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Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP It’s yet another token of the chaotic beginning of the second Trump administration that the confirmation of Mike Huckabee to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Israel received little or no attention beyond the ranks of those mostly focused on Middle Eastern affairs. The Senate quietly okayed him on a near party-line vote […]

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Chris Unger/Getty Images Meta’s big pivot to AI, which Mark Zuckerberg says could cost the company another $65 billion this year, isn’t going so smoothly at the moment. Industry watchers say its models aren’t competitive with the latest from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Its head of AI research just left, an internal

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The president of the United States recently praised Hannibal Lecter for helping him win reelection, suggested he was “purposely” crashing the economy, and then abruptly paused most of his tariffs, which he described as both up for negotiation and “permanent.” So you might think making zany and contradictory public declarations isn’t

Photo: Saul Martinez/Bloomberg It gets harder every day to track the chaos emanating from Donald Trump’s America. The stock market has gyrated wildly, and we are now locked in an unprecedented trade war with China, facing 125 percent tariffs from Beijing that are sparking a whole lot of panic-buying of iPhones. Trump is living his

Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg/Getty Images In theory, the experts at the Elon Musk–helmed Department of Government Efficiency are reviewing federal-government operations and getting rid of “waste, fraud, and abuse,” along with any policies inconsistent with Donald Trump’s directives, in order to reduce federal budget deficits and public borrowing. By now, it’s clear there isn’t much actual

Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP The Supreme Court issued a rebuke of President Donald Trump on Thursday night, upholding a lower court’s ruling ordering the federal government to “facilitate” the return of wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father, was detained and deported to a prison in El

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Tiffany Trump is pregnant, as her father Donald Trump revealed at a campaign event in October. On Sunday, April 6, Tiffany’s half-sister, Ivanka Trump, threw her a Peter Rabbit–themed baby shower in Miami, which was sweet of her: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump) Less

Anadolu via Getty Images The tourist helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon appears to have fallen victim to a well-known hazard known as “mast bumping,” according to aviation experts. Eyewitness video showed the rotors and the body of the helicopter separating in midair. The phenomenon is unique to helicopters with semi-rigid

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images What are you supposed to do, exactly, when the president won’t stop Tasering the economy for fun? As far as the markets go, if you don’t trade stocks or import goods for a living, the conventional wisdom is the same, just delivered in a quieter voice with sweatier pits:

Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Donald Trump’s presidential payback tour rages on, and now it’s personal. It’s one thing to target multibillion-dollar law firms, universities, and media outlets for organizational retribution; those efforts, aimed at stifling and punishing any criticism or dissent, are reprehensible in their own right. But now Trump is