Author: Wire Services
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Trump signs executive order to block state AI regulations
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at blocking states from crafting their own regulations for artificial intelligence, saying the burgeoning industry is at risk of being stifled by a patchwork of onerous rules while in a battle with Chinese competitors for supremacy. Members of Congress from both parties, as well as civil…
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Trump says he has ‘pardoned’ Tina Peters
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President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is “pardoning” Tina Peters, though that won’t free the former Colorado elections administrator as she was convicted under state laws of a security breach of her office’s voting equipment. Trump’s pardon power does not extend to state crimes like those for which Peters was convicted last year and…
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FBI to interview with Democratic lawmakers who urged military to refuse ‘illegal orders’
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The FBI sought interviews with six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video urging U.S. service members to reject “illegal orders,” a development that suggests a rapidly escalating review of the lawmakers’ conduct that some military and legal experts say could prove difficult to prosecute under existing statutes. One of those legislators is Colorado’s Jason Crow, who represents the…
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Democrats reckon with lofty Obamacare promises after shutdown defeat
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Ramsey Touchberry Washington Examiner Democrats bet big that President Donald Trump would cave to their healthcare demands in a protracted government shutdown fight. Now, they’re facing a reckoning from the party’s base over the miscalculation. The standoff, which centered on expiring Obamacare subsidies, ended up backing congressional Democrats into a corner and disappointing supporters, who expected them to…
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U.S. Senate passes bill to end shutdown
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HOUSE VOTE EXPECTED AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate passed a major funding package on Monday night that is likely to bring to an end the longest partial government shutdown in history. On a 60-40 vote, the Senate sent to the U.S. House a measure that would fund the government through Jan.…
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Moderate Democrats, GOP reach deal to end shutdown
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate took the first step to end the government shutdown on Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of expanded health care subsidies, breaking the six-week stalemate and paving the way to fund operations through late January. In a test vote that is the…
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A list of Trump’s first executive orders
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WASHINGTON • These are the executive orders and executive actions already prepared for President Donald Trump’s signature: Undoing Biden’s executive orders The first order President Trump signed rescinded 78 executive orders, actions and memorandums by President Biden. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); Pardons in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack Trump signed pardons on Monday night for…
