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Cox criticizes 'conflict entrepreneurs' in wake of Kirk's death
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) criticized technology companies as “conflict entrepreneurs” that have turned Americans against each other, suggesting the public needs to reclaim its agency. “I can’t emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us, those dopamine hits. These companies, trillion dollar market caps, the most…
Read MoreCharlie Kirk's memorial set for Sept. 21 in Arizona
A public memorial for Charlie Kirk will take place Sept. 21 in Glendale, Ariz., Turning Point USA announced Saturday. It will occur inside State Farm Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, which can hold more than 63,000 people. Kirk, 31, was fatally shot during an event on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday.…
Read MoreTrump administration requests to access voting machines worries election officials
A Justice Department official recently asked some Missouri counties to turn over their 2020 voting machines. The counties refused, drawing attention to the debate over election security. Source link
Read MoreObamaCare fight meets shutdown politics: What to know
An ObamaCare deadline has collided with a fight over government funding, as Democrats are signaling they want Republicans to extend the law’s expiring premium subsidies before they support any bill to keep the government open. Without action, enhanced tax credits passed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help people afford coverage will expire at the end…
Read MoreZelensky says he's ready to meet face-to-face with Putin: 'Sometimes we need it. Even if we don't love faces'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is “ready” to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin face-to-face to negotiate an end to the war between their countries. “Sometimes we need it. Even if we don’t love faces,” Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria to laughter at the Yalta European Strategy Conference on Friday in Kyiv, Ukraine. The interview…
Read MoreiOS 26 out soon: When you can get next major iPhone update
(NEXSTAR) — It’s mid-September, which can only mean one thing for holders of Apple technology: a massive iOS update is afoot. During its highly anticipated Apple event last week, the company confirmed the date in which the next update, iOS 26, would be released. Apple tends to follow the same release schedule every year. In…
Read MoreJohnson criticizes Omar on Kirk comments: 'Clearly' has 'no idea what she's talking about'
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments in the wake of the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. Omar, who said she was “mortified” at Kirk’s murder in an interview with Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan on Thursday, called conservatives who blamed the left for the shooting “full of s—.” “She clearly has…
Read MoreStreamlining permits with voluntary pilots can lead an economic revival
President Trump’s bold agenda to rebalance global trade through tariffs and slash government spending demands swift action to offset short-term economic disruptions. The president secured trillions in promised investment. But when will those projects ever break ground? Federal permitting, a bureaucratic morass, delays critical infrastructure and energy projects, stifling growth. The unseen costs of these…
Read MoreTrump is modeling Chinese state capitalism and there’s no going back
Last month, the Trump administration and Nvidia worked out what some have called an unusual and surprising deal for the latter to export its defeatured AI chips. That is, President Trump reversed a decision made by his own administration to decategorize Nvidia’s H20 and AMD’s chips as a national security risk in a deal that includes a 15 percent levy to…
Read MoreGraham believes Trump sees Kirk’s death ‘as an attack on his political movement’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk “an attack on a political movement” on Sunday. “I see this as an attack on a political movement,” Graham told NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. “I see this being different. Charlie Kirk is one of the top three people in the…
Read MoreButtigieg on White House: 'Not getting the leadership that we need to bring this country together'
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said the Trump administration is not providing the “leadership that we need to bring this country together” after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot last week. During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Buttigieg was asked about President Trump’s video he posted on Truth Social after announcing Kirk’s death,…
Read MoreApollo 13 made Jim Lovell a legend generations after the space race
Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the Apollo race to the moon knows the name of Captain Jim Lovell. He flew on the missions of Gemini 7,…
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