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President Donald Trump said that electricity prices in communities where tech companies are building data centers will not rise, and in many cases will come down thanks to his Ratepayer Protection Pledge.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to raise its across-the-board tariff rate to 15 percent this week, providing a timeline for an increase President Trump had announced but not yet implemented.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans want all illegal migrants sent home, according to a Harvard Harris poll.

Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, the author of the upcoming book Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, recently spoke at a Young America’s Foundation (YAF) conference at the Reagan Ranch Center, telling the audience that conservatives “don’t get to opt out of the AI revolution.”

Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, on Wednesday was granted a Federal Reserve master account, which would enable faster and more efficient money transfers, as well as signal the greater integration between the cryptocurrency and banking industries.

An investigation by Swedish newspapers has uncovered that private and intimate footage captured by Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses is being reviewed by contractors in Kenya who see uncensored content recorded by the smart glasses including bathroom visits, people undressing, and sexual activity.

Block’s recent announcement of laying off more than 4,000 employees under the banner of AI-driven restructuring has sparked debate about whether AI is genuinely replacing human workers or simply providing cover for traditional corporate downsizing.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has entered into a multiyear AI content licensing agreement with News Corp that could generate up to $50 million per year for the media company that owns the Wall Street Journal among many other major publications.

The states of Idaho and Utah have begun to pull back from their former support for an influx of illegal aliens but the efforts are hampered.

The market is doing the only honest thing it can do in the fog of war: trying to price the duration of the conflict.

Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem faced down Democratic Senators who used a hearing to complain about ICE enforcement.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States Navy will escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary and directed the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to provide war-risk insurance for maritime shipping in the Persian Gulf

China is pleading with Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for oil shipments, but the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) insisted on Monday that any ship attempting to pass through the strategically vital strait will be “set ablaze.”

The competition between AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI has reached a new level of intensity as users signal a shift towards “chatbot monogamy” rather than experimenting with multiple platforms.

Americans are increasingly turning away from booze and beer.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) has filed a lawsuit against General Motors and OnStar, alleging the companies collected and sold driver data from Iowa residents without obtaining proper consent.

Venezuela experienced a sharp increase in its oil exports in February following the arrest of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has publicly stated that his company moved too quickly on a recent agreement with the United States Department of War, announcing revisions to address concerns about surveillance and intelligence agency use designed to cool off the criticism he is taking from leftists.

The Iran war hit markets hard Tuesday morning.

Oklahoma’s Republican governor says states should be allowed to provide work permits to migrants — whatever the inevitable damage to citizens and workplace investment.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have reduced the United States’ trade deficit with China, ensuring that, for the first time since 2000, China is no longer the top U.S. trading partner with the largest trade deficit. 

Republicans are surging after President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address and might be in position to defy history in the midterm elections, polling shows.

Financial markets on Monday indicated that any damage to the U.S. economy from the military conflict between the U.S. and Iran is likely to be minimal.

A growing movement of leftist ChatGPT users are canceling their subscriptions following OpenAI’s announcement of a partnership with the Department of War to deploy AI models on classified networks.

A driverless Waymo robotaxi obstructed emergency vehicles attempting to reach the site of the mass shooting in downtown Austin that left two people dead and 14 others injured early Sunday morning.

The $110 billion merger between Skydance’s Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery seems inevitable at this point. The only hurdle is regulatory approval, but this merger is much less problematic in regards to monopolistic concerns than what could have been a merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Multiple outlets reported on Monday that the Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi Arabia had temporarily shut down after dramatic images surfaced of smoke billowing from the facility following an Iranian attack.

Global oil prices and natural gas prices moved up sharply on Monday morning, while the stock market appeared to take the attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel in stride.

Over 100 Google employees focused on AI have sent a letter to company leadership requesting limitations on military applications of AI technology, mirroring concerns raised in the dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon that resulted in President Donald Trump shutting down Anthropic’s work with the U.S. government.

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Carl Higbie Frontline,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore said that he wants to see lower interest rates, but getting that primarily depends on cutting government spending, not actions from the Federal Reserve. Moore said,

The Democrat-majority Virginia State Senate voted to up their salary significantly, even as Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) claims she is working to make her state more affordable.

Governor Maura Healey’s (D) Massachusetts is bleeding residents which has brought trouble for its economy, a report from the Pioneer Institute showed.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy its AI models on classified networks, just hours after the Trump administration ordered the federal government to “immediately cease” using Anthropic AI following a battle for control of the artificial intelligence model.

The good news is that the truly awful people who staff far-left CNN are unhappy. The bad news is that, in reality, they have no reason to be unhappy. Well, other than the layoffs.

Several Maryland officials demanded that President Donald Trump issue a $4 billion tariff reimbursement after the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s global tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a joint letter addressed to Trump from

President Donald Trump delivers an address about American energy in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, February 27.