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Republicans Gave ICE a Slush Fund. Democrats Want to Limit It.

The sweeping domestic policy law that Republicans muscled through Congress last year made ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in the country, with no strings attached.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
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Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60 Percent

The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 5 percent in after-hours trading.

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Microsoft continues to spend billions on building out its data center capacity as the demand for A.I. computing power outweighs its available supply.
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Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year

That would be a major jump from the $72 billion that the Silicon Valley tech giant shelled out last year, as it aims to compete in the artificial intelligence race.

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Meta’s Eagle Mountain Data Center in Utah. The bulk of Meta’s new A.I. spending will be on infrastructure like data centers.
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How to Bring Back the American Dream

Some of the best coaches we can find to help struggling children escape poverty may be other children and their families.

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Tesla Profit Slumps, but Investors May Not Care

The electric vehicle maker’s shares are near record highs as Wall Street focuses on the company’s plans for robots and self-driving cars.

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Falling car sales have taken a toll on Tesla’s net profit. Tesla announced Wednesday that it would invest about $2 billion in xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company.
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Unions Sue FEMA Over Work Force Cuts They Say Threaten Readiness

The suit argues that the recent dismissals and plans for further cuts violate laws designed to preserve the disaster response agency’s independence and capabilities.

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FEMA’s national response center in Washington last week. About 1,000 agency employees were expected to lose their jobs this month, but the cuts were paused because of winter weather.
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Federal Officers Who Fired at Pretti Placed on Leave

A Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection officer have been on leave since Saturday, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.

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Federal officers and protesters faced off in Minneapolis on Saturday, shortly after agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis man, that morning.
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U.S. allies in the Middle East have been pressing for weeks to prevent a conflict with Iran.

Diplomats in the region have spent weeks trying to prevent a confrontation that they say risks a wider conflict.

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The USS Abraham Lincoln, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in San Diego last year. The USS Abraham Lincoln is part of what President Trump has descried as an armada poised to strike near Iran.
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South Africa Cancels Release of ‘Melania’ Documentary

The distributor, which was set to release the film on Friday, said it had canceled the theatrical premiere because of “recent developments,” but declined to specify.

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The first lady, Melania Trump, at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, where she rang the opening bell.
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Camping on Thwaites Glacier

After working and camping for a week on Thwaites Glacier, scientists were ready to start drilling into the ice, if only the weather would let them.

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Amazon’s $35 Million ‘Melania’ Promotion Has Critics Questioning Its Motives

The tech giant is spending $35 million to promote its film about the first lady, far more than is typical for documentaries.

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Amazon paid Melania Trump’s production company $40 million for the rights to the documentary. That amount is about $26 million more than the next closest bidder, Disney, offered.
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Who Will Win the Best Actor Oscar?

In an exceptionally strong field, Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke, Michael B. Jordan and Wagner Moura each have a way to triumph.
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Iraq’s Nominee for Prime Minister Rejects Trump Threats

Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a former prime minister, was nominated to lead Iraq once again, but President Trump said he would cut U.S. support if that went ahead.

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Iraq’s former prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, during an election in Baghdad, last year.
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With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.

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DNA electrophoresis in a lab. Scientists at Google DeepMind have trained their A.I on a vast wealth of molecular data, enabling it to make predictions about thousands of genes.
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Did a Luxury Nursing Home Hold a 91-Year-Old Woman Captive?

Her memory was failing, and the $28,000-a-month assisted living facility wouldn’t let her leave. Was it protecting her from an untrustworthy guardian?

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Diana Multare with her friend Eric Houston and a health aide during a trip to his sister’s horse farm in Connecticut.
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