Tiffany Trump, the president’s fourth child, attended the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival in the South of France with her boyfriend over the weekend. That means US taxpayers are now on the hook for at least $20,000 in hotel bills.
Presidential staffers have long complained about the current White House being a deeply unpleasant place to work. It has been called a “snake pit” by commentators, and former chief of staff John Kelly reportedly said working for Donald Trump was the “worst fucking job I’ve ever had.” Apparently recognizing the importance of employee morale after more than two years into Trump’s first term, the administration is seeking outside help to improve things.
The US Army will destroy stockpiles of mustard gas and nerve agents this summer as part of its commitment to a 1997 treaty banning the production and use of chemical weapons. The undertaking will require specialized personnel—toxic-materials handlers, chemical-accountability managers, surety specialists, ammunition surveillance/quality assurance specialists, and a coterie of supervisors.
Russian Army troops have begun taking delivery of advanced “silent” mortars, stealthy light artillery used by special commando units, Russia’s TASS news agency recently reported.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in recent years, it’s that humans aren’t great at predicting the consequences of technology. After all, social media platforms, which began as a way for friends to connect online, are today being used to radicalize terrorists and potentially swing presidential elections.
Slack, the workplace messaging tool originally designed for media and tech industry offices, has become so ubiquitous in the US that it’s being adopted by dairy farms and luxury restaurants.
The global competition to develop fully autonomous weapons systems guided by artificial intelligence risks developing into a full-blown arms race, according to a new report from a Dutch peace group.
Donald Trump has regularly boasted his hotels and resorts are the world’s finest. In Florida, pool inspection reports tell a different story.
Donald Trump’s canceled trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January still left US taxpayers on the hook for at least $3.2 million in car rentals and unused hotel rooms, according to an analysis of federal spending data by Quartz.
In the three months following US president Donald Trump’s announcement last October that America would suspend its participation in the decades-old Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, his administration has signed roughly $1 billion in new ballistic missile contracts.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s March 27 letter to US attorney general William Barr criticizing how he had characterized Mueller’s findings in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election was made public this morning.
Attorney general William Barr will appear this morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election and suspected ties to the Trump campaign.
The US Marshals Service has work for those with the training and experience to join agents cracking down on dogfighting rings.
A beluga whale spotted by a fisherman in Norway over the weekend could have been trained by the Russian navy, a marine biologist says.
Russia’s new Tu-214ON aircraft has been flying its first-ever reconnaissance missions over large swaths of the US as part of the Open Skies Treaty, a Cold War-era agreement that allows short-notice, unarmed observation flights to monitor military operations and verify arms-control agreements.
With the entry of Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential race, there are now 20 declared Democratic candidates.
Popcorn has long been a movie theater staple, but now the tasty treat is the star of its own dramatic spectacle—a legal thriller.
Donald Trump’s February 15 emergency declaration to siphon about $6.5 billion from military, drug enforcement, and other budgets so he can build his long-promised wall along the Mexican border is still stuck in the courts. But that isn’t stopping the Army Corps of Engineers, which handles most of the contracting duties for border wall construction, from getting ready to spend it anyway. In a pre-solicitation notice issued April 19, the Army Corps says it is seeking companies who want to pre-qualify to bid on “horizontal construction projects in support of the Border Infrastructure Program along the US-Mexico border” with a total value of up to $8 billion.
A new system being tested to screen passengers at US airports appears to be exposing more than it should.
The Republican National Committee, pro-Trump super PACs, and Republican political candidates spent almost $100,000 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC during the first quarter of 2019, according to Quartz’s review of new Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings.
Donald Trump has a dubious relationship with the truth, judging by special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report on alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russian agents working to swing the 2016 election. The US president lashed out at White House counsel Don McGahn because he wouldn’t mislead the public to bolster a lie that Trump had previously told, according to the findings.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election was released today by attorney general William Barr.
US attorney general William Barr will address reporters at 9:30am ET today ahead of his release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Although marijuana is illegal under federal law, cannabis businesses in the United States still pay federal taxes on gross income. They are not allowed any deductions or credits for business expenses, by law, which can mean an effective federal tax rate as high as 90%.
