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Election officials are facing an impossible choice: follow federal directives they don’t trust, or risk becoming targets of a criminal investigation. The post States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates appeared first on CyberScoop .

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor. Andrew A. De Mello, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years. The post Nominations Sent to the Senate appeared first on The White House .

The former FTC commissioner isn't buying the argument that a $44 billion university has no choice but to settle. The post Rebecca Slaughter Has A Message For Yale: Grow A Spine appeared first on Above the Law .

We need new blueprints to scale production, workforce capability, and industrial competitiveness simultaneously.

We need new blueprints to scale production, workforce capability, and industrial competitiveness simultaneously.

We need new blueprints to scale production, workforce capability, and industrial competitiveness simultaneously.

We need new blueprints to scale production, workforce capability, and industrial competitiveness simultaneously.

We need new blueprints to scale production, workforce capability, and industrial competitiveness simultaneously.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's demand that Scouting America drop diversity initiatives revives a fight settled in 2019, when it began admitting girls.

Maine joined 15 states on Friday in suing the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding. The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led states and the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant program that Congress established following the 2018 school […]

Shein Executive Chairman Donald Tang will step down as his mission of taking the company public nears completion, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday, retreating to an advisory role after three years as the public face of the global fast-fashion retailer. A Chinese-American billionaire who began his career in banking, Tang has acted as the Western proxy of ‌secretive Shein founder Sky Xu, liaising with politicians and regulators around the world while also...

The U.S.–South Korea relationship is well institutionalized, rooted in shared values, mutual aims of national security, and cutting-edge business cooperation. Despite external and internal ...

The Senate Banking Committee approved the bill 15-9 in May, with two Democrats joining Republicans to advance the legislation.

American consumers — and the Federal Reserve — are being hit with another high-cost headache. The gusher of investment in data centers — likely topping $700 billion this year — to power artificial intelligence has made memory chips, computer processors and other equipment, as well as electricity, more expensive. Economists expect it will continue to push up inflation at least through the end of this year. While it won’t be as large a spike as occurred in 2021-2023, when inflation peaked at 9.1%,

Washington’s demand signal could do for the technology what early defence contracts did for silicon

State education agencies are being asked to do something they have rarely been asked to do before: lead. As the federal government’s influence over education recedes, leaving confusion in its wake, calls for guidance, clarity and strategic direction are shifting to states. And they are shifting fast, to agencies that are often understaffed, under-resourced and […]

EPIC, the Consumer Federation of America, and Fairplay submitted comments on Monday in response to the Colorado Department of Law’s request for stakeholder input ahead of potential rulemaking for the state’s recently passed bills on chatbot safety and automated decision-making technology (ADMT) in consequential decisions.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has started building a safety benchmark to evaluate artificial intelligence models, as regulators in the United States and Europe strengthen oversight of AI security. The MIIT-led National Industrial Information Security Development Research Centre is now recruiting companies and experts to co-build the benchmark, with applications due on Tuesday, according to a notice published on Monday. The institute said that current frameworks..

* Lindsey Graham died over the weekend, removing a key Trump ally from the Judiciary Committee in advance of Todd Blanche's already controversial nomination hearings. [ PBS ] * Civil rights coalition calls for Senate to reject Blanche. [ Ms ] * Audit reveals the broken California alternative bar exam process. [ ABA Journal ] * Judges embark on whistlestop tour to explain the increasing threats against the judiciary. [ Washington Post ] * DOJ opens investigation into UAW president. If only a work

Members of the Senate are taking steps to regulate and restrict how the Department of Defense develops and uses AI in its operations. The post Civilian Protection in the Age of Military AI: What Congress’s New Legislative Proposals Reveal About Emerging Safeguards appeared first on Just Security .

Earnings season kicks off in earnest on Tuesday with big banks up first. Corporate America faces a high bar to beat investor expectations.

The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike Marilyn Shuler has worked as a utilization review nurse for 39 years at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx in New York City, helping to read patient charts and communicate with insurance companies over coverage. After nearly four decades in her job, Shuler is one of 12 nurses who were laid off Sunday after being replaced with AI-powered software, according to the New York State Nur

FTC alleges Edwards Lifesciences and Genesis structured JC Medical deal to avoid federal antitrust review The Federal Trade Commission secured $12 million in penalties to settle charges alleging that Edwards Lifesciences Corp. acquired medical device maker JC Medical from Genesis MedTech Group Limited without complying with the notification and waiting period requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR). View Press Release

What GAO Found Training and development programs help federal agencies achieve their mission and goals by improving individual and, ultimately, organizational performance. This report is a guide that federal agencies can use to ensure their training and development investments are targeted strategically. In recent years, training and development have shifted from primarily classroom-based instruction to more integrated, blended learning approaches that reflect changes in the workplace and advanc

What GAO Found Millions of consumers rely on the assistance of health insurance agents and brokers to purchase health insurance plans through federal and state Marketplaces established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The federal Marketplace is maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). To assist consumers in the federal Marketplace, agents and brokers must be licensed to sell health plans and be registered with the Marketplace, among other things. CMS co

What GAO Found Millions of consumers rely on the assistance of health insurance agents and brokers to purchase health insurance plans through federal and state Marketplaces established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The federal Marketplace is maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). To assist consumers in the federal Marketplace, agents and brokers must be licensed to sell health plans and be registered with the Marketplace, among other things. CMS co

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks public comment on the advisability of adopting the proposed North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) updates for 2027 recommended by its Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC). The ECPC recommends an update of NAICS to clarify existing industry definitions and content, recognize new and emerging industries, and combine industries. There are two parts in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Part I summarizes the backgro

Through this notice, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Office of Indian Services (OIS), Division of Workforce Development (DWD), Job Placement and Training announces a forthcoming FY 2026 Job Placement and Training discretionary grant pilot program titled, "Native American Technology and Manufacturing Grant Pilot Program-- (IGNITE: Indigenous Growth in New & Innovative Trade Employment)" Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Tribal workforce development strategies preparing Tribal participa

French tech leaders and politicians don't want the country's strategic supply of electricity to end up lining the pockets of American AI giants.

For the third year in a row, Gov. Tate Reeves opted out of a state-federal partnership that would have given summer grocery benefits to roughly 320,000 Mississippi children who rely on free meals during the school year. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia are enrolled in the program, called SUN Bucks, which doles out […]

Political backlash to data centers is putting gubernatorial candidates in the hot seat as the presence of the massive AI infrastructure becomes a flash point in races up and down the ballot. Incumbent governors and hopeful challengers are forced to wrestle with Americans’ growing concerns around artificial intelligence, along with fears about energy prices and land...

Apple Inc. today sued OpenAI Group PBC for allegedly stealing intellectual property related to its consumer devices. The iPhone maker filed the complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. OpenAI entered the consumer electronics market last year when it bought io Products Inc., a startup founded by former Apple executives. […] The post Apple sues OpenAI, former employees over alleged intellectual property theft appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

On July 9th, President Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and accepted the resignation of its lone remaining Republican, leaving the agency with zero sitting commissioners four months before the midterms. The White House cited last month’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned decades of precedent […] The post After the Firings, Election Officials Need a Plan B for the EAC appeared first on Center for Democracy and Tec

Here at The 74, we publish and syndicate more than 30 articles a week about how America’s education system is evolving in a bid to better serve its 74 million children. But with so much happening and changing every day, it’s easy for key headlines to slip through the cracks. That’s why our newsroom recently […]

Here’s what we’re watching for after Congress comes back in July.

Last weekend I was in Erfurt, the place where the authoritarian-populist AfD party held its annual federal convention. On Saturday I got up at the crack of dawn to help block the AfD delegates from reaching the assembly hall. Was I supposed to do that? As managing director of a legal-scholarly discourse platform should I not have remained neutral? The demand to forbid oneself from discriminating between non-banned parties loyal to the constitution and non-banned parties hostile to it is question

News outlets are asking a federal judge to sanction OpenAI, claiming it’s hiding ChatGPT logs relevant to a landmark copyright trial.

The New York Times , the Daily News and other media outlets are asking a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI , escalating a fight over artificial intelligence and copyright that could shape the future of a struggling news industry . The newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft , built their AI technologies using millions of news articles. At issue is whethe

News outlets are asking a federal judge to sanction OpenAI, claiming it’s hiding ChatGPT logs relevant to a landmark copyright trial.

News outlets are asking a federal judge to sanction OpenAI, claiming it’s hiding ChatGPT logs relevant to a landmark copyright trial.