The midterm elections appear to be a factor for both sides in the war as President Trump weighs his next steps.
Oct 19, 2026
The Saudi government has postponed its annual investment conference — known colloquially as “Davos in the Desert” — to next year, after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels carried out multiple deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia earlier this month. Organizers at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute postponed the 10th edition of the conference, which was set...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered that products from the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek be removed from federal agency IT systems and barred from government contracting. The order, which initially went out in July, was published on the Federal Register website Monday. It said DeepSeek’s AI models present “multiple threat vectors,” noting the...
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council (NEC), dismissed recent polling Monday, instead arguing the U.S. economy is “in a boom.” During an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Hassett said consumer spending indicates the economy remains strong. "If economic polls … were correct, then people wouldn't be taking trips to nice hotels, they...
Congress' wealthiest members, according to the most recently published live net worth estimates tracked by Quiver Quantitative.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in an interview published Monday that the U.S. economy, while performing well, has to fend off “inflationary” events. “The American economy is kind of booming right now. It's good times,” Dimon told Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal Leadership Institute. Dimon noted that corporate profits are “way up,”...
Facebook's parent company Meta apologized Sunday for suspending the "No Kings" Instagram account, saying the suspension was caused by a high increase in traffic by bots. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote in a statement that the company's engineering team found the "spike that triggered the incorrect enforcement was primarily in the account’s 'reading' behavior" attributed...
The artificial intelligence firm Anthropic announced it will commit 5 percent of its shares to its new public benefit fund as the industry faces heat over its potential impact on society and the labor market. Anthropic, in a blog post Sunday, said the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will help the company pursue it's "mission in...
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) on Sunday warned against a merger between Sysco and Restaurant Depot, arguing it could lead to an increase in restaurant prices. “Watch out: going out to eat at your favorite restaurant could become even more expensive,” Warren wrote on the social platform X. “The Trump administration might approve a merger...
Tech mogul Elon Musk said Monday he will give every child in the U.S. one share of SpaceX next year. “This will be the first of many,” Musk wrote in a post on the social platform X, which he also owns and is technically part of SpaceX. He did not specify how he plans to...
Oct 18, 2026
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) called for an investigation into Ukrainian forces losing access to a military version of Starlink temporarily last week. Appearing on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Turner was asked if Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the outage “sort of happened” was sufficient explanation for lawmakers on the House Armed...