Good morning. Intuit is entering a multi-year strategic partnership with Circle Internet Group to integrate Circle’s USDC stablecoin and infrastructure across the Intuit platform. “Our partnership with Circle is a strategic step toward building a world-class financial platform designed for an always-on, global economy,” Intuit CFO Sandeep Aujla told me about the partnership announced on…
DENVER — Just in time for the holidays, President Trump has issued another of his dubious pardons. Or rather, make that a “pardon.” This one comes on behalf of a former Colorado elections official serving a nine-year sentence for election fraud. “Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of TINA PETERS, a Patriot who simply wanted to…
JULIS, Israel — Nestled in a quiet corner of a quaint village in Israel’s north, the building appears, at the outset, to house an elegant meeting salon with giant chandeliers, ornate but uncomfortable chairs and trays of sweets. But past an improvised divider made of plywood and a stern attendant who places stickers over smartphone cameras,…
A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say. The elite students are shocked by the lack of job offers as they finish studies at what is often ranked as the top university in America. When they were freshmen, ChatGPT hadn’t yet been…
Folks, who was supposed to be watching grandpa last night? Because he got out, got on TV and … It. Was. Not. Good. For 18 long minutes Wednesday evening, we were subjected to a rant by President Trump that predictably careened from immigrants (bad) to jobs (good), rarely slowing down for reality. But jumbled between…
The Trump administration and House Republicans advanced measures this week to end gender-affirming care for transgender children and some young adults, drawing outrage and resistance from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, families with transgender kids, medical providers and some of California’s liberal leaders. The latest efforts — which seek to ban such care nationwide, strip funding from…
WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Rosenberg is still trying to understand why President Trump would free the man who defrauded him out of a quarter of a million dollars. Rosenberg, a retired wholesale produce distributor living in Nevada, has supported Trump since he entered politics, but the president’s decision in November to commute the sentence of former private equity…
During the first days of the January firestorms, Los Angeles became a case study in what can go wrong with emergency alerts and evacuations. In Pacific Palisades there was chaos Jan. 7 as people in the foothills tried to flee, only to hit traffic gridlock. Then when the Eaton fire erupted in Altadena, evacuation orders…
When word came of Rob Reiner’s senseless death, America fell into familiar rites of mourning and remembrance. A waterfall of tributes poured in from the twin worlds — Hollywood and politics — that the actor, director and liberal activist inhabited. Through the shock and haze, before all but the sketchiest details were known, President Trump…
Hours after Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home in what is shaping up to be a heartbreaking family tragedy, our president blamed Reiner for his own death. “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and…