The Trump administration is undoing its predecessors’ artificial intelligence policies, as governments’ plans to regulate artificial intelligence are on shaky ground across the West. The Commerce Department on Tuesday said it would formally revoke the Biden administration’s AI diffusion rule, a regulatory framework that would have imposed new controls
President Trump kicked off his Middle East trip Tuesday by burnishing his reputation as a dealmaker and establishing a U.S. policy for the region built on economic and investment ties. The three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is focused on bolstering economic ties. It included a Saudi economic summit with executives…
Earlier this year, as Fairfax County was facing a $300 million budget shortfall, its school board members added high-paying personal staff positions amounting in total to an additional $1.5 million. Fairfax County Times has reported that in a closed session, county school board members voted to offer their friends…
President Trump offered a stern warning to Iran on Tuesday, telling the Middle Eastern country it was “time to choose” how it wants to proceed in negotiations with the U.S. on its nuclear program. Mr. Trump vowed that Iran would “never have a nuclear weapon”…
The pope told the College of Cardinals that he selected the papal name Leo XIV “mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic encyclical, ‘Rerum Novarum,’ addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution”…
Sen. Jim Banks was uncharacteristically curt. The Indiana Republican was walking to the elevator last month when a fired federal employee caught up to him on Capitol Hill. The protester, a budget analyst who had received a pink slip from the Trump administration like thousands of other government employees, demanded an answer for the ongoing mass layoffs…
The White House on Monday released more details of the trade deal the United States had reached with China over the weekend. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. agreed to drop its 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods by 115 percentage points to 30%, while China agreed to lower its rate on U.S. goods by the same amount to 10%…
Pope Leo XIV offered his first Sunday blessing in the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, where he called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and peace in Ukraine before addressing the Vatican’s financial woes. “I, too, address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo told the estimated 100,000 worshippers in the square at the Vatican…
The Food and Drug Administration’s commissioner, Marty Makary, sent out a warning Thursday about tianeptine, also called “gas station heroin.” The substance, licensed in some countries as an antidepressant, isn’t listed under the Controlled Substances Act and isn’t approved by the FDA. as a medicine or for use in food…
President Trump overturned four Biden-era efficiency regulations on tankless water heaters, gas stoves, freezers and refrigerators. “It’s all about common sense,” Mr. Trump said Friday in the Oval Office. President Biden signed the regulations into law just days before he left office…
Homeland Security released a video Saturday it said showed a congresswoman assaulting a federal officer during a scuffle when lawmakers “stormed” into an ICE detention facility on Friday. The department, on social media, identified the congresswoman as Rep. LaMonica McIver…
A federal judge issued a restraining order blocking President Trump’s plans for major personnel cuts across the government, saying he must ask Congress for permission before he tries such a broad rewrite of the bureaucracy. Mr. Trump ordered agencies to pursue major reductions in force, or RIFs, as part of his modernization efforts…
Fairfax County’s dog owners are often surprised to receive official mail from the local government detailing their dogs’ names, breeds, and coloring before they register them. The county’s department of tax administration sends these notices to solicit $10 annually for each dog license…
President Trump on Thursday called for a 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, threatening to impose sanctions on both countries if the conflict rages on. “Hopefully, an acceptable ceasefire will be observed, and both countries will be held accountable for respecting the sanctity of these direct negotiations,” Mr. Trump said…
The Catholic Church for the first time will be led by an American after Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago was elected Thursday by his colleagues to be the Vatican’s 267th leader. He chose to be called Pope Leo XIV. Speaking in lightly accented Italian, Pope Leo called for peace…
