Beijing, China – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has joined former U.S. President Donald Trump’s official delegation to Beijing for a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, underscoring how semiconductor trade and artificial intelligence regulation have moved to the center of U.S.–China diplomacy. Huang, whose company controls the majority of...
BATON ROUGE, La. Republican senators advanced a plan Wednesday to eliminate one of two majority-Black, Democratic-held congressional districts after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down the state's U.S. House map as an illegal racial gerrymander. The committee vote followed hours of testimony from Black residents and Democrats opposing the...
ORLANDO, Fla. Florida will remove detainees and dismantle the Everglades detention center known as 'Alligator Alcatraz' by early June, state contractors were told this week. Vendors received notice that detainees will be moved 'by the start of' June and the site will be dismantled in the following weeks, officials and...
Washington DC: On May 13 the Chinese Embassy posted on X that four issues—the Taiwan question, democracy and human rights, paths and political systems, and China’s development rights—constitute 'four red lines' that must not be challenged during US President Donald Trump’s visit to China scheduled for May 13–15; the White...
BATON ROUGE — Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee members met beginning Tuesday evening and into the early hours of Wednesday as they considered competing congressional redistricting proposals; just before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday May 13, the committee voted 4-3 to reject Senate Bill 407, the map authored by Sen. Ed Price...
Omaha — Tuesday night, Nebraska Democratic nominee Cindy Burbank won the party primary, while Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts easily secured the GOP nomination. Local outlets and the Associated Press called races shortly after polls closed, and vote tallies published that evening showed Burbank leading decisively in the Democratic contest. This week...
Chamblee, Georgia. Republican Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state and a candidate for governor, spoke Tuesday in Chamblee as part of a campaign push to reintroduce himself after his 2020 refusal to overturn the presidential election results; he told reporters he is stressing his conservative, Christian businessman credentials and has...
Washington, United States. U.S. government data this week showed wholesale prices jumped sharply in April, with the Producer Price Index rising 6.0 percent year‑on‑year and 1.4 percent month‑on‑month; President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday he viewed the surge as short-term and tied the rise to disruptions from the Iran...
Missoula, Mont. residents questioned the proposed Midtown Commons mixed-use development at City Council public comment this week, expressing concern whether the project’s hundreds of housing units will be attainable for lower-income people. Missoula Redevelopment Agency project manager Annette Marchessault said the plan was not formally income-restricted and instead focuses on...
Washington — U.S. intelligence assessments this week show Iran has regained operational access to 30 of 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz and retained roughly 70 percent of its mobile launchers and pre-war missile stockpile, according to classified reports cited by The New York Times. The assessments, prepared...
