As a candidate and now as president, Donald Trump has engendered alarm in the South Korean government and its business community, much as is the case with Japan. This is because his policies could seriously affect Korean firms invested or planning to pour additional funds in the United States, exportingContinue Reading
The new year has brought a flurry of commentary and news about Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp – the infamous U.S.-run prison facility in Cuba that once held some 800 detainees suspected of having committed terrorism-related offenses against U.S. interests. In recent weeks both the U.S. administration and the countries ofContinue Reading
While all of this is happening, the Democrats are waiting to elect a new director before they can even think about casting. On Saturday, Democrats will be voting on their next party chair. There are nearly a dozen people running to fill the spot, but the election is mainly seenContinue Reading
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump appeared to place the blame for a midair collision that killed 67 people on the previous administration’s approach to hiring aviation professionals. But experts and investigators involved with the crash, which also involved a military helicopter, say the next few weeks will see investigatorsContinue Reading
The email is reminiscent of one that Musk sent early in his Twitter days, demanding that employees email a one-page description of what they had accomplished the previous month and how it differed from their goals. Rather than convening with Shedd in these meetings, TTS employees were instead surprised toContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, vowed on Thursday (Jan 30) to protect FBI employees against “political retribution” even as the Trump administration has begun to fire and sideline Justice Department officials who were involved in investigations into the president. Pressed by Democratic US Senator RichardContinue Reading
Michael Calore: This is WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. I’m Michael Calore, Director of Consumer Tech and Culture here at Wired. Zoë Schiffer: I’m Zoe Schiffer, WIRED’s director of Business and Industry. Lauren Goode: I’m Lauren Goode. I’m a Senior WriterContinue Reading
Fiona O’Leary, an Ireland-based activist who has autistic children and has spent years trying to highlight the dangers of toxic bleach solution being sold as an autism cure, worries that the Miami conference will “platform” Kalcker and allow him to increase his influence in the US. “Andreas Kalcker has beenContinue Reading
U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze is reportedly wreaking havoc along the Thai-Myanmar border, where medical clinics serving around 100,000 refugees, most of them from Myanmar, could soon be forced to close their doors – if they haven’t already. Among the flurry of executive orders that he issued afterContinue Reading
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement. “The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so,”Continue Reading
