OCTOBER 10, 2025
Solar panels in the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan area in California are shown. - Tom Brewster Photography/Bureau of Land Management/Flickr
The Trump administration’s cancellation of what would have been one of the world’s largest solar power projects has some industry observers fretting over the future of renewable energy on public lands.
They predicted the Esmeralda 7 project — by far the...
OCTOBER 10, 2025
The U.S. Capitol behind construction sandbags in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2025, the eighth day of the federal government shutdown.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ‒ President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his long-standing threat to fire federal workers during the government shutdown, taking aggressive action to downsize the government in a dramatic break from past shutdowns.
“The RIFs have begun,” Russell...
OCTOBER 10, 2025
Peter Thiel attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 6, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their...
OCTOBER 10, 2025
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has said he is more worried than many of his peers about the possibility of an imminent U.S. stock market crash.
Speaking to the BBC’s Business Editor, Simon Jack, on Thursday, Dimon was asked about the consequences of President Donald Trump’s tariff war, a subject about which he has been largely ambivalent this year.
“I am far more worried...
OCTOBER 10, 2025
Federal workers are being told to brace for a government shutdown. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Not seeing the effects of the government shutdown yet? Federal workers are about to feel it in their wallets.
The 658,000 federal workers getting paid today are receiving lighter-than-normal checks thanks to the shutdown, and it's set to get worse. BI spoke to nearly a...
OCTOBER 8, 2025
Arnold Schwarzenegger. - Zimmer Biomet
In the 1977 film "Pumping Iron," Arnold Schwarzenegger famously described "the pump" − or when blood flows into your muscles during a workout − as "the greatest feeling." Akin to sex, even.
Now, at 78, Schwarzenegger says he stands by this description − but he'd like to add some important context.
"There's a scene in 'Pumping Iron' when I talk about the pump and...
OCOTBER 6, 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies.
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi will share the prize “for their fundamental discoveries relating...
OCTOBER 6, 2025
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Israeli and Hamas officials were set to gather Monday in Egypt for high-stakes negotiations over a U.S.-backed plan to end the Gaza war, even as Israel continued to pummel the enclave with heavy air and artillery strikes.
The two sides will converge for indirect talks after months of deadlock to hash out the details of...
OCTOBER 5, 2025
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth addresses senior military officers at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, on September 30, 2025. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Tuesday told a rare gathering of top brass called back from bases around the world that the US military will be reformed to end what he called
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) thinks Secretary...
OCTOBER 3, 2025
British passport holders – as well as other “third-country nationals” from the US, Canada, Australia and elsewhere – are about to become subject to the European Union’s entry-exit system (EES). The digital border scheme begins on Sunday 12 October. Many readers of The Independent have posed questions about EES, and this Q&A distils the key issues.
What’s the big idea?
The long-awaited entry-exit...
