•Artificial Intelligence The White House on Thursday accused Chinese entities of a massive effort to steal US artificial intelligence technology and vowed to take action to prevent the alleged theft. “The US has evidence that foreign entities, primarily in China, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American AI,” White ...
•Kamala Harris Former US Vice President Kamala Harris said in a British television interview previewed yesterday that she may “possibly” run again to be president. Harris, who replaced Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate but lost to Donald Trump, told the BBC that she had not yet decided whether to make another White [&hell...
The White House has accused the Nobel Prize committee of choosing politics over peace. It said this while protesting the decision to grant the peace prize to Venezuelan activist, María Machado, reports AFP. Announcing the award in Oslo today, the Norwegian Nobel Committee commended Machado for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for...
•US seat of power, The White House The White House raised the stakes in a clash over a possible US government shutdown today, telling federal agencies to prepare for more mass firings by President Donald Trump’s administration. The memo by the White House Office of Management and Budget warned that the Republican administration would go [&hell...
The White House has issued a major clarification to its new H-1B visa policy that had rattled the tech industry a day earlier, saying a $100,000 fee will be a “one-time” payment imposed only on new applicants. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had repeatedly said on Friday that the fee would be applied annually, but […]
•Sacked Susan Monarez The Trump administration confirmed yesterday it had fired the head of the top US public health agency after she refused to step down during a standoff with vaccine skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The escalating dispute over Kennedy’s sweeping overhaul of US vaccine policy also led to five other senior [&hel...
The White House launched a TikTok account yesterday, as President Donald Trump continues to permit the Chinese-owned platform to operate in the United States despite a law requiring its sale. “America, we are BACK! What’s up TikTok?” read a caption on the account’s first post on the popular video-sharing app, a 27-second clip. The account [&he...
•Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump A phone call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin over a potential ceasefire in Ukraine has started and is going “well,” the White House said today. The call began at 1400 GMT and so far had continued almost an hour, deputy chief of […]...
•US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden pose alongside President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump as they arrive at the White House in Washington, DC today before departing for the US Capitol where Trump will be sworn in as the 47th US President US President Joe Biden has welcomed his successor Donald Trump […]
•Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt President-elect Donald Trump announced yesterday that 27-year-old campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt will serve as his White House press secretary. Leavitt “is smart, tough and has proven to be a highly effective communicator. I have the utmost confidence she will excel at the podium, and help deliver our ...

