Retired NBA great Dwyane Wade brings fans inside his life story in the new ESPN documentary 'Life Unexpected.' In this episode of Yahoo Finance Presents, Wade talks with Yahoo Finance anchor Brian Sozzi about the documentary, his family and what lies ahead in his next chapter.
The Trump administration has asked the three Democratic members of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent executive branch agency, to resign by end of day on Thursday or face termination, a source close to PCLOB said on Wednesday. The three members are Chair Sharon Bradford Franklin and two others selected by Democratic administrations, Edward Felten and Travis LeBlanc. Republican President Donald Trump, who took office on Monday, has vowed to purge civil servants and officials who do not hew to his agenda and aims to strip job protections from tens of thousands of federal employees.
A report out Thursday said a record 47% of the European Union's electricity came from renewable sources in 2024, and experts called it a promising sign for the world's ability to transition away from fossil fuels that are driving climate change. Here's a look at the world's largest generators of electricity and the share of their electricity that comes from renewables.
A new wildfire erupted north of Los Angeles on Wednesday, exploding in size and sparking orders for tens of thousands of people to evacuate in a region already staggering from the effects of huge blazes.Evacuations were ordered for 31,000 people around the lake, which sits around 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Los Angeles, and close to the city of Santa Clarita.
Acting V.A. secretary warned that disguising diversity, equity and inclusion programs targeted for termination would result in ‘adverse consequences’
The Republican-led US Congress delivered President Donald Trump an early victory in his promised crackdown on illegal immigration Wednesday as lawmakers green-lit a bill to expand pretrial incarceration for foreign criminal suspects.The 78-year-old has promised to crack down on illegal border crossings and carry out mass deportations.
Three federal judges on Wednesday strongly condemned President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons of supporters who stormed the US Capitol four years ago in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.Two other Washington-based federal judges who presided over cases involving Capitol riot defendants also dismissed the charges on Wednesday with strongly worded condemnations of the pardons.
The company also said it was working to resolve an issue where some words, including "Democrats" and "Republican," were blocked from Instagram search.
Photos taken of the Hughes Fire around Castaic Lake, California captured the massive blaze and cloud of smoke visible from Six Flags Magic Mountain.
The bill would require law enforcement to detain immigrants without legally status arrested for crimes such as theft and shoplifiting.
A man who taped a sinister note to a Chinese ex-official's door in New Jersey was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in prison. Zheng Congying was one of three men convicted at the first trial highlighting U.S. claims that China's government harasses and intimidates dissidents and critics on foreign soil. A federal court jury in Brooklyn found Zheng and co-defendants Michael McMahon and Zhu Yong guilty of playing various roles in seeking out Xu Jin, a former official in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and pressing him to return to his homeland.
That's one of the big takeaways from POLITICO Playbook’s First 100 Days: Tax Reform event, where a trio of lawmakers who discussed the GOP push for tax cuts.
The longest strike in decades by Las Vegas hotel workers ended Wednesday with a ratified contract between the union and a casino where hundreds of employees had walked off the job in November. The Culinary Workers Union announced on the social media platform X that it secured a five-year deal for about 700 employees at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas near the Strip. The union’s previous contract with Virgin Hotels expired in June 2023.
The report said Saudi Arabia wants its investments to capitalize on these conditions. The investment "could increase further if additional opportunities arise", the agency quoted Bin Salman as telling Trump. Trump fostered close ties with Gulf states including Saudi Arabia during his first term.
Employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave “effective immediately,” according to a post from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The option would include an agreement that ties together government funding, border money, disaster aid and a debt-limit hike.
A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, a report Thursday said, in yet another sign of the growing gap between the bloc's push for clean energy and the new U.S. administration's pursuit of more fossil fuels. Nearly three-quarters of the EU's electricity doesn't emit planet-warming gases into the air — with another 24% of electricity in the bloc coming from nuclear power, a report released by the climate energy think tank Ember found. This is far higher than in countries like the United States and China, where nearly two-thirds of their energy is still produced from carbon-polluting fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Congressional lawmakers demanded answers Wednesday about the FBI's response to the Jan. 1 truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people, questioning why the bureau's top official in the city was out of town and raising concerns about its initial, erroneous assertion that the rampage was “not a terrorist event.” In a series of letters, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, also suggested Facebook missed red flags and asked the social media company to provide a timeline of when it became aware of threatening videos Shamsud-Din Jabbar posted before he plowed a pickup truck through a crowd of New Year's revelers.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday deployment of an extra 1,500 US troops to the Mexican border, as he stepped up a crackdown against illegal immigration and diversity programs in a whirlwind start to his second term.- 'Number one priority' - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said immigration was a "number one priority of the American people" and confirmed that an executive order signed Monday would dispatch 1,500 more troops to the border.
What the mistakes in Trump's first executive orders reveals about his second administration
The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, handing an early legislative win to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who chose to bring up the measure as their first bill of the new Congress.
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