Now its okay, they died to give a few bucks to Trumps billionaire friends. You can ignore this just like the Epstein files and all of Trumps other failed protests, shills.
As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government’s vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather.
The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left in the control of his adult sons, that stands to benefit if President Donald Trump’s administration follows through on a decade-long Republican effort to privatize government weather forecasting.
Deadly weekend flooding in central Texas has drawn a spotlight to budget cuts and staff reductions at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, two agencies housed within the Commerce Department that provide the public with free climate and weather data that can be crucial during natural disasters.
What’s drawn less attention is how the downsizing appears to be part of an effort to privatize the work of such agencies. In several instances, the companies poised to step into the void have deep ties to people tapped by Trump to run weather-related agencies.
Privatization would diminish a central role the federal government has played in weather forecasting since the 1800s, which experts say poses a particular harm for those facing financial strain who may not be able to afford commercial weather data.
The effort also reveals the difficulty that uber wealthy members of Trump’s Cabinet have in freeing themselves from conflicts, even if they have met the letter of federal ethics law.
Historic agreement promises hundreds of thousands of new American jobs and opens Japanese markets to US products
A "massive" $550 billion trade deal has been reached with Japan, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, adding that it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
"We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits. This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it."
Trump said Japan will open its country to trade in things like cars, trucks, rice and other agricultural products, as well as pay reciprocal tariffs of 15% to the U.S., under the deal.
On Wednesday, a White House official confirmed to Fox News that under the trade deal Japan would buy 100 Boeing planes, boost rice purchases by 75%, buy $8 billion in agricultural and other products, and hike defense spending with U.S. firms to $17 billion annually, up from $14 billion.
"This is a very exciting time for the United States of America, and especially for the fact that we will continue to always have a great relationship with the Country of Japan," Trump said in Tuesday's post.
Trump followed up with a separate Truth Social post on Wednesday, writing that the deal marks the first time in history that Japan is opening its market to the U.S.
Trump lays the framework for the US dominance of the global AI market. This represents a shift in strategy from "a primarily restrictive approach to AI" under Biden to a focus on answering the question "how do you start spreading the infrastructure and the technology that will underpin the globe?"
White House to unveil plan to push US AI abroad, crack down on restrictive rules, document shows
WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The White House intends to publish a plan on Wednesday that calls for the export of American AI technology abroad and a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let it flourish, a document seen by Reuters shows.
According to a summary of the draft plan seen by Reuters, the White House will bar federal AI funding from going to states with tough AI rules and ask the Federal Communications Commission to assess whether state laws conflict with its mandate.
It will also promote open source and open weight AI development and "export American AI technologies through full-stack deployment packages" and data center initiatives led by the Commerce Department. The plan will "focus on empowering American workers through AI-enabled job creation and industry breakthroughs," according to the document.
Janet Egan, a fellow at The Center for a New American Security, said the plan, as described by Reuters, represents a market shift in strategy from "a primarily restrictive approach to AI" under Biden to a focus on answering the question "how do you start spreading the infrastructure and the technology that will underpin the globe?"
Despite the focus on expansion, the plan does mention the importance of "defending against misuse and preparing for future AI-related risks," according to the summary.
The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances.
If approved, the wide-ranging changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at constructions sites and in mines, and limit the government’s ability to penalize employers if workers are injured or killed while engaging in inherently risky activities such as movie stunts or animal training.
The Labor Department says the goal is to reduce costly, burdensome rules imposed under previous administrations, and to deliver on President Donald Trump’s commitment to restore American prosperity through deregulation.
“The Department of Labor is proud to lead the way by eliminating unnecessary regulations that stifle growth and limit opportunity,” Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement, which boasted the “most ambitious proposal to slash red tape of any department across the federal government.”
Critics say the proposals would put workers at greater risk of harm, with women and members of minority groups bearing a disproportionate impact.
“People are at very great risk of dying on the job already,” Rebecca Reindel, the AFL-CIO union’s occupational safety and health director, said. “This is something that is only going to make the problem worse.”
The proposed changes have several stages to get through before they can take effect, including a public comment period for each one.
Here’s a look at some of the rollbacks under consideration:
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday hosted members of the 1999 Class of Governors at the State House, Abuja, in a symbolic reunion that celebrated their shared political journey at the inception of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. The delegation, led by former Edo State Governor, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, met with the President behind closed doors.
2. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday warned the public against falling victim to ubiquitous foreign airlines’ ticketing discount promos. The anti-graft agency said it had arrested some suspects. It said the suspects were using malware to gain unauthorised access to the account information of unsuspecting victims.
3. Chairman of the Forum of State Chairmen of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Femi Olaniyi Ferrari, on Friday dissociated his members from what he called fake meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) in Abuja, accusing former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, of masterminding the purported meeting.
4. Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win the 2027 election. Fayose stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, on Friday. He said that the president has taken over the south, saying he needs little to turn it in the north.
5. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday appealed to power generation companies (GENCOs) to give the federal government more time to complete the verification and validation of longstanding debts owed to the companies. He spoke during a meeting with members of the Association of Power Generation Companies, led by Col. Sani Bello (rtd), at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Newly elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has pledged to work with all stakeholders to unite, strengthen, and expand the ruling party. Yilwatda gave the assurance during his acceptance speech at the 14th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the APC, held at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja.
2. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has scheduled its elective National Convention to hold in Ibadan, Oyo State, from Saturday, November 15 to Sunday, November 16, 2025. The decision was announced in an 11-point communiqué issued after the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held on Thursday in Abuja.
3. The 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Speaking on Thursday at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment, Kwankwaso said the national resources have been concentrated on the development of the southern part of the country, while the North is being neglected.
4. Ayo Pelumi, suspected killer of a photojournalist based in Kogi State, has reportedly committed suicide. The suspect allegedly murdered his friend, identified as Ayo Aiyepeku, around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
5. President Bola Tinubu yesterday took a swipe at the coalition-backed African Democratic Congress (ADC), describing it as a “coalition of confusion.” Speaking at the 14th meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), where Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda emerged as the party’s new national chairman, Tinubu said it is not a bad idea to abandon a sinking ship.
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In a stunning move Monday night, GOP leaders abruptly recessed a key Rules Committee meeting and canceled the rest of the week’s legislative business. The reason: Democrats were about to force a vote demanding the public release of Epstein-related documents. Rather than deal with it, Republicans shut everything down and left town.
“We’ll see you in September,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, who led the push for the vote.
McGovern supported a bipartisan resolution—introduced by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna—that would compel the Biden administration to release Epstein’s network records. “Democrats on the Rules Committee gave Republicans a choice — either vote to release the Epstein Files, or keep them a secret,” McGovern said. “Republicans are so afraid of taking that vote that they are torching their own agenda instead of doing something they promised the voters they would do.”
The bill had support from some Republicans, including Massie himself, who showed up to the Capitol holding a binder labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 2.”
“Their Epstein bill resolution is non-binding so it’s kind of fake,” Massie told reporters, referring to a watered-down GOP version. “The resolution I have with Khanna would be binding on the President.”
But House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to bring either bill to the floor.
“Why not vote on the binding Massie-Khanna Epstein legislation this week @SpeakerJohnson?” Massie posted on X. “We should not punt this until after the 5 week recess.”
The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president’s weekend trip to Scotland, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told POLITICO.
The move follows the Journal’s report alleging that President Donald Trump sent a sexually suggestive message to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.Trump has denied the existence of the letter and POLITICO has not verified it.
Tarini Parti, a White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, had been scheduled to serve as the print pooler for the final two days of Trump’s four-day trip to his golf courses in Turnberry and Aberdeen, Scotland.
But the White House, which earlier this year took over control of pool rotations from the White House Correspondents’ Association, removed her from the trip manifest, Leavitt said.
Parti was not one of the two bylines on the Epstein story.
