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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has ordered staff to work overtime so they can spend cash as quickly as possible before Donald Trump assumes the presidency. “I’d like to have really almost all of the money obligated by the time we leave,” Raimondo told POLITICO, in reference to the $53 billion microchip program.
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A federal judge has halted President Joe Biden’s plans to open the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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President Joe Biden reportedly waived sanctions following the Democrats’ election losses last month that gave the Islamic Republic of Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism — access to billions of dollars of frozen assets.
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New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams appears to be embracing President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportation of illegal migrants.
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A New York City jury on Monday found Marine veteran Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway car in 2023.
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Congo’s health minister said Thursday the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people, nearly half of which were children.
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The government of France has fallen for the second time this year, as a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Michel Barnier was passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday.
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U.S. officials are urging Americans to use encrypted apps to protect their communications after telecommunications companies were compromised during a recent hack from communist China that is the largest breach in history.
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Canada will beef up security on its border with the U.S. before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, after Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico.
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The agreements are designed to complicate Trump’s stated goal of civil service reform or, as he puts it, purging the deep state. The contract terms can restrict federal agencies’ discretion over employee management.
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Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom convened the special session and wants the state legislature to approve a $25 million legal defense fund for the state’s justice department. The goal of the fund would be to “Trump-proof” the state against legal challenges from the Trump administration.
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President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he signed a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, despite repeated denials that he would ever do so.
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The High Court will soon decide whether states can protect kids from irreversible sex change procedures, stemming from a case dealing with Tennessee’s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children. The Biden administration joined the ACLU and several teenage plaintiffs suing to stop the law, and a Tennessee district court initially blocked it in April 2023. But in September 2023, a sixth circuit court upheld Tennessee’s protections for children.
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British lawmakers gave initial approval Friday to a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales.
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