A bill being introduced Wednesday in Congress would establish new government teams to improve technical talent in federal agencies, with a focus on artificial intelligence. The AI Talent Act, led by Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., aims to help the federal government recruit and retain top-tier AI and technical workers, boosting government capacity to apply the fast-moving technologies to real-world issues...

A new poll found that 45 percent of small business owners cite inflation as one of the biggest challenges they currently face. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's quarterly Small Business Index also found that while nearly 7 in 10 small businesses report being in "somewhat" or "very" good health, 58 percent expect to raise prices this holiday season...

A new set of photographs has revealed the progress made by workers on the ongoing demolition and reconstruction of the White House East Wing to make way for President Donald Trump's new ballroom. The photographs, taken by Getty Images on December 8, show construction workers on site among the rubble of where the 123-year-old East Wing once stood...

Officials have identified a Kentucky State University student who was fatally shot on campus Tuesday. The victim was 19-year-old De'Jon Darrell Fox Jr., according to the coroner's office in Franklin County, Kentucky. He was an Indianapolis resident. Another student, who has not yet been identified, was injured in the shooting and remains in critical condition...

The economy is usually the key issue in any election, and 2026 does not look to be an exception. Unemployment led President Reagan to lose 26 House seats in the 1982 midterms, and President Obama to lose 63 seats in 2010. Record-high inflation was one of the key factors that cost President Carter his reelection in 1980 as well as Democrats' loss of the Senate, and it had negative consequences again for President Biden and the Democratic Party in the last election...

One scandal of our age is the attempt to sell the public on the narrative of climate catastrophe. It's been fed by the press and overheated political and scientific claims that sometimes are phony. That's the story with the journal Nature's retraction of a highly publicized climate study that made headlines. The study was a shocker when it was first published in April 2024. Scientists at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research projected that climate change could cause $38 trillion in economic damage a year by 2049. To put that number in perspective, the GDP of North America last year was about $31.4 trillion. The study's finding would mean that storms, heat waves and other calamities, supposedly caused by climate change, would wipe out the equivalent of the North American economy, and then some, every year...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Trump's deployment of the California National Guard to Los Angeles, returning control to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, a Clinton appointee and brother of former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, ruled that Trump illegally kept about 100 troops deployed in Los Angeles months after sending troops amid violent protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this summer, The Hill news outlet reported...

The United States Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection is planning to require visitors from countries on the Visa Waiver Program to provide up to five years of their social media history, along with other personal data, according to a CBP proposal posted to the Federal Register. The move could significantly increase the barrier to entry into the country and risks stifling potential tourism.

The West Virginia National Guard is thanking Americans for their continued prayer for Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, sharing in an update that he is moving closer towards recovery after showing ability to move and showing more signs of responsiveness. Wolfe was one of two service members shot the night before Thanksgiving in Washington, D.C. by a 29-year-old Afghan national, federal authorities said. West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom who was on duty with Wolfe, was tragically killed...

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