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In this file photo from 2023, then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (R), husband Chasten Buttigieg and their children Penelope and Gus attend the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. Buttigieg said his family was subject to a CPS investigation after a false report on June 26, 2026. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he and his children were the subject of an investigation by Child Protective Services following an anonymous report that was later determined to be false.…

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor (seated left) and Justice Samuel Alito (seated second from right). Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images As the Supreme Court heads into the announcement of its final and hugely important opinions next week, there are reverberations from this week’s announcements, and Justice Samuel Alito’s public rebuke of his colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor. On Thursday, Justice Alito summarized from the bench three very big opinions he authored for the court’s six justice conservative majority. Alito, unlike most of his colleagues, doesn’t spend much time on these…

The Chicago Bulls celebrate during the game after Nikola Vucevic #9 of the Chicago Bulls scores the game winning buzzer beater against the Portland Trail Blazers on Nov. 19, 2025 at the Moda Center Arena in Portland, Oregon. Cameron Browne | National Basketball Association | Getty ImagesWalmart heir Lukas Walton and his wife, Samantha, have acquired a minority stake in the Chicago Bulls and the United Center, the team announced Friday.The transaction involves the purchase of existing stakes from limited partners and does not provide Walton with a path to controlling ownership, the team said. The size of the minority…

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed billionaire Leon Black in the middle of a closed-door interview on Friday about his interactions with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The committee chairman, Rep. James Comer, said the committee issued two subpoenas after the former Apollo Global Management CEO declined to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements.One subpoena requires Black to produce copies of any NDAs he has agreed to, said Comer, a Republican. A second subpoena requires Black to appear before the committee again, on July 16, for a deposition, Comer said.”The NDAs are between him and other women. We want to know, was Jeffrey Epstein…

Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze is now official, a big win on a central campaign promise six months into his term as New York City Mayor.The city’s Rent Guidelines Board approved a citywide rent freeze for one- and two-year leases in about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, after a 7-to-1 vote Thursday. The vote will prevent price increases on more than 40% of all apartments across the city as of October 1, 2026, and will cover leases that begin on or after that date.Landing a rent-stabilized apartment can be life-changing in a city where 43% of renter households spend more than 30%…

At a GNC warehouse in Whitestown, Indiana, workers see and hear four drones overhead every day as they complete tasks that few humans want to do: count and track full boxes of products across more than 2,000 pallets in the warehouse’s aisles.The drones’ regular flights allow GNC, a nutritional manufacturing company, to obtain a full view of its 250,000-square-foot reserve inventory once a month rather than once a quarter, said Bill Monk, GNC’s vice president of distribution. More frequent monitoring helps the company achieve its goal of reducing backorders, which occur when its inventory system records items as in stock…

The Trump administration confirmed the earliest date by which millions of student-loan borrowers will have to start switching repayment plans.In a legal filing on Thursday, the Department of Education said that borrowers will not be required to move off the SAVE plan until September 29 “at the earliest.”Additionally, the department said that since it is transitioning borrowers off the plan in waves, most borrowers “will get even more time than that.”Previously, the department said that starting July 1, borrowers would begin receiving notices of their 90-day timeline to transition to a new plan, and that if they did not take…

What if the company you worked for just ghosted you?A group of staffers at Triller, a company that raised over $400 million to challenge TikTok, say they haven’t received a paycheck in the past year, nor heard from their bosses in months. The company shut down their work emails and suspended their health insurance.As far as the employees know, they were never fired or laid off. There were no termination emails or ominous HR meetings added to their calendars. The company simply cut them off, said eight impacted staffers across the firm’s various divisions, including marketing, events, and sales.Triller said…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a national minimum tax on billionaires and a federal fund that would give every American a stake in the wealth created by artificial intelligence, laying out a populist economic agenda in an essay published Friday on Substack. At the same time, Newsom, who is mulling a 2028 White House bid, announced he will vote against a billionaire wealth tax on the ballot in California this November.His pitch for the federal tax on the nation’s wealthiest is what he calls a “true minimum tax on billionaires — a modern Buffett rule — that ensures the…

Former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton leaves federal court in October 2025 in Greenbelt, Md. Alex Kent/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Kent/Getty Images John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Trump who became a staunch critic, pleaded guilty Friday for mishandling classified information. Bolton, wearing a dark suit, stood before U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang at the federal district court in Greenbelt, Md., outside Washington, D.C. He solemnly entered his plea, agreeing with federal prosecutors’ summary of his actions. “And I am sorry for it,” he told the court. Under the plea agreement, Bolton…