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Biden signs executive order aimed at growing AI infrastructure in the US
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations, such as large-scale data centers and new clean power facilities, can be built quickly and at scale in the United States. The executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate large-scale AI infrastructure development at government sites, while imposing requirements and safeguards on the developers building on those location
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Jack Smith writes biting defense of Jan. 6 probe, says jury would have convicted Trump
The Justice Department early Tuesday sent members of Congress a section of special counsel Jack Smith's report summarizing his investigation into President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to maintain power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden that culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
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The Freedom Caucus takes over the Wyoming House, marking its first chance to lead
As President-elect Donald Trump plans bold moves for his first days in office, so too are conservative lawmakers in Wyoming, the first state where Trump-friendly Freedom Caucus members have won control of a statehouse chamber. It will mark a big test for the Freedom Caucus movement, which has spread from Washington to a dozen state capitols during the past decade, including to Missouri and Oklahoma last year. When Wyoming’s legislative session starts Tuesday, the Freedom Caucus majority in the
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Jack Smith's final report about January 6 is out. Read it here.
Smith concluded by saying that Donald Trump would have been convicted had he not won the 2024 election.
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Judge to allow release of Jack Smith's report on Trump election interference case
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday denied a request to extend an injunction banning the Justice Department from releasing a volume of a report former special counsel Jack Smith issued on President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
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Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for defense secretary, faces crucial test at confirmation hearing
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is heading into a potentially explosive confirmation hearing Tuesday as senators question whether the former combat veteran and TV news show host is fit to lead the U.S. military. Hegseth’s former experience in the Army National Guard is widely viewed as an asset for the job, but he also brings a jarring record of past statements and actions, including allegations of sexual assault, excessive drinking and derisive views
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Hunter Biden special counsel dings President Joe Biden over pardon
The Department of Justice is expected to release a final report Monday from the special counsel who charged Hunter Biden with gun and tax crimes before President Joe Biden pardoned his last surviving son.
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Trump's team is discussing a trip to survey the L.A. wildfire devastation
President-elect Donald Trump's team is engaged in conversations about his visiting Los Angeles to view the wildfire damage, two sources familiar with the discussions said.
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Everything Meta has changed in the last week in its shift to the right
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dramatically steered the company to the right ahead of the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump.
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2 GOP Senators From Storm-Ravaged States Oppose Conditioning California Wildfire Aid
Republican lawmakers from states that have been devastated by natural disasters don't exactly love the idea of withholding aid to California.
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California Democrats put on the backfoot as wildfires - and criticism - rage
For California Governor Gavin Newsom and other Democratic leaders in the left-leaning state, the still-raging wildfires could have been a chance to showcase their competence and unity with the White House in dealing with a natural disaster. Instead, questions about the state's preparedness and response to the massive fires have rendered party leaders vulnerable to escalating attacks from the right, in a possible prelude to the politicization of disaster response under president-elect Donald Tru
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Two prisoners can't legally object to Biden's death row commutations, DOJ argues
The requests of two prisoners who have taken the unusual step of asking a federal judge to nullify their death row commutations granted by President Joe Biden should be denied because the act of leniency doesn't violate the Constitution, the Justice Department argued Monday in a court filing.
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Blizzard of confirmation hearings to provide an early Trump test for Senate Republicans: From the Politics Desk
Cabinet confirmation hearings will provide an early glimpse at how Senate Republicans will handle Donald Trump's wishes in his second term.
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Canada ready to buy more American products to appease Trump's tariff threat, ambassador says
Canada's ambassador to Washington said Monday that Canada is prepared to buy more from the United States, including its next fleet of submarines, to appease President-elect Donald Trump's concerns about the U.S.-Canada trade deficit. Ambassador Kirsten Hillman also warned Americans in an interview with The Associated Press that prices will go up for Americans almost immediately if Trump follows through with his plan to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian products. The ambassador also dismissed
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Special counsel who prosecuted Hunter Biden defends investigation
In his final report, special counsel David Weiss says Joe Biden was "wrong" in his criticisms of the probe.
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Georgia's governor proposes a one-time $50 million boost for school security
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday proposed giving public schools a one-time additional $50 million to spend on school safety, but his plan falls short of the increased counseling resources school officials want after four people were shot and killed at Apalachee High School in Winder in September. “All of these investments were planned with the goal of making our schools even safer,” Kemp said, adding he believed that without the funding the state has already provided, “that fateful day could h
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Alberta’s premier says she won't support a move to stop energy shipments to US as tariff retaliation
The premier of Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta said Monday she would not support any move to stop energy shipments to the United States as a way to combat U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian products. Danielle Smith addressed a news conference in Florida after a weekend visit with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort as a guest of Canadian businessman and television personality Kevin O’Leary. “Oil and gas are owned by the provinces, principally Alberta
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US agencies warn of potential New Orleans copycat attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday warned of a potential public safety threat from violent extremists who might try to copy the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people. The warning comes a week before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration. "The FBI and DHS are concerned about possible copycat or retaliatory attacks due to the persistent appeal of vehicle ramming as a tactic for a
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Virginia GOP Gov. Youngkin needs Democratic help to bolster his policy resume
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin urged a skeptical Democratic-controlled Legislature on Monday to work with him to roll back taxes and environmental laws in his administration's final year in office. The term-limited governor's growing national profile has stirred speculation that he could make a future White House bid. “My friends, the spirit of Virginia is soaring, and she can soar to even greater heights,” Youngkin said in his State of the Commonwealth speech at the state Capitol, ad
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Biden cancels student loans for 150,000 more borrowers
President Joe Biden announced his administration had approved student loan relief for more than 150,000 borrowers, bringing the total number who have had their student debt cancelled under the Biden administration to over 5 million.
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Ad wars begin in closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race
Ad wars in the hotly contested race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court are beginning. Republican-backed candidate Brad Schimel is launching a $1.1 million television ad buy statewide on Tuesday, marking the first spending on TV ads in the closely watched race in the presidential swing state. If Crawford wins, liberals will maintain their 4-3 majority until at least 2028.
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Oklahoma's Republican AG jumps early into race for open governor's seat
Oklahoma's Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who has at times pushed back against his own party's governor and other politicians who sought to push religion into public schools, announced Monday his candidacy for governor. “I'm not running for governor so I can bow down to party bosses,” said Drummond, 61, a rancher and banker from one of Oklahoma's most prominent landowning families. A U.S. Air Force veteran who flew dozens of combat missions as a fighter pilot during the Gulf War
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European defense heavyweights say meeting Trump's military spending target won't be easy
The defense ministers of Europe's five top military spenders said Monday they want to continue increasing their investments in defense but described meeting President-elect Donald Trump's challenge for them to raise spending to 5% of their overall economic output as complicated. The defense ministers of Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Poland came together near Warsaw for a meeting in a new format that they established after Trump was re-elected last year.
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US Senate panel postpones hearing for Trump's Interior pick Burgum
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate energy panel said on Monday the nomination hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of the interior, Doug Burgum, will take place on Thursday instead of Tuesday, blaming a "bureaucratic delay" with a federal ethics office. Burgum, who served as governor of North Dakota for two terms, is also being considered to head a new national energy council to coordinate policies to boost U.S. energy production, including raising oil and gas output
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Republicans Considering SNAP Benefit Cuts As Part Of Deficit Reduction Plan
The proposed cut would reverse a permanent boost put in place by President Joe Biden.
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Trump flies US flag at full height before end of 30-day mourning period following Carter's death
U.S. flags at President-elect Donald Trump 's private Mar-a-Lago club are back to flying at full height. Flags are supposed to fly at half-staff through the end of January out of respect for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29. A large flag on Trump's property in Palm Beach was initially lowered to half-staff according to protocol but has since been raised in the days after Carter was buried Thursday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
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DeSantis orders special session on immigration, with Trump inauguration looming
Hours later, GOP legislative leaders said DeSantis’ move was “premature,” but that they supported Trump.
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152,000 student-loan borrowers are getting $4.2 billion in debt cancellation through Biden's relief efforts a week before Trump takes office
Biden announced more student-loan forgiveness for borrowers, likely marking his last debt relief efforts.
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Melania Trump says she's packed and ready for the move back into the White House
Incoming first lady Melania Trump says she's packed and ready to move back into the White House, where son Barron will have a bedroom, and she plans to revive her Be Best children's initiative. Trump also said in a taped interview broadcast Monday on Fox News' “Fox & Friends” that an upcoming documentary on her life that is set to be distributed by Amazon Prime Video later this year was her idea based on the reception to the memoir she released last year. The documentary is the latest connecti
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Supreme Court upholds a North Dakota state House district on an American Indian reservation
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a North Dakota state House district on an American Indian reservation, rejecting a challenge by local Republican officials. The Republicans' lawsuit had previously been rejected by a three-judge court that found North Dakota lawmakers had good reason to create the district to give Native Americans a better chance to elect their candidate of choice, under the federal Voting Rights Act. In a separate case, a federal appeals court is weighing a lower-court rulin
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Supreme Court rejects Utah's push to wrest control of public land from the federal government
The Supreme Court turned back a push by the state of Utah to wrest control of vast areas of public land from the federal government, marking a small victory for land conservation advocates who worry that similar efforts may escalate in a Republican-controlled Washington. The high court on Monday refused to let the Republican-controlled state file a lawsuit seeking to bring the land and its resources under state control. Utah’s top state leaders said they have not ruled out taking their lawsuit
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Biden's new chip rules aim to stifle China in AI race
President Joe Biden is planning one more round of export restrictions on AI chips to limit some countries' access to the key technology.
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Biden's administration proposes new rules on exporting AI chips, provoking an industry pushback
The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries. Mexico, Portugal, Israel and Switzerland are among the nations that could have limited access to chips needed for AI data centers and products, though much of the underlying focus is aimed at China.
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Elizabeth Warren To Grill Trump Housing Nominee On Rents, Shell Companies
The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee has a lengthy list of questions for the ex-NFL player picked to head up HUD.
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Arizona's Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature
Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs knows she is outnumbered this legislative session, since Republicans expanded their majorities in the statehouse after the last election. While President-elect Donald Trump swept the battleground state, Hobbs noted in a recent interview with The Associated Press that Arizona voters also elected Democrat Ruben Gallego to the U.S. Senate, sending the message that they want their political leaders to work across the aisle to solve the thorniest of issues.
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West Virginia's conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor
Former West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a number of socially conservative laws during his two terms in office. The Democrat-turned-Republican, now heading to the U.S. Senate to take over the seat of former Independent U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, instead promoted tax cuts and economic development, approving policies such as the state's 2022 abortion ban with comparably little public fanfare. West Virginia has been a conservative stronghold for over a decade, but it could see a shift even furthe
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Japan PM asks Biden to allay concerns over Nippon Steel-US Steel deal
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba asked U.S. President Joe Biden to allay concerns in the Japanese and U.S. business communities over the status of Nippon Steel's planned acquisition of U.S. Steel. Ishiba made the request in a three-way online meeting with Biden and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday, which covered issues of economic security and cooperation in maritime security in the South China Sea, according to a spokesman from Japan's Ministry of Foreign
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Trump Posts Brutal Spoof Of His Viral Chat With Obama At Jimmy Carter’s Funeral
The pair slammed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, among others, in their simulated conversation.
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GOP Sen. James Lankford: U.S. won't invade Greenland
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., on Sunday dismissed President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to acquire Greenland by military force, saying, “The United States is not going to invade another country.
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'There is going to be shock and awe with executive orders'
Republican Sen. John Barrasso predicted Donald Trump will hit the ground running.
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‘I can’t go toe to toe with social media.’ Top U.S. health official reflects, regrets.
As they entered office at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2021, Xavier Becerra and his allies had a plan to restore Americans’ faith in the nation’s beleaguered public health agencies. Becerra, tapped by President Joe Biden to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, empowered career government scientists and experts muzzled under the Trump administration. Biden officials took on social media posts they said spread disinformation about coronavirus vaccines, urging Facebo
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Biden to create new national monuments in California's desert and far north
Bolstering his environmental legacy, President Biden plans to sign proclamations creating the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments in California.
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Biden’s agenda had a big impact. Will history give him credit?
LIBERTY, N.C. - A small town that voted overwhelmingly for President-elect Donald Trump may not seem like an ideal place for President Joe Biden to hold up as a jewel of his economic legacy. But as the president prepares to leave office, the White House is looking to communities like this former textile town outside Greensboro to validate the “Bidenomics” agenda that voters soundly rejected in November. In a Dec. 10 speech on the economy, Biden praised a $13.9 billion electric vehicle plant that
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Gov. Gavin Newsom slams Trump's disinformation about California wildfires
California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted President-elect Donald Trump’s response to the California wildfires in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” recorded Saturday, saying, “Mis- and disinformation I don’t think advantages or aids any of us.”
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Vance says Jan. 6 participants who committed violence 'obviously' shouldn't be pardoned
Vice President-elect JD Vance says people responsible for the violence during the Capitol riot “obviously” should not be pardoned, as President-elect Donald Trump is promising to use his clemency power on behalf of many of those who tried on Jan. 6, 2021, to overturn the results of the election that Trump lost. Vance insisted in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” that the pardon question is “very simple," saying those who “protested peacefully” should be pardoned and “if you committed violence o
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Trump's Cabinet picks are set for Senate hearings. Here's the schedule
After the initial crush of personnel announcements for President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, now the nominations process officially begins. Senate hearings are scheduled this coming week for several of Trump's picks for the Cabinet. Many have met with senators individually.
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Troy Aikman rips Cowboys after team splits with Mike McCarthy: ‘It suggests that there’s not a real plan’
“To say that it’s a coveted job, I’m not sure I would necessarily agree with that.”
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'Shame on you': People online call out airline after UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov was escorted off a flight
The Russian athlete was sitting in the exit row of the plane while an airline employee said he'd have to switch seats of get off the flight.
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The first AI chip startup to go public in 2025 will be Blaize
The rise of Nvidia has spurred renewed investor interest in AI chip startups. One of them, Blaize, founded by former Intel engineers, is set to go public on the Nasdaq in a SPAC deal on Tuesday, it announced on Monday. Launched in 2011, Blaize has raised $335 million from investors like Samsung and Mercedes-Benz.
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Rankings: Early look at the top 12 at QB, RB, WR and TE for 2025 fantasy football
The Yahoo Fantasy crew takes an early look at how the top of draft boards could play out at each position next season.
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