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Colorado bill aims to crack down on ‘price gouging,’ but critics question its vagueness
A bill that would authorize the Attorney General to investigate price spikes above 10% over a period — described by authors as “price gouging” — of essential items cleared its first hurdle on Thursday, but critics raised worries about its vague definition of what qualifies as a necessity and what they described as an arbitrary threshold. The…
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6,000 federal workers based in Lakewood face choice even as judge temporarily blocks Trump’s buyout offer
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s buyout offer, giving federal employees, including some 6,000 in Lakewood, a momentary reprieve from deciding whether to accept or refuse . The ruling came hours before the midnight deadline to apply for the deferred resignation program. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. in Boston directed…
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Trump escalates war on Green New Deal with cut to $5 billion EV chargers program
As part of its continued war on the Green New Deal, the Trump administration ordered states to end a multibillion-dollar program to build electric vehicle chargers along interstate highways. On Thursday, the Federal Highway Administration released a memo directing states to halt the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, a $5 billion provision under the Bipartisan…
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JD Vance tapped by Trump to secure TikTok deal
Vice President JD Vance has been a key factor in getting President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet picks approved by the Senate, but now the president is reportedly assigning him to negotiate a deal for TikTok to be sold. Vance and national security adviser Mike Waltz have been assigned to oversee a deal to have TikTok divest…
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China’s AI ‘myth’: Report finds DeepSeek powered by ‘extensive’ CCP ties
EXCLUSIVE — A new report from the American Security Project revealed “extensive” financial and political ties between DeepSeek, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence tool, and the Chinese Communist Party. The nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based think tank, started in 2006 by former Secretary of State John Kerry and former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, found DeepSeek is deeply intertwined…
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Economy added 143,000 jobs in January: The key facts and figures
The headline: The economy added 143,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate was 4%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Investors had expected roughly 169,000 new jobs and for the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.1%. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); The caveat The two surveys that make up the monthly jobs report underwent…
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Democrats on defense: 2026 projections show GOP at advantage with competitive House seats
Two months after the 2024 election, Democrats are already being put on notice that they face an uphill battle to reclaim the House majority in the 2026 midterm elections and break up the GOP trifecta. An early analysis from the Cook Political Report found that there are 39 Democratic seats considered competitive compared to the…
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Gas prices: More expensive than a week ago
The national average price for regular gas will end the week at $3.141 per gallon, according to AAA. This marks the third straight day of gas price increases and a higher cost than a week ago when a gallon of regular gas was $3.11. The recent rise in gas prices started when the Trump administration…
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Trump 2.0 ramps up battles with the media
President Donald Trump is stepping up his war with the media in his second term, shaking up the White House briefing room, blasting his favorite adversaries, and even trying to cut off government funding streams for certain news outlets. “I can confirm that the more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially…
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Here are the lawsuits targeting Trump’s executive orders
Lawsuits are piling up against the nearly 50 executive orders that President Donald Trump has issued since the start of his second term last month, raising roadblocks as Trump races to accomplish as much as possible in his first 100 days in office. As of Feb. 7, approximately 35 lawsuits have been filed against Trump’s…