RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Could Make Billions If Trump’s Budget Proposal Is Approved
Elon Musk and SpaceX are big winners in Donald J. Trump’s 2026 spending plan. President Trump is delivering on Mr. Musk’s wish list at both NASA and the Pentagon to…
Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech companies vie to attract young users with…
Justice Dept. Lawyers Say US Wants to Break Up Google’s Ad Technology
The Justice Department laid out its road map on Friday to break up Google’s advertising technology empire, which would be the second request to force the sale of pieces of…
Two Scientific Groups Say They’ll Keep Working on U.S. Climate Assessment
The Trump administration last week dismissed the nearly 400 authors of the nation’s flagship climate report, saying in an email that the scope of the report was being reviewed. The…
Live Updates: Trump Proposes Slashing Domestic Spending to the Lowest Level of the Modern Era
May 2, 2025, 12:22 p.m. ET The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.Credit…Hailey Sadler for The New York Times Two of President Trump’s favorite targets — the National Institutes…
U.S. and China Dig In on Trade War, With No Plans for Formal Talks
As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether they…
In Texas Borderland, Trump’s Immigration Push Suffers Its Worst Legal Defeat Yet
Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a bespectacled, soft-spoken 56-year-old nominated by President Trump, turned his high-backed leather chair toward a government lawyer at the federal courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, and asked…
TikTok Fined $600 Million for Sending European User Data to China
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday for violating a European Union data privacy law after regulators found the company had improperly transferred users’ personal data to…
The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat
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