When clicking on a Wikipedia page, users are often met with fundraising pleas that strongly imply the site is in dire need of funds to ensure its wealth of knowledge remains available to all. A closer look at the financials behind the website, however, reveals that the foundation running Wikipedia has enough surplus cash to bankroll […]
December Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $967, will be issued to recipients in 17 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, as is the case with December’s payment. If a payment falls on either a weekend or a holiday, however, SSI payments are issued on the last […]
Democrats eyeing the 2028 elections are using the fallout from the longest government shutdown in U.S. history to draw a sharper contrast with the party’s aging Senate leadership, unleashing unusually blunt criticism of the compromise that helped reopen the government. California Gov. Gavin Newsom was among the first to go public with his frustration. “Pathetic,” […]
For Halloween, Tesla stockholders received a treat. The electric vehicle maker’s stock reached a five-year high of $456.56 a share. Stockholders approved an unprecedented 10-year pay package in November that could be worth $1 trillion for Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk. Musk was already the world’s richest man with a personal fortune estimated at almost […]
A half-century ago, Israel found itself deeply isolated when the United Nations passed a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The U.N. eventually repealed this Cold War relic, but today, Israel is again shunned by many nations because of the war in Gaza. The recent ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump offers the Jewish state a […]
The MAGA movement that President Donald Trump created keeps pushing back on him, from his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files to his comments this week regarding visas for foreign workers. Trump says that he decides what it means to “Make America Great Again,” but the repeated disputes underscore how the ideological purity of […]
The debate about political polarization often inevitably devolves into finger-pointing from both sides about how polarizing their opponents are. And yet, only one side routinely has bizarre stories about how it has cut off relationships with family members who have different politics. That side is the liberals, who otherwise wail about tolerance and diversity. Jimmy […]
A network of tech donors skeptical of artificial intelligence is paying to insert reporters in major newsrooms who go on to report stories amplifying their concerns about risks in AI development, a Washington Examiner review has found. The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism’s fellowship program places reporters at prestigious news organizations such as Bloomberg, TIME, […]
Two of the nation’s most powerful newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times, recently portrayed special presidential envoy Richard Grenell as the villain of the Kennedy Center story. The first outlet warned of a “politicized” arts institution under his watch. The second followed with a sprawling piece titled “The Kennedy Center Crackup,” painting […]
Gene L. Dodaro is not a household name. He is a mild-mannered man who is rarely seen without a necktie and dark suit, and who speaks in a flat, matter-of-fact tone. He has worked for the federal government since 1973. Yet, his retirement in December may well set off a separation-of-powers battle royale between President […]
