Morning Brief: Fraud, Robots & Recovery
Today’s headlines sit at the intersection of accountability, ambition, and national security, with Washington and the states confronting high-stakes questions about public trust, technological power, and safety. Congress Turns Its Sights on Minnesota Top congressional investigators are demanding answers from Minnesota Governor — and former Democratic vice-presidential nominee — Tim Walz after whistleblowers alleged that […]
Zohran Mamdani Selects Ex-Convict To Lead Public Safety Transition Team
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed Mysonne Linen—a rapper, activist, and formerly incarcerated New Yorker—to help lead his City Hall transition team on public safety, according to recent reports. The social justice organization Until Freedom, where Linen serves as a prominent leader, announced in late November that he had been tapped for the […]
Democrats Win Miami Mayor’s Office After Nearly 30 Years Out Of Power
MIAMI — Eileen Higgins, a Democrat and former Miami-Dade County commissioner, won Tuesday night’s runoff election for Miami mayor, defeating Republican-backed Emilio Gonzalez by more than 18 points, with almost all of the ballots counted. Her win places a Democrat in the mayor’s office for the first time in nearly three decades — a headline-grabbing […]
Trump Unveils Ambitious Push For AI And Robotics Dominance
The race is on, and Trump wants the United States to lead the way. Zero Hedge’s Tyler Durden notes that, “President Trump’s national industrial strategy centers on expanding U.S. dominance in semiconductors, AI, rare earth production, clean technology, space, and other emerging technologies [like robotics] expected to dominate the global economy in the 2030s.” Durden adds: […]
Trump Gives Nvidia The Green Light To Sell Advanced AI Chips To China
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has cleared Nvidia to sell its H200 AI chips to a select group of vetted customers in China — rolling back months of export limits and giving the U.S. a 25% cut of the sales. The move reopens Chinese access to one of Nvidia’s top-tier AI and high-performance computing chips, […]
Campus Locked Down After Shooting At Kentucky State University; Multiple Victims Reported
Multiple people were injured Tuesday afternoon during a shooting at Kentucky State University, a historically Black institution in Frankfort. Frankfort Police said officers responded to reports of an active aggressor on the south campus at approximately 3:35 p.m. One suspect is now in custody, but KSU remains on lockdown as law enforcement continues to secure […]
Unanswered Questions: Where, When, How Did Nat’l Guard Suspect Get Gun?
Repeated inquiries to the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., regarding details on the handgun allegedly used by murder suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal in the attack on two National Guard troopers remain unanswered, and the question now is “Why?” By Dave Workman for The Gun Mag There are no specifics on the gun […]
Congress To Investigate Whether Walz Retaliated Against Fraud Whistleblowers
Top congressional investigators are demanding documents from Minnesota Governor and former Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz after several whistleblowers alleged he looked the other way while dozens of individuals allegedly bilked possibly billions of dollars in federal aid funds and retaliated against those who tried to report the incidents. The U.S. House Committee on […]
Europe’s New Speech Controls Echo A Dark Past – Merz’s Crusade Shows It
Critics of Europe’s speech regime argue that the continent has built a system that nudges citizens toward silence through law, bureaucracy, and the quiet but unmistakable pressure of police power. Germany sits at the center of this structure, and Friedrich Merz, a skilled lawyer and leader of the CDU, has offered a case study of […]