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5 days ago | alternet.org | Julia Conley

Democratic senators on Saturday applauded the news that several of the Republican Party's proposals in President Donald Trump's domestic spending bill must be struck from the legislation — potentially protecting millions of Americans from cuts to crucial nutrition assistance and the elimination of federal consumer protections.

6 days ago | alternet.org | Lindsay Beyerstein

Terry Moran is out at ABC thanks to a White House pressure campaign. Donald Trump campaigned on free speech, but in office, he persecutes media companies with frivolous lawsuits and threats of punitive regulation. ABC is cowed. The broadcaster announced that they weren’t renewing Moran’s contract, because they felt his deleted tweet about deputy chief of staff Steven Miller being a hater violated their standards of objectivity and professionalism.

6 days ago | alternet.org | Sabrina Haake

The US Massive Ordnance Penetrator (“MOP”), weighing in at 30,000 pounds, was designed to destroy weapons of mass destruction buried in mountains or deep below the earth’s surface. The MOP is so heavy it can only be lifted by a B-2 bomber, which “.”Israel does not own an MOP bomb or the B-2 bombers needed to carry it; both were developed and are owned exclusively by the United States Air Force.

1 week ago | alternet.org | Alexandria Jacobson

As the U.S. and China race to develop advanced artificial intelligence chips — and as President Donald Trump recently considered broader restrictions on chip technology exports — publicly released technological innovations from hobbyist inventors in the U.S. could be giving foreign adversaries a competitive edge, experts tell Raw Story. The stakes are high, as governments seek AI advances at unprecedented scale, with defense applications from satellites to stealth aircraft and missiles.

1 week ago | alternet.org | Carl Gibson

H.R. 1, President Donald Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," contains one provision that may prove to be both financially and politically costly for Republicans — particularly those from the reddest states in the U.S.Politico reported Friday that the legislation contains a provision that would end up forcing all states to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is something Republican-run states have been hesitant to do since the ACA became law in 2010.