The Supreme Court has dealt a major blow to the Biden administration, ending a White House requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job. The court's conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses with at least 100 employees. At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S., resulting in a mixed decision for the administration. Reacting to the ruling, Psaki hailed the decision allowing mandates for health care workers as "good news," saying the administration will continue to enforce it. On the OSHA ruling, Psaki said the White House will "continue to call on businesses to immediately join those those who have already stepped up, including one third of Fortune 100 companies, to institute vaccination requirements to protect their workers, customers and communities."

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. President Joe Biden supports an investigation into the August drone strike that killed 10 civilians and up to seven children in Afghanistan, the White House said Monday. Explaining during the White House press briefing that Biden was briefed Friday morning regarding the Pentagon's report about the strike, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, "I would say, first, the president's view – and all of our view – is that the loss of any civilian life is a tragedy." Psaki went on to reiterate comments from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie that the drone strike was "done in error," and affirmed that "clearly, the investigation that will continue is something the president broadly supports."

The latest research from MeriTalk finds what while artificial technology (AI) development is viewed by many in government and industry as still in the blush of youth, the technology is poised to rapidly outgrow its present suit of clothes. The research project – conducted by MeriTalk and underwritten by Pure Storage – polled government and industry executives and IT decision makers at this summer's AI World Government event, who said among other top-line findings that hybrid cloud infrastructure is a key enabler for AI adoption, and that the military and intelligence agencies are expected to lead Federal government's push into AI tech adoption. We sat down last week with Nick Psaki, Federal CTO at Pure Storage, to get his thoughts on the research results, and his longer-term outlook on how AI adoption is likely to gain momentum in the coming years before becoming an ultimately ubiquitous technology layer that will leave an indelible mark on society. MeriTalk: In examining the AI study results, what are the most important findings for Federal government officials that are currently undertaking AI or robotic process automation (RPA), or are considering doing so? Psaki: Two things jump out – the current feelings about AI maturity, and then the time to breakthrough to mission-critical tasks. On the first one, if you add respondents who said AI development is between "a little" (42 percent) and "moderately" (48 percent) mature, combined that's a big number (90 percent).