BETA Technologies’ all-electric ALIA CTOL conventional takeoff and landing aircraft flies over Chicago. Courtesy: BETA Technologies Beta on Friday said it wrapped up the first test flights in the U.S. government’s sweeping electric vertical takeoff and landing pilot program aimed at making the vision of flying taxis a reality. The aerospace company, which is backed…
Donald Trump, President of the United States, speaks during a press conference at the NATO Summit at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye, on July 8, 2026. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images President Donald Trump threatened to “decimate and destroy” Iran if Tehran acts on threats to…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, speaks to members of the media following a confirmation hearing in Washington, June 25, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Five top Senate Democrats on Friday renewed calls for hearings into President Donald Trump’s…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press aboard the new Air Force One on July 8, 2026. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images President Donald Trump ousted the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, with less than four months before midterm elections, the White House confirmed Friday. Democrats blasted Trump’s gutting…
President Donald Trump said Friday he will not sign a housing bill that Congress passed in June with overwhelming bipartisan support, setting the stage for it to automatically become law at 12:01 a.m. ET Saturday. Trump said he was withholding his signature from the housing bill in protest over the Senate’s failure to pass the…
The Commerce Department on Friday moved toward easing export controls on the United Arab Emirates, including by saying it will “favorably review” export license applications for MGX, the UAE-backed investment firm that used a stablecoin linked to President Donald Trump‘s family for its $2 billion investment in Binance. An unpublished version of a new 17-page…
Iran wants to shut down a U.S. Navy-protected shipping lane through Oman’s waters that has allowed oil and gas tankers in the Persian Gulf to exit the Strait of Hormuz without seeking Tehran’s permission. The Islamic Republic tried to impose its control over Hormuz this week by attacking three tankers navigating the strait through the…
For 48 hours in Ankara, Turkey, it felt as though the world was moving on Donald Trump’s timetable. Markets lurched. NATO allies braced for confrontation. Ukraine searched for reassurance. Iran threatened to upend the agenda. One moment, leaders were preparing for diplomatic crisis; the next, they were describing a “love-in” with the very president many…
A welcoming sign at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 9, 2026. Marco Bello | Reuters The airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, has officially been renamed after President Donald Trump, the first time an airport has been named after a sitting U.S. president. Effective Thursday, the facility will…
Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf said the defense tech company is in no hurry to go public given the current market conditions. “We define a successful IPO as our investors got a good return three years from actually going out,” Schimpf told CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference on Thursday. “A bad…
