Months after the federal government gave Intel $8.5 billion in grants to help bring back chipmaking to the U.S., the company said it is cutting 15% of its workforce, which translates to around 17,000 jobs. The tech company announced the job cuts as part of a massive cost-cutting and restructuring plan. "This is an incredibly hard day for Intel as we are making some of the most consequential changes in our company’s history," Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a note to employees this week. "Simply...

Rep. Byron Donalds told ABC host George Stephanopoulos it didn’t matter that Republican nominee Donald Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity even as he repeatedly veered into that territory himself. In a contentious interview on ABC’s “This Week,” the Florida Republican went back and forth with Stephanopoulos over Trump’s remarks in recent days, with the two interrupting and scolding each other multiple times. “This is really a phony controversy,”...

The Trump campaign’s intense pushback to Project 2025 amid sustained attacks from Democrats is frustrating conservatives inside and outside the effort who worry that the disavowal will result in the former president alienating his most loyal supporters. It was one thing for Trump to separate himself amid Democratic messaging centering on the Heritage Foundation-led project’s policy blueprint, which sometimes differs from that of the former president and was intended to...

The Vatican said on Saturday it had been saddened by a skit at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony appearing to parody Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" painting. "The Holy See was saddened by certain scenes at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games and cannot but join the voices raised in recent days to deplore the offence done to many Christians and believers of other religions," it said in an unusual weekend evening press release issued in French. The segment in...

For all of his Grand Slam championships and other titles, for all of his time at No. 1, Novak Djokovic really, really wanted an Olympic gold medal for Serbia, the last significant accomplishment missing from his glittering resume. He finally got one at age 37. Doesn’t matter a bit how long it took. Djokovic beat Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) in an enthralling and evenly matched men’s tennis singles final at the 2024 Games on Sunday. “I put my heart, my soul, my body, my family...