18 h. ago Bipartisan bill seeks to ban Chinese AI from federal agencies, as U.S. vows to win the AI race

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday vowed to keep Chinese artificial intelligence systems out of federal agencies while pledging to ensure the U.S. will prevail against China in the global AI competition

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21 h. ago Parenting is not just for pronatalists: the progressive case for raising kids

Child rearing in our current world is a stubborn act of hope. If the left doesn’t see it that way, conservatives fill the voidA few months ago, I was at a playground just a couple of blocks from our home in Washington DC, when a mom I barely knew turned to me mid-conversation and said: “I think I might be the deep state.”It was mid-March. Doge was tearing through the city, dismantling federal agencies at dizzying speed. Donald Trump, re-elected on a promise to “shatter the deep state”, had fired thousands of longtime civil servants in his first weeks back in office. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago James Vowles signs new Williams F1 contract – with goal to ‘win world titles again’

The Williams team principal has overseen a promising two-and-a-half year period at the Grove-based outfit and managed to sign Ferrari race winner Carlos Sainz

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7 d. ago 'A Team' vow revenge in gang war and tell their rivals 'bullets win'

"TMJ are bottom of the food chain and are all working for a keyboard gangster... Bullets win."

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8 d. ago Federal employees say many government agencies at a standstill thanks to DOGE cuts: ‘We are set up for failure’

‘Without science, the agency can’t function. And that’s what we’re seeing right now,’ one source told Politico

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1 week ago Ice arrests of migrants with no criminal history surging under Trump

Guardian analysis sharply contradicts president’s claim that officials are targeting ‘criminals’ for deportation from USThe federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency has exponentially increased the arrest and detention of immigrants without any criminal history since the second Trump administration took office, a data analysis by the Guardian shows.The information sharply contradicts Donald Trump’s claims the authorities are targeting “criminals” for deportation as part of his aggressive anti-immigration agenda. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Canada and India to share terrorism intelligence despite 2023 murder plot, says report

Accord comes as Mark Carney seeks shift in Ottawa’s relationship with New Delhi after long diplomatic spatCanada and India plan to share intelligence in an effort to combat the rising threat of international crime and extremism, according to a new report from Bloomberg, days before a meeting between the two countries’ leaders.Canadian officials declined to comment on the report, which, if confirmed, would represent a dramatic shift in relations between the two countries which for nearly two years have been locked in a bitter diplomatic spat after Canada’s federal police agency concluded that India planned and ordered the murder a prominent Sikh activist on Canadian soil. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump's plan to begin 'phasing out' FEMA after hurricane season burdens states, experts warn

President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane season is likely to put more responsibilities on states to provide services following increasingly frequent and expensive climate disasters, experts say

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2 w. ago Dan Bongino wants to move FBI training program from iconic Quantico HQ to Alabama: report

Deputy director suggested moving elite training program to Huntsville to align it with President Trump’s push to move federal agencies out of D.C.

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2 w. ago Major airlines may have been secretly selling your flight data to DHS, report claims

Customs and Border Protection requires information ‘to support federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to identify persons of interest,’ documents state

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2 w. ago Federal agencies were reportedly tracking foreigners visiting with Musk afraid they were trying to influence the mogul

The investigation, which predates the second Trump administration, did not result in any charges, according to the report

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2 w. ago ‘Total discrimination’: Chinese students facing US visa ban say their lives are in limbo

Across the US, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are now uncertain about their academic future and some are considering moving awayChinese students in the United States are questioning their future in the country after the state department announced last week that it would “aggressively” revoke visas for Chinese students and enhance scrutiny of future applications from China and Hong Kong.Chinese students hoping to study at Harvard, the US’s oldest and wealthiest university, are under particular pressure after the Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it was banning the school from enrolling new foreign students. The presidential proclamation cited Harvard’s links with China as a particular cause for concern. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Russell Martin vows to win trophies after appointment as new Rangers boss

The former MK Dons, Swansea and Southampton boss has signed a three-year contract at Ibrox

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3 w. ago ICE operation calls for 5,000 federal agents and 21,000 National Guard troops to make deportation arrests

‘Operation at Large’ calls for thousands of federal agents from across law enforcement agencies to join the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort

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3 w. ago Fema chief tells staff he did not know US has hurricane season

Staff reportedly baffled after remark from David Richardson – but spokesperson says comment was a jokeStaff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the US disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.The US hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last week that this year’s season is expected to bring as many as 10 hurricanes. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jimmy Thelin vows Aberdeen Scottish Cup win is only the start as Swede reveals one of his biggest eye openers

His first season in the Granite City was full of ups and downs but ended on the ultimate high at Hampden

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3 w. ago Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins

As hurricane season begins, experts in storms and disasters are worried about massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to the storms

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3 w. ago Hacker who beamed AI images of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet was working during taxpayer

Iowa Republican Senator says the stunt from a federal agency has become ‘poster child for why taxpayer-funded union time needs to end’

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4 w. ago Trump administration moves to cut $100 million in federal contracts for Harvard

The Trump administration is asking federal agencies to cancel contracts with Harvard University worth about $100 million

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4 w. ago Trump plans to cut last $100 million worth of contracts with Harvard and remove all government funding

Letter to federal agencies accuses university of antisemitism and breaking Supreme Court precedent on race-conscious admissions

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