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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week announced the federal government has secured a 10 percent stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal that was completed. “The United States of America now fully owns and controls 10 percent of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” Trump [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company “highly overrated” and last week he’ll keep extending the deadline for the popular video-sharing platform until there’s a buyer. Congress approved a United States ban on TikTok unless its parent company, ByteDance, sold its [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually, the Trump administration announced last week. The move amounts to a downsizing of the office responsible for coordinating the work of 18 intelligence agencies, including on counterterrorism and counterintelligence. “Over [...]
The number of people in the United States illegally surged to an all-time high of 14 million in 2023, a research group said, a major increase that still falls short of estimates from President Donald Trump and some critics of immigration. The Pew Research Center’s closely watched gauge rose from 11.8 million a year earlier [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and the European Union issued a joint statement last week that frames the ongoing deal between the trading partners and solidifies some trade commitments. “This Framework Agreement will put our trade and investment relationship — one of the largest in the world — on a solid footing and will [...]
A coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C., is asking a federal judge to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding federal funds earmarked for crime victims if states don’t cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. The lawsuit filed Monday in Rhode Island federal court seeks to block the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare if Congress does not act, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported. The CBO estimates that Medicare, the federal health insurance program for Americans over age 65, could potentially see as much as $491 [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown officially launched his campaign this week to return to the U.S. Senate next year, brushing aside his loss to Republican Bernie Moreno last fall and expressing confidence his pro-working class message can continue to resonate with the state’s voters. Brown is seeking the seat held by Republican U.S. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — American lawmakers are using a trip to South Korea and Japan to explore how the United States can tap those allies’ shipbuilding expertise and capacity to help boost its own capabilities, which are dwarfed by those of China. Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., planned to meet top shipbuilders from [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered U.S. Postal Service mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding. In June, the Senate parliamentarian blocked a Republican proposal in a major tax-and-spending bill to sell off the agency’s new electric vehicles and [...]