The 2026 class of American Rhodes scholars includes 5 students at U.S. military academies
The group includes students focused on housing, health outcomes, sustainability and prison reentry programs. They include:Alice L. Hall of Philadelphia, a varsity basketball player at MIT who also serves as…
The Coast Guard has seized a record amount of cocaine — while Trump says interdiction has failed and is blowing up suspected drug boats
“We’ve been doing that for 30 years,” he said last month, “and it’s been totally ineffective.”Trump’s comments came around the same time that the U.S. Coast Guard announced it had…
More groceries may benefit from tariff exemptions as the 2026 midterm elections get closer, analyst says
The tariffs that President Donald Trump rolled back this past week will barely move the needle on consumer inflation, but his retreat potentially signals a major shift, according to a…
Now that she’s retired from the Fed, the government says former Gov. Adriana Kugler violated ethics rules by trading stocks
A former Federal Reserve governor who retired in August listed several stock trades in her financial disclosure documents for 2024 that violated the central bank’s ethics rules.The transactions are outlined…
China has only bought 332,000 tons of U.S. soybeans since Trump made a deal with Xi Jinping that promised 12 million by year’s end
New data the Agriculture Department released Friday created serious doubts about whether China will really buy millions of bushels of American soybeans like the Trump administration touted last month after…
The sound of whistles: Chicago neighborhood leads the way in ICE resistance
Wearing an orange whistle around his neck, the activist broadcasts his plans on Facebook.“We don’t know if they’re going to come back. All we know is we’ve got to get…
Ford’s first new headquarters in 70 years will have a showroom like a ‘James Bond villain’s lair,’ design chief says
The new HQ has seven restaurants as part of a 160,000-square-foot (14,864 square-meter) food hall, office space, design studios and fabrication shops.And, of course, cars.The “crown jewel” of Ford’s headquarters,…
Some consumers are paying to power data centers that don’t exist yet while states ask if demand forecasts are real — ‘Nobody really knows’
But the challenges — some say the impossibility — of building new power plants to meet that demand so quickly has set off alarm bells for lawmakers, policymakers and regulators…
Republican who’s been trying to get his party to release Epstein files predicts ‘deluge’ of votes from his party this week
The bill would force the Justice Department to release all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as any information about the investigation into his death in federal prison.…
A key negotiation for Trump, MBS during Saudi visit to Washington: future Palestinian statehood
“I hope that Saudi Arabia will be going into the Abraham Accords very shortly,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday as he made his way to Florida…
