In the White House Situation Room, the hardest calls were never the obvious emergencies. What kept me up were the nights when a fragment of information came in and the debate wasn’t about what to do. It was about whether anything concerning was happening at all. In 2023, my team and I were assessing the
Britain’s financial regulator has banned a former HSBC banker from the industry over a train-fare fraud that cost a railway operator £5,911, or about $7,800. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) barred Joseph Molloy from performing “any function in relation to any regulated activity carried on by an authorized person, exempt person or exempt professional firm,”
Golden hash browns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of syrup are among the classic Southern comfort foods. But when hurricanes tear through Southeastern towns, the hot meals and bold yellow signs of the local Waffle House provide another kind of comfort. If a Waffle House stays open in town, even in
SpaceX brought the U.S., French and Russian flyers back with a splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of Los Angeles. NASA’s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, France’s Sophie Adenot and Russia’s Andrey Fedyaev departed the orbiting lab on Wednesday, eager to reunite with their families after a lengthy separation. Their replacements arrived three weeks
Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program ahead of the 2028 elections, building an in-house team that will work directly with U.S. presidential candidates from both parties on AI issues, help Anthropic’s leadership set political strategy, and run the company’s political funding program. The effort—which is taking shape before the November midterm elections and
President Donald Trump celebrated tech billionaires for their contributions to America on Thursday only hours after a company run by one of them, Microsoft, was accused by his vice president of abusing the visa system to bring in more foreign workers. It so happens five of the six leaders he honored are immigrants. Before the
