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By Pete Schroeder Aug 27 (Reuters) - A pair of U.S. banking regulators announced on Thursday they had finalized rules that set formal definitions for "unsafe...
Three Stars and Stripes staffers sued the Pentagon in federal court Thursday, looking to prevent last week’s firings by the Department of Defense (DOD) at the military-focused newspaper. Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte filed the complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the…
Top Trump administration health officials are openly questioning the circumstances of two deaths that Pennsylvania officials attributed to measles. “We don’t know exactly what happened in Pennsylvania yet,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in an interview Thursday on Fox Business. “We don’t know if the children died…
The stage is set for Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole speech on Friday.
A group of mostly Democratic senators pressed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to not use gloves that can electrically shock people in a Thursday letter. In the letter addressed to ICE acting Director David Venturella, the senators said they were writing “to express deep concern about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to…
A Utah software engineer, who runs a massive pro-President Trump social media account that has drawn attention from the likes of Elon Musk, made a sinister declaration in a post on Aug. 21. The “Deep State” was setting her up to “commit a crime.” “I have never been more angry in my life,” Jennica Pounds,…
The Trump administration is looking to change a portion of a 2023 federal climate report. The administration proposed to reframe how the Fifth National Climate Assessment sees its worst-case scenarios after U.N. scientists said earlier this year that a worst-case scenario was not plausible. In a notice published this week, the Trump administration described the federal climate report’s high-emission scenarios as…
Major tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon are calling for a society-wide defensive surge to defeat what they describe as an impending wave of hacks driven by artificial intelligence.
Medicare Open Enrollment scams start with data broker targeting months before October. Learn why August is the time to remove your personal info.
Boomers are getting 265% returns from Social Security—and the “great wealth transfer” won’t save Gen Z.
Corporate profits were $400 billion higher in the second quarter than in the first when annualized. That’s one of the largest increases in dollar value on re...
As VW board members tour sites throughout Germany holding crisis talks with staff, state lawmakers expressed frustration about the outlook on Thursday. "It i...
The executive order, which comes days after Canada announced retaliatory tariffs against the US, says Trump is changing the name to honor Lake Ontario’s “flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation’s economy.” We have reached out to Google and Apple to see if they’re going to swap Lake Ontario to Lake America in their Maps apps — as they did with the Gulf of America last year. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarcG2KiRxA]
The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its cybersecurity.
President Donald Trump announced he was moving to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating his clash with Canada after trade negotiations between the...
I’m surprised it took this long for Nvidia to make its own PAC — something that seems like table stakes for any huge company trying to influence the US government. Well, now it’s here, according to Bloomberg. The PAC will take in voluntary contributions from employees, which is a classic way of giving big money in a distributed manner given caps on election contributions. [Link: Nvidia Starts PAC as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force (1) | https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/nvidia-starts-a-pac-as-ai-chip-maker-buids-influence-force-in-dc | Bloomberg]
