The Fight over America's Vaccine Future
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched a sweeping overhaul of U.S. vaccine policy, limiting COVID‑19 booster eligibility and narrowing the routine childhood schedule. Courts have temporarily blocked several of his directives, and a high‑profile lawsuit by the American Academy of Pediatrics could overturn the new recommendations by year‑end. The administration’s rhetoric appears to be softening ahead of the 2026 midterms, while states push for broader religious‑grounds exemptions. Public confidence remains split, with most Americans still trusting pediatricians despite rising skepticism.
Scoop: Trump Admin Blocks Foreign Access to Anthropic's Most Powerful AI
The Trump administration has placed Anthropic’s flagship AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, under export controls, barring foreign governments, companies and individuals from accessing them. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick issued a letter requiring licenses for any export, re‑export, or domestic transfer...
Trump's Pending Iran Deal Is Bitter Pill for Netanyahu
President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal is imminent, catching Netanyahu off guard. The proposed agreement would end hostilities but falls short of Netanyahu’s goal of regime change in Tehran. Israeli officials publicly back...
How AI Is Making Health Care Even Less Affordable
AI-enabled documentation and revenue‑cycle tools are accelerating health‑care cost growth, with PwC projecting a 9% rise in employer market expenses and 8.5% in the individual market next year. Providers are leveraging AI to capture more complex billing codes, increasing claim...
Kennedy Center Board to Appeal Judge's Order to Remove Trump's Name
The Kennedy Center’s board of trustees voted to appeal a federal judge’s order that mandates the removal of former President Donald Trump’s name from the iconic performing‑arts venue. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled that the board overstepped its statutory...
SpaceX Raises $75 Billion in Its IPO
SpaceX completed an initial public offering that raised $75 billion, selling 555.56 million shares at $135 each. The IPO values the company at roughly $1.77 trillion, placing it among the world’s most valuable firms. Elon Musk did not sell any stock, preserving a...
Why Kharg Island Is Central to Trump's Escalating Iran Threats
President Donald Trump warned on Truth Social that the United States could seize Iran’s Kharg Island, the nation’s primary oil export hub handling about 90% of its crude shipments. The island’s deep‑water port loads roughly 7 million barrels per day, making...
Trump Threatens to Seize Kharg Island as U.S. Strikes Continue
President Donald Trump announced that the United States will launch fresh airstrikes against Iran on Thursday, intensifying a three‑night campaign. In a Truth Social post, he warned that the U.S. will eventually seize Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil‑export terminal, and...
U.S. to Bomb Iran for Second Straight Night: Hegseth
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a second night of airstrikes against Iran, aiming to pressure Tehran into a nuclear‑deal framework. The strikes focused on Iranian radar and air‑defense installations, calibrated to limit casualties while demonstrating resolve. President Trump convened...
Trump Says U.S. Will Bomb Iran Today: "They Keep Playing Us for Suckers"
President Donald Trump announced a second U.S. strike on Iran for Wednesday, following a limited Tuesday attack that hit Iranian radar and air‑defense systems after a U.S. helicopter was shot down near the Strait of Hormuz. Trump accused Tehran of...
Anthropic and OpenAI Spark New Race for Frontier AI Access
Anthropic and OpenAI are rolling out selective‑access programs that let only vetted security teams use their most powerful frontier AI models. Anthropic unveiled Fable 5, a guarded version of its Mythos line, while upgrading Mythos Preview users to the new Mythos 5...
Drone Boat Rescues U.S. Helicopter Crew Shot Down by Iran
A U.S. Apache attack helicopter shot down over the Strait of Hormuz was rescued by the autonomous Corsair drone‑boat, which lifted the two crew members onto a waiting helicopter. The rescue, conducted by Navy Task Force 59, is the first...
Exclusive: Wall Street Embraces Crypto It Once Feared
Wall Street’s traditional banks and brokerages are rapidly adding crypto products, signaling a reversal of the sector’s historic skepticism toward digital assets. Kraken co‑CEO David Ripley predicts that Bitcoin, Ethereum and tokenized equities will become standard offerings for retail, institutional...
The Bull and Bear Cases for SpaceX
SpaceX is set to launch a record‑breaking IPO valued at a minimum of $85 billion, with pricing slated for Thursday and trading beginning Friday. The company posted just under $19 billion in revenue last year, but bullish analysts project it could generate...
Anthropic Says Mythos Can Turn Software Patches Into Exploits in Minutes
Anthropic unveiled that its Mythos Preview AI can transform newly disclosed software vulnerabilities into functional exploits within minutes to hours, a dramatic acceleration from the traditional weeks‑long timeline. In controlled tests, Mythos produced a proof‑of‑concept exploit for a Windows kernel...
With Fed Set to Meet Next Week, December's Rate Cut Now Looks Questionable
In December 2025 the Federal Reserve voted for a third consecutive rate cut despite growing dissent, a decision now viewed as premature. Subsequent data show core PCE inflation accelerating to 4.1% year‑over‑year and overall PCE at 5.5%, while the labor...
Iran Fires Missiles at Israel for First Time Since Ceasefire
Iran launched four missiles at northern Israel on Sunday, marking the first direct Iranian strike since the April 8 cease‑fire. Israeli air defenses intercepted the projectiles, though Iran claimed a third wave was sent. The attack was framed as retaliation...
Scoop: Trump's Iran Envoys Quietly Convene Nuclear Experts in Tennessee
President Trump's senior envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, visited Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to consult with a team of roughly 100 nuclear scientists from the Department of Energy’s national labs. The meeting is part of preparations for a potential memorandum...
There Are Early Signs of Renewed Labor Market Strength During Iran War
A Boston Fed study finds the Iran‑driven oil price surge—about a 33% shock—pushes inflation higher but leaves U.S. employment largely unchanged. The analysis contrasts this with a 1970s‑size shock, which would have raised the PCE price index by 2.2 percentage...
Anthropic Warns AI Could Soon Help Build Its Own Successors
Anthropic warned that AI may soon achieve recursive self‑improvement, enabling models to design, build and train successors without human oversight. The firm cited new data showing frontier models accelerating coding, debugging and research, creating a feedback loop that could amplify...
Trump to Nominate Todd Blanche as Attorney General
President Donald Trump announced he will formally nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to become the permanent head of the Justice Department, with nomination paperwork slated for Thursday. Blanche, Trump’s longtime criminal‑defense lawyer, has steered the president through the 2024...
SpaceX Plans to Raise $75B in Its IPO
SpaceX announced it will seek $75 billion in its upcoming IPO, offering 555.6 million shares at $135 each, which would value the company at roughly $1.77 trillion. The offering would eclipse the current global IPO record of $29.4 billion set by Saudi Aramco. SpaceX’s...
Trump Allies Renew Greenland, Canada Takeover Talk
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio told a House hearing that Greenland remains part of Denmark, while acknowledging President Trump’s renewed calls to annex the Arctic island and label Canada the “51st state.” The White House says it is engaged in high‑level...
New Forecasts Lay Out 2 Rocky Paths for Global Economy
The OECD’s latest outlook splits the global economy into two divergent paths driven by the Iran‑Israel conflict. If the war ends quickly, worldwide growth would modestly slow to about 2.8% this year, while a prolonged fight could push growth down...
AI Ignores Religion when You Need It Most — and Takes Sides when You Ask About Switching
A multi‑university consortium released three studies showing that major AI models largely ignore religion in answers to moral and personal questions, mentioning faith only 5%‑16% of the time despite user expectations of 45%‑59%. The research also uncovered systematic bias: models...
Nvidia's New World Model Helps Robots Navigate the World
Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3, an open‑source world model that lets robots, autonomous vehicles and other physical systems simulate and predict real‑world environments. The model was trained on 20 trillion multimodal tokens, including nearly a billion images, 400 million videos, audio, text and action...
U.S. Push for Lebanon Ceasefire Stalls as Israel Eyes Beirut Strikes
The United States’ latest push for a Lebanon ceasefire, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has stalled as Israel expands its ground invasion and seeks U.S. approval for large‑scale strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut. While the Trump administration...
Jerome Powell Warns that the Fed's Credibility Is at Risk
Jerome Powell, speaking at the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage award ceremony, warned that the Federal Reserve’s credibility is undergoing a "stress test" as political attacks intensify. Although his term as chair ended on May 15, Powell remains on...
Rock-Bottom Immigration Rates Leave Mark on U.S. Economy
President Trump’s immigration crackdown has triggered one of the steepest slowdowns in U.S. population growth in decades, pulling labor‑force expansion to near‑zero levels. Federal Reserve analysis shows the breakeven job‑gain rate has collapsed, while state‑level data reveal that regions with...
Gas Prices Are Dropping — but They're Still High
U.S. regular gasoline slipped to an average of $4.39 per gallon on Friday, a 16‑cent weekly decline as diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran hint at a cease‑fire extension. Despite the dip, prices are still far above the...
U.S., Iran in Fresh Clashes Amid Peace Talks
On Wednesday, Iran’s military launched four one-way attack drones at a commercial ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command reported that U.S. forces shot down all four drones and struck an Iranian ground control station in Bandar Abbas...
What It Would Take to Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing Might
A new McKinsey study estimates the United States would need to invest roughly $2 trillion—about 6% of GDP—to build domestic capacity that can replace imports of strategically critical manufactured goods. The nation currently imports $3 trillion of goods annually, but only a...
AI's Education Explosion Leaves Teachers in the Dark
AI tools are rapidly entering K‑12 classrooms, yet a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation report finds roughly eight‑in‑ten teachers have received no formal guidance on using the technology. While a growing share of students expect AI proficiency for college, most...
Florida Congressional Map Survives First Court Test
A Leon County judge denied a preliminary injunction, leaving Governor Ron DeSantis' new congressional map in place for the 2026 elections. The ruling noted plaintiffs had not shown a substantial likelihood of success and that the map’s use of partisan...
A Tale of Two Consumer Sentiment Gauges
Consumer confidence slipped in early May, with the Conference Board’s index dropping 0.7 points to 93.1, while the University of Michigan’s survey plunged to new historic lows. Both gauges signal that households are feeling the pinch of a war‑driven energy...
Oil Prices Sink on Signs of U.S.-Iran Deal
Oil prices fell about $5 per barrel on Sunday as tentative outlines of a U.S.–Iran deal emerged, easing fears over the Strait of Hormuz blockage. Brent crude slipped to $98.76, a 4.6% drop from Friday, while the conflict continues to...
Spotify Bets on Taste as Differentiator in the AI Era
Spotify announced a four‑year plan to boost profitability by deploying a "large taste model" AI that personalizes music in real time and shifts the platform toward interactive sharing. The strategy includes a new Reserved ticketing service with Live Nation, a...
Trump Says U.S. Will Send 5,000 More Troops to Poland
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States will deploy an additional 5,000 troops to Poland. The move comes just a week after the Pentagon scrapped a planned 4,000‑troop deployment to the same country. Trump said the decision...
Democrats Move to Shut Down Trump's $1.8 Billion "Anti-Weaponization" Fund
House Judiciary Committee Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced legislation to block a $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" created after former President Trump sued the IRS. The fund would compensate individuals claiming politically motivated prosecutions, including Jan. 6 defendants. Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick publicly...
Most Fed Officials See Rate Hikes if Inflation Stays High, Minutes Show
Fed minutes from the April 28‑29 meeting reveal that a majority of officials would consider raising rates if inflation remains persistently above the 2% target. While the policy statement hinted at a possible cut, four voting members dissented, with three...
Kennedy Fires Heads of Task Force that Sets Insurance Coverage Rules
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired co‑chairs John Wong and Esa Davis of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, ending their terms slated through 2027‑2028. The dismissals were framed as an administrative decision and the letters invite the former...
Trump Gives Blasé Response to Rate Hike Possibility
President Donald Trump told reporters he will let incoming Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh act independently, even if the new leader leans toward raising rates. Market pricing now shows roughly a 60% probability of at least one rate hike in...
Battles to Shrink the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet Begin
Incoming Fed chair Kevin Warsh is pushing to reduce the central bank’s multitrillion‑dollar balance sheet, which swelled to a $9 trillion peak in 2022 before falling to $6.7 trillion after three years of runoff. Warsh argues that a smaller balance sheet would...
Jury Rules Against Musk in Landmark AI Trial
A federal jury unanimously ruled that Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, co‑founder Greg Brockman and Microsoft, dismissing his claim for up to $134 billion in damages and Altman's removal. The judge affirmed the verdict...
Scoop: How LIV Golf Plans to Stay Alive
LIV Golf, the Saudi‑backed rival to the PGA Tour, is seeking up to $250 million in new capital after losing full support from the Public Investment Fund. The league, launched in 2022 with an estimated $5 billion from the PIF, plans to...
Farmers Growing Increasingly Desperate Amid Rising Energy and Fertilizer Prices
Midwest farmers are heading into planting season under severe financial strain as the Iran conflict has driven diesel prices up 60% to $5.67 a gallon and fertilizer costs to historic highs. The surge in input costs, combined with lower soybean...
The 3 Big Conflicts in AI Race Against China
The United States remains ahead in the AI model frontier, but China’s DeepSeek V4 Pro is only eight months behind, intensifying a high‑stakes technology race. Washington wrestles with divergent federal and state AI regulations, while industry leaders back Illinois’ SB...
Trump Aims to Defy Gravity with Beijing Friendship Summit
President Trump and Xi Jinping concluded a staged friendship summit in Beijing, highlighted by a private tour of Zhongnanhai and public praise of each other's agendas. Trump claimed China pledged to purchase 200 Boeing jets, commit at least $10 billion in...
AI Writing Hits a Ceiling
New analysis from digital‑marketing firm Graphite shows that AI‑generated news articles, blog posts and listicles have stabilized at roughly half of all new online content for over a year. After a rapid rise to 35.9% within a year of ChatGPT’s...
Axios Interview: Reimagining Government + Business + AI
Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, warned that unpopular AI could trigger political backlash and suggested creating a new public‑private hybrid to manage AI regulation and contracts. He argued that AI firms must share the wealth they generate, likening...