Castigating Zelensky for not demonstrating enough gratitude for American support, Trump and his Vice President JD Vance raised their voices, accusing the besieged leader of standing in the way of a peace agreement with Russia. Later, he was essentially kicked out of the White House, and departed with a grim look on his face.

Goldman Sachs has dropped an entire section dedicated to "diversity and inclusion" from its annual filing released on Thursday, as Wall Street firms dial back their diversity initiatives after President Donald Trump took charge."We have made certain adjustments to reflect developments in the law in the U.S.," CEO David Solomon said in a statement.

Let us look at the economy. Vice President Harris has claimed repeatedly that Bidenomics is working and is a term we are proud of, yet Americans have faced 20-percent average inflation since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office. The price of everything has gone up. More Americans are now having to choose whether to pay their energy bill, pay rent, or buy food. How is this record something to be proud of? These price increases are not transitory at all, as one of Biden-Harris Administration official claimed. American households must now spend over $11,000 more each year just to maintain the same quality of life.

A remarkable shouting match broke out in the Oval Office on Friday as President Donald Trump berated his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, an extraordinarily fractious display that only underscored the deeply uncertain future of American assistance to Kyiv.Never before has an American president verbally attacked his visitor like Trump did to Zelensky, leading to an almost real-time breakdown in relations between Washington and Kyiv. Trump at one point threatened to give up on Ukraine entirely.

We’re doing very well with Russia-Ukraine.  President Zelenskyy is going to be coming on Friday.  It’s now confirmed.  And we’re going to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement.  And I want to thank Howard and Scott for the job you guys did in putting it together.  Really did an amazing job.  And that’ll be on rare earth and other things.

Devin Nunes earned $47 million in total compensation as CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group last year, although he won’t be able to get his hands on all of it until March 2027, according to a filing the company made with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.

Artificial Intelligence is set to transform our world in unprecedented ways. No sector of our economy nor any aspect of governance or policy will be left untouched – from energy to basic science, education to security, AI is reshaping industries, creating new opportunities. But with disruption, there will be new challenges. Policy must ensure that the rest of the economy can support and absorb AI’s transformational potential. The United States has long been a leader in technology innovation across a number of technologies. And we’re fortunate to find ourselves again with advantages, meaningful advantages, in AI technologies.

"About 60% of spectrum bands are under U.S. government control," Blackburn said during a keynote at the State of the Net 2025 conference. "That's why I've called for an audit of federal spectrum usage so we can free up spectrum and get it to commercial use."

In his opening statement at today’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing titled “America Offline? How Spectrum Auction Delays Give China the Edge and Cost Us Jobs,” Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) raised the alarm on the urgent need to auction spectrum to preserve America’s global technology leadership, protect national security, create millions of jobs, and improve the lives of American consumers. Spectrum auctions have unlocked billions for the Treasury while enabling our nation’s wireless networks to deliver better connectivity, fueling the rise of breakthroughs from the iPhone to generative AI.Sen. Cruz warned that the last administration’s bureaucratic dithering caused American spectrum leadership to lag, enabling Communist China to control communication networks worldwide. To end the spectrum drought and strengthen national security, we must restore the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction authority and expand commercial access to mid-band spectrum.

In the middle of a grand, high-ceilinged church in Orebro, Sweden, Jacob Kasselia, a Syrian orthodox priest, looked up towards the stained glass windows above him, then back down at his hands. He adjusted the gold cross hanging from his neck."The police say this man acted alone," the priest said. "But this hate, it is coming from somewhere."A member of Kasselia's congregation, 29-year-old Salim Iskef, was among those murdered in Orebro on Tuesday in Sweden's first school shooting and the worst mass shooting in the country's history. The gunman killed 10 students at an adult learning centre and then himself.