Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending. While there are certainly worse problems (e.g. white nationalism in…
Oct. 31 (UPI) — President Donald Trump has urged Senate Republicans to “get rid of the filibuster,” allowing them to pass legislation with a simple majority and end the government shutdown, which entered its 31st day Friday. The president’s suggestion would have the majority party of the Senate implement a so-called nuclear option, which ends…
new video loaded: How the Trump-Xi Meeting Eased a Major Trade War President Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping just had a highly anticipated meeting in South Korea. David Pierson, a New York Times foreign correspondent covering China, breaks down what they accomplished and how they de-escalated a major trade war. By David Pierson, Christina…
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings novels—and the associated “legendarium” of characters, histories, myths, maps, and constructed languages—have served as a bedrock of so-called “nerd culture” since their publication in the mid-1950s. With its clear-cut characterizations, and (more-or-less) cleanly delineated lines between Good and Evil, Tolkien’s imagined Middle-earth—a vast and geographically variegated realm teeming…
Advocates say new rules let Education Department to politically punish groups working on immigration, transgender care. The United States Department of Education has finalised new rules that could bar nonprofits deemed to have undertaken work with a “substantial illegal purpose” from a special student loan forgiveness programme. Those rules, finalised on Thursday, appear to single…
President Trump is back in Washington, D.C., after spending the week in Asia. His trip culminated in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which Mr. Trump described as “amazing.” CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe has more on what the pair discussed. Source link
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WASHINGTON — The Republican chairs of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are speaking out against the Trump administration’s decision to pull back some U.S. troops from Romania, along NATO’s eastern border near Ukraine. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., are taking issue with the fact that Congress was not consulted and…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says China approved TikTok transfer deal – CBS News Watch CBS News U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that China has approved a TikTok transfer deal. CBS News White House reporter Willie James Inman has more. Source link
Since President Donald Trump’s second term began, his administration’s approach to China has been arguably the toughest aspect of its foreign policy to parse. In part, that’s because the top members of Trump’s team haven’t always seemed to be on the same page with each other or with the president on the question of just…