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A small San Francisco Bay-area community of about 9,000 residents has stepped up big — according to its town council — by passing “the strictest and most comprehensive tobacco and nicotine sales ban in the country.”

President Donald Trump will create more jobs, companies will have to compete for workers, and wages will go up, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told a Breitbart News event on Friday.

Brexit boss Nigel Farage is now the most trusted politician to handle the British economy, which has continued to falter under the leftist government of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

The Trump administration is “trying to find ways” for SNAP benefits to be allocated, Tom Emmer said on Breitbart News Saturday.

Experts have discovered weaknesses in hundreds of benchmarks used to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of AI models being released into the world, according to a recent study.

Perplexity AI, the company behind the AI-powered browser Comet, has accused Amazon of “bullying” after receiving a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Perplexity prevent users from utilizing Comet to make purchases on the e-commerce platform.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted members of the White House press pool on Friday, saying that they refuse to cover President Donald Trump’s progress and efforts to make goods more affordable for Americans. 

President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will discuss trade, the Russia-Ukraine war, and energy prices during their bilateral meeting on Friday. 

More than 1,000 flights were canceled and thousands more delayed Friday as part of a reduction of air travel capacity brought on by the ongoing government shutdown.

Flight numbers will continue to be reduced, and the only way to fix it is Democrats opening the “damn government,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during a discussion with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the popular online gaming platform Roblox, accusing the company of prioritizing profits over the safety of its young users.

Families in the U.S. and Canada are suing Sam Altman’s OpenAI, claiming that loved ones have been harmed by interactions they had with the AI giant’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT. Multiple cases involve tragic suicides, with the AI telling one troubled young man, “you’re not rushing. you’re just ready. and we’re not gonna let it go out dull.”

David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, has affirmed that there will be no federal bailout for AI companies. His comments come after OpenAI’s CFO set off a firestorm of debate by calling for federal “backstops” on loans to build AI data centers. The executive then walked back her comments, but Sacks definitely ruled out the idea.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is privately assuring people he has no intention of running for president in 2028 if Vice President JD Vance chooses to run.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is helping the trucking sector recover from the damaging flood of illegal migrant drivers invited by President Joe Biden’s policies.

Senate Democrats are reportedly set on continuing to drag out the government shutdown with another “no” vote on Friday, with members claiming that “people want us to fight” and that the caucus is “unified” in how they are going to do so.

The white collar workers in Brooklyn who elected Zohran Mamdani are experiencing the economic displacement felt by blue collar workers in the Rust Belt three decades ago. They are the natural next chapter of the Make America Great Again coalition.

Music and multimedia mogul 50 Cent is coming out once again against newly-elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the socialist’s plans to tax the rich to fund his vast government-backed priorities and to defund the city’s police force. 

President Donald Trump announced agreement on Most Favored Nations (MFN) drug pricing deals with Eli Lilly & Company and Novo Nordisk, marking the fourth and fifth major drug companies with which the administration has reached deals in recent months.

Wednesday on Glenn Greenwald’s podcast “System Update,” Breitbart News economics editor John Carney said New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory shows white collar workers are in a “precarious economic situation” that should not be ignored by the right.

Tesla shareholders have voted in favor of CEO Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package, with the company announcing this afternoon that the proposal received 75 percent support among voting shares at its annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas.

A House Republican lawmaker is set to propose a bill that would block federal funds to New York City for as long as democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is mayor. 

Lawmakers on Thursday called for the passage of the PELOSI Act to ban congressional stock in honor of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) retirement.

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday produced a report that found $303 billion in oil revenue from the past ten years is missing, much of it attributed to oil thieves who tap into pipelines and sell their stolen crude on the black market.

The real estate business in South Florida is booming with residents of New York City looking to relocate as the political climate in the Big Apple appears to be taking a hard left turn, a developer told Fox Business.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta projected that 10 percent of its 2024 revenue, amounting to $16 billion, would come from ads for scams and banned goods, according to internal company documents reviewed by Reuters.

The New York State Builders Association (NYSBA) is urging Congress to pass a clean continuing resolution (CR) as the government shutdown continues on Day 37. 

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stated in a recent interview that Sam Altman’s AI startup desires government support in building AI capacity. The executive claims that the U.S. government should provide a “backstop” loan guarantee for its financing deals. After her comments went viral on social media, Friar walked them back.

There is no silver lining in what happened Tuesday night. Republicans lost everywhere, and not by the expected small margins.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has cautioned that China is poised to outpace the United States in the race for artificial intelligence supremacy, citing lower energy costs and more relaxed regulations as key factors. 

A German environmentalist group called Urgewald published a report on Tuesday that found oil and gas production is growing rapidly around the world, frustrating the hopes of climate activists for a “green energy transition.”

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” President Donald Trump said that while beef prices have to be lowered, we have inflation “down to a normal number right now, lower than a normal

President Donald Trump touted economic bright spots–including rising wages, lowering costs of goods, and falling interest rates–during his speech at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday.

An online post from Indian National Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh, combined with new business analysis in India, is spotlighting how Sen. Bernie Moreno’s Halting International Relocation of Employment Act could significantly affect India’s technology-services economy if enacted.

Zohran Mamdani won big because he tapped into something that cuts across traditional class boundaries: a pervasive sense that the fundamental bargain of American economic life has broken down.