The United States faces a critical technological innovation test. Artificial intelligence requires massive amounts of computing power to function. That computing power requires physical infrastructure. America must continue our decadeslong history of building mainframes and data centers to process information in order to maintain our global leadership. However, a growing political movement is actively trying […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said late Wednesday that Democrats are in “the fight of our lives” following President-elect Trump's victory in the 2024 election. “We're not gonna change our values,” Raskin said on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes.” "We're not gonna abandon American constitutional democracy because we lost an election by … 1 and...
Fewer children in the U.S. have gotten a flu vaccine in 2024 compared to last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of Nov. 30, about 36 percent of the nation’s children aged six months to 17 received a flu vaccination, a drop from last year’s...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday addressed Vice President Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election, calling it a setback for gender representation in politics, during a gala promoting women in politics. “We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress,” Trudeau said during a gala for a Canadian...
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Wednesday he disagrees with FBI Director Christopher Wray’s decision to step down from his post at the end of President Biden’s term and thinks he should have stayed and let President-elect Trump fire him. In an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, McCabe said staying at the FBI would...
The House approved a bill Thursday that would create dozens of additional judicial seats over the next several years, sending it to President Biden’s desk after his administration levied a veto threat. The measure — titled the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act — cleared the chamber in a 236-173 vote, after the Senate unanimously passed...
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) weighed in on questions swirling around China's potential use of drones against the U.S., claiming the chance was "nontrivial." Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat on the House select panel examining the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), joined NewsNation's "The Hill" Wednesday, looking into the uptick in recent drone sightings. Asked by host Blake...
President-elect Trump has been named Time Magazine’s 2024 “Person of the Year.” The legacy news magazine announced the decision Thursday morning. Trump, 78, has plans to be in New York City early Thursday morning to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. In a feature announcing the magazine’s honoree, Time noted that...
Among Donald Trump’s many disconcerting campaign promises is a pledge to fire tens of thousands of federal employees and replace them with loyalists. Some people have dismissed some of his other threats as empty rhetoric that won’t materialize. But this one is real.
Chris Sununu, the Governor of New Hampshire, has urged Elon Musk to look to the states for inspiration in streamlining government, citing the success of states with balanced budgets and limited government as a blueprint for achieving what some say is impossible.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been dealt a severe blow with the destruction of Hamas and Hezbollah, but his nuclear weapons program is still active, and the Biden administration's decision to free up $10 billion for Iran through sanctions relief has only made the task of eliminating Tehran's nuclear threat even harder.
President Biden on Thursday announced pardons for 39 people and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, setting a new daily record for clemency with a focus on those who were under home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sweeping act of clemency came as Biden has been under pressure to pardon individuals after he...
In today’s issue: FBI Director Christopher Wray, who began his tenure atop the bureau in 2017 as the choice of then-President Trump, does not want to become the third bureau director in history to be fired by a president. He said Wednesday that he will resign at the end of the current administration. The decision...
