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The News By January 2025, Paulina Mangubat knew the Democratic National Committee needed to change its digital communications approach dramatically. The organization had been shattered by a second loss to Donald Trump, in which the party had been strategically outmaneuvered by a new alternative media ecosystem that had helped Republicans ...

The longtime executive producer of said he’s unimpressed with his successors and disappointed that the show had missed an opportunity to press Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the Iran war. Bill Owens, who resigned last April in protest of what he saw as editorial overreach that was tilting the show ...

The News Opponents of AI-powered cars have been using artificial intelligence to get their message out in the news media. They’ve been waging a kitchen sink campaign, placing op-eds in local news outlets arguing the autonomous taxi company Waymo could cost jobs, endanger riders, deprive the government of information, and ...

There’s little precedent in US corporate history for the crisis facing Nvidia after reports that Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese “honeytrap” operation. The national security implications of the allegation, the chipmaker’s founder-CEO’s centrality to his company’s growth story, and Nvidia’s pivotal place in the AI ecosystem all mean ...

Houthi fighters took aim at the financial district of Saudi Arabia’s capital on Sunday — one of the highest-profile areas to be targeted in the war. A drone-and-missile attack damaged the iconic Saudi Aramco tower, located in an area that, as home to international companies and luxury housing, is a ...

New York City’s congestion pricing system appears to be working as vehicle traffic and pollution drop, and some believe higher tolls could bring yet more progress. Though the plan’s 2025 rollout was controversial — the US transportation secretary called it “a slap in the face to working-class Americans” — evidence ...

Israel’s president tapped Gadi Eisenkot to try to form the country’s next government, kicking off a tortuous negotiating process that could oust long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While Eisenkot and Netanyahu differ in style and substance, both men reflect the “monolithically anti-Palestinian stance that dominates Israeli politics,” an International Crisis ...

US, Russian, and Ukrainian officials are expected to meet this week in Abu Dhabi for talks on ending the nearly five-year war, but experts cautioned that the meetings were unlikely to yield a major breakthrough. The first direct negotiations in nine months will address “security guarantees for Ukraine, Europe’s post-war ...

Paraguay’s president was removed from office and detained after the country’s largest digital bank melted down, leaving half the populace without access to funds and plunging the country into a political crisis. A youth-friendly banking app, Ueno collapsed amid allegations of insider lending and proximity to the country’s longtime ruling ...

The News President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Stephen Miller — the architect of his aggressive immigration enforcement agenda — will succeed Susie Wiles as the next White House chief of staff. The decision to shake up White House leadership was led by Trump, a source close to the ...