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The former first son is turning his infamous laptop controversy into a speculative crypto play, with a structure critics are already calling a repeat of the $TRUMP token debacle.

A 40-year-old tax-credit scheme built to house the lowest-income renters instead delivered apartments for the middle class, and a Cato Institute economist says the bureaucracy that runs it is the reason the math no longer works.

Gov. Dan McKee and challenger Helena Foulkes trade accusations of opioid profiteering and corporate buyouts ahead of a Sept. 9 primary, while a bungled bridge project drags years past its promised deadline.

Washington will fund Namibia's HIV program one more year, then shift to technical cooperation, after Windhoek refused to hand over health data and biological specimens.

Even as swing-state manufacturing shed 75,000 jobs since January 2025, the administration's push to shrink the federal workforce and end mandatory collective bargaining marks the sharpest curb on bureaucratic union power in decades.

Strong August jobs data and stubborn inflation have traders betting on a rate increase this month, even as President Trump publicly demands cuts and threatens trade retaliation against countries running a surplus with the U.S.

California's governor toured early primary states hawking 'Gavin 2028' buttons, but even his own allies admit the Golden State's brand — the same one voters associate with runaway taxes and regulation — may be his biggest liability.

Federal labor forecasts show utilities and healthcare surging on AI-driven electricity demand and an aging population, while office bureaucracy shrinks by 752,100 jobs — proof that capital, not mandates, is reallocating the American workforce.

The Trump administration hit Istanbul-based Golden Global Investment Bank for allegedly converting Iranian oil revenue from China into cash and gold, deepening 'Operation Economic Outcast' as energy prices climb ahead of the midterms.

The nonbinding resolution swaps the centuries-old Mercator projection for a new Equal Earth map, but Washington's lone dissent framed the debate as a distraction from the UN's real mandate.

The new Arcade site turns border security and the $1,000-per-child Trump Accounts into pixelated gameplay, but the makers of Tetris say they never signed off on the knockoff.

The president backed Vance's claim that the six-month air campaign against Iran isn't a 'war,' even as Tehran struck U.S. ally Kuwait and the cost to American taxpayers climbed past $37.5 billion.

The unemployment rate held at 4.1% and job postings are set to climb into fall, but LinkedIn and Indeed data show hiring remains more than 20% below pre-pandemic levels and employers are in no hurry to bring workers on board.

The proposed rule would end tax-exempt status for private schools and colleges that give students preferential treatment based on race, a benefit that has saved universities millions of dollars for more than a century.

A new government watchdog report shows the taxpayer-funded agency responsible for presidential protection failed to document why dozens of threats, including drone incursions, did not trigger policy changes ahead of the 2024 attempt on then-candidate Trump's life.

The administration's proposal would deny most federal employees a raise next year, and critics warn it could deepen a retention crunch already visible across agencies.

Ottawa's retaliation for Washington's 50% tariff on Canadian goods lands squarely on toilet paper, paper towels and dairy — reviving 2020-style shortage fears just as midterms approach.

The U.S. Mint began producing the gold-finish coin to mark America's 250th birthday, and collectors can now buy in under a legal provision that lets the Treasury Secretary authorize special issues.

A lopsided vote by the party's own San Francisco chapter exposes a widening rift among Democrats over Proposition 40, a 5% one-time levy on the state's roughly 200 billionaires — six of whom have already left the state ahead of the tax deadline.

The president is right that data centers are propping up growth — Epoch AI and the St. Louis Fed confirm it — but his own party is walking away from the fight, and the tax breaks luring the buildings are draining state treasuries by more than $100 million a year apiece.

A trio of progressive lawmakers wants to hit AI companies with an automatic tax hike tied to the jobless rate, joining a wider Capitol Hill push — including a proposed 50% levy on OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI — that treats innovation as a problem to be taxed rather than a market to be freed.

A San Francisco identity-verification startup finds that fake applicants are quietly bankrolling Kim Jong Un's weapons program while corporate HR departments and Washington's enforcement apparatus struggle to keep pace.

With the trust fund set to run dry a quarter sooner than last year's forecast, nearly three-quarters of advisors say clients are rushing to claim benefits at 62 out of fear Congress will never fix the program.

Facing shrinking student pools, small private colleges are tapping donor-restricted funds meant to last forever — a short-term fix analysts liken to raiding a 401(k), with some schools closing anyway.

Fresh U.S.-Iran strikes in the Gulf sent Brent crude back above $90, even as President Trump announced a Venezuela oil deal he says expands American reserves without spending public money, and Wall Street kept grinding higher on earnings Wall Street itself admits it hasn't fully priced in.

After years of taxpayer-funded tablets and adaptive software, math and reading scores have tanked and a neuroscientist told the Senate that Gen Z now scores lower than the generation before it. States and one of the nation's largest school districts are pulling back.

Official data show the labor market tight enough for the Fed to pivot fully to fighting inflation, even as a shrinking labor supply — driven by immigration enforcement and retiring Boomers — keeps the headline number low. A competing measure from the Ludwig Institute claims nearly a quarter of the workforce is 'functionally unemployed.'

A star-studded benefit backed by Melinda French Gates funneled $10 million in festival proceeds and another $10 million from her Pivotal Ventures fund into Planned Parenthood and nine other nonprofits, reviving the Lilith Fair model of celebrity-driven activism.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised an 'economic onslaught' on Iran, but Beijing pushed back, Emirati banks stayed open, and the week's sanctions fell short of his own hype.

In a primary billed as generational change, Sen. Ed Markey's fumbled answer on AI use has become a proxy fight over career incumbency, regulation and who understands the economy 47-year-old Rep. Seth Moulton says voters actually live in.

The bureau will no longer reject every applicant with a history of paying for sex, citing recruitment needs after a wave of retirements, resignations and firings. A retired agent calls the shift a sign the applicant pool has gone 'extremely shallow.'

Record-low reservoirs and a new federal rationing plan are forcing states, farmers and tribes to plan around a bureaucracy that admits it cannot say how deep the cuts will go.

Albuquerque and Portland are turning traffic lights into an incentive system, granting an earlier green to law-abiding drivers instead of leaning on more fines and cameras. City officials say the behavioral fix is doing what punishment alone could not.

Even the Green New Deal's own sponsor is softening his pitch as Democratic strategists and activist groups quietly shift away from climate messaging toward affordability and opposition to President Trump.

Long Beach struck a deal tied to the Trump administration to explore floating small modular reactors for America's busiest port complex, sidestepping a 50-year-old state ban on new nuclear plants.

A sports nurse practitioner who prescribed 260,000 opioid pills to NFL, NBA and Olympic clients lost her license to prescribe controlled substances — but federal prosecutors never brought a criminal charge.

The Trump administration is reviving a legal tool last used in 1898 to fast-track the capture of Iranian oil vessels — and route the proceeds straight into U.S. coffers instead of years of civil litigation.

Tempe and Cave Creek killed their Flock contracts within three hours of each other, and Senate Republican Josh Hawley followed with a formal investigation — a rare bipartisan check on a surveillance system built without congressional authorization.

With inflation and an unpopular Iran war weighing on the president's numbers, a small cluster of Republicans are swapping Trump branding for 'lower the cost of living' messaging — even as the party insists the storyline is manufactured.

Washington's entitlement math is catching up with the taxpayer: Social Security and Medicare already drive nearly half of new mandatory spending, and the retirement trust fund is set to run dry in six years.

A one-time 5% levy on the state's roughly 200 billionaires has triggered a record capital counteroffensive, with Sergey Brin alone writing a nine-figure check to stop it before Election Day.

With antisemitism controversies, withheld endorsements and a divisive streamer ally dominating headlines, Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee is struggling to unite his own party ahead of November.

Outgoing senators Cassidy and Durbin are pushing a procedural framework to save the program, while competing proposals range from a $1.5 trillion debt-funded investment fund to lifting the payroll-tax cap on higher earners.

Documents obtained by the AP and The Guardian show Kennedy wrote to Samoa's prime minister explicitly proposing a study of MMR vaccines before his 2019 visit — directly contradicting sworn-adjacent testimony during his confirmation hearings.

The New Jersey power broker's donation to Cooper University Health Care anchors a $3 billion expansion and puts the Norcross name on the institution where he and his brothers were born.

Attorney General Torrez secured a $942 million jury verdict against Meta at home — and says the 51-state settlement leaves out the strongest child-safety rules New Mexico already locked in.

A Tourism Economics analysis confirms the region beat its own $3.3B forecast, yet public officials have still not published a single reconciled cost figure — and some state legislators say New Jersey alone topped $300M.

Exponential Scholars funded more than 3,200 classroom projects across 1,000-plus schools — proof that private philanthropy moves faster and smarter than any government program.

New research from SmartAsset puts a hard number on the 'tradwife' trend gaining traction among Gen Z — and in most of the country, the math works below six figures.

Lawmakers from California to Pennsylvania are reviving handwriting requirements in public schools, citing historical literacy, family heritage, and a surprisingly practical defense against AI-generated schoolwork.

The Bridge program caps monthly costs at $50 for weight-loss-only patients, but enrollees with FDA-approved GLP-1 indications — sleep apnea, Type 2 diabetes — are routed back to Part D plans that can charge hundreds more. The fine print is doing real damage.

A new book by two political scientists finds that working-class candidates are as qualified and as likely to win as white-collar rivals — they just rarely run, because campaigning costs time and money most workers cannot spare.

KFF data show effectuated enrollment in the Sunshine State fell from 4.3 million to 3.85 million in early 2026 — the largest raw headcount loss of any state in the nation.

A live oak that stood at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781 is being slowly strangled by the steel cables meant to save it — and a coalition of preservationists is now spending real money to reverse the damage.

The Trump administration's rulemaking would add a six-figure surcharge to every H-1B petition — and the department's own analysis flags 11,051 small firms facing 'significant economic impact.'

California's governor is pushing a last-minute liability overhaul that caps what utilities pay fire victims and shifts more costs onto property insurers — and ultimately onto policyholders.

Total back-to-school spending is projected to hit a record $103.5 billion this year, with $14 billion earmarked for dorm furnishings alone — a snapshot of how families are allocating capital in an era of six-figure tuition.

With 119 reduced-credit programs now publicly announced across 26 states, market-driven colleges are cutting tuition costs and time-to-degree. The faculty lobby calls it 'cutting corners'; students call it survival.

The billionaire entrepreneur says founders who won't share company stock with staff should face higher corporate taxes — a plan that raises real questions about who ultimately foots the bill.

One in ten jobs created this year has been a temporary position, and the staffing sector has posted gains every single month — a structural shift, not a blip.

Trump's outside adviser and the House Democratic leader discussed housing, immigration and cost of living — a signal the White House is already thinking about how to govern if Republicans lose their slim House majority.

The Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita has cared for 40 animals across five species for 50 years, driven entirely by individual initiative and private dedication — no government program required.

The Hawk Fire ignited Saturday in the Sierra foothills outside Reno and remained uncontained Sunday, with the 'GO NOW' evacuation zone reaching the edge of the University of Nevada campus. Gov. Lombardo declared a state of emergency and mobilized the National Guard.

The president's lawyers call the BBC's push for family testimony and documents a 'politically-driven' fishing expedition; U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Kuntz did not immediately rule on the dispute.

The Kansas Republican served three terms, won re-election with 76 percent of the vote, and co-authored a landmark health-insurance law — all while insisting she'd rather be doing needlepoint.

Abdul El-Sayed beat Rep. Haley Stevens by roughly 15,000 votes despite being outspent nearly nine to one, but the general election against Republican Mike Rogers — with President Trump's backing and Senate control on the line — is a different contest entirely.

Jeffrey Huber survived Hurricane Andrew as a child; today he designs flood-ready buildings and parks that prove private ingenuity — not federal mandates — is the real answer to coastal risk.

A peer-reviewed paper set for the Journal of Financial Economics documents how legal online sports betting is draining household portfolios, cratering credit scores, and fueling addiction — at a cost the stock market cannot recover for you.

The Amazon founder says a nurse making $75,000 a year should keep the $12,000-plus she sends to Washington. The numbers, he argues, already back him up.

The ByteDance-owned platform will hand over $300 million immediately and another $100 million later — a reckoning for years of alleged COPPA violations targeting kids under 13.

A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager stole and sold human remains — including brains, skin, hands and faces — and the university's settlement will now cost it $53 million pending court approval.

The Texas real estate tycoon and GOP megadonor quietly supplied at least one sculpture as the White House fills its redesigned outdoor space with bronze tributes to America's founders.

Federal data show enrollment in the food-stamp program fell from 42.2 million to 36.6 million between May 2025 and May 2026, reaching levels the CBO had not projected until 2030.

The Amazon founder owns three properties on Miami's 'Billionaire Bunker' island but remains outside the membership rolls of Indian Creek Country Club, six months after attending its annual dock party as a guest.

Two-thirds of one Colorado marmot population died last winter as snowpack hit record lows; now the researchers tracking them have lost a third of their graduate students to federal funding cuts and are turning to public donations to keep a six-decade dataset alive.

The White House will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign ground beef into the U.S. tariff-free for 90 days; cattle producers and Republican senators warn the move undercuts American producers and delays the real fix.

The billionaire philanthropist distributed unrestricted grants to 16 institutions over four years, letting recipients spend every dollar as they saw fit — a model that has already produced at least one spending scandal.

A confidential 2023 document revealed TikTok deliberately switched off an algorithmic safeguard for 10% of U.S. users — including a 16-year-old who died by suicide — to measure the feature's impact on engagement metrics.

The official leading Trump's return-to-office mandate for 2 million federal workers admits he staged a blank-wall backdrop to hide that he was working from home. His office says he was on a day off.

A Fort Stewart battalion is dangling a four-day pass timed to the November 19 Grand Theft Auto VI launch as a reenlistment incentive — and the market for young male attention is clearly bigger than Washington admits.