Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be the first AI czar to lead the so-called AI Force, President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday. The president appeared to be addressing a Semafor report that listed Bessent as a top contender for the new role. “Scott Bessent will not be going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar,” […]

A federal judge ruled that Oklahoma officials cannot exclude a Jewish school from the state’s charter school program, more than a year after the Supreme Court punted on the constitutionality of taxpayer-funded religious charter schools. U.S. District Judge David Russell, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, found that Oklahoma officials’ denial of the National […]

Republican Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced Friday that her office is launching an investigation into ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s largest online fundraising platform, over allegations that it accepted fraudulent and potentially illegal foreign political contributions. Hanaway’s office issued civil investigative demands to ActBlue seeking documents and information related to its donation-processing and fraud-prevention practices. […]

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have just said goodbye to one another after Xi’s state visit to the U.S., but the two superpower world leaders have already pledged to meet two more times before the end of the year. “President Xi and Madam Peng have just left D.C., heading for China,” […]