The Trump administration is moving ahead with its efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, two months after the Supreme Court allowed her to retain her job while she fights the president’s effort to terminate her over mortgage fraud allegations that she has denied. The justices in a 5-4 decision in June said Cook, who was
On Friday, a group of retired judges will step off a tour bus in an upscale Michigan suburb after three days of touring cornfields, cities and coal towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They carry a message with them. In courthouses and public squares, they have commemorated the nation’s 250th anniversary with a dire warning: the
In an effort to prepare Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, for the anniversary, Trump initiated a series of beautification projects throughout the city. Some projects have been considered flashy or unnecessary, while others have been applauded by local residents. Among the sites is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. In April, workers began painting blue the
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new Google commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline “Group project, but make it 1776,” the ad shows a mid-draft, virtually invisible Thomas Jefferson receiving an annoying text from Ben Franklin, leading to
After restoration work, the copy will be displayed in the archives’ exhibition on the road to American independence, which opened last month. Saul Nassé, executive director of the National Archives, hailed the find as “an extraordinary discovery.” He added: “It is an increasingly rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, found not in the United
