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Biden’s admin proposes new rules on exporting AI chips, provokes industry pushback

January 18, 2025 Josh Boak and Matt O’Brien

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with […]

US extends Nippon’s US Steel deadline

January 18, 2025 Marc Levy

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The bid by Japan’s Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel may have a new lease on life after the Biden Administration extended a deadline for the Japanese steelmaker to abandon plans to […]

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Biden admin finalizes Title IX rule; adds ‘gender identity’ language

April 19, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its Title IX rule that was paused last June. The new rule redefines sex by adding “gender identity” as a protected group, effectively opening the door […]

General Assembly Republicans stand with Texas on border crisis

January 31, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Over the past week, Republicans in both chambers of the General Assembly have come out backing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s defense of Texas against the Biden administration in the ongoing illegal migrant crisis […]

Biden administration once again bypasses Congress on an emergency weapons sale to Israel

January 8, 2024 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the second time in the past 30 days, the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel as Israel continues to prosecute its war against Hamas […]

EPA begins formal review of vinyl chloride, toxic chemical that burned in Ohio train derailment

December 20, 2023 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier […]

North State Journal turned away from Greensboro facility contracted to house unaccompanied minors

December 17, 2023 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North State Journal was denied access to a facility in Greensboro that, per a five-year contract, is supposed to be housing unaccompanied migrant minor children.  The facility is the sprawling former campus of […]

Alaska Air to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9 billion deal that may attract regulator scrutiny

December 7, 2023 The Associated Press

SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines agreed to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9 billion deal announced Sunday, potentially putting it on track for a clash with a Biden administration wary of higher airfares. The combined company […]

Governors, Biden administration push to quadruple efficient heating, AC units by 2030

September 29, 2023 Associated Press

A group of 25 state governors that make up the U.S. Climate Alliance and the Biden administration announced a pledge Thursday to quadruple the number of heat pumps in U.S. homes by 2030, from 4.7 […]

The US is allowing hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the country to work legally

September 28, 2023 Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration says it’s granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country — quickly making them eligible to work — as it grapples […]