Month: July 2026
House Passes Bill Seeking to Unlock Largely Untapped Power Source
The House passed a bill Monday to expand research into a largely untapped energy source amid growing demand for power driven by the expansion of artificial intelligence.
Sponsored by Republican North Carolina Rep. Pat Harrigan and Democratic Oregon Rep. Andrea Salinas, the bipartisan Next-Generation Geothermal Research and Development Act passed the House by voice vote Monday. The bill aims to expand federal research into advanced geothermal technology as lawmakers seek reliable, around-the-clock power sources to meet soaring electricity demand from artificial intelligence, data centers and domestic manufacturing.
Treasury stopped nearly $100M in taxpayer money from going to dead people after new gov’t measure implemented…
The Treasury Department has blocked nearly $100 million in taxpayer money from going to dead people since implementing a government-wide payment verification process last year, The Post has learned.
“Treasury has delivered on a key promise of President Trump’s mandate to stop improper payments and fraud before money leaves the Treasury, and strengthen the integrity of the federal payment system,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration over Proposed Childcare Funding Cuts
The Hill Civil rights groups sued the Trump administration on Monday, after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records relating to attempts to freeze billions of dollars in federal childcare funding in response to fraud claims. The lawsuit was brought on by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Illinois, the ACLU of Colorado, the National Women’s Law Center and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. The groups accused the agency of failing to respond to a March FOIA request seeking documents relating to the administration’s funding freeze affecting five Democrat-led states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. READ THE FULL STORY
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Democratic Governor Says ‘Software Error’ Registered 6,600 Self-Identified Non-Citizens to Vote
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday that over 6,000 non-citizens were mistakenly added to her state’s voter rolls due to a “serious software error.”
Sherrill said in a statement that last week, she discovered a software error in the state’s Motor Vehicles Commission (MVC) had “led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office.” She added that the individuals had “answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers’ licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway.”
Thousands of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in New Jersey, Governor Says
A software error resulted in roughly 6,600 people who indicated they were not U.S. citizens being registered to vote in New Jersey.
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Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers.
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Federal Government Pausing $1 Billion in Medicaid Payments to 2 States
‘If those states want that money, they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate,’ the health secretary said.
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FDA Keeps Taylor Farms Lettuce at Center of Cyclospora Probe Despite False-Positive Result
The FDA urged the public to continue to avoid consuming ‘all products listed in Taylor Farms’ voluntary recall.’
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