#us-government

#us-government

According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are "contrary to the interests of the United States" and "waste taxpayer dollars." The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) are among 66 organizations or treaties from which President Trump withdrew in a memorandum on Wednesday, January 7.

White House has already described the fines as 'a novel form of extortion'

The US government halted all visitor visas for individuals from Gaza during a thorough review process of temporary medical-humanitarian visas recently issued.

Palantir Technologies, cofounded by Peter Thiel, collaborates with agencies such as ICE and the US Department of Defense and has provoked worldwide protests due to its controversial partnerships.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the seizure of assets worth $700 million from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, including mansions, cars, planes, and jewelry.

Under the agreement, Nvidia will pay 15% of its revenues from H20 chip sales in China to the US government, while AMD will give the same percentage from its MI308 chip revenues.

The United States government has doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50 million due to his ties to drug trafficking.

America is the country that started the AI race. And as president of the United States, I'm here today to declare that America is going to win it.

The Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from the United Nations, the biggest supplier of emergency assistance to Gaza for most of the war, according to two senior Israeli military officials and two other Israelis involved in the matter.

The United States government and Qatar are expected to finalize an agreement next week to receive a jet for use as Air Force One.

An army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely, ensuring their future availability.

For years, the U.S. government has adopted a hands-off approach to cryptocurrencies, deeming them too dangerous for average Americans and too risky for the country's financial system.

David Crete, a former Air Force Sergeant who worked at NTTR from 1983 through 1987, said that over 490 of his fellow workers have died of severe illnesses since being stationed at the secret facility. 'I have brain atrophy. The left side of my brain is shrinking and dying. That's not too bad. I'm one of the healthy ones,' Crete told the House Veterans Affairs Committee in April while lobbying for legislation to support the Area 51 veterans. The average age of death for someone who served in that unit is 65 and the youngest airman to die was just 33.

The US supreme court allowing the president effectively to abolish the Department of Education only reinforces this sense; Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent, explicitly wrote that the threat to our Constitution's separation of powers is grave.

The removal of mentions of bisexual people from the Stonewall National Monument website has sparked outrage as part of a broader erasure of LGBTQ+ history by the US government.

"The Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use."

Wang’s case exemplifies the blurred line between legitimate investigation and wrongful persecution, raising concerns about the effectiveness of the U.S. strategy against real Chinese espionage.

Tariffs revenue is coming from Americans' pockets. It's a tax on the backs of people who are importing either raw materials or, in my case, wine.

The ongoing dispute highlights the deep interdependence between the U.S. government and SpaceX. Trump's threat to cut contracts could destabilize this key partnership.

"There is risk of terrorist violence, including terrorist attacks and other activity in Italy. Terrorists may attack with little or no warning."

And I suggest that journalists who actually care about truth do the same to reduce the amount of misinformation that's going around the globe on this front.

The citation errors in the report, described as formatting issues by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, have sparked concerns over its reported findings and validity.

Kaja Kallas, the European Union's top diplomat, said, "In a time of growing, unfiltered content, independent journalism is more important than ever."