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January 13, 2025

ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal information to help find immigrants.
The Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, with federal immigration authorities as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportations. In a statement to NBC News on Thursday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the latest data-sharing agreement between her…
Taiwan’s hot political summer: KMT lawmakers face wave of recall votes
TAICHUNG, Taiwan — When veteran Kuomintang (KMT) lawmaker Fu Kun-chi boarded a plane bound for China with a delegation from his party a little over a year ago, the opposition coalition in Taiwan led by the KMT was riding high. The party, which campaigns for closer ties with Beijing, had narrowly taken control of the…
White House has ‘no interest’ in appointing special counsel in Jeffrey Epstein case
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. ‘He’s dead, he’s gone’: Trump tries to move on from Epstein by blaming Democrats 07:16 ‘We should see a change at the Federal Reserve,’ says House Republican as Trump weighs firing Powell 07:40 RFK Jr. has ‘brought fringe medical theories’…
Musk leans into raunchy Grok companions, teases Valentine bot
Elon Musk’s xAI is leaning into its over-the-top AI “companions,” which the company debuted Monday.In the last day, the company has given several indications that it would be further investing in its companions product, which allows users to interact with stylized and animated characters that are powered by Grok, its AI chatbot. The original companions,…
Bessent visits Japan as clock winds down on tariff deal
WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secret Scott Bessent will meet with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Japan on Friday, but does not plan to discuss tariffs, even as Japanese negotiators seek to break the impasse with Washington. Bessent, one of the three top U.S. tariff negotiators, landed in Japan on Thursday night, his first visit to…
Republican Winsome Earle-Sears shakes up campaign staff in Virginia governor’s race
Virginia Republican Winsome Earle-Sears’ gubernatorial campaign said Thursday that it demoted one key staffer and parted ways with another as it lags in the polls and fundraising less than four months out from the general election. Will Archer, a pastor with no prior major political experience, was removed from his post as Earle-Sears’ campaign manager,…
Japan staffing firm doubles down on Philippines with new training center
MANILA — Japanese recruitment agency Onodera User Run has opened a training center in Greater Manila to provide specialized education to young people who want to work in Japan, which is facing a sustained labor shortage. The new facility, the company’s second in the Philippines, was opened at a university in Marikina City near the…
Maurene Comey urges DOJ colleagues to stand up to ‘abuses of power’ in memo after her firing
A day after she was fired from her job as a U.S. attorney, Maurene Comey — the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey — urged her colleagues not to let fear of retribution “seep into” their decisions and to fight back against “abuses of power.” “Every person lucky enough to work in this office…