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Mourning a president and citizen

Former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral is an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of presidential state funerals and how Americans have mourned their leaders, with the first president to lay in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Abraham Lincoln.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman urges Trump to ease power plant, data center construction

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested that President-elect Trump should ease restrictions on data center and power plant construction to help boost the development of energy-intensive artificial intelligence (AI). In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg published Sunday, Altman said the most helpful thing the incoming Trump administration can do for AI is support the construction of...

Warner on Gabbard meeting: ‘I had questions going in. I have questions coming out’

Outgoing Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) said that his meeting with former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) has left him with more questions as she looks to win confirmation in the coming weeks to lead the U.S. intelligence community.  Warner sat down with Gabbard, Trump's pick for director of national intelligence, on Wednesday, a...

Curbing irrigation of livestock feed crops may be vital to saving Great Salt Lake: Study

Reducing the amount of water used to irrigate livestock feed crops may be critical to revitalizing the dried-out Great Salt Lake, a new study has found. About 62 percent of the river water heading toward the lake in Utah ends up rerouted for human purposes, with agricultural needs responsible for almost three-quarters of those diversions,...

Louisiana AG: More security in place through Mardi Gras after New Orleans attack

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said security measures would be in place through Mardi Gras celebrations in March after a deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans.  “I think that you're going to see a lot more resources moved into place during Mardi Gras,” Murrill said during a Tuesday press conference. "You're going to see barriers...

Traffic has gotten way worse in these US cities, report finds

You're not imagining it. Traffic congestion worsened last year in just about every American city studied by navigation and GPS company TomTom.

Jimmy Carter’s human rights legacy in US foreign policy 

The Carter administration administration marked a break from the Cold War-era policies of prioritizing strategic interests over moral values, advocating instead for a foreign policy that emphasized human rights and democracy.

Danish prime minister has blunt message for Trump: Greenland is not for sale

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen emphasized that Greenland is not for sale as President-elect Trump insists the U.S. should acquire the territory.

What to know about DOGE and its quest to slash government waste, spending

Proponents of the Department of Government (DOGE) say that it will work with Congress to slash up to $2 trillion in government waste and spending bringing more transparency.

Trump: Carter was a ‘very fine’ person but Panama Canal moves were ‘a big mistake’

President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt helped the U.S. take it over.

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