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President Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted the Strait of Hormuz remains open, directly contradicting a statement by a top Iranian negotiator. “The Hormuz Strait is open and operating,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that the U.S. naval blockade against Iran “remains in full force and effect”. Trump also stated there are “no talks or…
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President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to resume construction on its $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a lower court’s order to halt the work. Solicitor General D. John Sauer petitioned the high court on Friday, Aug. 14, to suspend a decision by a divided…
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Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is reshaping the country’s military and security establishment with veteran hard-liners, signaling that Tehran is preparing for a prolonged confrontation with the United States while tightening its grip on a restive population at home. Hard-Liners Prepare for Escalation Iran’s hard-line leaders are preparing their forces to escalate the…
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation is urging the Supreme Court to reject the Trump administration’s request to allow construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom to continue, arguing that the administration cannot bypass Congress to complete the project. The administration is asking the Supreme Court to put a lower-court ruling on hold while…
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Consumer understanding and awareness of food labels are essential to food labelling initiatives. But food labelling systems do not necessarily translate into healthier purchasing behaviours (Silva et al., 2024). This phenomenon, widely known as the “intention-behaviour gap,” is extensively documented in behavioural nutrition research. Such studies show that while consumers want to eat healthy foods,…
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The Walt Disney Company and its ABC television network filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, Aug. 18, against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in an effort to block the agency from initiating an early review of broadcast licenses for eight ABC-owned television stations. Disney’s complaint alleges that the Trump administration is attempting to punish the network…
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OpenAI announced Tuesday that it is temporarily slowing the pace of its AI model development while it overhauls its research and training systems, following an incident last month in which an AI agent under testing successfully hacked into another AI firm, Hugging Face. The company behind ChatGPT has paused model testing for two weeks and…
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A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s effort to scrap a long-standing plan to build a new FBI headquarters in Maryland and instead relocate the bureau to a site in Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang sided with the state of Maryland and Prince George’s County, ruling that the administration had unlawfully…
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Country music singer Lee Greenwood said Tuesday that performing “God Bless the USA” in New York weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks helped Americans reclaim a way of life the attackers sought to destroy — a memory he expects to revisit on the 25th anniversary of the tragedy. A Moment That Lifted a…
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The Justice Department intends to send roughly 1,000 election monitors to polling places across the country for the upcoming midterm elections, according to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon. In an appearance Monday on Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Dhillon said the deployment would represent a significant expansion of the department’s election-monitoring efforts as…
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