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Goldman Sachs (GS.N), opens new tab is preparing to eliminate race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other diversity-related factors from the criteria its board uses to assess prospective candidates, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Since taking office last year, U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a broad campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in both the government and the private sector, alleging that these programs are discriminatory. Several corporate giants including Morgan Stanley (MS.N), opens new tab and Citi (C.N), opens new tab have softened their diversity commitments amid pressure from the Trump administration.

A dispute stemming from questions about the use of AI firm's Anthropic’s model during the U.S. operation targeting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has triggered a Pentagon review of the company’s partnership, with senior officials raising concerns that Anthropic could represent an alleged "supply chain risk." Axios first reported on the growing tensions between the Pentagon and Anthropic, a tech company known for emphasizing safeguards on AI. Anthropic won a $200 million contract with the Pentagon in July 2025. ts AI model, Claude, was the first model brought into classified networks. Now, "the Department of War’s relationship with Anthropic is being reviewed," chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told Fox News Digital.

President Donald Trump’s chief negotiators have warned that striking a “good” nuclear agreement with Tehran is historically “difficult to impossible,” as he declared regime change “would be the best thing that could happen” and ordered additional U.S. forces into position ahead of renewed talks. Trump asked U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner what the odds were of reaching an agreement with the Islamic Republic, according to reporting published Saturday. The two advisers told the president that history shows the West has never been able to secure a durable, positive deal with Iran’s rulers

n polite company, it's long been considered an unwritten rule that American politicians shouldn't criticize their own country while on foreign soil. In recent years, however, the Democrats have nuked so many traditional views and values, it’s hardly a surprise then that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is currently undermining the nation at the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Germany — instead of tending to the many problems plaguing the Golden State — and is busy blasting the duly elected president of our republic. He’s joined by other American-bashing Democrats, including democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), who is pushing a global wealth tax at the conference. What could go wrong?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the stage Saturday at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), and you could almost sense the audience – made up largely of European Union (EU) leaders, global elites, and other stakeholders – hold its collective breath as it awaited another tongue-lashing from the United States for abandoning the policies on which Western society once rested. It's unlikely any of them had forgotten Vice President JD Vance going scorched earth on them last year for their softening stances on free speech. Here's a taste of Vance at MSC 2025: "The threat that I worry most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, not China,

Some people have just unbelievable gall and a total lack of shame — former President Bill Clinton and California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately come to mind — and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is proving that in spades. After his state refused to cooperate with federal authorities in their effort to clean up Joe Biden’s illegal immigration fiasco, and after endlessly demonizing agents who have tried to bring law and order to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and after apparently being completely blind to a massive Somali fraud operation that reportedly took in nine billion dollars in grift,

The city of Chicago exists on another plane of the universe than the rest of us. It's a place where up is down, black is white, and the basic laws of physics are held in abeyance so that when adding one plus one, any number that's convenient (and politically viable) can be the answer. In Chicago's budget, the "new physics" includes the caveat that nothing is real unless we (the aldermen and the city's hapless Mayor Brandon Johnson) say it is. And even then, nothing is permanent in this alternate plane of the universe. An equation that's "true" today may not be so "true" tomorrow. Do you think I'm being facetious?

Since November, one key question has percolated: Was Zohran Mamdani a fluke, or a harbinger? According to CNN poll analyst Harry Enten, the actual answer may be: mainstream. At least among Democrats. Enten provides context for an upcoming special election for a House seat in New Jersey, where former Rep. Tom Malinowski just dropped out rather than face a "progressive far-Left" Democrat. The Cook index for NJ-11 is only a D+5, suggesting that a more moderate candidate should get more traction. Not in today's Democrat Party, Enten explained to Kate Bolduan yesterday: ENTEN: ... Democrats who identify as very liberal or conservative.

There are few things more natural than people from different places and cultures being suspicious of one another. Human beings are tribal by nature, and tribes have always been exclusive. As human societies grew larger, the "tribe" to which we are loyal has expanded, and the characteristics we use to identify who belongs to it can shift beyond mere proximity and familiarity. We can even have allegiances to different tribes at the same time. Texans tend to see themselves as members of their local community, Texas, the "tribe" of their favorite sports teams, and as Americans. Sometimes the tribal allegiances overlap, and sometimes not.

An aide to New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani exploded at airline staff in a series of entitled social media rants, it has been revealed. Mathis Roy Vigne, an advance man for the new leader of the city, used his X profile to berate workers from various airlines, the Washington Free Beacon reports. The complaints ranged from ranting about airline staff over his business class seats and lounge access and for allegedly failing to serve him a drink. Vigne, who previously interned for Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, handles publicity and events for Mamdani. In one complaint dated December of 2019, he fumed at American Airlines for being denied lounge access

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that its Civil Rights Division lodged a new lawsuit against Harvard University, alleging that the Ivy League institution illegally withheld admissions material needed to decide whether the school is continuing to discriminate in the admissions process despite a 2023 Supreme Court ruling. "Under President Trump’s leadership, this Department of Justice is demanding better from our nation’s educational institutions," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "Harvard has failed to disclose the data we need to ensure that its admissions are free of discrimination — we will continue fighting to put merit over DEI across America."

The Fifth Circuit just handed Texas a major win on ballot harvesting, reversing a lower court and allowing the state’s ban on paid in-person ballot harvesting to take effect. The ruling clears the way for enforcement of a key provision in S.B. 1, the 2021 election integrity law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R). The statute targets compensated political operatives who interact with voters while they are physically handling ballots. The law defines “vote harvesting services” as: “in-person interaction with one or more voters, in the physical presence of an official ballot or a ballot voted by mail, intended to deliver votes for a specific candidate or measure.”