There's at least one Jan. 6 participant currently working in the Trump administration, and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee wants to know how many more may have been hired.
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics. read more
A Waymo self-driving car has accidentally ended up on the tracks of a light-rail line in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. The driver vacated the vehicle safely, but as revealed in an onlooker's recording of the event, the Waymo kept driving along the train tracks, raising alarms about safety and coordination accuracy. And because the driver had already sensed the perilous moment and exited the vehicle, there was nobody to subsequently intervene and cancel the trip.
A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October is now wildly accelerating, doubling in just the past week to a total of 434 cases, with 409 people currently in quarantine. read more
The influential podcaster, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, has been increasingly critical of the president's mass deportation strategy. read more
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Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
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... We're not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn't want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-out refuse to shut down or hibernate, no matter how many times you try.
In a notice on its Windows release health dashboard, Microsoft confirmed that some PCs running Windows 11 23H2 might fail to power down properly after installing the latest security updates.
Instead of slipping into shutdown or hibernation, affected machines stay stubbornly awake, draining batteries and ignoring shutdown like they have a mind of their own and don't want to experience temporary non-existence. ...
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Graham contradicts Trump on Iran executions stopping
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... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says the Iranian regime is still killing protesters at an alarming rate, contradicting President Trump's statement Wednesday that Iran has stopped indiscriminate executions of anti-government demonstrators.
"Every indication that I've seen says that the Iranian regime's killing of protesters is still very much in full swing. The death toll is mounting by the hour. Hoping that help is on the way," Graham wrote in a post on the social platform X.
Graham, who has become increasingly influential with the Trump administration on foreign policy, signaled he wants to see the president move forward with plans to strike Iran to deter the brutal crackdown on protesters.
Trump on Wednesday said Iran was stopping the executions in the face of potential military action.
"We've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping -- it's stopped -- it's stopping," Trump told reporters.
"And there's no plan for executions, or an execution, or execution -- so I've been told that on good authority." ...
Trump says he could impose tariffs on countries that oppose his goal of acquiring Greenland
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... Officials from Greenland and Denmark, which controls the semi-autonomous territory, as well as a host of major U.S. allies, have rejected Trump's push. ...
@#38 ... But he has done a lot of what he said he was going to do ...
58% call 2025 a failure for Trump: Poll
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... More than half of Americans in a new survey rated President Trump's first year in office as a "failure."
The CNN/SRSS survey, published Friday, found that 58 percent of U.S. adults said 2025 was a failure for the president on a number of issues. Another 42 percent said the year was a "success," and about 1 percent had no opinion.
Overall, 61 percent of respondents said they disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job. ...
@#3 ... ~provide them inadequate training.~ ...
Push for greater ICE training grows on some Republicans
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... Criticism of ICE has grown among influential voices for the president's coalition in the wake of the Minneapolis shooting. ...
@#26 ... "Trump doesn't have any idea what he's doing"....
'Dumbest thing I've ever heard': Republicans amp up their resistance to Trump's Greenland push
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... President Donald Trump is talking about taking over Greenland by any means necessary. Republicans in Congress are trying to scare him back to reality. ...
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