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South Carolina’s state senate majority leader offered a nuanced case for rejecting Trump’s redistricting demands How does a Republican leader say no to Donald Trump? How do they criticize the US president’s policies without facing a social media riot, or losing their career? As the party scrambles to redraw key ...

Call it the great Long Island Ice Tea Blockchain trade of 2026: Companies are jostling for an AI stock bump. If you’re a flailing sneaker company like Allbirds, you issue a press release announcing you’re now in the GPU-leasing business. If you’re a blue-chip company with equity coverage, like Ford, ...

The AI future is here, but unevenly distributed. Doomsday predictions about AI’s jobs wipeout are overly influenced by tech companies and don’t reflect the reality that most companies don’t know how to use it, said Blair Effron, CEO of boutique investment bank Centerview. “A year and a half ago, I ...

Chinese investments into “non-strategic, non-sensitive” US companies would get fast-tracked regulatory approval under an agreement being ironed out in Beijing this week. “What we want to do is make sure that these investments don’t get referred” to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, the government body that reviews ...

The News President Donald Trump is meddling in corporate mergers. So is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Welcome to the age of executive power. The only thing missing are the CEOs. Big business has never been more politically salient, but the CEOs who sit atop it have rarely mattered ...

The News Another populist independent is running for Congress in Nebraska: Austin Ahlman, a 28-year-old progressive journalist and Nebraska native is challenging Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., and Democrat Chris Backemeyer, a former deputy assistant secretary of State who worked for the Biden administration. Unlike Dan Osborn, the independent candidate for ...

Israel’s response to recent New York Times reporting detailing the horrific sexual violence inflicted on detainees seeks to silence those who assert the basic fact of Palestinian humanity xWhat’s most shocking about the latest accounts of sexual torture of Palestinians in Israeli custody is not just their inherent horror. It ...

Academic freedom would be compromised by a planned deal between Cambridge University and Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry, warns Jemimah Steinfeld Your report (Cambridge University seeks deal with Saudi defence ministry despite rights concerns, 11 May) should be a lightning rod for anyone who cares about academic freedom in this country. ...

A state department document seeks to justify the war as part of a years-long conflict Is the war in Iran over? Within hours of secretary of state Marco Rubio’s assurance that “the operation is over” last week, Donald Trump used social media to declare that it most decidedly was not. ...

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. The sudden shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by DOGE in 2025 is associated with a rise in violent conflicts across Africa, ...