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While public discourse is consumed by a deluge of executive orders and scandalous exposés of waste and corruption, the Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s United States DOGE Service (USDS) at the helm, is quietly executing a radical AI-driven overhaul of federal operations.The recently established USDS, whose goal is to “[modernize] Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,” has instead handed Musk and his allies unprecedented control over federal technology strategy — with little scrutiny and even less accountability.What was pitched as a reasonable efficiency initiative is rapidly escalating into a full-scale AI revolution, one that raises serious...

For girls who were depressed, drinking, skipping school or fighting with their families, Trinity Teen Solutions claimed to offer a cure. Desperate parents paid $6,000 a month to send their children to the Christian therapeutic program at a working ranch in a remote area of Wyoming, often without visiting first. What girls encountered once they got there, according to 22 women who spent time at the ranch as teens from 2007 to 2020, was a nightmare of hard labor and humiliating punishments that left some injured and others with post-traumatic stress disorder. In recent interviews and court filings, the women...

34-year-old woman dies from rare side effect after AstraZeneca vaccineThe woman is the seventh person in Australia whose death has been linked to a rare side effect from the first dose of AstraZeneca.Catie McLeodless than 2 min readAugust 5, 2021 - 6:23PMNCA NewsWireMore from Health ProblemsA 34-year-old woman‘s death has been linked to a rare blood clotting condition associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.She died on Wednesday after receiving her first dose and developing thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), the Therapeutic Goods Administration said.Hers is the seventh death linked to the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, of which about 6.8...

We are exactly one month away from the second annual Texas Transportation Forum to be held July 18–20 in Austin at the Hilton Austin located at 500 East 4th Street, one block north of the Austin Convention Center. Local, regional and state leaders will join national experts in exploring the solutions to "Keep Texas Moving." The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the Associated General Contractors of Texas, the Texas Good Roads Transportation Association, and the Texas Transportation Institute are co-hosts for the event. The keynote speaker for the opening session on July 19 will be Alan E. Pisarski, author of...

CorridorWatch.org Media Alert (06.04.06) Media > News Media Bulletins & Press Releases CorridorWatch.org – June 4, 2006 TxDOT denies media credentials for David Stall of CorridorWatch.org to attend and report on the Texas Transportation Forum (June 8 & 9). CorridorWatch.org was notified Friday by e-mail from TxDOT Public Information Director Randall Dillard that "applications for media credentials are being accepted only for mainstream news media." This is the first time I have been denied media credentials to cover a transportation function. Many of you have seen me at Commission meetings or working at events, such as the Texas Transportation Summit...