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Austin, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott says dozens of technology companies have agreed to tougher standards for data center development after Texas temporarily halted approvals for projects seeking connections to the state power grid. The pause affects an interconnection queue containing more than 1,800 projects representing about 474 gigawatts of proposed electricity demand — more than five times…
Lansing, Michigan — Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers received about $95,000 from telecommunications industry political committees over two decades while supporting legislation that aligned with some of those companies’ policy priorities, according to federal campaign finance records reviewed by Michigan Advance. The contributions came from AT&T, Verizon and wireless industry group CTIA…
Dearborn, Michigan — Roughly 2,000 protesters and counterprotesters gathered Tuesday outside the Henry Ford Centennial Library as a Christian nationalist demonstration led by pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang brought heightened tensions to the heavily Arab American community. Lang organized what he called a “Christian Crusader March” and later addressed the Dearborn City Council, accusing Muslims…
Washington, D.C. — President Donald Trump has delayed a planned 50% tariff on roughly $20 billion in Canadian imports for three days after the United States and Canada reached a tentative agreement aimed at keeping broader trade negotiations alive. The tariffs had been scheduled to take effect Aug. 19 and would have covered products including dairy, liquor, cement, honey and hockey sticks. Energy…
Tallahassee, Florida — State Rep. Angie Nixon scored one of Tuesday night’s biggest primary upsets, defeating former National Security Council official Alex Vindman for Florida’s Democratic U.S. Senate nomination despite being dramatically outspent. Nixon, a progressive lawmaker and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won about 56% of the vote to Vindman’s 44%, according to election…
Greenbelt, Maryland — A former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to conceal federal records connected to COVID-19 research and government grants. David Morens, 78, admitted using a personal Gmail account and other methods to keep communications outside government systems and evade Freedom of Information Act requests.…
Washington, D.C. — The Trump administration is moving to eliminate a 25-year-old federal rule that limits road construction, logging and other development across millions of acres of national forest land. The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday formally proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The Agriculture Department says the change would return more authority to local forest…
ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, seeking to force the extradition of an ICE agent charged with shooting a man in Minneapolis and then allegedly filing a false account of the encounter. Christian Castro, 52, faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime stemming from the Jan. 14 shooting of…
NEW YORK, New York — Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang is reviving his signature direct-payment proposal as artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the economy, this time calling for families to receive $15,000 annually. Yang told Scripps News that Americans should be compensated because their personal data helped create the enormously valuable AI systems now being developed by companies…
ST. PAUL, Minnesota — A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking Minnesota’s voter-registration data, marking the latest defeat in a nationwide Trump administration effort to force states to turn over sensitive voter information. The Justice Department sued Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon after he refused to provide a voter list containing names, birthdates,…
