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The Senate approved federal prosecutor Jay Clayton as the next director of national intelligence.

Move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep Chinese technology out of the US The Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on humanoid robots from China on Tuesday, saying that the technology poses “unacceptable risks” to the country’s national security. The move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep … Read more

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s journal entries, published this week by a Republican senator, offer new details about how the administrations of Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden handled their Covid cases. NBC News’ Monica Alba explains the journal revelations as Fauci is set to testify before a Senate committee.

At confirmation hearing, Clayton sidestepped questions about 2020 election and declined to say Trump lost Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US Senate voted to confirm Jay Clayton as the director of national intelligence on Tuesday, giving Trump another key ally directing the nation’s intelligence apparatus. The tally, 51-47, fell along … Read more

Ruby Rippey writes in Vanity Fair of relationship with then San Francisco mayor and appears to contradict his account A former aide to Gavin Newsom has publicly shared for the first time her full account of their affair, which took place more than two decades ago when Newsom was mayor of San Francisco. In a … Read more

Three people died, including one of the suspects, and at least five more were wounded, including two-year-old boy Seattle police recovered a modified machine gun and an untraceable “ghost gun” from the scene of a mass shooting at a food festival this weekend that left three people dead – including one of the suspects – … Read more

France had also intervened after Trump administration had opposed the reappointment of UN human rights chief US diplomats walked out of a United Nations meeting after France criticized the country’s human rights record under Donald Trump. The staged walkout, which occurred on Monday during a UN security council meeting on the Ukraine-Russia war, came days … Read more

Governor Ron DeSantis has made the state’s death chamber the nation’s busiest at the end of his final term A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death on Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before … Read more

In an emotional farewell Tuesday, President Donald Trump paid tribute to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., recounting how their relationship evolved from fierce political foes into close allies and friends. Trump said the turning point came after he publicly revealed Graham’s cellphone number during a campaign rally in Bluffton, S.C., in 2015 — a … Read more

Dramatic video recorded on 25 July shows a 16-year-old lifeguard rescuing a 10-year-old boy from massive waves at a beach in Santa Cruz, California. The boy was safely brought back to the shore with no injuries, according to the Associated Press Continue reading…