A Silicon Valley super PAC backed by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and VC heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz is putting $100 million toward supporting AI-friendly politicians. The super PAC will align with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks’ pro-private industry stance on regulation and w...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily.Every story about Gavin Newsom must be prefaced by the acknowledgment that the California governor is a bloodless political chameleon whose m...

by Gregory Lyakhov Aug. 9, 2025 8:45 am President Donald Trump holds a press conference with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Friday, June 27, 2025.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress — marking the end of a nearly six-decade era in which it fueled the production of re...

National News “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations.” Rahmat Gul / AP, FileBy TED ANTHONY and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Pressupda...

Aug 1, 2025 12:48pm PT American Eagle is standing by its controversial ad campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney, which includes various commercials with the tagline: “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” The campaign creates a pun around “great genes,” which ignited outrage online over American...

By Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in London, U.K. with a focus on covering American economic and business news.

Politics Luis Andres Henao And David CraryAssociated PressPublished: July 29, 2025 at 8:23 AMUpdated: July 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM FILE - This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Legionella pneumophila bacteria which are responsib...

These days, local businesses often push for the opportunity to have extended operating hours.So something of a surprise was in coming across a Berkeley Daily Gazette item from a century ago on Aug. 3, 1925, that the Berkeley Downtown Association had decided “to make every effort to have every ...