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Bill Gates Is Set to Give an Interview in the House Epstein Probe. Here's What to Know About His Ties to Epstein

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Who Is Todd Blanche, Trump's Former Lawyer and Nominee for Attorney General?

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Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after Epstein emails made public

BBC News

Former US treasury secretary Larry Summers is stepping down from the board at OpenAI, a week after a tranche of emails between him and late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released. Summers said in a statement to the BBC that he was grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about the potential of the company, and look forward to following their progress. Summers, who was also once the president of Harvard University, said on Monday that he would be stepping back from public commitments over his ties to Epstein. The recently released emails showed Summers communicated with Epstein until the day before Epstein's 2019 arrest for the alleged sex trafficking of minors. In a statement, the artificial intelligence company said it respected Summers' decision to resign.


Inside Donald Trump's Attack on Immigration Court

The New Yorker

Judges describe a campaign of firings and interference which threatens the system's independence. On a Thursday morning last month, Patrick O'Brien, a federal immigration judge, walked into his courtroom in downtown San Francisco. He was scheduled for a master-calendar hearing, a roll call, essentially, to get cases ready for trial. O'Brien was wearing a matte-black robe that seemed to absorb the artificial light overhead. He took his seat, scanned the room, and angled himself toward a computer monitor. The court was leanly staffed. There was a judicial clerk but no bailiff or stenographer. Opposite the judge were tables for the prosecution--the Department of Homeland Security--and for the respondent, a succession of immigrants who were applying for asylum. A Spanish interpreter appeared as a faceless box on a big screen. About ten people, all Latino, sat in wooden pews, gripping folders full of esoteric documents.


Google experiences deja vu as second monopoly trial begins in US

The Guardian

After deflecting the US Department of Justice's attack on its illegal monopoly in online search, Google is facing another attempt to dismantle its internet empire in a trial focused on abusive tactics in digital advertising. The trial that opened Monday in an Alexandria, Virginia, federal court revolves around the harmful conduct that resulted in US district Judge Leonie Brinkema declaring parts of Google's digital advertising technology to be an illegal monopoly in April. The judge found that Google has been engaging in behavior that stifles competition to the detriment of online publishers that depend on the system for revenue. Google and the justice department will spend the next two weeks in court presenting evidence in a "remedy" trial that will culminate in Brinkema issuing a ruling on how to restore fair market conditions. If the justice department gets its way, Brinkema will order Google to sell parts of its ad technology - a proposal that the company's lawyers warned would "invite disruption and damage" to consumers and the internet's ecosystem.


Schiff lawyer told Justice Department it should investigate Pulte for probing mortgages of Trump opponents

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, speaks to reporters at the White House in July. Voice comes from the use of AI. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, alleges that U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff and others President Trump has clashed with misrepresented facts in mortgage documents to secure favorable tax or loan terms.


'Slap on the wrist': critics decry weak penalties on Google after landmark monopoly trial

The Guardian

A judge ruled on Tuesday that Google would not be forced to sell its Chrome browser or the Android operating system, saving the tech giant from the most severe penalties sought by the US government. The same judge had ruled in favor of US prosecutors nearly a year ago, finding that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly with its namesake search engine. Groups critical of Google's dominance in the internet search and online advertising industry are furious. They contend the judge missed an opportunity to enact meaningful change in an industry that has suffocated under the crushing weight of its heaviest player. Tech industry groups and investors, by contrast, are thrilled. Shares in Alphabet, Google's parent company, have risen 9% since Tuesday afternoon.


DOJ permits attorneys without immigration case experience to be temporary judges amid major backlog

FOX News

Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, R-Fla., joins'America's Newsroom' to discuss Florida's crackdown on illegal immigrant truck drivers after the death of three Americans. In an apparent effort to address the millions of backlogged immigration cases, the Justice Department made a rule change to allow attorneys without immigration law experience to act as temporary immigration judges. The DOJ's Office of Immigration Review published the rule in the federal register Thursday, which removes the requirement that temporary immigration judges have substantive prior experience in immigration law. Jurists who are approved by Attorney General Pam Bondi may serve as immigration judges, which represents a tide change after more than 100 judges were fired or bought out by the Trump administration earlier in 2025. The DOJ hopes that by expanding the net as to who may hear immigration-related cases, the more than three million case backlog may finally be assuaged.


US charges Chinese nationals with illegally shipping Nvidia chips to China

Al Jazeera

Authorities in the United States have charged two Chinese citizens with shipping tens of millions of dollars' worth of advanced Nvidia chips to China in breach of export controls. Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang are alleged to have "knowingly and willfully" exported the graphic processing units (GPUs) used to power artificial intelligence without authorisation from October 2022 to July 2025, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Export records indicate that Geng and Yang, both 28, organised at least 21 shipments through their El Monte, California-based company ALX Solutions Inc to companies in Singapore and Malaysia, the Justice Department said. The exports included a December 2024 shipment of Nvidia H100 GPUs – described as the most powerful chip on the market – that was "falsely labelled" and had not obtained the necessary licence from the US Department of Commerce, the Justice Department said. According to prosecutors, ALX Solutions received payments from firms in Hong Kong and China, including a 1m sum from a China-based company in January 2024, rather than the companies that accepted the shipments.


Illegal immigrant Chinese national tried stealing sensitive AI microchips, DOJ says

FOX News

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Two Chinese nationals -- one of them an illegal immigrant -- were arrested for allegedly shipping tens of millions of dollars' worth of sensitive microchips used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications to China, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The federal criminal complaint charges Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, California, and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, California, with violating the Export Control Reform Act. Prosecutors said the felony offense carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.