Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi is bolstering its lobbying roster with a former adviser to President Donald Trump.

Social-media giant ByteDance is seeking to leverage the popularity of its domestic short video app, Douyin, to widen the ...

Macaulay Culkin revealed at the Vanity Fair Oscars party (via Entertainment Weekly) that he cried when his younger brother ...

One former 18F worker told me, “It’s chaotic, and it feels like it’s chaotic on purpose.” The experience of 18F echoes a pattern of chaos in DOGE’s actions across the federal government—at USAID, the ...

First, download and bootstrap vcpkg itself; it can be installed anywhere, but generally we recommend using vcpkg as a submodule for CMake projects, and installing it globally for Visual Studio ...

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Most recently, the Resolute Desk was used by Democratic former presidents Biden between 2021 and 2025 and Obama between 2009 and 2017. Trump also used the desk in his first term between 2017 and 2021.

Rumors swirled this week that Secretary Pete Hegseth is prepping a list of top Pentagon brass for the chopping block, but it's not the first time an administration has cleaned out top military ...

President Donald Trump is doing a little sprucing up in the White House. That’s why the iconic Resolute Desk has been temporarily removed from the Oval Office. Trump on Truth Social announced ...

The best example is President Barack Obama’s 2012 proposal to merge into one entity the Commerce Department and five other agencies dealing with business or trade. “No business or nonprofit ...