Trump ups his ante with September fundraising haul
Former President Trump’s campaign said on Wednesday that they hauled in over $160 million in fundraising in September, in figures shared with Fox News. The haul by the former president’s campaign is up from the roughly $130 million that Trump’s various
Microsoft’s mammoth AI bet will lead to over $100 billion in data center leases
As Microsoft investors get ready for quarterly earnings this month, there’s one particular metric that’s become increasingly important: finance leases. A finance lease lets a company pay for an asset over years, rather than all upfront. For companies like Microsoft that are building
East and Gulf coast ports shut down as thousands of workers go on strike
Tens of thousands of longshoremen went on strike at midnight ET, shutting down major ports along the East and Gulf coasts and choking off deliveries of everything from produce to auto parts. Consumers aren’t likely to feel the pinch unless a
Israel bans UN secretary-general over anti-Israel actions: ‘Doesn’t deserve to set foot on Israeli soil’
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met on Wednesday following Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel, but overshadowing the meeting was Israel’s announcement that it had banned the U.N. secretary-general due to his failure to condemn Iran. ‘Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn
Republicans keep inventing new ways to scapegoat immigrants
It is necessarily true that a crime committed by someone in the United States without authorization is a crime that would not have been committed had that person not been in the country. It is similarly true that a home
Trump and his allies are not planning to concede another electoral loss
The reason that it is important to ask Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) whether he accepts that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election is not to establish whether Vance accepts reality. At least, that’s not the primary reason. It is
Trump says Walz ’embarrassed himself’ compared to Vance’s ‘brilliance’ at VP debate
Former President Trump said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ’embarrassed himself’ during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, while Sen. JD Vance’s steady presentation ‘reconfirmed’ his choice to make the senator from Ohio his running mate. Trump spoke exclusively with Fox News
The one Vance debate moment that thrilled Republicans
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Many Republicans who watched the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night would say Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, had the best of his opponent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. But in this crucial county in the swing
Vance used past GOP climate inaction to argue for climate inaction
Given the disastrous damage wrought by Hurricane Helene — a storm that rapidly grew to a Category 4 storm thanks to unusually warm water in the Gulf of Mexico — the issue of climate change was among the first topics
Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests that’s more or less how swing voters saw