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A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant

A new data center being built with investments from Google will be partly powered by a natural gas project that emits the yearly emissions equivalent of putting more than 970,000 additional gas-powered cars on the road. According to a Texas state air permit application, the Goodnight data center campus in Armstrong County, Texas will be partly powered by private natural gas turbines that will emit more than 4.5 million tons of greenhouse gases each year. This is more than ten times higher the y ...

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WTF, Anthropic's Claude Code keeps track of every time you swear

On March 31 artificial intelligence company Anthropic accidentally leaked roughly 512,000 lines of code, and within hours, developers were poring over it. Among the surprises was code inside Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, that appears to scan user prompts for signs of frustration. It flags profanity, insults and phrases such as “so frustrating” and “this sucks,” and it appears to log that the user expressed negativity. Developers also discovered code designed to scrub references ...

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Hegseth ousts Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George

Updated on: April 2, 2026 / 4:40 PM EDT / CBS News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News. One of the sources said Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement President Trump and Hegseth's vision for the Army. A senior Defense Department official told CBS News, "We are grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army ...

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White House deletes video footage from Easter event where Trump was compared to Jesus

Thursday 02 April 2026 11:38 EDT The White House appeared to delete video footage online from an Easter event where President Donald Trump mused about being king, insulted European leaders, encouraged Charlie Kirk’s widow to sue her critics and was compared to Jesus by his spiritual adviser. A video of the event was initially posted on the official White House website and YouTube channel, but it has since been removed from public view. A thumbnail of the video remained on the site as of Thurs ...

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Drugmakers face 100% tariff unless they cut prices or produce drugs in US

The Trump administration said on Thursday it will impose 100% tariffs on branded pharmaceuticals imported into the United ‌States unless manufacturers agree to government drug pricing deals or commit to ‌making their products domestically. The move is intended to push drugmakers to onshore production and cut U.S. prescription drug prices. It offers exemptions and reduced rates through trade agreements, manufacturing commitments and most‑favored‑nation pricing pact ...

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Pam Bondi, a Trump loyalist who oversaw Justice Department upheaval, is out as his attorney general

(AP) President Donald Trump said Thursday that Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general, ending the contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw large-scale firings of career employees and moved aggressively to investigate the Republican president’s perceived enemies.

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Despite Trump's claims, there's no indication Iran's regime has lost power, Western officials and experts say

(NBC News) President Donald Trump said in his address to the nation on Wednesday night that regime change has occurred in Iran because all of the country's original leaders are dead. But there is no indication that the authoritarian government has lost its grip on power or that successors to assassinated leaders have made a break with the Islamic Republic’s ideology, according to multiple Western officials, U.S. intelligence assessments and regional analysts.The regime shows no sign of unraveling, and the people who have replaced senior leaders are known as equally hard-line or arguably even more militant than their predecessors, according to Western officials and experts on Iran.

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Fact Focus: False claims Trump made as he addressed the nation about Iran

(AP) President Donald Trump mischaracterized core elements of the U.S. economy and stretched the facts in claiming to have toppled Iran’s government as he addressed the nation Wednesday night in a time of soaring gas prices and persistent inflation. Here’s a look at some of his statements.

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Trump Sparks Outrage by Claiming Federal Government Can't Fund Daycare, Medicare, or Medicaid, Saying War Comes First

(IBT) US President Donald Trump has sparked criticism after saying the federal government cannot fund daycare, Medicare, or Medicaid, claiming the United States must focus on military protection. Speaking at an Easter Lunch reception at the White House on Wednesday, the president told guests that social programmes should be managed by individual states rather than the federal government. He said that states would need to raise their own taxes to cover such programmes, adding that the federal government's priority must be national defence.

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Trump: Government will have to 'force ourselves' on LA for World Cup

(USA Today) U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters the government will have to "force ourselves" on Los Angeles when the World Cup happens, saying he did not want any crime or problems. "We're gonna have to do something when it comes World Cup time, and we're gonna have to force ourselves upon them, which we have the right to do, because we don't want to have any crime, we don't want to have any problems," Trump told reporters at the Oval Office.

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A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant

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WTF, Anthropic's Claude Code keeps track of every time you swear

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