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Outside view of Meta’s Facebook data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, on July 18, 2024.George Frey | Afp | Getty ImagesArm shares rose 6% after a Thursday report that it was developing its own chip and that it had secured Meta as one of its first customers.The Financial Times report indicates that Arm is developing a new product that will compete with many of its customers. The semiconductor company currently licenses its technology, called an instruction set, as well as more complicated core designs, to its customers so they can build their own chips.Arm has historically been known as the…

At a time when anti-literacy laws prevented the vast majority of enslaved people from reading, a group of free Black New Yorkers launched the nation’s first Black newspaper on March 16, 1827. Aptly named Freedom’s Journal, as it started the same year that New York outlawed slavery, the publication helped shift the characterization of Black Americans, whom the mainstream press typically portrayed through a racially biased lens. “Black people were really the subject of racist attacks in New York’s leading newspapers at that time,” says Trevy A. McDonald, associate professor of broadcast and electronic journalism in the School of Journalism and…

A United States general has announced there are currently about 5,000 active-duty soldiers along the country’s southern border with Mexico, as part of President Donald Trump’s overall push to crack down on immigration. General Gregory Guillot, the head of US Northern Command, told lawmakers on Thursday he expects that number could increase further. He also revealed that the military has heightened its activities in the domain of cross-border intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). Drug cartels were the primary target. “We have also increased some uniquely military capabilities that will get after … the cartels, which are driving the illegal migration,”…

The Trump administration deported migrants from several Asian nations to Panama on Wednesday night, Panamanian and U.S. officials said, in a move that could signal much faster removals of immigrants who have remained in the United States because their countries have made it difficult to return them.The flight carrying the migrants, a military plane that took off from California, appears to be the first of its kind during the Trump administration. It came on the heels of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit last week to Panama, which has been under tremendous pressure from President Trump over how it runs…

Hamas said on Thursday that it was ready to release Israeli hostages this weekend as laid out by the Gaza cease-fire agreement, after the fragile deal teetered this week, prompting more pessimism about its future.Mahmoud Mardawi, a Hamas official, said in a text message that the hostage-for-prisoner exchange was set to go ahead on Saturday as long as Israel upheld its end of the agreement. He said mediators had told Hamas that Israel said it was committed to the deal.Israel did not immediately comment on that and other statements by Hamas describing diplomatic progress. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister,…

(The Center Square) – The marijuana and nicotine industries could be facing substantial tax increases in Michigan, following the proposal of two plans by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office.One of those, the Mi Road Ahead plan which was announced this week, will invest $1 billion in local roads and $250 million in public transit programs throughout the state.Part of that funding would come from levying taxes on the marijuana industry, which was first legalized in Michigan in 2018.The plan labeled the current lack of a wholesale tax on marijuana a “loophole.”“After voters legalized marijuana, the industry has grown exponentially thanks in part…

By Zachery Schmidt | The Center Square contributorThe Nevada Legislature Wednesday passed Assembly Bill 171, which attempts to bring down the state’s egg prices.AB 171 would suspend any Nevada regulations on eggs for no more than 120 consecutive days. Nevada, according to this bill, can allow the sale of grade B eggs, limit the amount of eggs local governments can buy and authorize small egg flock farmers to produce egg products. The bill says the suspension of regulations can only be done when an event “negatively impacts the national supply chain for egg products.” These events include a foreign disease, a disease emergency or…

BREAKINGBREAKING, RFK Jr was a controversial nominee due to his his anti-vaccine views and embrace of health-related conspiracy theories.The United States Senate has approved former environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the federal government’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS), in the latest controversial vote over a cabinet nominee picked by President Donald Trump. But Thursday’s vote was narrow, given Kennedy’s history of embracing anti-vaccine views and health-related conspiracy theories. Fifty-two of the 100 members of the Senate voted yes, all of them Republican. Democrats and independents lined up to offer 48 “nay” votes. Still, there was one notable…

President Donald Trump’s outcries against government overreach and abusive tactics are numerous. But will he instruct his administration not to repeat these power abuses? Trump’s spokesman, Alex Pfeiffer, has asserted that FBI Director nominee Kash Patel will “end the weaponisation of law enforcement” and “target crime”. I find this unlikely. Patel’s statements suggest that, rather than ending such practices, the Trump administration will only increase persecution and attacks, both criminal and civil, on those perceived as political opposition. For those wondering how an administration that favours headline-grabbing over justice and lawfulness might deploy weaponised law enforcement, baseless investigations, and political…

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate voted 52-48 Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, where he will oversee the nation’s largest healthcare programs including Medicare and Medicaid.Sen. Mitch McConnell from Kentucky was the only Republican who joined Democrats in opposing the candidate, whom they see as an unqualified wildcard. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has spent decades calling out industry influence over regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, and has brought attention to the role ultra-processed foods and chemical additives play in the chronic disease epidemic.He has also been criticized for…