OpenAI has partnered with a new AI initiative led by a group co-founded with outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry that has pushed left-wing causes and has several board members aligned with Democrats.  OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, is backing an initiative known as AI 2030, which is aimed at shaping ‘public dialogue about U.S. competition against China on AI,’ Politico reported in October. The initiative is led by the ‘non-partisan’ think tank American...

The members of the Republican National Committee, in a vote that was never in doubt, on Friday re-elected chair Michael Whatley to continue steering the national party committee.  ‘This organization has got to be the tip of the spear. And as your chairman, I promise this organization will be the tip of the spear to protect Donald Trump,’ Whatley said, as he spoke after the unanimous voice vote at the RNC’s annual meeting, which was...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading 22 other attorneys general in suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a new rule that would fine the oil and natural gas sector for methane emissions that exceed a certain level.  The GOP states are alleging the new rule, which was established in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, is ‘arbitrary, capricious, [and] an abuse of discretion.’ The complaint against the EPA is scant on details, other than...

Former President Obama wished his wife Michelle Obama a happy birthday on Friday, calling her ‘the love of my life.’  The former first lady, who turned 61, has largely avoided being out in public in recent weeks. She will not attend President-elect Trump’s inauguration on Monday, and was not seen at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral last week.  To commemorate her birthday, the former president shared a tribute to his wife on Instagram, writing, ‘You...

The Treasury Department announced this week that it had recouped more than $31 million in fraud and improper payments to dead people during just five short months of having access to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) federal death database.  The Treasury Department issues billions of payments every year, including benefit payments, federally funded state-administered payments and other miscellaneous payments. Sending those funds and others by accident to people who are dead has been a long-standing...

President-elect Trump’s inauguration will now take place inside the U.S. Capitol due to cold weather forecast for Monday, the first indoor inauguration since President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in January 1985.  On that frigid January 20th 40 years ago, the air temperature was 7 degrees, with a windchill of -40.  Monday’s forecast is a high of 23 degrees and a low of 10, but brutal winds are expected to whip across the city, making the...

President-elect Donald Trump is planning to immediately shake up the State Department by moving new officials into top roles.  A source familiar with the situation tells Fox News that the new Trump administration will immediately move new officials into key operational roles at the State Department to ensure the department is carrying out the Trump foreign policy agenda from day one.  Normally, career State Department officials will oversee these key positions while political appointees await...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is eying a proposal that would slash federal diversity and inclusion programs, according to a new report. DOGE is tasked with eliminating government spending, waste and streamlining efficiency and operations, and is expected to influence White House policy on budget matters.  The proposal circulating among DOGE advisors is a 19-page report from the Wisconsin Institute for Law...

The Biden administration on Friday maintained that it will not actively enforce a federal law set to ban the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, instead punting any action to the incoming Trump administration. The Supreme Court issued a ruling earlier in the day upholding the looming ban, which is set to go into effect on Sunday. ‘The Administration, like the rest of the country, has awaited the decision just made by the U.S. Supreme Court...

President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that he needs ‘time to review’ the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a federal law banning TikTok unless it divests from its Chinese parent company before Jan. 19 – the day before Trump is set to be sworn in. Trump added that ‘everyone must respect’ the high court’s decision. ‘The Supreme Court decision was expected, and everyone must respect it,’ Trump said in a statement posted to Truth Social....