VF Hive editor Jon Kelly, Kristen Scholer and the Hive panel discuss the top five stories of the week in politics, technology and business. Tom Frank and Bess Levin kick off The Hive 5 with the first legislative victory of Donald Trump's presidency. They talk about the tax reform bill that, critics argue, will raise the deficit, harm the middle class, and only benefit corporations.
Maya Kosoff covers the latest troubles for Uber. She and Nick Bilton discuss the recent ruling from the European Court of Justice that Uber is essentially a cab company, as opposed to a digital technology company.
Bess Levin and T.A. Frank weigh in on Bernie Sanders' suggestion that the Republican tax bill will be completely re-written once the Democrats take over Congress in 2018. The panel discusses a possible Sanders run for president in 2020.
Bilton and Kosoff return to report on Facebook, and how 2017 was a reckoning for the company. They talk about whether Mark Zuckerberg can pivot in 2018, or if the company will be broken up.
Levin and Frank round out The Hive 5 with a discussion on the return of Anthony Scaramucci to the news. They bring up his criticisms of Steve Bannon at a recent holiday party, and whether he might be well-suited to star in his own reality show.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives.
At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: “Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips.”
President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned a wave of “cruel” and “callous” state legislation curbing the rights, visibility and health care access of LGBTQ+ people, while causing the community to feel under attack for being who they are.
Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black population.
Mike Pence opened his presidential bid with an unusually forceful critique of former President Donald Trump over Jan. 6, his temperament and abortion on Wednesday as he became the first vice president in modern history to challenge his former running mate.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wasted no time going after Donald Trump while launching his presidential campaign on Tuesday, calling the former president and current Republican primary front-runner a “lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog" and arguing that he's the only one who can stop him.
Saying gender identity is real, a federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday that the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment.
With concerns about misinformation spreading online, European Union officials want to more closely regulate artificial intelligence, and they're asking the world's biggest tech companies for help.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, and Mazie Hirono sent a letter to top officials at Twitter expressing their concerns over the platform's privacy policy.
