Some U.S. semiconductor manufacturing facilities will now be exempt from environmental reviews after President Joe Biden signed the Building Chips in America Act into law on Oct.2. Without the law, projects from the $52.7 billion CHIPS Act of 2022 could have been forced to undergo additional federal environmental reviews to obtain permits. The new legislation […]

A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of intentionally lighting the Line Fire in San Bernardino County, which has torched more than 35,000 acres of land so far. In a Sept.11 statement on X, Shannon Dicus, sheriff of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, said that 34-year-old Norco resident Justin Wayne Halstenberg had been arrested […]

The UK’s foreign secretary has revealed the country will start suspending the sale of some arms to Israel over concerns that their use could be in breach of international humanitarian law. In the Sept.2 Oral statement to the UK Parliament, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said only about 30 of 350 licenses would be immediately halted, […]

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has added 92 Americans, including journalists, law enforcement officials, and tech leaders, to its list of people banned from entering the country. In an Aug. 28 statement regarding the move, the ministry said it was in response for the “Russophobic course pursued by the Biden administration with the declared goal of ‘inflicting […]

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was pressured by the federal government to censor COVID-19 content, and he now regrets bowing to those demands. In an Aug. 26 letter sent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the tech billionaire wrote that senior officials from the Biden administration pressured his […]

A Texas federal judge has temporarily paused the Biden administration’s Keeping Families Together parole process, which would allow immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens a path to citizenship, while a legal challenge plays out. Under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, which has already started taking applications, spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status can […]

Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is proposing to increase the corporate tax rate as part of her economic agenda if she wins the presidency in November. Harris campaign spokesperson James Singer confirmed in a statement on Aug. 19 that Harris is backing an increase in the corporate tax rate from 21 percent, to 28 percent, […]

A federal regulator has announced its final rule to crack down on deceptive reviews and other marketing practices by outright banning them and allowing the agency to seek civil penalties against violators. In an Aug. 14 statement from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Chair Lina M. Khan said banning fake reviews will strengthen protections for […]

Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik has resigned from her post effective immediately following months of criticism over her handling of on-campus protests against the war in Gaza. Students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment protesting the war and calling for the school to divest from corporations supporting Israel on April 17. What followed was a […]

An official with the U.S. Department of State has denied claims made in media reports that it had made an offer of amnesty to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on July 28. Maduro was declared the winner, but this has been contested ever since, with the opposition claiming they won […]

A campaign office leased by presidential candidate Donald Trump in Virginia was burglarized Sunday night, with county police now seeking a suspect in connection with the incident. In an Aug. 12 press release, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said the Trump for President 2024 campaign office in Ashburn, Virginia, was broken into by a white […]

A Massachusetts District Court Judge has dismissed Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against six out of the eight named American gun manufacturers that the country argues are responsible for firearms flooding south across the U.S.-Mexico border. Initially filed in 2021, Mexico argued that the U.S. companies, all of which have denied wrongdoing, were undermining Massachusetts’s strict […]

American military forces have successfully destroyed several Houthi uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) launched from areas around Yemen and over the Gulf of Aden in the last 24 hours or so, according to U.S. officials. In an Aug. 5 update, United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said three Houthi UAS launched from areas around Yemen were destroyed […]

Japanese stocks have staged a noticeable comeback after experiencing the most significant market drop ever during the previous day’s trading session. On Aug. 5, Japan’s Nikkei 225, the stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, plunged 12.4 percent, or 4,451.28 points, as investors worried about the U.S. economy dumped a wide range of shares. […]

Austin-based Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is facing a class action lawsuit from shareholders who claim the company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause a global computer outage, resulting in a big hit to the share price and overall market value. On July 19, an outage, allegedly sparked by a software update, […]

Three defendants allegedly involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have entered into a plea deal with the United States Department of Defense (DOD) after years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, and many thousands more injured in the coordinated Islamist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda on U.S. soil in […]

A makeshift pier built by the U.S. military to help facilitate the flow of aid into Gaza is to be dismantled, the Pentagon has announced. Deputy commander at U.S. Central Command Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said on July 17 that the temporary 1,200 foot floating dock, known as the Trident Pier, that was anchored into […]

President Joe Biden has announced that his administration will direct more funding to cancel or reduce the student loan balances of another 35,000 people through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). In a July 18 statement, President Biden said the total number of Americans who have benefitted from the government’s various debt relief actions […]

A French soldier was stabbed outside a Paris train station only 11 days before millions of visitors descend on the city for the 2024 Olympics. The soldier’s injuries are not life-threatening and a suspect was arrested in connection with the assault, officials said. According to French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, the unidentified soldier was stabbed […]

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle says she plans to stay on in her role in the wake of the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump at his Pennsylvania campaign rally on July 13. It’s still unclear how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to carry an AR-15 rifle to a rooftop at the […]