nfuqc 
Work-Bench, whose portfolio includes unicorns Spring Health and Socure, just raised a $160 million Fund IV to quadruple down on backing companies in New York City. The firm announced the raise in a blog post on Monday, saying the latest fund will support seed-stage founders building enterprise software. Checks will range from $2 million to … Read more
President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed he wouldn’t allow Medicaid to be cut, but House Republicans’ bill to fund his agenda aims to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the program that provides health care for poor, elderly and disabled Americans. For several months, Trump has promised not to touch the program, though on … Read more
The Democratic National Committee’s Credentials subcommittee has recommended that the party should once again hold vice-chair elections over complaints that there were issues with how the balloting was conducted — a move that places its vice chairs David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta in jeopardy of losing their positions. The recommendation, made after the committee’s vote … Read more
President Donald Trump spent the bulk of what was billed as a “major foreign policy address” to outline his vision for the Middle East instead touting his domestic policies and heaping praise on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman while speaking at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Tuesday. Four years after the U.S. intelligence community … Read more
Newly-appointed England Women captain Nat Sciver-Brunt is ready to quash the fitness criticisms that plagued England’s disastrous defeat in The Ashes and look forward as she balances her new role alongside motherhood. Sciver-Brunt’s appointment as skipper at the end of April came on the back of changes following the whitewash 16-0 loss to Australia, Charlotte … Read more
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared photos of himself submerged in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek with his grandchildren, despite longstanding warnings that high bacterial levels make the Potomac River tributary unsafe. “Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat … Read more
A 16-year-old innocent bystander was shot and killed by a 14-year-old after a fight broke out between a group of teenagers near a school building in New York City, officials said. “Our city has suffered another senseless tragedy tonight,” NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a press conference. At approximately 5:05 p.m. on Monday, … Read more
After male escort Daniel Phillip told the jury Monday that he saw “Sean Combs hit Cassie,” a defense attorney today questioned whether he embellished the account to make Combs seem more callous. Phillip testified that after a sexual encounter at Ventura’s residence, Combs threw a bottle toward her and “grabbed her by her hair and … Read more
Meeting transcription space is a hot commodity for all productivity suites. Companies like ClickUp and Zoom have added transcription with an AI summary to take on another upstart in this vertical, including Read AI, Zoom’s assistant, Circleback, Granola, or Otter. The latest entrant in the race to build meeting transcription tools is Notion. The company is rolling out an … Read more
As the Trump administration pushes its “America First” agenda, cutting foreign aid agencies and challenging longtime allies, President Donald Trump has tapped a roster of ambassadors with more personal and financial ties than any recent president, former diplomats and foreign policy experts told ABC News. Trump has, in just over 100 days in office, selected … Read more
