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Los Angeles Times

ArticleTrump taps hous­ing offi­cial to be intel­li­gence dir­ector

WASHINGTON — Pres­id­ent Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, head of the Fed­eral Hous­ing Fin­ance Agency, to be the act­ing dir­ector of national intel­li­gence — elev­at­ing a real estate scion without any clear national secur­ity cre­den­tials to a key...

San Francisco Chronicle

ArticleWhite House scraps $1.8B set­tle­ment fund

WASHINGTON — The Trump admin­is­tra­tion is scrap­ping plans to cre­ate a $1.8 bil­lion fund meant to com­pensate allies of the Repub­lican pres­id­ent, the Justice Depart­ment’s top offi­cial said Tues­day in retreat­ing from a pro­gram that faced...

New York Post

ArticleDon wants AI secur­ity check

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion will ask lead­ing AI developers to vol­un­tar­ily sub­mit their most cap­able mod­els for gov­ern­ment cyber­se­cur­ity tests before releas­ing them to the pub­lic, accord­ing to an exec­ut­ive order released Tues­day, as...

The Guardian

ArticleCali­for­nia gov­ernor’s race a toss-up as primary votes are coun­ted

The key race for Cali­for­nia gov­ernor was dead­locked as vote count­ing con­tin­ued yes­ter­day fol­low­ing primary elec­tions to decide who would run in sev­eral crit­ical dis­tricts in the US House and Sen­ate in Novem­ber, in a midterm year that...

The Philadelphia Inquirer

ArticleDemo­crats ham­mer Mul­lin on air­ports, Delaney Hall, FEMA

WASHINGTON — Demo­crats hammered Home­land Secur­ity Sec­ret­ary Mark­wayne Mul­lin Tues­day dur­ing a heated Sen­ate hear­ing, call­ing his threats to pull officers from some air­ports in so- called sanc­tu­ary cit­ies “insane” and accus­ing his...

New York Post

ArticleDon: Plat­ner bad, but Talarico worse

Pres­id­ent Trump blas­ted the Demo­crats’ scan­dal-plagued Sen­ate can­did­ate Gra­ham Plat­ner as a “major sleazebag” in an inter­view with “Pod Force One” but said Texas Sen­ate can­did­ate James Talarico is worse. The pres­id­ent gave a blunt...

Miami Herald

ArticleWhite House seeks to impose polit­ical test on fed­eral grants

The White House is seek­ing to exert more con­trol over bil­lions of dol­lars in annual gov­ern­ment grants, aim­ing to restrict a vast swath of fund­ing — in health, hous­ing, sci­ence and trans­port­a­tion — so that it primar­ily serves the pur­poses...

Los Angeles Times

ArticleVoter dis­con­tent aimed at status quo in blue state

As primary voters head to the polls Tues­day to determ­ine which can­did­ates will face off in Novem­ber to become Cali­for­nia’s gov­ernor and Los Angeles’ mayor, both races are wide open, with a new crop of can­did­ates chal­len­ging the Demo­cratic...

Los Angeles Times

Article‘Be patient’: Painstak­ing count may take time

It took three weeks to call a par­tic­u­larly com­pet­it­ive 2022 U.S. House race in Cali­for­nia’s Cent­ral Val­ley, the out­come com­ing down to a couple of hun­dred votes. Two years later, state Sen. Laura Richard­son waited 17 days to be announced...

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