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BusinessHoward Lutnick Calls AI Data Center Water Concerns ‘Propaganda by Our Adversaries’ — Federal Research Tells a Different Story
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed concerns about artificial-intelligence data centers’ water consumption Wednesday, saying "data centers don’t use water" and calling the criticism "propaganda by our adversaries" as communities increasingly push back against large AI infrastructure projects. Lutnick Dismisses Data...
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PoliticsTrump Claims Michael Cohen ‘Fully’ Recanted His Testimony, Which Cohen Recently Called ‘Truthful’
Cohen forcefully rejected the suggestion that his testimony was untruthful just months ago when Abrams put that question directly to him.
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PoliticsTrump Embarks on 4 Day Golf Resort Getaway
Trump will spend Labor Day weekend at his Bedminster club as affordability crisis persists.
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WorldUN nuclear agency members draft resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council
The United States, Britain, France and Germany have drafted a resolution for possible consideration by the Board of Governors of the U.N. nuclear watchdog that seeks to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for failure to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, diplomats say. Under those obligations, which are part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran is legally bound to declare all nuclear material and activities and allow inspectors of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to verify that none of it is being diverted from peaceful uses.
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PoliticsTrump Had 4 Brutal Words For His "Extremely Obese" Friend
The president’s latest insult comes amid public battles with his own waistline.
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PoliticsDonald Trump’s Latest White House Plan Comes With a Warning for Future Democrats
Donald Trump‘s latest White House plan, the ballroom, comes with a warning. The president addressed the possibility of the structure being demolished, claiming it is built with “nuclear concrete.” Trump says ‘nuclear concrete’ will make his White House ballroom nearly impossible to tear down Donald Trump discussed his plans for the White House ballroom during […] The post Donald Trump’s Latest White House Plan Comes With a Warning for Future Democrats appeared first on Mandatory.
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PoliticsDonald Trump’s Latest White House Plan Comes With a Warning for Future Democrats
Donald Trump‘s latest White House plan, the ballroom, comes with a warning. The president addressed the possibility of the structure being demolished, claiming it is built with “nuclear concrete.” Trump says ‘nuclear concrete’ will make his White House ballroom nearly impossible to tear down Donald Trump discussed his plans for the White House ballroom during […] The post Donald Trump’s Latest White House Plan Comes With a Warning for Future Democrats appeared first on Reality Tea.
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PoliticsNew Trump admin rule narrows birthright citizenship access
The DHS proposal looks to expand exemptions for foreign government workers, offering green cards instead to their children.
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USOpponents seek to block US from starting work on Trump arch in Washington
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A group of three military veterans and an architectural historian on Friday asked a U.S. judge to block the Trump administration from starting work
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USVice President JD Vance Receives Backlash After Revealing He’s ‘Looking Forward’ to 9/11 Anniversary Ceremony
Vice President JD Vance is being ridiculed after his recent remarks about the 25th anniversary commemoration ceremony for the September 11 attacks. “As much as it’s tragic and it was a terrible day, I am looking forward to it because it’s such an amazing honor to be able to get to go to New York […]
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EntertainmentTetris Responds to Copyright Infringement by White House's New Arcade Games
Another day, another 'copyright infringement.'
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Entertainment‘Gross and Distasteful’: Critics Slam Trump WH Deportation-Themed Video Games
Conservative commentator Meghan McCain shared the White House’s preview clip for the game and wrote, “This is so gross and distasteful.”
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PoliticsTrump used an Air Force One decoy to leave Turkey. New doc details how
"Instadocs: The Decoy Plane," streaming now on Netflix, features interviews from the traveling press corps following Trump's plane swap in Turkey.
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WorldLawmakers Press DHS for UFLPA Briefing as Detentions Drop
Bipartisan lawmakers say stalling detentions and slow Entity List updates raise questions about how DHS is prioritizing forced labor enforcement.
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Politics21 states sue over Trump’s attacks on gender-affirming care insurance coverage
The states argue that the administration cannot override their decisions about medically necessary care for transgender people.
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PoliticsTrump: Ballroom's 'Nuclear Concrete' Will Defy Democrats
Trump: Ballroom's 'Nuclear Concrete' Will Defy Democrats
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PoliticsCourt grants request from Republican groups to pause ruling, for now, on political broadcasting rates
The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for political parties and joint fundraising committees, at least for now, to receive favorable advertising rates in the upcoming midterm elections. In a four-page, unsigned opinion, the justices temporarily paused a ruling by a federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, that limited the favorable rates to candidates for federal office. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter.
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PoliticsInsiders Sound Alarms Over MAGA's Favorite Democrat
Democrats are growing increasingly confident they can flip the Senate come November—but they are afraid that one of their own senators could get in the way. Multiple Democratic strategists have told the Daily Beast that while Democrats technically need to flip four seats to take control of the Senate in the midterms, they firmly believe they actually need five, thanks to John Fetterman. It comes as a bombshell report in the Wall Street Journal late Thursday argued that the first-term Democratic
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PoliticsTrump lawyers target what Letitia James won’t say about evidence in $450M case
Trump's lawyers accuse New York Attorney General Letitia James of concealing key Steve Cohen communications in the $450 million civil fraud case.
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PoliticsTrump says Iran war is 'small potatoes' for US
President Donald Trump said Friday that the Iran war was "small potatoes" for the United States, in his administration's latest bid to play down the conflict ahead of crucial midterm elections.Trump's comments came a day after Vice President JD Vance said that "I wouldn't call it a war" despite an upsurge in clashes between Iran and the United States over the Strait of Hormuz.
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PoliticsWhat to know about latest Missouri redistricting ruling
The Missouri Supreme Court delivered a last-minute twist in the midterm redistricting saga this week when the predominantly Republican governor-appointed court ruled that new maps passed by state lawmakers to give their party an extra seat couldn’t immediately go into effect. Instead, the high court said, the coalition looking to temporarily stall the new GOP-favored…
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WorldGermany's Baerbock slams lack of transparency in search for UN chief
Shortly before the end of her term as president of the United Nations General Assembly, German politician Annalena Baerbock has criticized the Security Council for a lack of transparency in the search for a new UN secretary general. The fact that the UN's most powerful body had not published the results of its preliminary ballots to date, even though these had already been leaked to the press, was detrimental to the candidates, the General Assembly "and frankly, the credibility of the Security C
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USJudge raises ‘meritless re-prosecution’ in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hearing
A Washington judge peppered federal prosecutors with questions on Friday about President Trump’s recent remarks about an Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as the prosecutors sought to convince him that the possibility of future charges should be left open. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman asked assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Spence how…
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USOfficial who oversees Corps of Engineers named acting Army Secretary
Adam Telle oversaw the Army Corp of Engineers, which maintain dams, lakes, and waterways. He now will be the Army's top civilian, replacing Dan Driscoll.
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PoliticsUS Republicans announce probe into environment groups
Republicans in Congress on Friday announced they were investigating nonprofit environmental groups over what they called their "radical lawfare campaigns" against "pro-growth" policies.The committee railed against the groups for collecting "taxpayer-funded reimbursements for their attorneys' fees to fund litigation often brought before activist judges and aimed at blocking pro-growth and pro-natural resource management activities."
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ScienceTrump’s proposed Space Academy aims to educate a new generation of astronauts and engineers
The White House is considering a new “Space Academy” — a concept modeled after military academies that trades tuition-free, four-year degrees for civil service.
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PoliticsTrump Says Places Opposing Data Centers Will Live In ‘Poverty, Crime And Squalor’
Trump said earlier this week U.S. communities will be “backwards and poor” if they do not approve data centers.
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USTrump Administration Suppresses Data on Bullying of Nonbinary Students: ‘It’s Dangerous’
The results of an annual survey of civil rights in American schools were released this week, but all data pertaining to nonbinary students was scrubbed from the drop. The U.S. Department of Education quietly released its 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) findings online this past week. The mandatory survey of all public school districts […]
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PoliticsTrump Gives Reluctant Ranchers The Go-Ahead To ‘Take Care Of’ Endangered Species: ‘You Can Shoot Them As Of Today’
Donald Trump literally jumped the gun by encouraging American ranchers to go ahead and shoot gray wolves to protect their cattle herds from the predators.
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BusinessTesla's Cybercab triggers regulatory game of chicken
Tesla's decision to let passengers start booking rides in its driverless Cybercab has triggered a high-stakes test of how far automakers can stretch outdated federal safety rules while regulators race to rewrite them.
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PoliticsTrump says data center opponents face ‘poverty, crime and squalor’
President Trump took aim at data center opponents again Friday, suggesting they want to “go through poverty, crime and squalor.” It marks the second time this week that Trump has gone after critics of AI infrastructure, which has become increasingly unpopular among Americans in recent months. “If you want to get rich as a state…
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WorldTrump promised ‘economic D-Day’ for Iran. So far, actions have come in drips
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week instructed diplomats around the world to tell their host countries they must “systematically identify and sever” ties to Iran, and those with branches of Iranian banks must shut them down immediately.
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PoliticsIran live updates: Trump says Iran is 'small potatoes'
Trump said the U.S. has 'essentially' taken over Iran.
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PoliticsLeak Reveals Trump Envoy’s Diva Fit Ahead of Ukraine Trip
Steve Witkoff, one of the Trump administration’s lead Russia-Ukraine negotiators, reportedly got “scared” about a scheduled trip to Kyiv this weekend. Witkoff, 69, and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s 45-year-old son-in-law, will visit the Ukrainian capital to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sept. 6, the wartime leader confirmed to The Kyiv Independent. The two will arrive after a scheduled trip to Moscow on the 5th. Sunday’s meeting will be their first in Kyiv. But Witkoff, ami
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PoliticsTrump taking Qatari Air Force One to Ireland before security fix
US President Donald Trump said Friday he would take the new Air Force One on its first foreign trip since a security scare in Turkey, leaving a security upgrade to the Qatari-gifted jet for next month.Speculation has swirled that Trump plans to use the Qatari plane as a personal jet after he leaves office, despite the fact that presidents are not meant to accept gifts from foreign countries. dk/dw
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PoliticsNearly half of Americans say they need more answers on Natalie Harp and her little-known White House role
Harp has been nicknamed the ‘human printer’ because she reportedly hands the president printouts of positive news articles and social media comments
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USTexas Labeling Islamic Group a Terrorist Organization Infringes on Campus Free Speech
By labeling this group a terrorist organization, the state is chilling more than Muslims' freedom of expression.
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USDuplicate voter registration submissions in Arizona are not evidence of fraud
It is a felony to vote more than once in Arizona, but social media posts are pointing to records showing the US state processed hundreds of thousands of duplicate voter registrations as evidence the system is vulnerable to fraud. The records do not represent misconduct, experts told AFP, but show election workers correctly scrutinizing requests to register, while additional safeguards prevent the casting of multiple ballots.
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USCassidy Holds Labor Nominees After Chavez-DeRemer Report
Cassidy Holds Labor Nominees After Chavez-DeRemer Report
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WorldTrump’s ‘retribution’ could now include Falklands as favor to Milei – and revenge on the UK
US president suggests he might support his Argentinian acolyte’s drive to reclaim sovereignty of disputed islands
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Politics24 hours that show how preoccupied Trump is
It can be difficult to decide which Roman metaphor more aptly captures President Donald Trump’s posture these days.
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USTrump Makes Jaw-Dropping Insult to the Dead of His Own War
President Donald Trump has dismissed his war in Iran, in which 18 U.S. service members have been killed, as “small potatoes for us.” The president, 80, was taking questions in the Oval Office on Friday when he was asked how he would describe the conflict with Iran. The question came after Vice President JD Vance insisted on Thursday it wasn’t a war despite the U.S. carrying out new strikes this week.
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PoliticsTrump plays down Iran war as 'small potatoes'
Against a backdrop of a lack of success in the conflict with Iran, US President Donald Trump is attempting to play down the war against the Islamic Republic. "I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us.
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USEPA Plan Could Strip Protections From 94% of Wetlands
EPA Plan Could Strip Protections From 94% of Wetlands
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USFlock Cameras Are Officially Banned On State Roads In Florida
Florida joins a growing list of cities and states responding to the license plate reader backlash.
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BusinessCritics Are Horrified By Trump’s "Disgraceful" New Monument
"This looks like a McDonald's Happy Meal version of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris."
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PoliticsOliver Darcy Tells Don Lemon He ‘Would Not Be Surprised’ If Trump Finds Job for Maria Bartiromo
Media reporter Oliver Darcy "would not be surprised" to see President Trump invite Maria Bartiromo into his administration, possibly as press secretary.
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PoliticsLive updates: August’s strong jobs numbers put rate cut in doubt; Trump signs beef deal
The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs last month, a stronger-than-expected showing. And now President Trump wants to see interest rates dropped, threatening to cut off trade with several countries if the Federal Reserve doesn’t budge at its September meeting. “Without the United States agreeing to allow them their big surpluses, and we could stop that…
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PoliticsWhere's the beef? Trump reveals two countries for his import plan
Donald Trump's plan to import foreign beef has faced criticism from Republicans and ranchers.
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PoliticsSupreme Court backs Republican request to lower TV ad rates
The Supreme Court on Friday endorsed a request from Republican campaign groups that want to buy discounted TV advertising for this year’s midterms, the latest in a series of emergency rulings from the high court benefiting the GOP.
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