Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has ever distilled tech from OpenAI, Elon Musk says the claim is "partly" true (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/30/technology/openai-…
Trump Live Updates: House and Senate Republicans Reach Deal to End DHS Shutdown - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/01/us/trump-news
Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p1#a260228p1
A US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave (Minho Kim/New York Times)
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🔸Homeland Security: House and Senate Republicans agreed on Wednesday to advance a bipartisan plan to fund the Homeland Security Department, which has been closed for more than six weeks.
Under the plan, which the House rejected last week, a regular spending bill would fund the bulk of the department and Republicans would seek to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown through a separate process aimed at skirting a Democratic filibuster.
The plan does not include any of the restricti…
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Live Updates: **U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran** - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump#iran-strikes-us
Live Updates: Iran Retaliates Against Israel and U.S. Allies (Reuters)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/01/world/iran-attack-khamenei-trump?unlocked_article_code=1.P1A.HT2m.sjqoZ-jdadv2&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p37#a260301p37
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Now Plans to Gut, but Not Close, Consumer Protection Agency (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/01/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p70#a260401p70
The widening military conflict in the Persian Gulf quickly began to disrupt shipping in one of the world’s biggest oil-and-gas producing regions -- threatening to send energy prices soaring.
Oil markets were closed on Saturday when the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran that spurred retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.
But shipping companies quickly began trying to steer clear of the region and the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway on Iran’s southern border …