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Trump Admin Commits $4.2 Billion Loan to Modernize and Expand Nuclear Power in Pennsylvania, Ohio
Three nuclear power plants will increase output to meet the needs of an artificial intelligence customer in the region.
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FIRE sues Los Angeles City Council over policy banning certain words during public comment
A pair of free speech groups filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Los Angeles resident against the city council after it banned certain words during public meetings, a violation of the First Amendment.
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Florida Woman Arrested After Claude Flags Her Chatbot Diary Entry
Carli Michelle Heller treated Claude like a journal. Claude treated it like evidence.
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Trump says he’s considering suspending federal gas tax as states lead effort to lower costs…
President Trump said Tuesday that he’s considering suspending the federal gas tax to lower costs — after four states already did so ahead of the midterm elections.
Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation waiving through Dec. 31 his state’s 38.5-cent gas tax and 47-cent diesel tax.
Supreme Court Questions Boulder’s Bid to Make Oil Companies Pay for Climate Change
Several justices pressed Boulder on whether a local damages case was an attempt to regulate emissions already controlled by federal law.
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Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers’ calls by monitoring his chief of staff’s phone…
The latest memos, released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force on Monday, show FBI agents assigned to Smith’s team in a probe codenamed Plasmic Echo used a dragnet of data gathering tactics in the midst of the 2024 election to monitor phone calls, social media, political endorsements and other constitutionally protected activities in the name of determining whether Trump broke any laws when he brought classified documents to Mar-a-Lago after his first term.
Already in the crosshairs for spying on Congress, ex-prosecutor Jack Smith and his team monitored the activities of President Donald Trump’s legal defense team, journalists and campaign advisers using a pen register device that tracked the calls coming to and from his chief of staff Susie Wiles’ phone, according to newly declassified memos that reveal some of the FBI’s invasive tactics used to target Trump.
Protect College Sports Act Faces Uncertainty in U.S. House
Congress is on the verge of passing major college sports regulations, but it remains to be seen whether it can pass them on time.
The Senate passed the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act (PCSA) 77-22, which seeks to regulate the ever-changing world of college athletics.
‘Raising your son as a boy is not child abuse’: Federal legislation targets gender ideology in CPS…
The Yaeli Martinez Child Protection Act, sponsored by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., would use the power of the purse to change how child-welfare systems treat gender confusion, as well as prevent state courts from ignoring other states’ custody orders when a child is taken out of state for what the legislation calls “sex-rejecting procedures.”
Congressional Republicans have a plan for states that seize children from their homes and won’t return runaways based on their parents’ refusal to treat them as the opposite sex or provide them medicalized gender transitions: withhold their federal funding and strip their ability to serve as sanctuary states for so-called gender-affirming care for kids.