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President Biden's approval rating has hit an all-time low, and he trails former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head 2024 matchup. Trump leads Biden 47% to 43% in a hypothetical ballot between only those two candidates and trails 37% to 31% in a hypothetical ballot with five independent candidates, according to the results of a Wall Street Journal poll released Saturday. The president's sagging numbers against Trump also come as voters gave Biden low approval marks, including only 23% of respondents saying Biden's policies have helped them personally, compared to 53% who say they have been hurt by the president's policies.  About half of respondents said they were helped by Trump's policies when he was president, and only 37% said the former president's policies harmed them. DEMOCRATIC ANALYSTS SOUND ALARM ON MORE 'GRIM' BIDEN POLLING SHOWING DIMINISHING SUPPORT IN KEY VOTER GROUPS Biden's overall job performance garnered only...

Erik Hoel / The Intrinsic Perspective : A bear case for the AI industry, as the sectors it seems to be able to disrupt so far, like writing, digital art, and programming help, are not very lucrative   —  Gemini and the supply paradox of AI  —  Another day, another huge new AI model revealed.  This time it's Google's Gemini.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) published to social media an open letter to the incoming president of Ohio State University, urging the new administrator to abandon "diversity, equity and inclusion" mandates. Vance, an alum of Ohio State, accused the school of using racial justice rhetoric to mask "racial hatred" in its hiring of personnel and curricula.  "Today I wrote to the leadership of Ohio State, a university I love, to ask about the troubling rise of racial prejudice on campus," Vance said of the letter on social media. "If universities keep pushing racial hatred, euphemistically called DEI, we need to look at their funding." JD VANCE IN LETTER TO BIDEN ADMIN ACCUSES WAPO WRITER OF ENCOURAGING 'OPEN REBELLION' AGAINST US "I write to express frustration with the culture at my alma mater, The Ohio State University, and to understand how that culture might change once you become its president," the senator's letter reads....

Mark C. Scarsi, a Trump-appointed judge, is presiding over Hunter Biden's most recent federal indictment on tax evasion charges. He currently serves as the U.S. district judge for the Central District of California.  Scarsi was selected at random to oversee the case against Biden, which includes nine new charges alleging a "four-year scheme," when he did not pay his federal income taxes from January 2017 to October 2020 while also filing false tax reports. HUNTER BIDEN FACES NEW INDICTMENT IN CALIFORNIA The charges break down to three felonies and six misdemeanors centered around $1.4 million in owed taxes that were since paid. Scarsi was confirmed by the Senate in 2020 after being nominated by former President Trump.  He spent most of his career on civil litigation "with an emphasis on intellectual property," according to his bio on California's district court website, and has represented Fortune 100 companies such as Apple and Google.  FROM SEX CLUB...

Stanford University on Friday issued a statement condemning calls for Jewish genocide after presidents of other Ivy League schools shocked the nation with their Congressional testimony regarding antisemitism on campus. "In the context of the national discourse, Stanford unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of Jews or any peoples," the school posted on X. "That statement would clearly violate Stanford’s Fundamental Standard, the code of conduct for all students at the university." The statement comes as the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) are reeling from backlash to their remarks before lawmakers earlier this week. On Tuesday, the universities' presidents were summoned to Capitol Hill to give testimony about rising antisemitism on their campuses before the House Education and Workforce Committee. HOUSE REPS ANNOUNCE INVESTIGATION INTO HARVARD, MIT, UPENN A...

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg : Microsoft agrees to convert 77 TCWGlobal contract staff at ZeniMax into unionized employees, as part of negotiations with CWA-affiliated ZeniMax Workers United   —  - Move expands organized labor's foothold at software giant  — As direct employees, staffers will also receive raises, perks

FIRST ON FOX: After months of holding military promotions over the Pentagon's abortion policy, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., relented this week amid growing calls from lawmakers – including some in his party – to drop them. He blamed Democrat senators for not coming to the table to negotiate. "I couldn't get anybody to negotiate," Tuberville told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "Democrats cared nothing about negotiating, and they wanted to stick by the unlawful executive order." Tuberville released all holds except about a dozen four-star generals, which he said he'll likely vote for when they're brought to the floor.  The Alabama Republican's change of tune comes as a Democrat-led effort to change Senate rules to allow hundreds of promotions to proceed without voting individually was gaining momentum from lawmakers, including some in his own party.  "I hated to drop the holds, but I didn't want them to change the rules in the Sena...

Democratic mega-donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman recently donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley's bid for the White House. The donation – given to SFA Fund Inc., the top Haley-aligned super PAC – comes after Haley recently gained momentum in the Republican primary race and witnessed a surge in the polls. First reported by the New York Times, the contribution was confirmed to Fox News Digital by Dmitri Mehlhorn, a political adviser to Hoffman. Hoffman declined to comment on the donation. Despite the hefty contribution to the Haley-aligned PAC, Hoffman, a longtime Biden advocate who said he would support the incumbent's re-election bid at the ballot box next fall, described his positioning on the issue in a Wednesday morning blog post on LinkedIn . HALEY CELEBRATES MOMENTUM AS GOP RIVALS RAMP UP ATTACKS: 'THESE GUYS KNOW WE'RE SURGING' "In the 2024 election, I will enthusiastically vote for J...

Bloomberg : AT&T chooses Ericsson to modernize its wireless network with an architecture utilizing open standards, a nearly $14B project over five years; Nokia drops ~5%   —  - Infrastructure deal aims to modernize network over five years  — Deal is a blow to Nokia, which will delay profit targets

FIRST ON FOX: Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., hit back at his critics within the GOP Conference at a closed-door member meeting on Tuesday morning.  Three sources who were in the room told Fox News Digital that Johnson said something to the effect of, "We shouldn’t go out and tackle our quarterback before we even run the play." All three sources said it was in response to the public criticism beginning to emerge as old House GOP fractures that were temporarily pushed back by Johnson’s election as speaker resurface. HOUSE GOP DISCUSSING VOTE TO FORMALIZE BIDEN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY It's a notable acknowledgment of the blowback from Johnson, who has not spoken publicly about any frustrations with wayward members of his conference. Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, said he would give Johnson a "D-minus" grade as speaker in comments to reporters last week. "I’ve lost a lot of faith," Miller said after another closed-door Republican Conference meeting. "He w...

Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., announcedTuesday that he will not seek re-election, once again expanding the coming congressional exodus. McHenry said he will finish out the remainder of his term. The Republican is a close ally of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and served as interim-speaker in the time between McCarthy's ouster and the election of Speaker Mike Johnson.   "This is not a decision I come to lightly, but I believe there is a season for everything and—for me—this season has come to an end," McHenry said in a statement. "Past, present, and future, the House of Representatives is the center of our American republic. Through good and bad, during the highest of days and the lowest, and from proud to infamous times, the House is the venue for our nation’s disagreements bound up in our hopes for a better tomorrow. It is a truly special place and—as an American—my service here is undoubtedly my proudest." The North Carolina congressman, who has served...

FIRST ON FOX: More than a dozen state attorneys general signed a letter to media outlets such as the New York Times and Reuters, putting them "on notice" that providing material support to terrorist organizations such as Hamas is illegal, Fox News Digital exclusively learned.  "We will continue to follow your reporting to ensure that your organizations do not violate any federal or State laws by giving material support to terrorists abroad. Now your organizations are on notice. Follow the law," 14 state attorneys general stated in a letter to the chiefs of CNN, The New York Times, Reuters and The Associated Press on Monday afternoon.  Republican Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird spearheaded the letter, which detailed concerns that journalists embedded with Hamas may actually have deep connections with the terrorist organization "and may have participated in the October 7 attack."  "Reporting credibly alleges that some of the individuals that your...

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch : 23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts   —  On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals.

An Israeli-born restaurant owner in Philadelphia was harassed by a large group of pro-Palestinian protesters who gathered outside his store Sunday night and accused him of genocide. Hundreds of protesters marched through Philadelphia calling for a cease-fire in Gaza when some of the demonstrators stormed Goldie, an Israeli-style falafel shop co-owned by chef Michael Solomonov. The protesters shouted outside the restaurant and vandalized it, officials said. Their actions were captured on video and shared by the state’s governor, prompting criticism from other officials. "Goldie, Goldie you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide," the protesters can be heard shouting in the video. ISRAEL STRIKES 200 HAMAS TERROR TARGETS IN GAZA AS RENEWED MILITARY CAMPAIGN ESCALATES According to city officials, other facilities were also vandalized, including TD Bank and Starbucks. The University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety said in an alert, "Penn Police were on sit...

Gillian Tan / Bloomberg : CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, says it closed a minority stake sale to investors led by Fidelity; sources: the sale values CoreWeave at $7B   —  - IMCO, JPMorgan Asset Management, Zoom Ventures bet on startup  — Nvidia, Magnetar Capital are among its existing investors

Former New Jersey governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie told host Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" that he is "confident" he will be on the fourth GOP debate stage this week. "I'm confident, Margaret, that I will be there, that we have all the qualifications necessary to get there," Christie said. The debate is set to happen Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Republican National Committee is expected to announce the participants Monday. Christie also told the show host it is too early to make election predictions. "Look, if we listen to all the polling, Margaret, Hillary Clinton would be in her second term. So I don't believe that polling is nearly as reliable as it used to be. And I don't believe that people tell the truth to pollsters," he said, adding that in 2007 polls showed Mitt Romney in the lead, in 2011 Newt Gingrich and in 2017 Ben Carson, none of whom held the White House. CHRISTIE ...