Nov 10, 2026
President Trump carried out a surprise press briefing at the White House on Monday, teasing reporters with an appearance by UFC head Dana White — to whom he offered the job as press secretary — and providing a combative response to the GOP’s stunning defeat in the midterm elections. The president took a wide range...
Nov 9, 2026
The Senate voted Monday to advance a major bipartisan bill that aims to speed up the construction of energy and other infrastructure projects — clearing a key hurdle toward the measure becoming law. The vote was 73-25, teeing up likely Senate passage in the weeks ahead. Sen. Mike Rounds (S.D.) was the only GOP no...
An investigation into Megaspeed, a Singapore company that was buying advanced Nvidia A.I. chips, was transferred to the Justice Department after a top Nvidia executive reached out to Commerce Department officials.
President Trump on Monday said he would not approve new wind turbines despite his support for a permitting reform bill that seeks to ease the passage of all forms of energy, including wind. Trump told reporters during a press briefing Monday that he was “behind” the bipartisan Senate legislation “100 percent.” But, asked if he...
President Trump on Monday announced a special envoy for manufacturing in a post to Truth Social. “I am proud to announce that David MacNeil, the GREAT American entrepreneur and founder of WeatherTech, will be the Special Envoy for Manufacturing!” Trump said in his Monday afternoon post. “David has built an incredible American company that makes...
Austan Goolsbee, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said Monday that the data center buildout is “overheating” the economy and putting upward pressure on prices. “Now this stuff with the AI data center buildout is, to my eye, starting to look more just like old-fashioned demand overheating,” Goolsbee told Subrina Hudson of...
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Monday called for a probe into reporting that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. "I’m pushing to investigate Jensen Huang and Nvidia to determine whether our national security was compromised," Coons, who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote on social platform X....
Voter backlash could threaten the data center boom. Some economists think that could be a good thing.
Jensen Huang, longtime CEO of the AI chip giant Nvidia, is facing an investigation from the company's board after disclosing he had a romantic relationship with a woman that U.S. officials have accused of spying for China. Nvidia's board of directors announced Sunday it is opening a probe into reports that Huang had been "the...
The conservative House Freedom Caucus sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday urging them to push through a third reconciliation package and other GOP legislative priorities before Democrats assume control of Congress next year. The caucus wrote in their letter that there is “an enormous...
