If data centers are the lifeblood of American artificial intelligence computing, Loudoun County, Virginia is its main artery. The rural county straddling Piedmont Virginia and the Washington Metropolitan area is home to 49 million square feet of data center infrastructure, making it the region with highest concentration of data centers in the world. Ashburn, within […]
On the first day of early voting in Virginia this month, former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger urged her fellow party members on Capitol Hill to abandon any effort that would lead to a government shutdown in Washington. “As a Virginian, it is always my position that a government shutdown is never effective. They are always […]
Former FBI Director James Comey may pursue a selective or vindictive prosecution defense as he faces federal criminal charges tied to his 2020 Senate testimony about the Trump-Russia investigation, despite long-standing legal precedent that might make his success difficult. A federal grand jury indicted Comey on Thursday on one count of making false statements to Congress and one count of obstruction of justice. […]
A high-profile business watchdog has a pattern of accepting money from unions and, shortly after the fact, publishing informational materials or engaging in advocacy that aligns with the interests of the labor organizations paying it, a Washington Examiner review of public records has found. The Private Equity Stakeholder Project, also known as Financial Services Stakeholder […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is taking a more strategic approach with his government strategy this time around, closely coordinating with liberal groups. Schumer was criticized earlier this year for giving in during a government shutdown standoff against President Donald Trump and the Republicans. He took the criticism to heart, surrounding himself with the […]
Assata Shakur, a radical black militant fugitive who murdered a New Jersey state trooper, died of natural causes in Cuba at age 78. A statement from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Shakur died in Havana due to “health problems and advanced age.” She had become an icon of left-wing individuals for her actions […]
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian argued that President Donald Trump’s actions went against his image as a peacemaker, threatening to set the Middle East ablaze. In an interview with NBC News while in town to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, Pezeshkian delivered a defiant message while denouncing Trump. “We’re not afraid of war. We […]
The Supreme Court halted a lower court order that mandated the Trump administration to spend $4 billion in foreign aid, which it aimed to cut via a “pocket rescission.” The high court’s Friday ruling marks the latest victory for the Trump administration on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. The unsigned order from the high court […]
The gunman who had suspected he had CTE when he shot several people in a Manhattan office building did in fact have the disease, the New York City medical examiner said Friday. The shooter, Shane Devon Tamura, 27, who played high school football, shot and killed himself after fatally shooting four people in July. The […]
House Democrats on the Oversight Committee published Friday partial records from a third tranche of files the committee received from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein earlier this week that contained bank, flight, and phone logs of the disgraced financier. The 8,544 documents, sent from the Epstein estate on Wednesday, are the third round of files […]
