Ben Carson, the surgeon turned politician who has improbably been tapped by US president-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, faced lawmakers today (Jan. 12) at his confirmation hearing.
President-elect Donald Trump has articulated a simple plan to help create jobs in the US: Use tariffs to punish foreign governments who adopt unfair trading practices like currency manipulation, and to force US firms to import less.
Many space startups are vying to take the place of the world’s governments as the pre-eminent operators of imaging satellites, but this one has a unique scheme to take advantage of orbital radar.
Jay Clayton, a prolific Wall Street attorney, has been tapped by US president-elect Donald Trump to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is charged with protecting investors from fraud.
Even with the Republican party backing off a threat to neuter the House Office of Congressional Ethics, it’s instructive to remember why the office exists in the first place.
Four months after an explosion tore through its signature Falcon 9 rocket during fueling, destroying the rocket and its multimillion-dollar cargo in just 93 milliseconds, SpaceX says it has isolated what went wrong and is ready to fly again.
An attention-grabbing tweet storm from the US government’s ethics watchdog about Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest turns out to have been written by its director—but even Twitter employees feared that the account had been hacked.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet shared this video of the entire human population in orbit doing the “mannequin challenge,” which likely qualifies as the most expensive on record. Even the Russians participated. But, it’s still not as good as Black Chyna’s rendition.
Democrats are planning their first major gesture of opposition to Donald Trump’s presidency, and Bernie Sanders is leading the charge.
Arkansas senator Tom Cotton argues this morning on the opinion pages of the New York Times that Donald Trump’s election as US president is a mandate to “fix immigration.” To Cotton, that means reduce the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country, increasing the proportion that are highly educated, and rooting out undocumented workers, as a means for shrinking the labor supply and boosting American wages.
Homelessness in the US has dropped 15% since 2007, with 97,000 fewer Americans living on the streets or in shelters, according to a year-end report (pdf) from the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
It’s been a year of smash-and-grabs, get-aways, infiltrations, intrusions, master schemes, and mad dashes. The heist economy was alive and well in 2016, and our dedicated caper correspondents have kept tabs on the most ambitious acts of larceny and loose morals in the global economy. To wit, here’s your year in heists and capers:
Arabic is one of the fastest growing languages on the internet, and it’s generating skyrocketing demand for Arabic content and applications. That need is creating opportunities for tech businesses from Cairo to Amman—and even on the Gaza Strip.
In December 1958, the Cold War got a spark of warmth when the US broadcast a holiday message of peace and goodwill around the world—from an orbiting nuclear missile.
If the campaign taught us anything, it’s that Donald Trump loves ugly language. However, it’s the two words used to describe his latest White House appointment—words that used to get your mouth washed out with soap by the Washington establishment—that show how much things are changing: “Industrial policy.”
When America’s credit hung in the balance, representative Mick Mulvaney headed to the congressional chapel to pray.
Peter Thiel is hard at work on Donald Trump’s transition to the presidency—vetting nominees, corralling Silicon Valley honchos, and, now, making sure there is room for private enterprise at the world’s premiere space agency.
Masayoshi Son, the Japanese telecom tycoon who owns Sprint and unveiled a $100 billion tech investment fund earlier this year, said he will put $1 billion behind an ambitious plan to launch hundreds of satellites that would provide faster, cheaper internet connections.
There are men and women alive today who have never felt the cold touch of the bond vigilantes.
The Department of Energy is in turmoil as US president-elect Donald Trump’s team moves in to take over.
After a conversation with a bevy of tech leaders today, US president-elect Donald Trump will pull aside two of the country’s most admired corporate titans, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, for a separate meeting, a spokesman for the presidential transition said.
Silicon Valley’s boldfaced names are heading east to pay their respects to the president-elect at Trump Tower.
Real estate barons are used to turning to Wall Street to finance their grandiose ambitions, and Donald Trump is no exception.
American homeowners who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments will get a small break from the government this holiday season: They won’t be evicted until after the new year.
