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We have our first credible sign that bipartisan negotiations on a national AI framework are possible.
Top Republicans aren’t sugar-coating how hard it will be to get Congress to enact comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation this year.
“We have a big challenge ahead of us,” Michael Kratsios, who will help lead negotiations on the GOP side as a White House tech adviser, said this week.
House GOP leaders are aiming for a clean reauthorization of key provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) next week, a vote that could be tricky given demands from conservative Republicans on reforms and on the unrelated SAVE America Act voting bill.
Section 702 of FISA, which authorizes surveillance of foreign nationals outside the U.S., expires April 20. GOP leaders in the House are hoping to clear the reauthorization well ahead of time due to a scheduled two-week recess in the House in early April and to give the Senate time to process the legislation.
A top House Democrat is calling on the White House to send National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett to swing districts around the country to talk about the administration’s approach to consumer prices.
The State Department is scrambling amid the fallout from President Donald Trump’s high-stakes military assault on Iran and Tehran’s blistering response, with at least three embassies in the Middle East shuttered as of Tuesday as violence worsened and U.S.
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Artificial intelligence is turbocharging health care into the future. The technology is transforming the way the sector conducts several functions, including developing drugs, diagnosing diseases and enhancing the way providers interact with patients.
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) are calling on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Pam Bondi, accusing her of perjuring herself when asked about evidence relating to President Trump in the Epstein files.
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are investigating whether the Justice Department purposefully withheld materials in its release of the Jeffrey Epstein files that included sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi defended the justice department's handling of the files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and faced a barrage of angry questions on other issues during a fiery congressional hearing on Wednesday.
Her testimony before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee descended at times into a shouting match, with Bondi at one point calling a Democrat a "washed-up loser". After another heated exchange, one lawmaker stormed out.
A House Democrat accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of lying under oath about President Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.