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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for exporting advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries. The framework proposed earlier this week, however, also raised concerns of chip industry executives who [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate last week voted to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and most other Democrats voted to proceed with the legislation, advancing the bill 84-9. Schumer noted in that the vote was “not [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration last week abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. The move was announced by U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore in a letter to forest supervisors. President Joe Biden launched the initiative with an executive order on [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time a president was inaugurated, there was a global pandemic. This time, the event is happening as part of an unprecedented string of high-stakes security events in the nation’s capital. The Jan. 20 swearing-in caps a two-week stretch of national special security events — occasions of national significance that get [...]
PARIS (AP) — During his New Year’s address to French ambassadors, France’s President Emmanuel Macron extended an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump, declaring that France is “a solid ally” and outlining his vision for global diplomacy in 2025. “Donald Trump knows that he has a solid ally in France, an ally he does not [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his family were given tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders in 2023, according to an annual accounting published by the State Department last week, with first lady Jill Biden receiving the single most expensive present: a $20,000 diamond from India’s leader. The 7.5-carat diamond [...]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable,” and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy, however, said it won’t be possible to end the almost three years of war in one day, as Trump claimed [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has rejected the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow to block the acquisition of the iconic American company. “We need major U.S. companies representing the major share of U.S. steelmaking capacity to keep leading the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on two groups linked to Iranian and Russian efforts to target American voters with disinformation ahead of last year’s election. Treasury officials announced the sanctions last week, alleging that the two organizations sought to stoke divisions among Americans before November’s vote. American intelligence has accused both [...]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is endorsing House Speaker Mike Johnson as he prepares to fight to keep his role leading Republicans in Congress. Trump said in a post on his social media network that Johnson “is a good, hard working, religious man” and said the Louisiana Republican “will do the [...]