House Oversight Chairman James Comer is requesting former President Joe Biden’s White House physician, Kevin O’Connor, to appear for a transcribed interview as part of an investigation into Biden’s mental fitness and use of a presidential autopen while in office. Comer wrote in a letter to O’Connor on Thursday that the panel is probing “the … Read more
The newly sworn-in head of the Social Security Administration told agency staff this week that when he was first offered the job in the Trump administration, he wasn’t familiar with the position and had to look it up online. Frank Bisignano, a former Wall Street executive, said during a town hall with Social Security managers … Read more
In a major reversal, almost all the 381 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from the school’s libraries have been returned to the bookshelves after a new review using the Pentagon’s standardized search terms for diversity, equity and inclusion titles found about 20 books that need to be removed pending a future review by … Read more
So with just a handful of group games to go, the Indian Premier League cream has risen to the top. With Gujarat Titans, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), and Punjab Kings streaking away, it was down to the Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals game to decide the fourth playoff entrant, and the Indians left us in … Read more
The Trump administration has barred Harvard from allowing international students to enroll at the university, after the school lost its ability to use the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. The SEVP program allows for noncitizens to study at the university under a specific visa. “As a result of your refusal to comply with multiple requests … Read more
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, two staff members at the Israeli Embassy, were killed outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, according to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. The young couple were not diplomats, but instead Lischinsky was a researcher in the political department of the Israeli … Read more
The White House’s Make America Healthy Again Commission offered a range of critiques about chronic disease in America in a report released Thursday, Chiefly, the report blames many chronic illnesses on ultra-processed foods, sedentary behavior and over-reliance on digital devices among children and chemicals in the environment. It also suggests childhood vaccines need to be … Read more
During its inaugural developer conference Thursday, Anthropic launched two new AI models that the startup claims are among the industry’s best, at least in terms of how they score on popular benchmarks. Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, part of Anthropic’s new family of models, Claude 4, can analyze large data sets, execute long-horizon … Read more
A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration from attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that bars the Trump administration from firing half the Department of Education’s workforce. The order from Judge Joun — a Biden appointee — also prohibits the Department … Read more
The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a rare deadlocked 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation’s first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars. Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in the decision, recusing from the case early on, presumably given her ties to the Notre Dame Law School clinic that … Read more
