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During an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that the number one issue he has heard from his constituents is the negative impact of tariffs. Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “Are people at home talking to you

Credit unions for U.S. military service members are sounding the alarm on how the Democrats’ government shutdown is disrupting lives, arguing that troops “shouldn’t have to worry about whether their next paycheck will arrive while they’re standing watch for our nation.”

The Democrats are once again a party of Gloomdogglers. It’s hard to know how much of their pessimism about the economy is simply partisanship or genuine gloominess.

President Donald Trump blasted Democrats on Tuesday over their government shutdown, stating their lack of leadership reminds him of Somalia.

Gold futures surged above $4,000 a troy ounce for the first time Tuesday, extending a yearlong rally that has seen gold prices up 50 percent.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday shared a chart showcasing what Democrats are demanding in order to reopen the government.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter Friday to Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation which owns Wikipedia, requesting information about the site’s reported political bias. Cruz cited the ongoing purge of conservative media on the online encyclopedia and other bias concerns, following a viral interview commentator Tucker Carlson did with Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger last week where they discussed the site blacklisting conservative sources, including Breitbart.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, unveiled two sexually explicit chatbot companions this summer named Ani and Valentine. While the tech tycoon is constantly throwing out ideas for the future of AI, from video game development to a Wikipedia replacement, his big bet seems to be on AI girlfriends and boyfriends for lonely people whose mental health will suffer from further isolation. 

The Supreme Court has declined to protect Google from a year-old order requiring significant changes to its Android app store, paving the way for increased competition against a system that a court declared an illegal monopoly in Fortnite maker Epic Games’ antitrust case against the internet giant.

The Democrat government shutdown is “devastating” to military readiness, Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) said.

Accounting and consulting giant Deloitte has announced it will offer a partial refund to the Australian government for a report that contained AI-hallucinated quotes and references to nonexistent research. This is just the latest example of a professional firm suffering massive embarrassment for the sloppy use of AI tools.

China’s TikTok actively pushes pornography and other sexual content on 13-year-old users, according to researchers who created fake accounts of young teens to see what the Chinese platform’s algorithm would suggest to them.

Both President Donald Trump and socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil confirmed on Monday that they shared a phone call to discuss the deterioration of diplomatic relations between their countries, a result of Lula’s persecution of conservatives in the country.

You would not know it from the gloom-ridden headlines of the financial media, but Americans are feeling a bit better about their personal finances than they were a year ago.

President Donald Trump took action Monday to reverse a Biden-era decision on Ambler Road, which would provide access to the Ambler Mining District in northern Alaska, an area rich in copper and other key minerals, including gold and silver.

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted Monday that millions of federal workers will not receive their next full paycheck unless Democrats vote to open the federal government this evening.

Treasury Secretary and Acting IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent has appointed Frank Bisignano, head of the Social Security Administration, to serve as the Internal Revenue Service’s first chief executive officer.

The assistant to disgraced financier Howard Rubin is accused of luring women for him to sexually abuse while he funded her lavish lifestyle.

As AI tools like ChatGPT become increasingly popular for travel planning, some vacationers are finding themselves led astray by the technology’s hallucinations and misinformation — sometimes putting themselves in danger by searching for nonexistent destinations in dangerous locales.

Elon Musk’s Tesla suffered a 9.4 percent year-on-year decline in German sales for September, even as the overall sales of EVs rose by 31.9 percent in the country, according to data from the German road traffic agency KBA.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is challenging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to a debate on the government shutdown, despite the fact that the Speaker successfully passed a clean continuing resolution (CR), which Democrats rejected.

OpenAI and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have reached a groundbreaking deal that could see Sam Altman’s company take a 10 percent stake in the chipmaker. The deal comes shortly after OpenAI signed a massive deal with Nvidia, the dominant player in the AI chip arena.

Keeping migration low is the best way to raise Americans’ prosperity, says a study funded by the leading lobby group for investors who want mass migration.

Members of the Green Party adopted a motion to “abolish landlords” in Britain as the party seeks to expand its reach and sway defected Labour voters by adopting so-called “eco-populist” policies.

AI-generated security footage generated by OpenAI’s “Sora 2” platform shows CEO Sam Altman getting caught stealing a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) from a Target store.

Sen. Joni Ernst is pressing OMB Director Russ Vought to take advantage of the ongoing shutdown, detailing more than $2 trillion in suggested federal spending reductions.

Indian’s huge and growing population of migrants and citizens in the United States should loudly defend India’s strategic interests, says a senior Indian politician.

Jon Ganz led a life struggle and attempts at redemption — until his fascination with Google’s Gemini AI chatbot led him to vanish without a trace.

The parents of a 19-year-old woman who died along with two other teens in a fiery Cybertruck crash last year have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s Tesla, claiming the vehicle’s door handle design prevented their daughter from escaping the burning wreckage.

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According to data from analytics firm Kpler, Russia remained India’s top supplier of oil in September, despite heavy pressure from the United States for India to scale back its imports and choke off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s funding for his war in Ukraine.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that layoffs are necessary amid the Democrat-forced government shutdown because of the United States’ exorbitant debt and absence of money flowing into federal coffers. 

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has reportedly promised to assist Ethiopia with building a massive airport south of Addis Ababa.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is expressing the belief that Republicans will cave to Democrats, the latter of whom shut down the government for political purposes, attributing that prediction to “public sentiment.”