President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at stripping security clearances and government ties to Perkins Coie, a major law firm that did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign. The order, which Trump signed in the Oval Office, directs the attorney general and director of national intelligence to “immediately take steps consistent...
The world’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are infected with Russian disinformation, according to a new study that was published Thursday. The research done by the news monitoring service NewsGuard found that the Moscow-based disinformation network dubbed “Pravda” — which is Russian for “truth” — has been spreading falsehoods on the internet, including attempts...
House Democrats have drafted a resolution to condemn Republican leaders after the GOP’s campaign arm falsely portrayed a Hispanic lawmaker as an “illegal immigrant.” Led by Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), the resolution denounces the attack on Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) by the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) as a “vile” and “xenophobic” smear. It seeks...
A second person has died from measles as the outbreak of the disease in Texas and New Mexico continues to grow, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. The person was unvaccinated and a resident of Lea County, N.M., where at least 10 cases of the disease have been reported. It lies just across...
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Keith Kellogg, President Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, said Thursday the foreign nation knew an abrupt pause in U.S. intelligence sharing was at risk and their continued choices caused the final blow. “Very candidly, they brought it on themselves, the Ukrainians,” Kellogg said during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Trump administration...
Fox News host Bret Baier weighed in on what it was like to interview President Trump, noting that there’s “a lot to fact-check.” Baier sat for an interview with NOTUS for a newsroom forum Wednesday, just hours after Trump delivered a joint address to Congress. He was asked what the most challenging part of interviewing...
Democratic senators are asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate whether tech billionaire Elon Musk, a senior adviser to President Trump, is leveraging his government position to pressure advertisers into spending more on his social media platform, X. In a letter dated Wednesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the five senators pointed to recent...
President Trump said Thursday he’s looking at whether to revoke temporary protected status for thousands of Ukrainians in the United States who fled that country’s war with Russia, but that no final decision has been made. “We're not looking to hurt anybody, and we're certainly not looking to hurt them,” Trump told reporters in the...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is allowing some offices to resume their functions, as the Trump administration faces a legal challenge over its stop work order and other efforts to overhaul the consumer watchdog. Mark Paoletta, CFPB’s chief legal officer, sent an email to employees Sunday clarifying that they should still be performing statutorily...
