Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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OK Google, Here’s Why Men and Women Are Not the Same
By Liz PeekMen and women are different. I probably won’t lose my job for saying that, but Google engineer James Damore did. The Google fracas is not just about free speech; it is about the ability of the...
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Want to Protect Earth From Aliens? NASA Is Hiring
By Dave Mosher, Business InsiderUS government scientists work hard to protect the public. Some study infectious diseases and effective treatments. Others ensure that drugs, food, vehicles, or consumer products live up to their...
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Elon Musk: Here's How We Can Put a Million People on Mars
By Dave Mosher, Business InsiderIn September 2016, tech mogul Elon Musk walked onto a stage in Guadalajara, Mexico, and laid out his vision to colonize Mars with his company SpaceX. The talk was bold for a couple of reasons. First...
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Here’s Why Elon Musk Holds the Secret to Productivity Gains
By Liz PeekTo those Americans who envy China’s grandiose multi-trillion-dollar Silk Road ambitions, console yourselves: we have Elon Musk. China may have a bigger checkbook, the U.S. may be sinking under red...
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5 Green Energy Technologies That Could Change the World
By Zainab Calcuttawala , Oilprice.comInnovations in energy storage, smart grid, and electricity generation technologies will affect every part of the source-to-consumer supply chain for powering the planet. Energy storage tech improves...
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Self-Drivings Cars May Change Where You Want to Live
By Deborah Findling, CNBCMenlo Ventures managing director Venky Ganesan says that urban spaces will change dramatically once self-driving cars become widespread. "The average house is roughly 3,000 sq ft and it's been going...
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Remember Google Glass? It's Not a Flop After All
By Christina Farr, CNBCGoogle Glass isn't dead. In fact, it's a growing business. That's according to developers who license the smart glasses technology from Google Glass' enterprise-focused " Glass at Work " program...
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Tesla Is Now Worth More Than Ford as It Shares Surge Higher
By Robert Ferris, CNBCTesla shares hit an all-time high on Monday, after the electric carmaker announced strong first-quarter delivery numbers Sunday that outpaced analysts' expectations. Tesla shares surged as high as $...
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Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future
By Evelyn ChengElon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...
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The New Tesla Model 3 Could be the Safest Car Ever
By Robert Ferris, CNBCTesla's Model 3 sedan could end up being significantly safer than the average car currently on the road, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas. And customer preferences suggest that level of...
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The High Cost of Killing the Next ‘Superbug’
By Mark Koba, CNBCAn antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea—now considered a superbug—has some analysts saying that the bacteria's effects could match those of AIDS. "This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short...
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Facebook's mobile business expands in first quarter
By Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's mobile advertising revenue growth gained momentum in the first three months of the year as the social network sold more ads to users on smartphones and tablets, partially...
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Obama taps former lobbyist Wheeler as telecoms regulator
By Alina Selyukh, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tom Wheeler, nominated by President Barack Obama on Wednesday to become the next U.S. communications regulator, is expected to face tough scrutiny from senators over his past...
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U.S. presses China to stop growing trade secret theft
By Doug Palmer, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative's office criticized China on Wednesday for failing to stop the growing theft of American trade secrets that are the lifeblood of U.S. economic...
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What could U.N. sleuths unearth at Iran's Parchin base?
By Fredrik Dahl, ReutersSEIBERSDORF, Austria (Reuters) - The self-styled "Sherlock Holmeses" of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, now seeking access to a major Iranian base, say they have the capability to find tiny traces of...