The peaceful transfer of power on Inauguration Day is not without the occasional awkwardness. In her new memoir, “View from the East Wing,” Jill Biden recalled a car ride with Melania Trump from the White House to the Capitol for Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration. It’s customary for the outgoing and incoming presidents to travel together … Read more
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — As USC baseball coach Andy Stankiewicz noted the next additions that will be made to USC’s refurbished baseball stadium, he paused Monday night as a train rumbled loudly behind Blue Bell Park. Stankiewicz smirked at the fitting metaphor after the Trojans clinched their first NCAA super regional berth in 21 years. He, after … Read more
Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5 billion. The cash infusion lands as Helion is racing to complete Orion, its first power plant. The startup has set an aggressive timeline to deploy fusion power … Read more
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Built for the agentic era, Devenex governs enterprise actions before they execute – giving regulated organizations the authorization, identity binding, and audit-grade evidence that AI deployment now demands. In regulated enterprise technology, the newest product rarely wins on novelty alone. Buyers want to know who will stand behind … Read more
Kathy Hilton will no longer be the grand marshal of West Hollywood’s pride parade. The city and WeHo Pride on Wednesday released a joint statement, announcing that “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star would no longer serve as the Grand Marshal Icon for the 2026 WeHo Pride Parade. The event is scheduled for Sunday. … Read more
Amid the U.S. war on Iran and the looming prospect of conflict with Cuba, Democrats are gearing up for an especially bitter fight over next year’s Pentagon budget. As Punchbowl News reported Tuesday, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) will introduce an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2027 to cut $150 billion … Read more
Nearly six decades ago, on June 25, the Beatles converged on Abbey Road’s Studio One with guests including members of the Rolling Stones, the Who, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, and Marianne Faithfull, among others, to perform “All You Need Is Love” for a global telecast. Now, Apple Corps Ltd., the label the Beatles founded, is … Read more
I traveled from Denver to Salt Lake City on Amtrak’s California Zephyr — a double-decker train known as a Superliner. My previous Amtrak rides were on single-story train fleets, so I hoped my room would be on the top floor for a new experience. It wasn’t. Although the views of Rocky Mountain National Park from … Read more
WASHINGTON — Initial efforts in the Senate failed Thursday to block the $1.8-billion fund that the Trump administration has sought to establish to pay people who claim the government wronged them, though further attempts were likely to come Thursday afternoon. Republicans narrowly voted down a Democratic amendment to ban the payout fund and then Democrats killed a … Read more
Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and xAI. In a bid to cut the time to completion in half, Meta has built six tents — or “rapid deployment structures” … Read more
Zoë Schiffer: Deviance and freaks, the new name of our podcast. And this is, I mean, just going back to red teaming, that’s work that a trust and safety team typically does. And those teams— Leah Feiger: We don’t have those anymore. Zoë Schiffer: They’re not as big as they used to be. There’s just … Read more
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual … Read more
At a White House event on Wednesday afternoon, Donald Trump continued his efforts to rewrite the story of Jan. 6, boasting about the size of his crowd at the Ellipse and claiming “there was so much love” among the election deniers he summoned. But the president’s rhetoric about his attack on the Capitol was even … Read more
Kevin O’Leary has agreed to scale back his proposed Utah data center project after pressure from a top state lawmaker. On Thursday, O’Leary pledged to cut the proposed 40,000-acre Stratos development in Box Elder County in half, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Most of the remaining project area would be left as open space, O’Leary wrote in … Read more
Poke, a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has become the first AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform. Previously limited to partnered businesses such as airlines, retailers, hotel chains, and others, Apple’s platform offers a standardized interface for business messaging that … Read more