Month: May 2025
May 22, 2025
Politics
Massive Stargate UAE project to launch in 2026 with partners Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle
The 10-square-mile site in Abu Dhabi will eventually host 5 gigawatts worth of data centers. The 10-square-mile site in Abu Dhabi will eventually host 5 gigawatts worth of data...
May 22, 2025
Politics
Divided Supreme Court rejects publicly funded religious charter school
An evenly divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states cannot provide funding to religious charter schools, turning away from a potential decision that would have fundamentally changed K-12 education....
May 22, 2025
Politics
Melania Trump uses AI to narrate her memoir in her ‘own voice’: ‘New era’
First lady Melania Trump instead turned to AI to synthesize her voice for an audiobook of her personal memoir in what she is heralding as "a new era in...
May 22, 2025
Congress
Why Warren Davidson voted against the House GOP megabill
Two Republicans cast votes in opposition to the House GOP megabill Thursday morning. One — Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky — was expected, given his long history of criticism...
May 22, 2025
Congress
‘I don’t work for you’: Jeffries’ broadside against GOP megabill included testy exchange
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sketched out Democrats' attacks on the Republican megabill before it passed early Thursday morning — and engaged in a brief testy exchange after he...
May 22, 2025
Congress
Two House Republicans missed the big vote
It was the biggest vote of the 119th Congress so far — and they missed it. GOP Reps. Andrew Garbarino of New York and David Schweikert of Arizona were...
May 22, 2025
Congress
The GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is one step closer to House passage
House Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” is one step closer to passage after clearing a key procedural hurdle that sets up a floor vote later Thursday morning. Republicans stayed overwhelmingly...
May 22, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Big changes for the ‘big, beautiful bill’
Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” appears on a glidepath to passing the House Thursday morning after GOP leaders rolled out a slew of eleventh-hour changes to appease holdouts from across...
May 22, 2025
Politics
Trump condemns deadly shooting of 2 Israeli embassy staffers near DC’s Capital Jewish Museum
The president, who was at the White House on Wednesday for an Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, said the killings were done out of hate...
May 22, 2025
Congress
Inside the last-minute changes to the GOP megabill
Shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday, House Republican leaders unveiled the finishing touches to their “big, beautiful bill” — a 42-page “manager’s amendment” calibrated to win over the final votes...