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USDA Secretary Rollins calls Texas ag chief 'unserious' amid screwworm threat
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (580+ words) Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Monday called Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller "unserious" after he criticized the USDA's response to the growing threat from the flesh-eating New World Screwworm. Miller, who lost the March Republican primary in a bid for…...
New York Mayor Mamdani says city must hike taxes on wealthy to fill $12 billion deficit
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (667+ words) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday said the city's wealthiest must pay more in taxes to help fill the staggering budget deficit of more than $12 billion that he was left by his predecessor. "This is at a scale…...
Senate overturns Boundary Waters protections, a boon for Chilean mining company
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (609+ words) The Senate on Thursday overturned a mining moratorium in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, a boon for a Chilean mining company subsidiary and a stinging loss for environmentalists trying to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The mine sought by…...
Trump picks housing Dir. Bill Pulte as acting intelligence chief, replacing Tulsi Gabbard
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (196+ words) President Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Bill Pulte, who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to serve as acting director of national intelligence, putting the expansive U. S. intelligence community in the hands of a loyalist who has targeted the president's foes....
Trump can't rename Kennedy Center or close it for renovation for now, judge says
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Trump DOJ 'lawfare' fund temporarily blocked by judge as suit proceeds
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'You can't just leave it to the market': Frontrunner to replace UK PM Starmer calls for 'strong public control' over industry and AI
1+ week, 3+ day ago (480+ words) Andy Burnham, the politician who threatens to topple U. K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership, has called for tighter regulation on AI, Big Tech and key industries if he returns to central government. "Lest we forget: the principal cause of the 2008 crash…...
Dell wins a $9. 7 billion Pentagon software deal after cozying up to Trump
1+ week, 5+ day ago (345+ words) The Department of Defense on Wednesday announced a five-year, roughly $9. 7 billion deal with Dell to provide a suite of software to the U. S. military. The award, known as the Microsoft Department of War Enterprise Software Agreement II Core Enterprise Technology Agreement,…...
White House eyes CFTC proposal for regulating prediction markets
1+ week, 5+ day ago (650+ words) A proposal for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket is under review by the White House, a filing from Tuesday shows. Details of the proposal, which are being reviewed by the Office…...
Fulbright board quits, claims Trump administration politicized scholarships
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (280+ words) The entire Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned over what it said Wednesday was meddling by the Trump administration in the board's authority to award scholarships. The 12-member board, in a statement, said the State Department, which runs the scholarship program,…...