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Over 100 Google employees focused on AI have sent a letter to company leadership requesting limitations on military applications of AI technology, mirroring concerns raised in the dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon that resulted in President Donald Trump shutting down Anthropic’s work with the U.S. government.

The Democrat-majority Virginia State Senate voted to up their salary significantly, even as Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) claims she is working to make her state more affordable.

Governor Maura Healey’s (D) Massachusetts is bleeding residents which has brought trouble for its economy, a report from the Pioneer Institute showed.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy its AI models on classified networks, just hours after the Trump administration ordered the federal government to “immediately cease” using Anthropic AI following a battle for control of the artificial intelligence model.

Several Maryland officials demanded that President Donald Trump issue a $4 billion tariff reimbursement after the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s global tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a joint letter addressed to Trump from

President Donald Trump delivers an address about American energy in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, February 27.

This week President Trump reminded us that the state of our union is great again, the economists spilled nerd blood over the definition of a balance of payments problem, and AI came for the technology companies.

Block, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s fintech company, announced plans Thursday to eliminate approximately 4,000 positions, representing 40 percent of its total workforce, as AI capabilities prompt a fundamental restructuring of how the company operates.

AI spending and margin expansion drive producer price index while consumer prices decline.

Target will stop selling its entire assortment of cereal with certified synthetic colors by the end of May.

An effort to root out corruption, waste, fraud, and abuse in Democrat-led California’s government has reportedly uncovered that almost $1 billion was taken from a solar panel program and given to Democrat causes.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated Thursday that his company “cannot in good conscience” permit the Department of War to use its AI models for all lawful purposes without restrictions, despite threats from Pentagon officials.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” former Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender said that restrictions on companies buying homes make him “pretty nervous.” And said that the key is to increase supply. He also argued

Stellantis, the multinational automaker with brands like Jeep and Chrysler, has reported historic annual losses after billions in write-downs for unprofitable electric vehicles (EVs).

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) are introducing the Homes for American Families Act to ban Wall Street firms from buying up single-family homes across the United States. During his State of the Union address this week, President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to codify his executive order that does just that.

The Supreme Court’s recent tariff decision has created an unusual near-term setup: a temporary “tariff valley” that could trigger another wave of import stockpiling in the months ahead.

Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” CNBC host Sara Eisen said the stock market liked President Donald Trump, which is causing “a lot of upbeat sentiment from companies.”

Administration officials are mocking the American Gaming Association (AGA) for enlisting former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), a staunch Trump critic and twice-failed presidential candidate, as a strategic adviser.

President Donald Trump’s proposal to give Americans without access to a workplace retirement plan an option to invest in a federal-style alternative similar to the Thrift Savings Plan is a smash hit, according to focus groups conducted by the Sentinel Action Fund.

Mortgage rates fell below six percent this week, the lowest since September 2022.

Nvidia’s stock price fell by more than four percent in morning trading on Thursday, despite the AI chip giant delivering financial results that exceeded Wall Street expectations. Some experts blame AI bubble fears and the massive spending AI companies engage in to stay in front of the curve.

Federal regulators have recalled about 55,000 pounds of frozen blueberries over potential contamination of Listeria.

Vice President JD Vance, who tapped by President Donald Trump to combat fraud nationwide, on Wednesday said that the country’s social safety net would disappear unless we take combatting fraud more seriously.

A hacker successfully used Anthropic’s Claude AI to conduct attacks on multiple Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of approximately 150 gigabytes of sensitive official data including tax records.

A federal judge has ruled that Tesla must face a class-action lawsuit alleging the EV giant systematically discriminated against American workers by favoring H-1B visa holders for engineering positions while laying off over 6,000 United States employees in 2024.

The far-left Washington Post lost more than $100 million in 2025, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration was “temporarily” halting “certain amounts of Medicaid funding” to Minnesota, until the government learns “to be good stewards” of taxpayer money.

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Polite Kambamura, announced on Wednesday that all exports of raw minerals and lithium concentrates would be banned until further notice due to unspecified “continued malpractices” in the mining industry.

President Trump led off his State of the Union speech by addressing the state of the economy, highlighting the progress on bringing down inflation after the Biden-Powell surge that undermined America’s post-pandemic recovery.

Bill Gates has apologized to staff of the Gates Foundation over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, admitting he made mistakes that had cast a cloud over the philanthropic group while insisting he didn’t participate in Epstein’s crimes. Gates bizarrely stated, “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” showing a very different definition of the word illicit from that of typical Americans. 

Google has issued an apology after a computer-generated news notification about the recent BAFTA Film Awards controversy contained the N-word. The tech giant claims AI is not to blame for the racial slur being sent out to to unsuspecting users.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has given Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to grant the military unrestricted access to its AI model or face significant penalties, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The Democrat party’s apparently unanimous refusal to stand up for Americans over illegal migrants was “one of the most profound moments of a truly historic speech,” Vice President JD Vance said via X.

Ordinary Americans pay a huge price for federal immigration policies that pull many migrants from corrupt cultures and regions into the United States, President Donald Trump said in his State of the Union address.

President Donald Trump touted a long list of his administration’s accomplishments to begin his State of the Union address before Congress on Tuesday. 

The plan would be available for “forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country, access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker,” Trump said.