Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is under fire by critics asking whether his ties to Chinese companies and friendship with Nvidia’s ousted CEO Jensen Huang contributed to the federal agency’s lack of oversight over billions in Nvidia AI chip sales, CBS has learned. Before President Trump nominated Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department, Lutnick was…
The Democrats’ sweeping victories in the midterm elections on Tuesday could buoy opponents of data centers in some parts of the U.S. and slow the spread of the controversial facilities, according to Wall Street analysts. As of Wednesday afternoon, voters had approved 38 ballot measures restricting data centers in communities across California, Illinois, Maine, Ohio,…
The Democrats’ sweeping victories in the midterm elections on Tuesday could buoy opponents of data centers in some parts of the U.S. and slow the spread of the controversial facilities, according to Wall Street analysts. As of Wednesday afternoon, voters had approved 37 ballot measures restricting data centers and only one allowing them, according to…
Sioux City, Iowa — Senate Majority Leader John Thune campaigned with GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson in Iowa on Friday in his latest effort to prop up Republican candidates on the campaign trail, emphasizing how the Hawkeye State, reliably red in recent elections, now may hold the key to control of the Senate. “The majority in…
In Thursday’s Michigan Senate debate, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed called his opponent “weak,” “cowardly” and a “sockpuppet for the Trump administration.” Republican Mike Rogers called his opponent a “glitchy AI chatbot” who is running a “con” and will “say anything to win.” The two candidates in one of the country’s most closely watched midterm contests spent…
Minnesota’s law banning AI “nudification” images has been put on hold after a federal appeals court sided with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted an injunction sought by xAI, pausing enforcement of the law while the company’s appeal moves forward. The court issued a brief, one-sentence…
Walking across the gritty New Jersey ball field for the first time since he played here as a boy, Samuel Alito couldn’t help but stop to analyze the playing surface. The pebbles were bigger back then, he said, the field more uneven. These sounded like minor details for anyone to notice, but Alito saw something…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday sided with the Trump administration in its push to use a controversial database to review state voter rolls for potential noncitizens, pausing for now a lower court order that found that expanded system violated federal privacy laws. In a 6-3 decision, the justices granted a request for emergency…
A Virginia state agency has fined a data center nearly $2.5 million for exceeding emissions limits last year, the state’s largest civil penalty against a data center to date. The notice published online details an event in June of 2025 when the Microsoft facility in Leesburg, Virginia, reported a failure of an electrical substation and…
The Flight 93 National Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is remote. Yet every year, more than 300,000 people make the pilgrimage here to walk the flight path and stand in the presence of the 40 souls who lost their lives at the far edge of this field on Sept. 11, 2001. “It’s gratifying for us to…
