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A man was arrested after making “verbal threats” toward the Texas State Capitol, the Lone Star State’s governor, Greg Abbott (R), confirmed Wednesday evening. On Wednesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth that authorities had stopped a plot on the state’s capitol building in Austin. Per the outlet, DPS said…
Staffers don’t know whether the site will shut down — but managing editor Derrek Lee confirms to The Verge that all remaining staff were laid off today. EIC Shruti Shekar confirms she’s been laid off, senior editor Harish Jonnalagadda and senior content producer Nicolas Sutrich wrote they’d been laid off, and senior editor Namarah Saud Fatmi also appears to be gone. Android Central’s masthead was already down to six staffers after layoffs earlier this year. Earlier today, owner Future PLC announced it would pause its share buyback and focus on reducing debt.
Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story The 6 new initiatives in Hegseth’s Pentagon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday gave a wide-ranging speech to active-duty officers at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., unveiling six new efforts. © Alex Wong/Pool Photo via AP…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a flurry of announcements during a wide-ranging speech to active-duty officers Wednesday. At the beginning of the address, the Pentagon chief stuck to his bread and butter: culture-war grievances, stripping the “woke” out of the Department of Defense (DOD), bashing the news media for its coverage of the Iran war,…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced new Pentagon partnerships with five non-Ivy League colleges and universities Wednesday amid his ongoing efforts to distance the military from America’s most prestigious higher education institutions. “We’re partnering with a new crop of premier higher ed institutions, including Louisiana State University [LSU], Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University and…
Pennsylvania health officials reported a fifth measles-associated death Wednesday amid a rapidly growing outbreak — the worst outbreak the commonwealth has seen in more than 35 years. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said the person who died was unvaccinated and a resident of Lancaster County, but it did not release more information. Officials in a statement…
Musk, Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will co-direct the Pentagon’s Project Meridian, an initiative meant to identify new capabilities and technologies to deploy in the US military, according to a press release: > Secretary Hegseth has commissioned Project Meridian to secure America’s long-term military superiority by identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield. Project Meridian will examine the full spectrum of future warfighting domains, from subterranean depths to the cislunar frontier.
South Korea’s government will invest up to $200 billion in U.S. energy infrastructure, including a natural gas pipeline in Alaska, President Trump announced Wednesday. The investment also includes a natural gas plant in Texas and eight new nuclear power plants across the country, Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office. Trump said the deal…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocked an effort from Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday to pass by unanimous consent the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a long-sought bill that intends to protect kids in the digital space. KOSA, which aims to hold accountable social media companies for the alleged harms their…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced that SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey and former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) will lead a new Pentagon effort to study the future of warfare, dubbed “Project Meridian.” The Pentagon chief said the project is meant to harness America’s innovators, senior leaders and technologists to look…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday knocked President Trump for opposing federal limits on the development of AI. Jeffries said Trump’s approach of allowing the AI industry to police itself is a classic — and dangerous — case of letting the fox guard the henhouse. “The notion of entering into a voluntary agreement…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers urged federal regulators to block the multibillion-dollar sale of power company AES, warning the deal could raise electricity costs for utility customers to benefit data centers. In a Sept. 28 letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Laura Swett, lawmakers argued the acquisition would not be in the public interest.…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invited governors Wednesday to bid for the “next great American” base to be built inside the country. “We’re calling on every governor in the country and adjutant general, every tag across this great republic, to step up to the plate and bring us their best sales pitch,” Hegseth said during his…
The Trump administration faced skeptical questions from a US trade court about the legal foundation underpinning President Donald Trump’s latest round of glo...
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
ShinyHunters claims it breached FBIJobs.gov and stole Social Security numbers, home addresses and sensitive assignment details of FBI personnel.
President Trump is expected to announce a major boost for a long-planned natural gas pipeline in Alaska in remarks on Wednesday. South Korea will commit $54 billion toward the Alaska LNG project as part of a broader $200 billion investment in U.S. energy projects, according to a White House official. The Alaska LNG project is…
AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects: * FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth: Granbury residents walkout during city council meeting amid data center controversy * Sentinel Colorado: Arapahoe County leaders tour data centers amid community pushback, regulations * Spectrum News 1: Data center pushback creates political path for Caledonia resident * The Spokesman-Review: A large data center is proposed for the former papermill in Usk. Locals worry how it will fit in ‘small-town USA’
