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Inside Trump’s Plan to Seize the Smithsonian
When President Trump summoned Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for lunch at the White House on August 28 of last year, Bunch’s advisers assumed that the end was near. Trump had spent months threatening the Smithsonian’s independence; just nine days earlier, he’d written on Truth Social that “the Smithsonian is OUT OF…
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Trump snaps when asked for proof of major new Reflecting Pool claim: ‘There’s no evidence’
President Donald Trump snapped at a CBS reporter on Monday after he claimed someone took a knife to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Ed O’Keefe, CBS News’ senior White House and political correspondent, asked Trump during an Oval Office press conference if he would share a photo or proof that the incident had happened. Trump…
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Tony Dokoupil Says He Hasn’t Felt Bias Pressure at CBS After ‘60 Minutes’ Firings: ‘Not the Experience That I’ve Had’
Tony Dokoupil has not felt the bias at CBS that his colleagues over at “60 Minutes” claimed on their way out the door of the storied news program. In a new conversation with The Wall Street Journal published Monday, Dokoupil – the latest anchor of “CBS Evening News” – explained that he hasn’t felt pressured…
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Athletes and Entrepreneurs Discuss Sports’ Growing Influence on Business and Culture
Left to right: Doriane Pin, Don McGuire, Gabby George, Carmelo Anthony —Kym Illman—Getty Images; Paul Devlin—Sportsfile/Web Summit/Getty Images; Poppy Townson—MUFC/Manchester United/Getty Images; Dia Dipasupil—Tribeca Festival/Getty Images Four athletes, executives, and entrepreneurs convened at a TIME100 Talk in Cannes, France, on Monday to discuss how sports has become one of the world’s most powerful engines of…
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Head of Microsoft Rages at His Fellow CEOs for Admitting What They’re Actually Doing to Society With AI
After cementing himself as the leader of one of the top AI companies in the world, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has some biting criticism for his rival tech executives. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Nadella raged that tech companies have been a little too honest in how they spin the trillion-dollar AI…
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Bed Bath and Beyond begins reopening in California with added bonus: Old coupons will be honored
Bed Bath & Beyond is looking to stage a comeback as the decades old company reopens stores in partnership with The Container Store in 22 cities, including two in Southern California. To the delight of die-hard fans and coupon collectors, for a limited time the new stores will accept the iconic blue and white coupons,…
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Republican congressional candidate under fire over false claims about James Comey
Republican congressional candidate Michael Carbonara falsely claimed FBI Director Kash Patel had confirmed felony convictions against former FBI Director James Comey, labeling it “MASSIVE for accountability.” Comey has not been convicted of any crimes; he was indicted in April on two felony counts by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department over a photograph of seashells posted…
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Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Meta left potentially sensitive information collected from employee laptops accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED and three current employees familiar with the issue. The data, which was collected as part of a divisive initiative to train artificial intelligence models, is believed to include keystrokes, mouseclicks, and…
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Patrols and nanobubbles continue at the Reflecting Pool as Trump looks for a renovation do-over
WASHINGTON — National Guard service members and U.S. Park Police were patrolling the deck around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday, as Donald Trump’s administration faces a self-imposed deadline to fix a botched renovation and cleaning efforts ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration. The patrols come two days after Trump said authorities had made “multiple…
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The race splitting Zohran Mamdani’s coalition
The gradations of Democratic blue are on display in New York’s congressional primaries this Tuesday, where high-profile races are already highlighting the party’s emerging divisions over how to regulate artificial intelligence, immigration enforcement, and the United States’ relationship with Israel. The primaries are also an important test of political strength for New York City Mayor…