biggest exporter, according to Bloomberg. NBC’s Janis Mackey Frayer reports for TODAY from Yiwu.
Texas will likely have its own Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) very soon after lawmakers passed a bill to create an efficiency office within the governor’s office. The bill, known as Senate Bill 14 (S.B. 14) and inspired by Elon Musk’s DOGE, would create a new Texas Regulatory Office which aims to streamline state regulations … Read more
President also claims inflation is falling as Chinese state media tells US to ‘stop whining’ amid escalating trade war Donald Trump has gone on yet another rant about Harvard University on his social media platform Truth Social this morning. It comes as the US education department said it was freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds … Read more
Newton-Wellesley hospital president says all six tumors benign as ‘rigorous ongoing investigation’ conducted The number of staff members who have developed brain tumors while working on the same floor of a Boston-area hospital has increased to at least six, according to the facility’s leadership. A recent statement attributed to the president of Mass General Brigham’s … Read more
Worsening global outlook makes ‘gradual and careful’ approach on interest rates by Bank of England more difficult UK inflation falls to 2.6%, increasing pressure on Bank to cut interest rates Business live – latest updates Cooling inflation, resilient wage growth, and an economy outperforming expectations. After the turmoil since Donald Trump’s “liberation day”, there are … Read more
She helped bankroll Trump, backs Israel’s war in Gaza and traded away Luka Dončić. Dallas fans are furious – and they’re not alone In the NBA, villainy rarely looks like chaos. It often arrives in the form of billionaires who believe their power serves a greater good. The NBA’s old guard of terrible owners – … Read more
It’s too bad there are no cameras allowed in federal courtrooms, because I really would like to see Mark Zuckerberg testify. He was the leadoff witness in the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta, and that in itself was news. The clash is the most sweeping attempt to dismember the world’s biggest social network, … Read more
I think back to my 20-year-old self and my sister, lost in her imagined worlds, and I feel compassion for us both When my sister was 21, she was diagnosed with dementia. She had survived a malignant brain tumour diagnosis when she was 10, but her cancer was inoperable and sat directly on her hippocampus, … Read more
By claiming that any regulation is censorship, the White House is bullying Britain to abandon online safety laws and digital taxes Compared with many countries around the world, the US is still a great democracy, but a much lesser one than it was four months ago. The constitution has not been rewritten. Checks and balances … Read more
The Defense Department’s (DOD) deputy chief of staff was placed on administrative leave on Tuesday, following the steps of another Pentagon official earlier in the day. Darin Selnick, the deputy chief of staff for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has been removed, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News. Selnick is under investigation for the … Read more
