Senate Democrats have blocked a bill that seeks to address data center electricity costs, calling it ineffective and "toothless," though the legislation passed the House with significant bipartisan support. The Democrats did not provide the Ratepayer Protection Act with the 60
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will lay out his priorities for the U.S. military Wednesday during the annual State of the Force address. The speech comes as Hegseth pushes a major shake-up at the Pentagon. He is expected to announce plans to cut the number of general and
Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Fed officials did not violate criminal law during their handling of the central bank’s ongoing multimillion dollar renovation project, the Fed’s internal watchdog said Wednesday in a report. The office of Fed Inspector General (IG)
Democratic and Republican senators have reached a long-sought deal that they say will speed the construction of the nation’s energy and infrastructure projects while reining in costs from data centers. After months of negotiations, Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Mike Lee
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) cast himself as a political “disrupter” in an interview published this week, as the Democratic state leader publicly weighs a presidential bid in 2028. In a series of interviews with Vanity Fair published Wednesday, Newsom discussed the recent
An entrepreneur argues that opponents of Flock Safety's automated license plate reading technology mistakenly equate the collection of data with its potential misuse, suggesting that tools should be judged by the philosophy of those who use them rather than being banned outright.
The music artist behind a song included in a government-funded commercial highlighting President Trump's political agenda has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the White House. JMSN's song "Love Me" is featured prominently in the advertisement that recently aired on TV and was
“I didn’t know he was a Caitlin Clark fan. Now we know," said the Missouri Republican.
After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) launched an investigation into former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) over Kalshi trades related to pardons issued by former President Biden. The prediction market account — which was allegedly linked to the former lawmaker — made
Industry experts on Wednesday will face questioning from members of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee panel about the national security risks posed by rogue AI. The hearing will focus on how autonomous AI agents — including OpenAI's model that
As Democrats potentially gain control of Congress next year, companies are advised to prepare for an aggressive wave of oversight and investigations targeting politically sensitive sectors.
The Hill will soon start accepting nominations for its annual Top Lobbyists list! Slated to release in early December, the list highlights the most impactful lobbyists at firms, companies, trade associations and advocacy groups. Starting Oct. 2 at 8:30 a.m. EDT, nominations can
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Opponents argued it did not go far enough in cracking down on lawmaker trades.
Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a bill sponsored by vulnerable GOP incumbent Sen. Pete Ricketts (Neb.) to restrict members of Congress from buying new stocks of publicly traded companies, arguing the legislation didn’t go far enough to crack down on possible corruption.
This is not mass hysteria, and doesn’t need to be mocked and framed as a Hollywood-style robot takeover. There are much more practical issues with the rapid pace of AI growth and lack of regulation.
Cornell University is facing a firestorm of controversy after a lawsuit filed this month alleges a student there was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024. The individual, identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, accuses seven men of raping her over several hours at Chi Phi
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the Republican governor of Arkansas, and she’s currently running for a second term. As former press secretary to President Trump, she’s a popular figure within MAGA, and of course, Arkansas is a very red state. And yet she just put out an anti-welfare
This spring, the United States banned all future foreign-made consumer routers - effectively all future routers - unless their makers could 1) convince the US government that they weren't a national security threat, and 2) submit "a detailed, time-bound plan to establish or
President Trump will host a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration Wednesday at the White House, as both the GOP and Democrats seek to appeal to Hispanic voters with the midterms just more than a month away. Democrats have shown signs of making gains with the voting bloc in key
The United States, Denmark, and Greenland signed a permanent agreement granting the U.S. broad military access to Greenland to bolster North Atlantic security and counter influence from Russia and China.
The Senate on Wednesday is putting lawmakers on record on bills that ban new stock trades by lawmakers and address the growth of data centers. It's part of an effort by Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to throw a political lifeline to embattled Republican incumbent
Thanks to a 1980s anti–drug trafficking program, cities across the U.S. are being forced to turn over their license plate reader data to the Trump administration. 404 Media reports that the federal government is using the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program to collect
Election forecaster Sabato's Crystal Ball on Tuesday shifted 11 House seats toward Democrats as the country inches closer to the November midterm elections. The forecaster's report shifted the race for Virginia's 1st Congressional District, led by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), from
The White House began mailing $500 refund checks Wednesday to just about 1 million Americans who the administration says were overcharged for their ObamaCare insurance. Treasury Department checks will begin going out to more than 950,000 Americans across 30 states that use
Rep. Gregory F. Murphy proposed that Medicare Advantage plans should be allowed to provide nutritious food as a targeted clinical intervention to help seniors manage chronic diseases and prevent costly hospitalizations.
We now have the full details of the "morally binding" AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officially titled the Joint Commitment on Frontier
Another Republican senator is begging the Trump administration to reduce its immigration raids. West Virginia Senator and Trump loyalist Jim Justice—mostly known for parading his massive bulldog around Capitol Hill—drew a line in the sand in a Tuesday interview with Politico .
The letter detailing President Trump’s pact with key AI leaders posted Tuesday following his meeting with technology leaders contains a typo, misspelling his title as “President of the Unites States." The letter, which Trump posted on Truth Social, outlined the voluntary
Americans can meet this new challenge as we always have, leveraging our embrace of the free-market, entrepreneurial spirit, and institutional respect for private property and the rule of law — but only if we refuse to let the conversation be hijacked by a political agenda, and
California, the largest producer of agricultural goods in the U.S., will begin tracking the use of “forever chemicals” in agricultural pesticides under a new law. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sunday signed into law A.B. 1603, which requires the California Department of Pesticide
The Trump administration has resorted to trying to bribe Americans to let data centers into their communities. “The people are going to benefit directly, whether its teachers that get paid a bonus, whether its people that live in the community get paid a dividend, you could
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday a co-pilot aboard a diverted Flydubai flight has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed the other pilot and nearly caused the plane to crash. Netanyahu's statement on the incident: “During the flight, as they were
Secretary Bessent, it is China that has made Iran dangerous.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday halted the execution of Christa Pike around an hour before it was scheduled to occur. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued a short stay of execution order to permit time “to properly analyze the parties’ fully briefed
The public has some questions about President Donald Trump’s stance. Our most macho-presenting president since perhaps Lyndon B. Johnson was seen standing in an awkward, knock-kneed fashion in a video clip from his “Super Intelligence” tech executive press conference on
President Trump’s plan to make his triumphal arch a military center with snipers, drones, and ammunition is news to the people in charge of building it. The Washington Post reports that officials with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the National Park Service
Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence chatbot used to tell the ugly truth about the president—but now it’s playing dumb. It appears that someone at the General Services Administration has tweaked the Trump administration’s new America.gov chatbot to prevent it from debunking
The Kennedy Center has financially collapsed in the 19 months since Donald Trump took control. The venerated performing arts space is “in free fall,” having already bled dry most of its cash reserves, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly claimed that the
Embattled Senator John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote against a resolution that would require the State Department to report when Americans are murdered by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The Tuesday night motion failed 47–53, with Senator Rand Paul being the only
President Trump’s accord on “super intelligence” signed with tech leaders in the White House Tuesday contains a glaring error—“United States” is misspelled. The accord lays out criteria for regulation and safeguards for different artificial intelligence technologies, and was
In a leaked audio recording, Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton privately admitted that President Donald Trump’s disastrous midterm convention in Dallas hurt Republican candidates. At a private fundraiser in Washington last Thursday, Paxton spoke
The decision to recess Wednesday will let battleground candidates get home to start campaigning as Republicans try to hold onto control of the chamber.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 30 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. This week, Donald
Fifty years ago, in his most famous work, the prolific intellectual Carlo Cipolla argued that stupid people, as a group, are “much more powerful than the mafia, or the military industrial complex.” Today, as we witness one of the dumbest wars in history unraveling in Iran, an
“We’re going to hold the crooks accountable,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told the Associated Press last week in anticipation of the Democrats likely retaking the House on November 3. (The political forecaster Charlie Cook says a Democratic House is a “done deal”
“Hoax.” “Witch hunt.” “Russia, Russia, Russia.” For a decade, Donald Trump has incessantly claimed that there was no Moscow assault on the 2016 election and that the subsequent investigations of Vladimir Putin’s covert interference in that contest, and the contacts between
For the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has been noodling on a diesel export ban as a strategy for lowering fuel costs. As of this weekend, he is still “thinking about it very seriously,” despite strident opposition from the U.S. energy industry. “That can oftentimes
