Posts by Kim Browne
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection. The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a…
Read MoreTrump Media Is Moving Into the Financial Services Industry
President Trump’s social media company is moving to position itself as a financial services firm that will allow his supporters to put money into investment products geared to what the company has called the “patriotic economy.” Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of the Truth Social platform, said on Thursday that it had…
Read MoreAirline Pilots in the DC Plane Crash Acted as Expected, Experts Say
Just after 8:43 p.m. on Jan. 29, an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, posed a question to the pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342: Could they land at a different runway? There was nothing unusual about the request or the pilots’ assent to it. But the decision to switch runways…
Read MoreTrump Trade Nominee Defends Plan to Reorder International Trade
Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. trade representative, defended the president’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs on all imported products and told senators he would work to restructure international trading relationships during his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Mr. Greer, a trade lawyer and former Trump administration official, told the Senate Finance…
Read MoreAs Elon Musk Attacks DEI, Tesla Quietly Addresses Racism Complaints
In Washington, Elon Musk has been at the forefront of Trump administration efforts to gut programs designed to promote diversity. At the same time, Tesla, the electric car company that Mr. Musk leads, has in recent days, with little notice, tried to appease critics who have accused the company of racial discrimination. In a little-noticed…
Read MoreTrump, the Panama Canal and China’s Role: What We Know
President Trump’s claim that China controls the Panama Canal has placed a Hong Kong tycoon and his conglomerate at the heart of a showdown between the United States and China. That sprawling company, CK Hutchison Holdings, is one of Hong Kong’s most valuable publicly listed firms and counts some of the world’s biggest investors as…
Read MoreTrump Amplifies Conspiracy Over U.S. Payments to Politico
President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had been paying news media outlets to generate positive coverage of Democrats. The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated by records showing payments for something much more innocuous: subscriptions. Mr. Trump said on his Truth Social site that “billions of dollars” from U.S.A.I.D. and…
Read MoreTrump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing
A few days after President Trump issued an order urging the private sector to end “Illegal D.E.I. Discrimination and Preferences,” the Rev. Al Sharpton led about 100 people into a Costco in East Harlem for a so-called buy-cott. The idea was to shop and support the company for maintaining its diversity, equity and inclusion policies…
Read MoreHosting Its Next Super Bowl, New Orleans’s Superdome Is Turning 50
Branford Marsalis has traveled the world over, but one trip back to his hometown, New Orleans, still stands out. He was visiting from Los Angeles, where he was the bandleader on “The Tonight Show” in the early 1990s, and was invited on a local talk show that was being broadcast from the Superdome. Marsalis, now…
Read MoreSouthern California Edison Found Irregularities on Equipment Where Eaton Fire Broke Out
On Jan. 19, almost two weeks after the Eaton fire broke out near Altadena, Calif., technicians for Southern California Edison began testing electrical equipment near the origin of the blaze. They soon noticed small white flashes appearing on high-voltage transmission lines when power was being restored — signs that the system was functioning abnormally. The…
Read MoreGreen Energy Ambitions of European Companies Take a Beating
Rasmus Errboe, the new chief executive of the Danish offshore wind developer Orsted, sounded as if he had inherited a mess as he explained a 25 percent paring of the company’s investment plans on Thursday. Over the past two years, Orsted has backed away from some huge wind projects it planned to build off the…
Read MoreD.C. Lawmakers Take Aim at DeepSeek
Just in: The Justice Department agreed to temporarily restrict workers from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team from gaining access to information in the Treasury Department payment system. The news comes as Washington grapples with a big debate: Can President Trump unilaterally decide to spend less on an area than what Congress has approved? It has taken…
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