Abril Elfi
Musk Says He Is Not Planning To Buy TikTok
Elon Musk has stated that he is not planning to buy the TikTok app or has any plans with what he would do with it if he were to own it.
Administration
White House Announces Buyout Plan For Remote Federal Employees Who Refuse To Return To Office
The White House issued a memo Tuesday offering to pay federal workers who don’t want to return to the office through September 30th, but have to resign by February 6th.
2024 election
TikTok Announces Plans To Shut Down In U.S. Unless Supreme Court Blocks Forced Sale
TikTok representatives have warned that the company will shut the social media platform down in the U.S. by January 19th, unless the Supreme Court rules against the order or delays the date that ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, is forced to sell the platform.
2023
U.S. Steel And Nippon Sue Biden Over Blocked $14B Deal, Calling It ‘Corrupt and Shameful’
U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel sued the U.S. government on Monday in a bid to challenge the Biden administration’s order to block the almost $15 billion deal for the Japanese company to buy the American steelmaker.
253-page report
House Artificial Intelligence Task Force Releases ‘End-Of-Year’ Report, Calls For ‘Light Touch’ On AI Regulations
The House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) released a full sweeping report on Tuesday, calling for Congress to implement “a flexible sectoral regulatory framework” in the 253-page report.
Alex Spiro
SEC ‘reopens’ probe into Neuralink, Musk’s lawyer says
The SEC has reopened an investigation into Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink, according to a letter shared by Musk on social media platform X.
accountability
DOGE Caucus Reveals Only 6% Of Federal Govt Employees Show Up In Person To Work
A recently released Senate report at the first Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caucus meeting revealed that only 6% of federal government workers show up to their desks every day.
ABC News
Fetterman Backs Hunter Pardon, Urges Trump Pardon Too: ‘Both Trials Were Politically Motivated’
Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman recently revealed that he believed Hunter Biden being pardoned by his father, President Joe Biden, was “appropriate,” and that President Biden should also issue a pardon for President-elect Donald Trump.
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Calls for Unity, Praises Musk and RFK Jr: ‘When Kennedy Talks About An Unhealthy Society, He’s Right’
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders recently sung the praises of Trump-allies Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claiming to be willing to work together with the pair on key issues fueling America’s “unhealthy society” and the military industrial complex’s “waste and fraud.”
9/11 Ceremony
GOP Rep Clashes With Acting Secret Service Director, Accuses Him Of Endangering Officials For Political Gain
Texas Rep. Pat Fallon engaged in a yelling match on Thursday with acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe during a hearing regarding the U.S. Secret Services’ failures surrounding the two assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump.