Nvidia is launching a new alliance focused on building and sharing open-source AI tools to boost cybersecurity defenses, as the push for open-source technologies ramps up in the U.S. Nvidia announced on Monday that the Open Secure AI Alliance will use open-source tools to
President Trump is visiting Michigan on Monday in a push to highlight manufacturing and auto industry jobs ahead of the midterm elections. Trump is expected to focus on the economy during a speech at General Motors‘s Milford Proving Ground facility in Milford, Mich., where the
With the right laws and incentives, data centers can transform from an extractive burden to an engine that builds communities and the clean energy economy. There’s a wrong way to power data centers, but you can push your state to do it right.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said a person who recently visited Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) while he has been in a rehabilitation center described the former leader as "clear-minded." Capito told independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy in a video posted Saturday that
The Trump administration is trying to get medical records from emergency room visits through the Consumer Product Safety Commission. KFF Health News reports that the small federal agency responsible for protecting Americans from faulty household appliances is now demanding that
The eggs were only distributed in a handful of states, while the salmonella cases have been reported in more than a dozen.
The Pentagon has once again changed the Iran war casualty number, adding 142 new wounded soldiers to its count over the weekend—bringing the total to 624 wounded service members and 18 deaths. The way the Pentagon is reporting the numbers is tricky, splitting the casualty tolls
Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, blamed the Biden administration Sunday for depleting the country’s weapons stockpile—but then denied reporting that the country’s weapons stockpile was depleted. Appearing on NBC News’s Meet the Press , Waltz was asked to
Odysseus ultimately discovers that getting home requires more than defeating enemies.
The Republican Party no longer sees Donald Trump as its golden goose. With midterms around the corner, the president’s allies are reportedly urging Republican candidates to break from Trump’s rhetoric on the Iran war in order to save their election odds. “The understanding is
The holidays are more than four months away, but the White House is already putting out a Christmastime call for volunteers. Melania Trump kicked off the opening of the volunteer and performer application submission period for this year's holiday season at the White House on
Nearly half of Americans can’t explain the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Trump signed into law last summer, according to a new poll from Politico. In the Politico poll, 49 percent of respondents said that they either “have not heard of” the legislation or “have
Oil prices were down nearly 10 percent on Monday after a break in fighting between the U.S. and Iran over the weekend. Futures of global benchmark Brent Crude were trading at less than $91 per barrel, after reaching more than $100 per barrel on Friday. Similarly, U.S. benchmark
Houthi attacks on Saudi oil depots along the Red Sea on Sunday led to a drop in ship traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to the analytics platform Kpler on Monday. The strait saw 11 cargo vessels move through the strait, the lowest number of ships to pass
Any lawyer still in a second meeting on this question should be researching something more productive, like a new job.
Today, I’m talking with Evan Smith, who is cofounder and CEO of Altana, a company that develops software tools to manage big, messy supply chain networks around the world. We last had Evan on in early 2025 to talk about how Trump’s first few waves of tariffs were starting to
President Trump on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to keep the upper chamber in session until it passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act or eliminates the filibuster. “John Thune should not allow the United States Senate
The president also again urged the Senate GOP leader to nix the filibuster.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth in Kazakhstan following an eight-month mission aboard the international space station, where he conducted scientific research and performed spacewalks.
Streamer Hasan Piker challenged Fox News host Sean Hannity to have him on for a debate. “It’s true. Facts. Here, post this clip too, Sean. Why won’t Sean Hannity have me on to discuss this stuff? He said he was supposed to, and instead he chose not to have me on and talk about
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters on Sunday that Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin “has my full support” after multiple news outlets detailed an increasingly stressed national party chair struggling with morale. “The chairman has
President Trump spent his entire Sunday on a bender, posting nonstop AI images to his Truth Social page for more than six hours. It started at 11:16 a.m. with an AI image of CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins as transgender model Dylan Mulvaney holding cans of Bud Light, and
The U.S. pulled back on its daily strikes on Iran over the weekend to both give more time for negotiations and conserve munitions. President Trump is "giving it a little bit of room,” Mike Waltz, United Nations ambassador, said Sunday. Reports also bubbled up over the weekend
In January, President Trump told the media that his deadly extrajudicial strikes on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean had maritime drug flow “ down 97 percent .” New reporting from The Washington Post shows that was a lie. After over 60 strikes, more than 200 people are
A look at the record suggests that the governor has been anything but soft on crime.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Sunday said that passing the latest iteration of a reconciliation bill through the Senate is "a very small needle to thread." "America's expecting us to govern and we're going to have to recognize Democrats will not help us do it, and we're going to
Join Senate reporter Alexander Bolton and The Hill's editors for a Q&A and live discussion as tensions rise between the GOP Senate and President Trump over the SAVE America Act and other issues. If you want to ask the editors a question or comment, put in your first and last
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is “fomenting hate” after the mayor accused the prime minister of being a war criminal. “Look at what he's doing. He's fomenting hate. He's supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers, Jews,
To win the presidency, Democrats cannot allow Republicans to fuse “Democrat” and “socialist” in voters’ minds.
Senate conservatives led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) are calling on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to cancel the August recess so that they can debate the SAVE America Act, a sweeping election reform bill that President Trump has made his No. 1 legislative priority.
Self-help author Marianne Williamson didn’t exactly impress a lot of people as having the sharpest political mind during her brief foray into electoral politics. But here’s one thing she got a thousand percent right—though maybe not the way she intended. In early 2025—and yes,
Iran said Monday that it controls the Strait of Hormuz after a pause in strikes in the war over the weekend. Reuters noted that multiple state media outlets in Iran, citing an unidentified source, reported that Tehran had forced back six ships trying to go through the strait on
Those who most covet the job of attorney general may not be worthy to have it. The best candidates are willing to resign from the department in its defense.
The Senate has a lengthy to-do list and a handful of days in town until the chamber leaves Washington through mid-September.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. With the midterms fast
Academia is facing a reckoning. Can it self-correct?
They're often cheaper and easier to get than Ozempic, but doctors say compounded GLP-1 drugs come with serious risks.
Trump is heading to Michigan to make his case on jobs, manufacturing and the economy just days before primary voting.
The White House has said Trump won't intervene to help the Tate brothers avoid extradition.
In today’s issue: The war with Iran took a pause over the weekend as top U.S. officials raise concerns about dwindling munitions stockpiles. The U.S. and Iranian militaries broke a streak of 13 consecutive days of tit-for-tat strikes Saturday, after President Trump threatened
When it comes to allegations of voter fraud, there are no goalposts — there are only moving targets. Just look at CNN, where allegations of large-scale voter fraud are dismissed routinely as baseless conspiracy theories. Yet when confronted with legitimate examples of voter
“Zero died because of DOGE. Zero. Point. Zero.” That remarkable claim is from Elon Musk’s interview last week with The Economist, in which he reiterated one of his favorite new claims: His Department of Government Efficiency’s huge cuts to international humanitarian aid did not
No primary—especially a Senate primary—should go on this long. But Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, having dragged on for months, has turned into an interminably vicious grudge fest —one that’s not likely to subside until voters finally go to the polls on August 4 and
Republican senators say that confidence is waning in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership of the U.S. armed forces as the war with Iran drags on without an end in sight. They are also warning that the success of a possible “massive attack” against Iran could be critical
President Trump ran on a pledge to bring down energy costs, but a year and a half into his second term, prices of both gasoline and electricity are rising. While he was on the campaign trail, Trump promised to cut power prices by 50 percent. “Under my leadership, the United
For over a half century, David Harvey has been a central figure in Marxist debates around the future of capitalism. He is not a firebrand with a septum piercing, nor is he a holdover European radical in the mold of the political parties Podemos or La France Insoumise, for whom
Key Senate Democrats are balking at the latest version of a cryptocurrency regulation bill over a White House-approved ethics provision that they argue falls short, complicating the bill's chances of passing in the narrow window before lawmakers leave town next month. Sen.
Lawmakers appear to have stalled out on a months-long effort to pass legislation imposing new rules on the booming business of sports gambling and prediction markets, despite bipartisan agreement the industries have gone underscrutinized by the federal government for too
Donald Trump has hit a trifecta, throwing away the traditional GOP edge on the economy, immigration, and national security. The latest polls show Democrats are leading Republicans on the economy by a comfortable nine points, have hit near-parity with the GOP on immigration ,
“There is real urgency,” said Rep. Lori Trahan.
